A successful content writer must have a unique voice

October 20, 2010
By Amrit Hallan
Content Writing

Everybody can write well these days due to easy accessibility to various learning tools and the Internet, but being a successful professional content writer takes more than your ability to write well. You have to be unique; you need to develop your own distinct voice. When your clients hire you they don’t hire you for the correctness of your sentences (that’s a given, actually), they hire you for your writing style, for the way you express yourself and for the way you can enhance a company’s image through your writing.

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What all must you consider in order to have a successful business blog

October 8, 2010
By Amrit Hallan
Blog Publishing

Publishing a vibrant business blog is a full-time commitment. It is just like any other business activity that requires dedicated attention and strategy. I have observed many businesses start their blogs just because their competitors publish them without actually understanding the overwhelming benefits. Once it becomes successful your blog can be the most potent marketing and PR tool for your business.

Having a successful business blog is not as unattainable as it is made out to be by the so-called experts. The same business strategy can be applied to your blog too. It takes time and effort, it takes innovation and it definitely takes strategy to create a successful business blog and all these ingredients you must already be using to run your business.

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The connection between content, strategy and social media

September 28, 2010
By Amrit Hallan
Content Strategy

There is a direct relation between content, strategy and your social media presence. All three are driving each other to give you optimal results provided you can create a harmonious relationship between them. Content strategy comes first because this is the foundation of your online presence. Without a content strategy you create a directionless content and this creates a blurry social media presence for you, for your business and for your brand. Once you have a strategy in place you have a solid grounding underneath.

Your well-defined content gives you a recognizable presence on social media. People recognize you by the thoughts you share through your content. Since consistency is a must therefore a need for strategic publishing.

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What is conversation marketing?

September 27, 2010
By Amrit Hallan
Communications

In the age of social media and social networking it is all about conversation marketing. It really matters what people talk about your business and how they perceive it. Word-of-mouth marketing and advertising is more effective compare to conventional form of advertising that is also often called “push marketing”: you’re simply pushing your marketing messages and then leaving it up to the audience to decide how they want to react.

Conversation marketing on the other hand works on the principle of two-way communication. You are constantly striking up conversations. Instead of constantly promoting your products and services you make people familiarize with your presence so that they can directly talk to you. You no longer remain a cryptic (more often a shady) entity constantly beaming out marketing messages and advertisements. You become a human being who listens to people and then personally responds to them. Even if they have some issues regarding your product or service you interact with them instead of through your call center employees who give very standardized replies.

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My understanding of social media marketing

September 17, 2010
By Amrit Hallan
Social Media Marketing

I am gradually wetting my feet in the turbulent pool of social media marketing. Although I’m always a late entrant into all Internet trends eventually it is the business side that I come face-to-face with. It happened with connectivity: I got my Internet connection quite late compared to my friends but once I got it, while my friends were chatting and downloading “naughty stuff” I was looking for business opportunities on the Web. Similarly I started publishing a business blog in those days when we manually used to add pages under a folder and nobody had heard of Blogger and Wordpress. Sadly, I am still in the beginning phase of blogging while creating multiple successful blog for my clients.

The same pattern almost happened with social media: although I adopted social media in its early days I don’t have a significant presence. Ironically I am already consulting 4 clients (2 from Europe and 2 from America) devise and implement their social media strategies. Anyway, in this block post I have endeavoured to communicate my understanding of social media marketing.

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