An interview by two of my fitness industry associates, friends and members of our Fitness Pro Travel Network.
Finding Your True North in Business and Beyond empowers small business owners, especially health and wellness practitioners, to improve the “business side” of their business.
Cynthia Pasciuto of True North Business Consulting interviews Amanda Vogel of Active Voice on the profession of fitness writing, digital & print.
I manage a few different blogs, and I am no where near a professional writer or creative with the pen (keyboard). That being the case I often find getting creative with my blog somewhat difficult.
Because of my above mentioned handicap it would be most easy to simply dump the blog idea altogether. But, I’m told that would be the wrong move by every internet marketer alive. I also find the specific blogs a simple location to address specific ideas, changes, or issues with our various fitness industry programs.
So, being the resourceful guy I am… oops, that’s a different story. Today I was fortunate to take a look at one of my RSS feeds at just the right time on small business that happened to give a mention to a company with a cool blogging content assistance program.
I was quickly on my way to check out Zemanta.
No affiliate relationship or commission here. I was just so impressed with some of the features in this tool, which I could easily add as a FireFox add-on, that I want to mention it to the Fit Pros who keep track of things we have going on…. This also makes great worthwhile content for me in making a blog post. 
I’m using it on this post and tried it first at our nutrition solution blog site.
Zemanta is a tool that looks over your shoulder while you blog and gives you tips and advice, suggests related content and pictures and makes sure your posts get promoted as they deserve to be…
Do you have a web presence? This site, a piece of my web presence, is geared to the fitness professional and is on a blogging platform. It allows for your comments and interactions. That is one of the great benefits of a simple blog in that it can be interactive and allows for input and conversation.
The blog is an excellent on-line tool because it is relatively simple, can be optimized for the search engines, and is interactive with your community, but do know that many options exist.
The first on-line presence we had was back in 1997. At that time the internet was booming with anticipation, but little else. Modems were slow, people still used the yellow pages, and used speech rather than text.
Today it is a different world.
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