For business, blogs can help you build stronger relationships with important target groups such as clients, the media, the general public and/or shareholders.
Here are some other ways blogs can be used:
• Simple, low cost PR. Blogs are a simple and fast way to put information online.
• Establish expertise. Position yourself and your company as the expert and raise your visibility with your target market.
• Extend communications and customer relationships. Blogs enable companies to present a human face and voice to the public. Blogs allow you to join customer discussions, respond to concerns, provide tips and insights or receive feedback.
• Build community. Use blogs to grow group support around a cause, political issue, technology or hobby related to your product.
• Test ideas or products. Because blogs are informal and conversational in nature you can publish an idea and see if it generates any interest or buzz.
• Higher search engine rankings. Google and other search engines reward sites with a lot of content that is updated often and have many inbound links.