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Why You Should Be Blogging

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Do you have a blog on your GDI domain? You should, here’s our reasons why.

Anyone Out There?

We often post that updating content regularly is an important way to show your traffic and prospects that there is a real person behind your site. While this can be accomplished with a website, a blog is an easy, cost effective way to do this. With our SiteBuilder Blog plugin or our WordPress plugin you can post quick updates, news and advice weekly, daily, even hourly to show your visitors you’re behind your page, you’re active and you have great info to share.

Be a Leader

Having a blog gives you a chance to be a thought leader. Your blog allows you to update quickly and frequently with advice, information on new marketing techniques and trends. This constant flow of great information will help to build your online reputation and establish you as a thought leader.

Simple Training

Blog posts are an easy way to share training with your team. You can share video, audio and of course text and images through your blog. Direct team members and potential team members to your blog where they can access your training materials in a simple, easy to navigate way.

Challenge Yourself

Having a blog challenges you to update regularly or risk your website looking like it has been abandoned. But this is a good thing. This will challenge you to learn new techniques to share tips, new videos and news. Take the time to learn and share it on your blog and both you and your team will benefit.

A Reminder

Your blog serves as a reminder for you to focus on GDI. Set a reminder to post at least a set number of times on your blog per month and you will at least be focusing that amount of time on GDI and building your business. To have something worthwhile to share, you must be doing something worthwhile with GDI. It’s a great cycle to be part of.

Advice, Marketing, Tips

Stay Relevant

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We talk often about keeping your site updated with new content to keep new traffic and returning traffic interested. While posting frequently is good to gain consistent traffic, what you post can also affect your traffic. Read on for a few ways to post the most relevant and topical information to keep people coming to your site.

Follow the News

See what’s in the news and how it relates to your site and your opportunity. Taking the time to follow the news and relating it to what you share on your site will show people you are invested in your business and what is going on in the world around you. A second way to benefit from this is to relate your new content to big news stories. Big news stories attract a lot of traffic online and simply relating it to your content and your business gives you a chance to have a piece of this traffic.

Follow Trends

We don’t mean get sucked into the trends but just be wise to them. Know what the new trends are in social media, in internet marketing and in sales. Research how and if these trends could benefit you. If they are something you would like to adopt you will be providing relevant and timely information while trying something new that could benefit or streamline your business.

Think Like Your Audience

A quick way to have a “stale” website online is to not know who you are talking to. Who should your website be directed to? Don’t take too much time thinking about and talking about your competitors, this will turn people of to your site. Instead direct your content and your site voice towards the people you want to be visiting your site.

Advice, Social Media, Tips

Manage Your Online Identity to Promote Growth

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Using the internet to grow your business with GDI has never been easier. You can build a presence online and connect with people through your website, blogs, social media sites and much more. But with everything you do online these days, you are creating an internet identity. Read our tips below to make sure your online identity is working with you instead of against you.

Work with Your Team

People talk and review online constantly, and you don’t want a discouraged downline member badmouthing you online to potential new team members. This is one of the many reasons it is important to be a responsive upline and be as helpful as possible to all of your team members. Not only does your success depend on them, but so does your reputation. Don’t let someone else create a bad online identity for you.

Become a Thought Leader

This is a great chance to take the knowledge you know and share it in public online places. Help others on Facebook and Twitter by answering their questions and connecting with them. Share helpful blog posts and respond to inquiries on our forum. People you connect with will trust you and regard you as a thought leader. Also, when people search your name or your team online, they will see how helpful you are, and how you standout above others with the help and support you offer.

Do Your Homework on Yourself

Take your time to search and check up on yourself online to see what is already out there. What kind of identity have you already created without even trying? Try to diffuse any bad reputation you may have gotten with more helpful and open information and kept the good stuff coming if you already have a great online identity. You want your most recent, helpful sites and information to be at the top of results, helping people make a quick decision on whether or not to join your team.