Blogs

Dawser Al Hadidi
There is a significant difference between a “Website” and a “Blog”; a website can be a page or more for presenting a company or offering a service or information and news etc… in that case known as a “Portal”.

There are 152,000,000 blogs on the Internet. (SOURCE: UM, OCTOBER 2010) these blogs are about different matters, it could be a personal journal, social issues, company blog or industry focused etc… The most important thing in a blog is that it is human influenced! It is a person speaking to the mass!

Human influence; in the sense that whatever you read there is expressing a personal point of view of the “blogger”, the blog post is either information the blogger is sharing with you, like what I am doing in this post, or sharing an experience of any sort!

In our region, which is Middle East, blogs have become very popular and important, many which speak in a strong political voices, others expressing social pains and sufferings, and many also offering great opinions about specific matters, we see it from fashion, beauty, politics, art, technology, social activists and more… People are talking to people.

I mark this as a revolution of content publishing; times has changed from the age we only used to get the information from official source or media or TV programs, print magazines and news paper or radio etc… It’s the time where anyone can create a blog and start blogging and reach the whole world!

You might think of the title of this article, well I am very keen to explain that the major difference that sets websites or “portals” and blogs apart; is that the first one is mostly managed by a company and the latter is by a person. A company, however, can have a blog, where a person or more in the company manages for them; company blog must follow overall marketing strategy of the company. As far as an individual blog it might not have any strategy to follow, but a blogger has a responsibility to keep his/her readers engaged and create valuable content.
Aniruddh Basu
Developing a brand and making it successful or profitable is a complicated thing to do especially if you are just starting out a beginner and you have no idea how to create a brand that can make a great impression. Nowadays, where different kinds of businesses and brands can be easily started established, successful brand development is what is needed you need through using effective strategies and techniques that can help develop the brand and make you gain or earn profit.

Additionally, doing the essential or needed steps in brand development will consume time and huge amounts a great amount of effort to ensure its successful establishment. You first need to create the brand's fundamentals like its core values. You also need to determine how it will become relevant to its market along with other essential steps needed for successful & effective brand development. Luckily, brand innovation companies have also become widespread and easily available to almost everyone and the use of their service will greatly aid you in achieving successful brand development.

How Does It Work?

Developing an end-to-end solution for a brand involves different aspects of marketing, advertising, and product or service development. Brand innovation companies should be able to offer you services that include the innovation and the activation of your brand along with out of the box ideas that will make it stand out among tons of different brands already established in the market.

An end-to-end solution for a brand will literally work end to end as it begins with the development of the brand's core values and its corporate identity before it will provide the advertising aspects for the brand. Comparing it to what you can do on your own, getting an end-to-end solution for your brand from a brand innovation company will definitely help you establish your brand and make it profitable.

What Solutions Will It Offer?

When a brand innovation company offers an end-to-end solution for brands, these solutions should include the following services:

- Identity development
- Core values development
- Relevant engagement solutions to the target market
- Positive emotional attachment development
- External and internal repetition of end-to-end processes within the business
- Business climate adaptation
- Continuous reinforcement
- Consistent brand presentation through various marketing and advertising strategies

The more solutions a brand innovation company offers, the better. But make sure that the following services indicated above should be included as these are the essentials that will help establish and develop the brand.

What Brand Innovation Company Can Offer You the Best End-to-End Solutions for Your Brand?

Although there are already tons of brand innovation companies available nowadays, most of them will be unable to provide you with complete end to end solutions that you will need to fully establish your brand and make it profitable. One of the best brand innovation companies that can offer you comprehensive end-to-end brand solutions will be Brandspecs Entertainment Media Pvt Ltd. Brandspecs, the brand innovation company, can help you establish your brand not just through providing complete end to end solutions but also through offering you with additional solutions. These solutions can help you create a brand that can produce emotional connections to the market.
Dawser Al Hadidi
Hit or miss?
Posted June 25, 2011 by Dawser Al Hadidi in Education, Business
Did you really reach 1million visitors on your blog or website in less than a year! Look closer, are you reading the web traffic reports correctly?

Before rushing into a hasty announcement about your web traffic numbers and over promising advertisers, read further to understand what really counts when it comes to web traffic.

Unless you are selling everything for $1 or giving away free iPad 2 for all then it is impossible to reach 1 million sustained actual visitors to your blog or portal in less than a year.

I admit reading reports is not easy it’s a task of a trained web analyst with the right skills to extract the numbers and bring the intelligence behind them, but I will lay out few simple facts for you to help you extract the true performance numbers on your web analytics report.

You must understand first the two main key measurements you need to focus on, they are “Hits’ and “Page Views”; website “Hits” are not to be measured by when it comes to web traffic, simply because a “Hit” on your website is the retrieval of any file, like a page or graphic and other resources such as scripts like .js and .css files etc… from a Web server, so one visitor can generate 4 hits or more at the same instant. Therefore the hits number showing on the web analytical report is an arbitrary number reflecting on the page content. Do not get caught up in the dramatic numbers the “hits” indicate; it’s always misleading!

The real deal is the “Page View” this is your bread and butter; a “Pages view” is the single page logged on your web analytics report. One “page view can generate” many hits. Simply a “page view” is the page you requested to view; the “hit” is the page and the things it carries.

So if you are selling advertisement, then you must reveal the “page views” this is what the advertisers are interested in, and they will choose the number of impressions they needs to buy; an “impression” is made upon the deliverability of the ad banner to the end user’s request, an impression is generated every time a users interacts with your page so one user can register one or much more impressions in one session.

Now! web analytics does not end at “page views” or “impressions”, if you are managing a blog or you are an advertiser you need to look beyond the “impression”. Get bigger glasses role up your sleeves and look closer, numbers that must not go unnoticed are:

If you are site manager look out for: Unique Visitors, Loyalty (Recency, latency, Length of visit, Depth of visit), Content (types of content views).

If you are an advertiser: first you care about number of “Page Views” then you must dig into the visitor behavior performance, to make sure the site has what you need. First you must look at “Page Views”, and then comes user behavior; which consists of content viewed, loyalty of viewers and over all usage of the site, this will give you as an advertiser insights on the overall health of the “Page views” and consequently the “impressions” you are purchasing. Usually the “publisher” does not reveal that much depth stats reports not because he is holding information from you but because providing intelligent reports requires more than just reading the numbers, so compiling reports and analyzing are a costly task. But you as an advertiser can ask the publisher for performance review in any form.

The truth is Web Analytics is a science helping you in every aspect of running your website or blog, when “actionable web analysis” is practiced to the fullest potential you are able to see how your website is performing and how you can optimize it for better performance. Ideally a full time Web Analyst must be on board to cater for this task. But now from this article you got the main and key information to help you manage your blog/website on your own.

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