There's such a buzz about blogging but it can seem very complicated. What's a plug-in? What's an RSS feed? What does xml mean? Many people don't know html or want to spend time taking a web design course, yet would like some presence on the internet.
Blogger owned by google has made this quite easy and it's free as well. It is a great way to experiment.and you can have it done within 30 minutes or less. Then you can put the address on your business card or in a classified ad and people can find you and read about you on the web.
Cohen believes this to be a very non-intimidating way people can be published on the internet and it will cost them nothing. Because blogger is owned by google it gets in the search engines easily and many people browse blogger clicking the next button so you will get visitors that way as well.
The Bloggers Blueprint Guide takes you step by step with 27 illustrations on how to do set up your blog within half an hour. The guide is for beginners and just following it the blog can be created and completed. One can always go back an edit it as well to add more information. It's a great way to put on sales for one's business, important dates and articles about one's business services or products.
In addition to the basic set up there are instructions for adding an online newsletter signup form, optional streams of reveue and adding a paypal button so people can pay you. People may not realize it but they can sell products, consults and services right from the blog itself. In this fast food age, it's good to know that there's no need to take a web design course, pay for expensive hosting or a web designer but one can get a basic site up oneself and even take orders from it directly.
