You Have To Have A Sales Plan Even Online
Sales are the lifeblood of any business. Â It doesn’t matter if you have a brick and mortar business. Â Or one that is entirely based online. Â If your doing really well you have a combination of both.
So creating a sales plan is really a great investment in your business.
Since my business is primarily focused on the online space I wanted to offer you a great tip to getting the most out of your blog. Â And to make sure that your leveraging the traffic that you get. Â After all, writing all day every day doesn’t mean anything if your not getting money into your pocket. Â Hits to your website do not translate to money into your pocket.
Here are the first steps I take after publishing a blog post…
1. Submit your Blog to Content Aggregators like AllTop.com
If you have a top-notch blog that regularly publishes valuable content (which you should), then you can submit your blog to Alltop.com.
AllTop is the creation of Guy Kawaski. Alltop aggregates content from leading blogs around the Web, allowing you to get the hottest new information all in one place.
As a blogger, Alltop can also be a tremendous traffic source if you can get your blog listed. You can submit your site at http://alltop. com/submission/
2. There are also lots of other niche content aggregators that you can submit your blog to. Some examples include AffBuzz.com, AffDaily.com, and Yakezie.com.
Getting your blog accepted into sites like AllTop and AffBuzz can send you consistent traffic every week as long as you’re continuously publishing new content.
3. Submit Your Latest Post to BlogEngage.com
4. Submit to BizSugar.com
5. Submit to Inbound.org
6. Submit Blokube.com
7. Submit to FamousBloggers.net Community News Section
8. Submit to Serpd.com. Â This is actually a very well moderated SEO community. Â So I don’t submit all of my content to this site. Â Another trick is to make sure that you share information from other websites. Â You need to do this to ensure your actually passing on great information to the community.
9. Submit to MySEOCommunity.com. This is another SEO based community and may or may not be good for your content. Â It is a great place to get content ideas or get your SEO questions asked. Â I regularly visit and see what people in my niche are discussing.
10. Contact related Scoop.it & Paper.li pages. These are content aggregators that pull together the very best content on thousands of different topics. As a content creator, you can come in – search for your specific topic – and submit your latest article to the creator of that particular Scoop.it or Paper.li page.  The two links there are to my pages, feel free to submit your content if they apply.
But remember – it must be really good content. These pages are collecting the best
from around the web.
Social media only works when you create content that matters.
Using the 10 steps above, you can generate your first couple hundred visitors to your latest pillar post.
Call To Action Of Your Sales Plan
Finally make sure your adding a call to action to your blog posts.
You wrote that content for a reason and it needs to be congruent with your website.
For example.
If you are writing in order to build your subscriber base then you need to ensure you tell people to subscribe to your list.
You can do that with pop-up boxes. Â Sidebar optin forms. Â In content opt in forms. Â Whatever you choose. Â Just make sure that your doing it.
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Donna Merrill January 2, 2013 at 6:38 pm
Hi Clint!
Absolutely correct! We need a plan while we are blogging. We can use our blogs to create a niche of who we are and what we can offer people. It is the greatest way to build relationships. With out creating relationships and trust, people are not apt to purchase a product or service we offer.
There are great sites you mention in this post to get your voice out there. I thank you…need to try some of them out!
Donna
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Connor Harley January 2, 2013 at 8:54 pm
Hi Clint, I agree with you there. Plans are very important even online. It is all about fresh and quality content and the desire to share ideas with other people. This prospers valuable and meaningful relationships with other that can be beneficial both ways. Thank you for the sites you’ve included. They are a big help.
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Candice Michelle January 3, 2013 at 11:25 pm
Businesses should be smart enough to have good and effective customer relationship marketing techniques used everyday.
Clint Butler January 5, 2013 at 2:59 pm
Your write they should. But being a business owner doesn’t necessarily make them all knowing in every aspect of marketing. If they did everyone would be doing it!!
Yorinda January 5, 2013 at 1:49 pm
Hi Clint,
wow! What a great list of places we c
an submit our content to.
Paper.li fascinates me. Through Twitter my posts and posts I have shared have been listed in a few.
Your suggestions will give me things to explore, which I love doing on the Internet.
Thank you so much for sharing this!
Cheers,
Yorinda
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Beth Hewitt January 5, 2013 at 2:44 pm
Hi Clint,
Wow, what a great list of site, I am going to bookmark this page. I have plans to do more of this in 2013.
As well as other specific blogging sites.
Great Share,
Beth
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Clint Butler January 5, 2013 at 2:58 pm
Great Beth, If you find any other great site to help syndicate content come back and let everyone know!
nick catricala January 6, 2013 at 2:50 am
Hey Clint, I know I alway learn from your post.. but this one is a little more special… why?? Because you open up a NEW and BIGGER window on blogging for me… a window that I never knew it exist… wow, so many links that I was not aware off.. and yes, be reminded to have a plan and this is a great plan… do a great job writing blogs and then share them with the world as much as possible and boy, you sure do a great job… congratulation and many thanks ONCE AGAIN.
nickc
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Nile January 6, 2013 at 3:16 am
Great strategy… one of my sections for my site soon to open is to allow people to submit and vote up or down. Its something I tried to start with a different site, but finally bringing the idea back home since I figured out how to make WordPress into a social bookmark site as well.
I’ve got a few sites to get submitting to regularly, BizSugar being one of them.
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nick catricala January 17, 2013 at 5:52 am
Clint, had to comeback again to re-read your post.. somehow missed to remember where I saved it and today I was looking for it and so it was easier to come back and re-read again (very valuable for me) I love to follow your plan and make it a success even with my limited tech knowledge… I may take a little longer but with guidance from your know how and others in our groups… it make it a lot easier.
Thanks so much once again… ho yes, this time I saved on a folder named “tools” it works for me since every time I need to do something, and I do not remember how or to say the truth, I do not know how
I go to the “tools” folder to see what can I pick up and continue doing what I need to do.
Thanks so much again.
nickc
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Steve Borgman February 3, 2013 at 2:29 pm
Nick, thanks for mentioning all these sites. One question: I know that the latest Panda and Penguin updates nailed a lot of the online blogging communities. Are the ones you mentioned immune from those most recent updates?
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Clint Butler February 7, 2013 at 3:37 pm
Steve, the sites I mentioned are trusted sites. Now the owners can get crazy and build all kinds of bad links to their sites if they wanted to. But quite frankly there is no need for them to do it because of their popularity within the blogging community.
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Brian March 24, 2013 at 9:04 pm
I big agree that as a blogger you should have a plan on it. I want to thank you Clint for sharing these sites though some of it I never post yet but I will surely try it. I will ask you if I have a problem on these sites given.
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Clint Butler March 25, 2013 at 3:39 am
Great to hear that Brian. Hit me up anytime.
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Marty Diamond May 18, 2013 at 10:20 pm
I wasn’t aware of the SEO community blog submission sites – you’re right a good source of information on SEO & related topics – Thanks for the list – I’ll check them out.