Tuesday, 11 December 2012

Blogging Tips for Insurance Marketers


Blogging is one of the proven ways to promote your business. It is a powerful and effective digital marketing tool. Blogging helps you to drive traffic to your website and generates leads. This is the reason why every business is trying their hands on blogging. If you are running a digital insurance business, you need blogs to promote it. But being in the insurance business, you think that you don’t know much about writing and don’t have ideas to write blogs on. Here are some tips that help you as an insurance marketer to write effective blogs.

Keep your blogs as simple as possible
When you write blogs, you need to keep one thing in mind is that keep it simple. Similar other industries, insurance industry also have different aspects that you want to cover in your blog. But doing so will lead you to write more technical blogs and it will not draw attention of your target audience. Provide them interesting and simple to understand blogs, not a technical guide.

Use bullet points and tips
When you write blogs on insurance industry, your goal is to make insurance appear easily approachable. To accomplish this goal, you can break content into segments, instead of writing in a single piece. Structure your blog posts. If you want to write on a broad topic, you can cut it down into segments and blogs on segmented topics. For instance, if you want to write on ‘Types of insurance’ you can write a series of blogs to explain them.  

Describe terms and avoid jargons
When you are writing for insurance industry, describe the terms first. Don’t assume that users know everything that you are writing about. Complex blog posts can draw attention of target audience away from your insurance business. So, try to avoid jargons and complex words as much as you can. Your blog post should be explanatory enough so that people can easily understand it.

Provide guidance
Insurance business includes providing guidance to your clients on various aspects of insurance. Same you can follow with blogs. Provide guidance on risk management, procedures, policies, investments and much more. You can also guide your clients on how to get financial compensation. You can cover all the topics that you think most of your target audience would want to know about. If your audience gets help from your blogs, they will come back to your blogs in the future as well. It will also help you stay ahead from your competitors. You can establish yourself as an industry expert.

Online insurance marketing should build your online reputation. Blogging can help do all of that for you.

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