A blog is now as important to your agency as was your agency’s Website. The blog is becoming the “gate-way” and the face of the agency as its Website becomes more the agency’s brochure. Here’s some excellent resources to help your agency blog for new business.

Zemalf.com is the personal blog of Antti Kokkonen. He has assembled a great list of 42 most popular blog post about blogging in 2009. The posts on Antti’s list were picked from Digg, Delicious, Twitter and other social networks, based on the number of “votes” the posts have received in those services.

I perused through this list to find the top 10 that are most relevant  and helpful for your agency’s blog:

1. 25 Blogs To Help You Stay Current With Social Media
2. Starting Your First Blog? 29 Tips, Tutorials and Resources for New Bloggers
3. How to Build a High-Traffic Blog Without Killing Yourself
4. Write an Elevator Pitch for Your Blog
5. Do You Make These 10 Mistakes When You Blog?
6. 23 Essential Elements of Sharable Blog Posts
7. 50 Helpful Resources That Will Enhance Your Writing Skills
8. 73 Ways to Become a Better Writer
9. 100 Ways To Find Ideas For Your Blog Posts
10. The Art of Writing Great Twitter Headlines

Click on the following link for the entire list of the:  42 Most Popular Blog Posts About Blogging 2009

Four people that I read and  highly recommend as a resource for blogging:

• Jay Baer
• Edward Boches
• Mack Collier
• Jason Falls

Additional articles that may be of interest:

• How to Generate Traffic to Your Ad Agency’s Blog with Repeat Tweets
• 50 Blog Post Ideas to Fuel Your Ad Agency’s Blog
• Ad Agencies On Target Blogging for New Business
• Blogging Statistics of Importance to Ad Agencies
• Not every agency should have a blog
• Top Ten Reasons Your Ad Agency Should Blog
• Ad Agencies On Target Blogging for New Business

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