{"id":231,"date":"2007-11-26T17:37:15","date_gmt":"2007-11-26T07:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2007\/11\/why-have-a-business-blog\/"},"modified":"2019-05-08T11:59:33","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T01:59:33","slug":"why-have-a-business-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2007\/11\/why-have-a-business-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Why have a business blog?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/blog-keyboard.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-4421\" title=\"blog keyboard\" src=\"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/blog-keyboard.jpg\" alt=\"hit the blog key for your business!\" width=\"276\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a>I would write about the advantages of blogs, but I found this great post by Kenton Newby so I thought I&#8217;d link to that instead \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Kenton wrote &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kentonnewby.com\/category\/blogging-wordpress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Why every business owner should have a blog&#8217; <\/a>If you are running a business and don&#8217;t have a blog, this is a post worth reading and thinking about.<\/p>\n<p>If you do decide to start a blog, you may find the audio and notes from the blogging for beginners talk I did last week useful, as well as <a href=\"http:\/\/wordconstructions.wordpress.com\/2007\/09\/23\/what-to-write-in-a-blog\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">my posts on blogging<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(July 2012 update &#8211; Sorry the notes are no longer available online but I am looking to produce some similar notes in an eBook format &#8211; leave a comment below and I&#8217;ll let you know when these become available).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I would write about the advantages of blogs, but I found this great post by Kenton Newby so I thought I&#8217;d link to that instead \ud83d\ude42 Kenton wrote &#8216;Why every business owner should have a blog&#8217; If you are running a business and don&#8217;t have a blog, this is a post worth reading and thinking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,53],"tags":[620,561,316,86],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-content","category-business-info-tools","tag-beginnerskenton-newby","tag-blogging","tag-blogs","tag-business"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO Pro 4.9.9 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A blog can be a useful business tool\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"max-image-preview:large\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"author\" content=\"TashWord\"\/>\n\t<meta name=\"keywords\" content=\"blogs,blogging,business,beginnerskenton newby,business info &amp; tools\" \/>\n\t<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2007\/11\/why-have-a-business-blog\/\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"generator\" content=\"All in One SEO Pro (AIOSEO) 4.9.9\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Word Constructions | For all your business writing needs\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Why have business blog? 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