Company blogs are more than just blogs where opinions are noted. They serve as op-eds where opinions are shared, information is given away and useful networking is enabled. It helps the company to be known as a thriving and contributing entity, rather than just another business among many others.
The purpose of a company blog
A company blog, thus, has the purpose of disseminating information about itself, about the industry that it works in, information and opinion about the broad range of products & services it offers and also connecting with readers who might turn out to be prospects. Thus, a blog has several different functions. Only a person who knows how to put all this information, content marketing and other strategies together can be assigned the task of managing a blog.
But can a blog be managed by just one person? It is becoming increasingly common to outsource blogging requirements to established content writing providers. This is almost like getting your website built by a web developer and a designer. You don’t really want to spend time building a website yourself. You would rather focus on what you do best – your core competencies. Even then, here are a few situations when you need to outsource your blogging requirements:
1. Your company is a large or medium sized entity
Large and medium sized companies might have their own content marketing departments. Yet, it is useful to outsource the blogging requirements so that blogs are written in a more professional and focused manner. On-site content marketing professionals often lack the editing and grammatical skills that are expected from a professional blogger. A professional blogging agency ensures that blogs are written well, edited thoroughly and that information & opinions are presented in a lively and engaging manner.
2. Your company is small
Small companies have obvious reasons to outsource whatever they can choose to or afford to outsource. Other than the reasons mentioned above, a small organization cannot afford to have full time content writers. If it is a small and a new company as well, it would probably lack the expertise of marketing as well. Small companies can benefit from outsourcing blogging requirements and focus on making the company stronger & more valuable. When things begin to start, companies can look up for content marketing departments within their organizations.
3. You have information and opinions to share
This is the main reason for running a blog. It is our honest opinion that any business entity, small or medium or large, has some information or opinion to share. Blogs offer you a platform to share your knowledge, showcase your expertise and provide validity & reliability that is desperately needed in times like these. It needs to be noted that companies do not live on islands and we are connected to each other. Our ideas, opinions and information would help us to gain customers & clients from other businesses near us.
4. You want more exposure
Traditionally, companies have had the ever-present website and they would get the website designed & forget about it. However, now if you want to be featured in organic search results, you need to possess enough content on your websites to make it to the search results; and that means, having a website that would always fetch you the kind of readers who would search for your kind of products & services. If you are looking for exposure, setting up a blog and outsourcing it to a professional blogging agency is one of the smartest things to do.
Final thoughts
Not every company understands the importance of having a blog, let alone outsourcing it. Thankfully, we are seeing more number of companies that are willing to update their blogs regularly, get their blogs written by professionals and get them edited as well. A blog that isn’t professionally written or edited is going to do more damage to your company than help.
Outsourcing your blogging requirements helps you to avoid these worries and focus on what you do best – building your niche and focusing on your core competencies. At the end of the day, we are looking at how to improve our ROI. Outsourcing non-essential tasks certainly helps you with that.
