Business blogging is now one of the best ways to provide fresh, high quality content to your followers and subscribers. If you are not already using the business blogging platform to attract visitors to your products and services, you are missing a golden opportunity.

If you are stuck for ideas on what to add to your business blog, here are a few tips:

5 Ways to Effectively Use Your Business Blog

Personal log or diary

1. Create a personal diary to share your daily thoughts, tips and advice with your visitors. Become a 'thought leader' in your sector and research new ideas to pass onto others.

Reviewblog

2. Review other sites and blogs in your niche market. Make sure you ask for comments and encourage your visitors to recommend your blog to others. Provide recommendations, feedback and honest critique on other people's services and products. Once your visitors know, like and trust you, they will be more comfortable following your recommendations.

Community blog

3. One of the best ways to grow your subscriber list is to create a community blog. You will be providing a place where your visitors can share their problems with others, just like them, to hopefully find solutions. In general, people have a natural desire to feel part of a group or community, rather than exist in isolation. A prime example of this, is the astronomical raise in popularity of the new social networking sites such as Facebook, now reporting over 110 million users worldwide.

Internal blog

4. If you work for a large organization consider using a blog to share ideas and brainstorming events. People like to feel their opinion counts.

Affiliate marketing blog

5. Become an affiliate marketer selling other people's products and services.