Blog Rollin down the river - Contractor Talk - Professional Construction and Remodeling Forum

silvertree · 06-09-2009, 06:48 AM

Some of us have started blogs, its work and like everything else requires time and patience.
If anyone wants to share tips, maybe we can start a small group to help each other advance our blog skills.
Anyone?

Thundercow · 06-09-2009, 03:00 PM

I am in...I have a pool tips blog/articles site that does decently...

Mike(VA) · 06-09-2009, 03:17 PM

Paul, is your blog about life in the hood, or under the hood?

BTW, you may want to check up on have the word 'sex' in your blog. I can't remember where, but I read somewhere that words like that will either ban you or make you invisible. I will check where I saw that. Hmmmmm.......sex in da hood.

Blog, what blog?

nEighter · 06-09-2009, 03:36 PM

I signed up for a wordpress blog.. just don't know what to blog about exactly.. I mean I can think of a lot to talk about, but to actually blog about... not for sure.

silvertree · 06-09-2009, 03:41 PM

Ezine published this and so did a dozen other sites, the word sex did not bother them
http://ezinearticles.com/?Sex,-And-W...ath&id=2010515

Check it out

George Z · 06-09-2009, 09:00 PM

Have a few contributor (suppliers, employees, people you work with, your kid...

silvertree · 06-09-2009, 09:21 PM

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Originally Posted by George Z

Have a few contributor (suppliers, employees, people you work with, your kid...

Do you mean to contribute content?

MattCoops · 06-09-2009, 09:31 PM

Anyone have any blogs that they use to show work progress? You know, like a web log of work they have done. Or is everyone just blabbing, oops, I mean blogging.

silvertree · 06-09-2009, 09:43 PM

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Originally Posted by MattCoops

Anyone have any blogs that they use to show work progress? You know, like a web log of work they have done. Or is everyone just blabbing, oops, I mean blogging.

Hey, you should talk, you got the gift of gab all wrapped up and with a bow

KitchenSync · 06-09-2009, 09:54 PM

Sure. I'm in. Started with a few innocent posts and the durn thing becomes like a second day job...

George Z · 06-10-2009, 06:23 AM

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Originally Posted by silvertree

Do you mean to contribute content?

yes, with links back to themselves, as a reward.
Their category within your blog.
or just employees getting involved

http://paintingtoronto.ca/painting-t...ion-1-20-2009/

http://paintingtoronto.ca/painting-t...ywall-plaster/

http://paintingtoronto.ca/category/toronto-colours/

even: http://paintingtoronto.ca/category/face-painting/

KitchenSync · 06-10-2009, 02:57 PM

Here's a couple of things I've found recently for thoughts on blogging and marketing:

On web marketing - WebInkNow: http://www.webinknow.com/

Marketing technology article from Kitchen and Bath Design News: http://www.kitchenbathdesign.com/pri...hnology/2$5284

On blog writing - Mens with Pens: http://menwithpens.ca/

Also check in with ProBlogger: "13 things I've learned about Successful Blogging"

MattCoops · 06-10-2009, 02:59 PM

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Originally Posted by silvertree

you got the gift of gab all wrapped up and with a bow

I had a customer a couple weeks ago tell me if he signed my contract will I shut up. I'd told him I'd leave with a smile.

But back to blogging, if you can get any of your articles to become landing pages as a source of information, those viewers who are in your target market can be directed to your website for even more information, and more importantly, your contact info.

StairJunkie · 06-10-2009, 03:07 PM

the nice thing about blogging is you don't have to write your posts as if they're newspaper articles. you can let a bit of your personality flow out and that's what people are looking for. it makes your presence look a bit more human, a human your prospects can work with. add some humor, maybe recap your last project...

KitchenSync · 06-10-2009, 03:44 PM

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Originally Posted by StairJunkie

...it makes your presence look a bit more human, a human your prospects can work with. add some humor, maybe recap your last project...

We gotta be funny??!?!

Nah. Construction people have no sense of humor. That's why I never drink anything when reading posts in CT. Keyboard can only be replaced so many times...

silvertree · 06-13-2009, 01:20 PM

Here is my new theme, one of hundreds Wordpress gives away.
Magazine style layout and brighter.

Click my blog link below

nEighter · 06-13-2009, 02:14 PM

Are you using your websites server location to host the layout? When I signed up they gave me a choice between like 16.. if I had a website I could upload the layout I choose and go about it that way, but a free blog from wordpress is kinda limited.. at least from what I have discovered. I am right on this? Or did I overlook some things Paul?

silvertree · 06-13-2009, 03:30 PM

What I did was get the Wordpress Blog, then I got a domain (MinneapolisKitchenRemodeling.com)
Instant search term placement. So the platform is Wordpress, I got my own domain for placement and the hardest part is writing for it.

So for you your out $9 if you get GoDaddy to host.
There is Wordpress.org and Wordpress.com and I use both.
None of this is easy for me and I got help setting up the blog on my own domain. I used Len from Upscale (a CT member).
Since then I have learned a lot, but still consider myself a beginner.
For you I'll bet you could still get a great search term for your blog domain.

KC painting pro.com for example.

nEighter · 06-13-2009, 03:41 PM

Thanks paul.. I haven't spent any time getting the info on all this.. just seems to mountainous to start.. where to start from. I will shoot Len a PM later.

MattCoops · 06-13-2009, 07:00 PM

Paul, you come up with the best titles for your blogs. I could print them out and make a collage of them. They really are art.