Why Choose WordPress for your Blog?

Blogging is the central and key component of a Marketing program for your Network Marketing business or your home business.  If you are new to internet marketing, or you have never used a blog, you may wonder where you to start and what type of blog to use.  I like many people have discovered that blogs are not created equal.

My experience with a hosted blog that I had used for some time will illustrate the importance of Blog type and hosting method.  I had heard many times that unless you self-hosted your blog, you were at the mercy of the host and their hosting policies.  After a couple of years of using a hosted blog, one day I signed on and the blog was simply not there, no explanation other then to refer to their policies.  As I investigated, I found that this was not an unusual occurrence especially for someone using a blog for business and marketing purposes.  So for that reason and many others, I suggest a self-hosted WordPress Blog.

Why WordPress?

• WordPress.org is open source
• Very flexible with complete control
• Up to 3,500 Themes (many very good ones free)
• Over 1,500 Powerful Plugins
• Adsense enabled
• Able to add videos
• Easy to track your marketing results
• Great community for ideas and support
• Free except for hosting

WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.  More simply, WordPress is what you use when you want to work with your blogging software, not fight it.

Not being a techie, I have used a training and support site to help me build my blog and to begin marketing with it.  You can access the training at:  Renegade Pro Training.  For step by step training on setting up a WordPress blog click on Attraction Marketing, then Marketing Tutorials, then under Free or Low cost Methods, click on Social Marketing.  You will see the link Blogging with WordPress.  Good Luck!