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One Good Deed Leads To Another....and Maybe More Business!
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49 Comments on One Good Deed Leads To Another....and Maybe More Business!
the rewards of blogging in action! Sometimes I forget to send the link to the business I have featu frred. This week I got an odd text from a a consumer/local owned business thanking me for my blog. I had to scratch my head to remember what blog she was referring to and it was a blog from a year ago! I did not notify her but she found me while searching online and probably googling her business name!
This reminds me of the philosophy of "Giver's Gain" that we use in our local BNI group. It also reminds me of the 2nd blog post I wrote here in the rain...many, many moons ago...Give to Give, Not to get...See what happens! Great job and localism is the way to go...gets you found and can make you a local hero whan you use it to help others succeed!!
Marilyn, The joys of blogging, those old archives of posts are working just as hard today as when we posted them months or years ago :) You've got to love it!
Valerie, True! First we need to convince people to a) live in our area and b) that we know the area and c) we know our real estate stuff. Mix it together and output one blog.
You can never assume people will just find or stumble across your content. One of the most powerful hyper-local things you can do is post about local businesses etc. Being proactive and getting them to your blog is a win-win everytime!
Great post~ :-)
Brad, Thanks for stopping by! We find many local small businesses and organizations are way too busy to even think about checking their web presence. Sending them the link closes the deal. :)
Thanks for sharing your information. It just gave me an idea on how to employ this strategy in the future.
Great idea on being creatie with your posts to bring in some business. Over the summer I participated in a live art street show of a friend of mine. It was a very controvesial thing and got picked up by the Today Show, NY Times, etc. I happen to have blogged about it as soon as I got back. And in that one day alone, I got 600+ hits in one day! Of course there were residual hits in the hundreds days following that event as well. So that is really putting your money where your mouth is!
What a great idea! Thanks so much for the insight.
Blogging is for good promotions and bad performance. Keep blogging as they do make a difference.
Kimo, Glad to help!
Jennifer, Pretty sweet response! I remember reading your blog on the spike in traffic. It's what we all work hard to get, so love it when the pieces fall together :)
Billy, Glad to help, hopefully this will save you the months it took us to figure out how to close the loop!
Ric, For us, we'll keep the bad performance sector out of it. We've seen that be pretty effective when there's an issue though. Companies are certainly monitoring social media and reacting to what is being said about them.
These types of posts are highly successful. We've done a number of them in a series that we call "Small Business Spotlight." Instead of just talking vaguely about the business, we interview the owner about what it's like to be a small business entreprenuer in NYC. How did they decide on the industry, how did they find their location, what was the build out like, what are their thouhts on financing and partnernerships, etc.? Of course we give them an opportunity to mention recent promotions or upcoming events as well.
These posts get A LOT of reads. Especially if you score interviews with very popular businesses in your market that everyone is searching for online. As you mentioned, it's a reciprocal thing and most of the business owners we've approached with the concept love the idea. We've even been approached by some of their publicists requesting that we cover them. These kind of articles also tend to get linked to. I send them to the editors of appropriate publications that cover restaurants or retailers, etc.
Mike and Kate, VERY cool work you're doing there. With an area as populated as yours, getting noticed and the extra PR has to be critical. Our population density is fairly low, so finding those PR avenues is more important than ever. Slowly but surely we're making in-roads.
The great tips from all you stars just keep coming.
Winston, Glad to share what we learn :) Bonus, the owner of the farm let us know she's got a friend reading our blog now!
That's a good way to help local businesses. Glad you could help them, sometimes these places are barely holding on with only one income generation source - namely Christmas. You guys are great.
Lyn, It's great to help out the local businesses. I get so tired of having a favorite place to eat or shop, and then having it disappear.
Thanks for sharing that reminded me that blogging like that produces a lot of good will and who knows maybe more business for you.
Sherry
Sherry, Community good will is certainly important to us. When our local businesses succeed, we all do better.
That's awesome! Congrats! I do a lot of local postings and love telling them because they get so excited about the free advertising, and I try to get an email to send a link to for them to see!
Sylvie, We've exchanged a few emails with Patti Rossmann. It's been a pleasure to build that relationship! We'll promote her Christmas tree farm again next season :)
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