Blogs and Forums are excellent methedology to provide two way communication with your customers, prospects, or whoever your audience are. People by nature love to be listened, and forums and blogs provide them a place for that.
Both Blogs are forum are given high ranking by search engines, so provide another way to promote your products and yourself.
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Blog:
A blog (a contraction of the term "web log")[1] is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. Blog provides a method to present yourself or your company, while other comment on it.
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Become the Expert
Position yourself and your company as the thought leader of your business.
Customer Relationships
In a forum where your main objective not is to sell, you'll have a more personal relationship between you and your customers. Blogs are a fast way to join the customers' discussions, provide tips and insights or receive feedback.
Media Relations
It's every PR-consultants dream to create a channel where media regularly check what you have to say, instead of media just being passive - sometimes indifferent - recipients of press releases.
Internal Collaboration
Use blogs as a workspace where project members keep each other updated without wasting time writing reports or searching the Outlook inbox.
Knowledge Management
Blogs works in two ways. First of all, they're an easy way for the readers to find information and resources they want or need. That's obvious and could be used internally in many organizations. Second, blogs are a kind of "university light" for the blogger. Blogging is on-the-job learning.
Recruitment
If you establish your company as a thought leader, people in your business will pay attention. They'll read and discuss what you have to say. Chances are good they will see you as an attractive employer.
Test ideas or products
A blog is informal. It's part of a conversation where people (often) can comment, and the blog can provide you with a measure of value. Publish an idea and see if it generates interest. Does anyone link to you? What do they say?
Rank high in search engines
Well, this has nothing to do with relations. But Google and other search engines rewards sites that are updated often, that link to other sites and most importantly, that has many inbound links. Start a blog at your regular site and your ranking will boost. {/slide}
Forum:
A Forum is a online gathering place where people discuss about a specific topic or diverse topics. There are thousand of forum on world wide web. For a business Forum's main objective is not to sell, you'll have a more personal relationship between you and your customers. Some examples are:
- Business Forums: Provides a place where the users of your products can support each other or discuss about new idea, etc. Definately a moderator from your company can make these discussions more useful.
- Community Forums: Examples can be political forums, Games forums, matrimonial forums, Web designers forums, etc.. Where people of specific interest gather and make discussions.
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- You can read comments fairly quickly and validate them to show visitors/clients, you're invested in their ideas.
- You can refer to points made on the forums to enrich discussion and to acknowledge thoughtful ideas.
- You can save a thread of a discussion to use as a support document or FAQ.
- Discussion forums give quiet clients another outlet for sharing ideas.
- People learn the value and usage of product faster when they receive comments on their writing from their peers.
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