Blog promotion is one of the chief elements of your organization's marketing plan.

It's never enough to just design and host your blog. It has to be properly and correctly promoted!

Blog promotion is extremely important, it's a crucial aspect of business and it can be time consuming, but well worth the effort.

Promoting your business blog has to be done continuously if you want to get a constant stream of traffic.

If you don't drive traffic to your blog, your online business will suffer.

The following are the 6 essential elements of blog promotion:

1. Create a Promotion Plan.

2. Define Your Target Market.

3. Promote Continuously

4. Analyse Your Blog Traffic.

5. Monitor Your Return on Investment (ROI).

6. Test Relentlessly

More on each step in later posts...

Now that's a great idea! Heck, why not have your virtual assistant create HubPages for you?

Some of you will think that blog promotion is a highly personal experience and should only be done by the content creator. Well, that may be the case for your MySpace style what-I-did-yesterday "blog" but today's blog are essentially eCommerce websites that need to "get the word out".

Blog promotion is essential if you want your message, your product, your blog to reach even one visitor.

So, you know what to do...social bookmarking, syndicating, posting great content (of course), commenting on other blogs, submitting articles, creating Squidoo and HubPages, etc, etc, etc.

That kind of work can make your fingertips bloody and give you a kinky, computer neck.

Why not download the great (free) screen capture software jingproject.com, make a few instructional videos and hire a virtual assistant to be "you" and promote your blog?

"Too expensive!" you say? Sorry, that's not an excuse. My virtual assistant costs $5.50 per hour. So, unless my time is worth less than that or I am mathtard, it's not too expensive.

In fact, I think a virtual assistants can promote your blog better than you!

More on that later...