Yesterday one of my clients sent me a disheartening email. He had just finished setting up his brand new business blog following my business blog video tutorials and a couple of days later, he went to visit his site and all he saw was a completely blank page!
The tragedy is that he had not gotten around to backing up his site files and data. This is somewhat understandable, as most people wouldn’t think of backing up their site or blog as soon as they get it up and running. It is highly recommended, however, to back up your data on a regular basis (e.g. at least monthly when you first start, then weekly or even more frequently as your blog starts to grow and more content gets added to it.)
My client also let me know in his email that his hosting provider had informed him that his “wordpress crashed” and there was nothing wrong on their side.
I sent my client an empathetic email and suggested he try a couple of things first, before deleting the site from his server and starting the blog installation process all over again:
1) First, make sure that you’re hosting your blog with a reliable web hosting service provider.
Following on from the videos I made where I track the progress of starting a business blog on a brand new domain name using the system shown in our ’step-by-step’ how to start a blog video tutorial, in this post we will look at the results of starting this blog after 90 days.
Like the previous videos, the video below looks at actual results – specific to this video, however, we look to see whether we have achieved the following four main objectives:
Get Indexed In Search Engines Fast
Attract Regular Visitors To Our Blog
Generate New Leads
Make New Sales
To view the results of this blog after 90 days in each of the above areas, click on the video below:
About 3 months ago I did a presentation to a small business network group in my local community about the benefits of starting a business blog vs. starting a business website.
After the presentation, I was approached by a local business owner who told me that his business was not attracting enough clients and offered to pay me to build him a business blog to help him better promote his business and generate more leads.
I spent a few days helping my new client set up a web hosting account and getting his business blog built, and even agreed to visit him on the weekend to show him how to manage his blog. When I arrived on Saturday morning for our training session as arranged, my client introduced me to a local neighborhood teenager and asked me to train this young person instead, telling me that she was going to run his blog as he found the whole “internet” thing too technical and overwhelming. He then left the room, and I spent the next half hour or so showing his young “assistant” how to post articles to his business blog and how to access and use the training area containing the step-by-step videos and tutorials.
This morning I received an email from my client. In the email, he conveyed his dissatisfaction at getting – and I quote him directly here, “ABSOLUTELY NO RESPONSE/RESULT ! If I got even one or two inquiries/calls that would have been enough. But I got absolutely NOTHING !!!”
After going over his email a couple of times, I went to get myself a cup of coffee, then came back to my desk and thought about this. I have built over 70 blogs this year using the exact same system I used to set up my client’s blog and I have gotten very positive results (i.e. visitors, newsletter subscribers, sales, etc …) with every single blog I have set up.
So, I decided to investigate things a little bit further and take a look at the results my client’s blog was getting before sending him a reply.
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