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If your home party business is struggling then you are probably frustrated that you can't seem to get things going. You've gone to your company sales meetings so you know that it's possible but for some reason your home party sales are still struggling.

That was me before I starting blogging. I couldn't get a customer to save myself. I'd ask my upline for advice and all she would say was to 'see more people'. In fact I started to think I would never be successful in my party plan business.

That's when I decided to take my business online and start a blog. After all - so many people are online these days, I could see as many people as I wanted - as long as they visited my blog that is.

Why Start A Blog?

Businesses are finding that blogging is becoming one the key ways to market their products and services because it's effective and inexpensive, so if it's good enough for the big businesses then it should be good enough for you too.

But I'm Not Allowed To Be Online?

Ahh yes that is probably true. Most home party companies forbid their consultants for using their name and products online in case they breach copyright or trademark rules, but if you talk about your products and services generally then you can still be online without breaking any rules.

For example, if you are with a candle party plan then your blog could be about the most effective ways to light a room, the difference between wax and soy based candles and so on.

By being general about your topic, you will be seen as an expert in your area and people will start asking you for recommendations. And which candles would you recommend in this case? Your companies of course!

Once a customer contacts you, you are free to promote anything you like to them.

For a complete guide on setting up a blog to promote your home party business including what to write about and how to get customers to find your blog check out my new ebook titled " Blog Your Way To Party Plan Success"

Tracey knows all the secrets for building your home party business, well most of them anyway. http://www.partymarketingsuccess.com/

Have you wondered if you can make money using blogs? The answer is yes, blogs are an excellent vehicle to make money. If you aren't into WordPress blogging, you are missing out on one of the cutting-edge and sure-fire opportunities to market your website, business, yourself and/or your services. In fact, WordPress is becoming the monster of the marketing world and proving that blogs make money online even with minimal technical expertise.

Search engines love them! Not only can they get you tons of free search engine traffic - they can also help you to take your business to the next level and increase your revenues.

Five proven strategies for promoting your money making blog.

(1) Use Plugins. There are many plugins that help search engine ranking and optimization, I'll mention one: All-in-One-SEO-Pack optimizes your Wordpress blog for Search Engine Optimization, it automatically optimizes titles, generates meta tags and much more. Do a google search to find many, many more plugins.

(2) Search engines and blog directories

Web directories such as Yahoo and search engines such as Google catalog all new sites that are being created. Directories such as Technorati , Blogwise , Blo.gs just to name a few. Send your newly created blog to such directories and search engines for indexing. Your blog will be made visible promptly.

(3) Description of your blog written to your targeted audience

Write a short description of your blog. The description must fit the type of audience that you have targeted and clearly points out the benefits readers will get from reading your blog. One of the strategies for blog promotion requires that you to let your audience know exactly why they should read your blog. Does it solve problems? Does it offer solutions? What's in your blog for them? You can support this strategy by using "tagging" which essentially is a subject or category description that you are attaching to your blog and to each individual blog post. This will make your blog more easily searchable by others. Tagging can be done with posts on directories such as Technorati. For instance, you can add tags like "Chicago" and "shopping" to a particular post so that your blog will show up when others search for these topics in blog search engines.

(4) Make use of the "ping"

The "pinging" action enables you to automatically alert readers that you have written a new blog post. Upon publishing your latest post, you will "ping" directories and search engines which will search for the new content on your blog and add it to a list of recently updated blogs. To save you the time of "pinging" major search engines and directories separately, you can perform this action in one huge ping , by making use of BlogExplosion , Pingoat or Ping-O-Matic. Pinging is one of the more important strategies for blog promotion and should not be neglected.

(5) I'm sure you have heard that content is king so put thought and effort into your posts - daily posts - ping them - use your keywords -

Part two will discuss other avenues to maximize traffic to your blog and speed up the process of making money with blogs.

More information and resources

http://www.squidoo.com/Making-MoneyWithBlogs

http://theaffiliatemarketing-solution.com