Our MyST Blogsite generates highly qualified leads compared to other venues of online lead generation. One of the primary reasons is we have a trust factor, which we built (and continue to build) by providing dependable and accurate information through the blogsite. As a result, actions are more meaningful for business and the customer."
This is an approach that allows you to manage your authored content in the cloud with Google Docs.
Instructions:
Login to your Google Docs account
Select the Upload option on the main menu
Copy this URL into the URL field in the Google Docs Upload dialog
Name the document "MyST Blogsite Template"
Click the "Upload File" button.
There are many reasons you might want to consider authoring your blogsite content in Google Docs; here are just a few.
It's a great place to write content, perform spell checks, and collaborate on new posts with your team.
The formatting capabilities and user interface is similar to Microsoft Word, so you can enjoy the benefits of an application you may already be familiar with.
Google Docs provides a place where you can keep archives of everything you write.
Google Docs provides a word count feature.
Google Docs is free - you can setup an account in minutes and begin writing immediately. You can also copy and paste from Google Docs directly to your Blogsite editor window without fear of dragging along any strange formatting classes and styles from desktop applications such as Microsoft Word.
Benefits for FireFox Users
As you may know, editing blog posts with FireFox on the Mac or PC's causes paragraph breaks to to be generated as two line breaks. In contrast, Internet Explorer automatically generates the more common paragraph format using the HTML paragraph tag (<p>). If you want to create your blogsite content with FireFox and with paragraph tags, Google Docs makes it much easier.
Google Docs allows you to enforce document creation standards in HTML with paragraph tags. As a result, your text can be generated as normal [HTML] paragraphs and with other standard HTML tags (see Format | Normal Paragraphs setting in the Google Docs menu). Before you copy and paste the final content into the Blogsite editor, simply set the highlighted selected to Normal Paragraphs; the copied text will contain proper paragraph tags. And this formatting will be preserved if you edit a post created through this process in the future. This approach allows you to mimic the same HTML paragraph generation process that occurs when authoring new content with Internet Explorer and provides a far better experience for your visitors and content that's easier to maintain.
I spoke with a group of bloggers in Phoenix recently. What I found is that very few had any business from their blogs despite a lot of effort. I have 5 closings and 7 active buyers directly from [our MyST blogsite] in 2008. I know because I ask. One person told me they have been reading my blog for almost a year before they called me to buy a property."
