Are You Communicating Effectively Through Your Corporate Blog?

One of the biggest problems facing corporate bloggers is whether or not they can communicate effectively through their blog.

There are a few steps that you can take to determine just how well you are reaching your audience, and it is not terribly difficult to come up with a plan on how to accomplish this. Let’s get started with the basics.

What do you hope to achieve through your corporate blog?

By focusing on the end result that you would like to have, you can better determine how to write your posts to reach that end.

For example, let’s say that you want to increase consumer awareness of your company.

This would mean that your posts would need to focus on community efforts that your company is hosting, more information about how your company operates as well as posts that give a more human side to your company.

If your goal is to sell products, you will need to work on a different approach. In order to effectively sell via a blog, you have to follow the basic tenets of copywriting, and find a way to incorporate them into a blog post.

For example, you have to have a problem, discuss how that problem effects the consumer and then supply them with a resolution to that problem. This may sound difficult, but there is a way to work this into a blog post.

Let’s say that you sell auto parts and you are trying to increase your sales.

One blog post that you could write could focus on the problems of dealing with salvage yards for parts. In this instance, it can be difficult to find parts that are in good condition.

There is your problem. Now, you can elaborate on what bad auto parts can do to a vehicle, ie: discussing how this issue affects the consumer.

Then, you can offer them a solution, ie: your auto parts that are in perfect working condition and come with a warranty.

This can easily be adapted to any industry, and as long as you are following the basic Problem/How it Affects Consumers/Solution formula, you should not have any problems writing effective blog posts that will sell product.

But you can’t just stop there, you also need to focus on why a consumer should trust you.

This can be accomplished through other means, such as testimonials, as well as by providing your readers with useful information, not too many sales pitches and a good rapport with you, the blogger.

If your goal is simply to get more visitors to your site and the blog will be used to feed them into your main site, you can take a different tactic.

This will require finding interesting ways to induce people to visit your site, such as news that will integrate well with a specific division in your company.

For example, let’s say that you run a sales training firm. You are trying to get new clients, and finding it difficult.

Your blog could cover recent statistics about a drop in trained sales people, and that would feed into your training division. Again – problem and solution.