Now's the Perfect Time to Start Your Own Design Blog

This blog post is all about blog posts ... as in you should be writing your own! And to make it even easier to blog, we've got a special gift for you.

But first, here's why you should have a blog:

• It’s the simplest way to create searchable, shareable content that will help you get noticed
• It’s a great way to showcase your work
• It’s a marketing tool that allows you to be personable and show people who you are
• It’s a way to connect with past, present, and future clients online
• It’s a great way to connect your various social media profiles with your business

A blog will do more for your online presence. In today’s world, designers - and we're talking interior design, feng shui, jewelry, and wedding and event planning and design - are under more pressure to market themselves and stand out from the crowd. But at the same time, there are more opportunities out there that allow you to do just that. Blogging is one of those opportunities.

And now for the gift!

We’ve partnered with Squarespace, the leading blog and website platform, to offer you 10% off a 1-year membership. Our own SheffieldSays blog is run on the Squarespace platform - and you can get just the look you want to fit your personality, business identity, and sense of style. To sign up and take advantage of this offer, visit

www.squarespace.com/sheffield - to start your interior design or feng shui blog
www.squarespace.com/planner - to start your wedding & event planning blog
www.squarespace.com/jewelry - - to start your jewelry design blog

Starting a blog or website on Squarespace will allow you to quickly post photos and content without knowing anything about web design or development. They make everything as simple as can be. And if you ever get stuck, they have 24/7 assistance that comes free with your membership.

It’s easy to get started and a surefire way to improve your design biz's marketing strategy.

Homework: Sign up and get started. Click on one of the above links to start blogging. (Hint: when you get to your welcome page, be sure to click on the X in the top right corner of the screen so you can take a blog tour and start the sign-up process!)

Comments

[Luis - Diseño web]

When you blog, you are constantly looking for new things to blog about, which most of the time will take you out of comfort-zone and challenge you to learn something new that you can talk about in your blog.

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blogs a the single most important thing for every company or individual that would like to grow a retaining audience.
I also believe that it will be an (or already is) a growing profession as most if not all companies are blogging these days.
I would love to see more jewelry bloggers and hopefully jewelry bloggers freelancers.

[Melly Lifshitz]

Blog is indeed is one of the most innovative of all marketing tools the modern technology has brought mankind. Though there are like millions of blogs out there in cyberspace, there are still millions of million who are not aware how important they are. This is a very nice post to share to people who have no idea what a blog can do to their business or even to their career.

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Blog is necessary and helpful for many people.

[Zahid Saleem]

nice, ofcourse it very good to creat blog here.

[Kim]

Looks very simply to operate. The design is also very beautiful.
I'm also using Wordpress and BlogSpot and i´m also statisfied.
But i´ll try it. thx for the tip.

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I LOVE SHEFFIELD. SHEFFIELD IS MY BORN..

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[Web Design York]

I agree that blogging is a great way to share your work on the internet. But getting noticed requires a lot of work and dedication to draw users to your blog.

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yeah designer blog is very necessary in my point of view everything should have blog so espically for sharing knowledge..

[Karen]

Blogging is a great way to to express yourself and to showcase your individual talents. Squarespace is a great service. However, domains are so cheap nowadays and Wordpress is so easy to use, it can be just as viable just to set up your own website. You would also acquire some new skills as well. I set up my blog over at businessanalystcertificationhq.com and it was very easy. Since it's my domain I have the freedom to do whatever I want to with it.

[Richard @ Blogging income]

Blogging gives you another opportunity to earn some income too. Almost every blogger now has this as their major aim.

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Blogging is becoming really huge source to share the knowledge and ofcourse people are earning for that bu using different methods like ads, link ads etc.

[Carla]

I am not a student (yet) but Sheffield really seems to be a great alternative for learning about jewelry design as well as helping its students get an online presence. I am completely sold.

[Gordon Youd]

What a fantastic thing science is, what could replace the BLOG, it's much better than running through the jungle with a message in a forked stick....

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Blogging is the way to go, thanks for the info>

[Stieg Klanth]

Hi, this was a great post on this topic.
I have not seen your blog before, but i will definately bookmark it and visit again.
Thank you for a great post on a good topic. Hope to see new posts again soon.

Love and kisses

Stieg

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[Whitney Procerin]

Blogging can be useful in starting off a business, but it is also a way for a person to express her/his feeling through words and to share the ideas he has to anyone who will gonna read it.

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[Marketing Consultant]

Blogging is a great way to raise your online profile, to demonstrate your expertise and also to help with your search engine rankings. I often suggest that clients should start a blog as it's also a way of being immediately accessible to your prospects. A great article.

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Blogging is always going to be popular, I think people writing on the web has been the single biggest content creation period in human history.

Starting a blog is always a good idea!
We use blogs to comment and find institutions like Sheffield University who write articles based in our field!

Great post, perhaps a SEO Degree is in order too!?

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Blogging is definitely one of the best ways to market yourself or your business. It is amazing how technology has changed the way we do business. Anyone can start a blog and learn how to blog for money online.

[chardham]

designer blog rocks....... nice post as always but this post doesnt contain anything about designing anyways nice article...