“When you blog, the entire world is your audience.” – Unknown
If you are already tapping into the valuable business tool known as “blogging,” you don’t need me to tell you that blogging has the potential to be as effective a marketing medium as Facebook or Twitter!
It’s an amazing platform in which to deliver value-added information about your products or services, plus being a slammin’-good way to communicate with people who share your hobbies, passions, interests, frustrations, and goals in life.
Anyone who has been a blogger for more than a month knows about the slew of “measuring” widgets out there that are designed to rate or “rank” your blog in the eyes of the Almighty Blogosphere. But what the heck is “rank?” Ranking a blog is kinda like measuring the health, influence, and standing of your blog and there are very specific ways to achieve that.
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Andrew Lopez found himself spending hours on the Internet looking for additional resources as part of his nursing school projects and was unable to find what he wanted. What started as a frustration in nursing school, soon became an outlet for him to help fellow nurses and students and provide a great income for himself…Andrew’s Nurse Friendly Directories were born.
Do you have a frustration or maybe a passion that might be an answer to a nursing business opportunity?
The Nurse Friendly Directories is a place for nurses and anyone looking for information about nursing as a career path, nursing schools, nurse entrepreneurship, career alternatives, articles written by nurses, nursing specialties, business opportunities for nurses, the various diseases patients encounter and much more.
So many of us are looking for ways to make more money while we are working as a nurse.
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It’s a Wonderful Life:
Never Underestimate the Power of Tribes
One of the most memorable Christmas movies of all time is Frank Capra’s “It’s a Wonderful Life,” starring the incomparable Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed. It’s the ultimate feel-good movie, perfect for anyone who’s ever wondered if their life holds meaning.
Here’s the lowdown: George Bailey, played by Stewart, is on the verge of collapse. His small building and load company is on the verge of bankruptcy, the mean rich man in town is poised to swoop in, and though he has a house full of adorable kids and a gorgeous wife (Reed), there’s never enough money to go around. George decides his family and business would be better off without him. On the brink of suicide, he’s saved by a fledgling angel, Clarence.
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I guess I should start right out of the gate, by answering the question, “As a nurse entrepreneur, why should I write and market articles at all?”
Well, if you’re a nurse in business for yourself, I’m going to make the following 5 assumptions, and those assumptions are as follows:
1) You’d like to provide great (content/training/education) [insert your noun of choice here] to your customers. (This is a given, right?)
2) You’d also like to be seen as an ‘expert’ in your field. (Who doesn’t?)
3) You’d like to find free and low-cost ways to promote your products and services. (Ummm, yes, pleeeeez!)
4) You’d like to increase your business’ overall visibility. (See comment above.)
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