How to write blog posts for your home office blog

Everybody is telling you to start a blog and you finally give in.  Now it is time to get your first blog post completed.  Blogs can be as complex or as simple as you want them to be.

The basic parts of a blog post are the title and the body.  That is basically it.  Come up with a good headline for your blog post.  Use something that will grab attention.  You could follow the how to or 7 ways kind of formulas for creating a title.  Next, you want to write the body of your blog post.

Writing the body does not have to be difficult.  A simple way to do it is to make a list of the topics that you want to cover.  You don't have to number them.  Just write down the main points.  After you get 4 or 5 of them, you can start to write.  You could create sub topics that you want to cover or you could just start filling in the information.  Before you know it, you will have a complete blog post.  After you have the blog post done, you can go back and read and edit it.  Take out the stuff that you don't want to include.

Give your blog post a picture that can help add to the topic.  People like to share pictures online.  You could check flickr and other photo sharing sites for images. Just be sure to give credit and a link back to the original work.

If you don't want to do a picture, you could always add a video that goes with your blog.  Make one yourself or link to a video that works.  Youtube is a top video site.  Just check to see if the video that you like has an embed code.  Copy and paste it into your blog post.  It is really simple to do.

Keywords are important online and you want to let people know what your blog post is about.  Think about all the topics that you cover in your blog post and tag it with those words.  You can find highly searched keywords by visiting adwords.google.com.

You are pretty much done at this point.  All you need to do is decide when you want the blog post to appear.  You can publish it immediately or have it scheduled to be released in the future.  If you are ready to share your information with the world, all you have to do is hit publish.  Your new blog post should appear at the top of your blog.

That wasn't hard at all.

Home Office Websites

Here are just a few ways that you can get your website up quickly.

1. Create a blog at blogger or wordpress - you can create information to put up on the site but if you violate the terms of the blogging platform your site can be deleted and all your work will be gone.  You can purchase a domain name and have it point to the blogging platform.
2. Download wordpress blog software and purchase web hosting with your own domain and setup a business blog.  You will have to purchase a domain name for your business and pay a web hosting fee either monthly or yearly.  Using the wordpress software to power your website can be helpful.  There are a lot of programmers and designers that are developing themes and plugins that extend the use of wordpress.  Some themes and plugins are free and others you will have to pay for.  You can switch the look and feel of your website with a few mouse button clicks.
3. Purchase a domain and use a website builder application that walks you through creating a simple business website.  Some web hosting companies offer software applications that make it easy to get a website published quickly with a what you see is what you get approach.  You have to enter the information into the program and it will create basic webpages for you.  
4. Hire a programmer to have a custom business website designed and built. You talk to the programmer or web designer about what kind of website that you want.  You can give them a list of websites that you like and what you want included in yours.  You can say the colors that you want to use and what you want to use your website for and you go through a process of viewing and reviewing website updates until you get what you want.  

Home Office Phones

You have a choice when creating your home office.  With new technology and low cost you can go for a separate land phone line or you can get a cell phone / smartphone to use for your business.  The cost of unlimited cell phone calling plans has dropped and the cost of smartphones are reasonable too.

In addition to land line and cell phones you also have the option of using an internet based phone solution.  There is the offering from google called google voice that lets you make phone calls on the web.  You can get a google voice phone number that you can give out to people and when they call it can ring your cell phone or any other phone number that you specify.

Skype is another internet phone web application that allow you to make phone and video calls. You can make your phone calls from your computer.  You can use a headphone set with a microphone or use a bluetooth headset to make calls.