Blogging can grow your small business

COURTESY THE NEW YORK TIMES AND PR Newswire

Blogging is a business. It is also a way to grow your small business, but with all of the other hats you’re wearing it might be hard to get a blog up and running, let alone keep the content fresh. Last week, PR Newswire’s Small Business PR Toolkit explored the blog series as a means of boosting content frequency. Of course, to have a good blog post or series, the topic is the key to success

@SteveLazuka, Founder of Interact Media, creator of the Zerys Content Marketplace and Zerys for Agencies content marketing platform, offers expert advice for coming up with fresh content ideas and new topics. In his latest article for PR Newswire’s Small Business PR Toolkit, Lazuka offers a few ways to identify ideas: from answering typical customer questions, to responding to issues and trends and finding inspiration in competitors.

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