Blogs are the leverage tool
Once you get your blog built up, you can expand into other directions. There is numerous things you can do which granted sometimes the hard part feels like getting that blog up and off the ground, but once you get it turning don’t ever give in because if you do the chances are you’ll lose it faster then you built it which granted it will get to the stage where it will turn on its own and you can hire other people, but you still want to write your post because thats what your readers came there for in the first place was to see your writings. Blogs can do many things for you such as building forums up, allow you to advertise more effectively such as income wise, building social networks, increasing brand awareness, generating more leads, and etc.
You can also use blogs for things such as putting your business in different position and thats what people do not understand. I have had clients tell me they don’t like blogs, or they think they are a waste of time because they don’t want people hanging out on there website because there looking for people thats wanting buy, and quite honestly what I’m thinking in my head are you crazy blogs are the leverage tools for link baits, social networks, brand awareness, and more. I’ve had to go over this with numerous clients on what needs to be done, and eventually they under stand my point.
See the thing is you will even use other things to leverage your blogs thats right use other things that will build your blog. There is numerous things you can do to build your blog. Lets take for example your offering some type of service, free give aways, or just something that requires people to sign up to your website what you do is put a e-mail input form in there and have this connected to your RSS new letter and ask them would you like to sign up for our news letter, and then boom you got another fish there signed up to your rss, and then you can start building more trends into it.
There is numerous things you can do to expand that feed, and once you get that feed expanded and at large you start to think of other directions you can move it in. It takes time and patience of course, but if you can set down and think it through it will work. Awhile back I had talked to people telling me that my ideas were bad, or they said they didn’t think they would work, but yet I have done ran circles around them and them same people are calling me today asking me for advise on what they need to do, but back then they was telling me my ideas wouldn’t work not really say they wouldn’t work, but they didn’t think it was a good idea 
which I really didn’t care, but just comes to tell me how smart people really are not every one, but just a few people I know.
Another thing is these same people are struggling today, and they been on the web 20 times longer then I have, but yet I have ran circles around them. Do what you believe, but quite honestly if any one tells you that blogs are not a good leverage tools, or you have a good idea you stick with it because it will work. A lot of people don’t believe in running business and its not for every one, then some people are like half temped, or half way there, but they never figure it out. You must give it everything you got, I mean everything.