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Learning From Business Blogging Mistakes

Monday, July 7th, 2008

With as many right things you can do with a blog to make it successful, there are nearly as many things you can do wrong. Below are 3 common mistakes companies make with corporate blogs, why they make them and what you can do to avoid them.
Mistake Number One: Not Setting Goals
Many business blogs […]

How To Share Your Blog Content?

Saturday, June 28th, 2008

 
Have you ever wondered how to make sure that you provide the opportunity for people to share the great articles on your blog to their social networking sites?
You might recall I wrote about one tool recently that you can add to the side bar of your business blog that allows people to save PDF’s of […]

ECO-SAFE Business Blogging

Monday, June 16th, 2008

Have you ever come across a business blog and have wanted to print out a blog post but find that there is no print icon on the blog page?
I always think that we need to make it as easy as possible for people to access our content from our business blog so one of the things I […]

Plurk: Is This for Business?

Friday, June 6th, 2008

With all the recent outages and downtime over at Twitter (no doubt stirred up because of my recent article on How to Use Twitter for Business), many people have been checking out Plurk, a similar but different approach with the same 140 character message limit.
Plurk has some nice add-ons that separates from Twitter. There’s an […]

Sun CEO on Communication through Blogging

Saturday, May 17th, 2008

Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz gave a great keynote interview at the Web 2.0 Expo last month. He was interviewed by Tim O’Reilly. The 30 minute-plus interview covered a wide range of fascinating business- and technology-related topics, not the least of which was business blogging. The first five minutes after the introduction concentrate specifically on […]

Brand Yourself on Your Blog, in Your Feed, with a Photo and Sig Line

Friday, May 16th, 2008

In my blog post about the importance of your avatar in social media marketing, I included my headshot photo to show folks what I use as my avatar on social media sites:

Seeing this in my post gave one of my readers, Dave Dugdale, the idea to append his photo to the end of posts on […]

Secrets to Success - What Are Yours?

Monday, May 12th, 2008

Everyone has secrets to their success. It’s what makes them tick and it’s what makes them get things done. I’d love to share with you the secrets to success that I have found and would love to hear about yours.
I think that regardless of what we do in business, be it blogging, administration, bookkeeping, […]

Five More Reasons You Need to Start Blogging Today

Saturday, May 10th, 2008

Back in December of 2007, I decided that I wanted to try something new and fresh with my website. I was also getting tired of the standard websites with their uniform look and I didn’t really feel like I was getting any benefit from it. So, I did a bit of research and decided that […]

Using Your Feed Reader to Generate More Traffic and New Business

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

Feed readers are tools that keep track of the blogs you have interest in. You may use your feed reader to keep track of competitor’s blogs or blogs that will notify you of trends or important news. Whichever blogs you choose to add, there are some great ways that you can make use […]

Secrets to a Faux Blogger’s Success: Fake Steve Jobs

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

Usually faux blogs get lambasted on the blogosphere for violating the unwritten business blogging rules of transparency, openness, and authenticity. (Remember Raging Cow?) Not so with “Fake Steve Jobs,” aka Forbes columnist Daniel Lyons, who gave a hilarious speech at the Web 2.0 Expo last Friday. The 25-minute video is embedded below:

Lyons’ main points about […]

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