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Business Blog Consulting | Webepreneur

Business Blog Consulting

Business Blog Consulting
Learning From Business Blogging Mistakes
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?
  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
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?
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
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
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?
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
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
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
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 [...] ...»

How To Name Your Business Blog
One of the questions I often get asked is how to name your business blog or name your business. Many people call their business blog by their own name which is great especially if you are in the area of professional services and want to be known online by your name, therefore building your personal brand [...] ...»

Business Blog Interview
The other day Mike Sigers of Simplenomics interviewed me for his Hot Seat radio show about the benefits of a blog for businesses. The segment ran about 30 minutes. Enjoy! Hmmm…that didn’t work. I’ll have to ask Stephan about that. Well, you can download the show here. ...»

Passion’s the key ingredient in successful blogging
Not getting as much marketing power out of your blog as you’d hoped? The rules for successful blogging are the same whether you’re writing for personal or business reasons. First of all, you have to write about what you love or what you’re passionate about. When you write about what you are passionate about, readers [...] ...»

Need More Time to Blog? Here’s Your Answer!
Do you ever feel like no matter how well you plan your day, you never seem to finish all of your scheduled tasks, including all the blogging you wanted to do? I know I do! There is an answer! …it’s “GTD” (Getting Things Done), a time management, or more appropriately, life management methodology developed by [...] ...»

The Dangers of Anonymous Blogging
BusinessWeek reports on anonymous blogging gone bad in a recent article Busting a Rogue Blogger. Yes, there’s controversy in the sexy world of patent litigation, as Troll Tracker–formerly anonymous, now outed as Rick Frenkel–a blogger who writes on patent trolling, was outed as a Cisco employee. Why is this relevant? Because Frenkel was blogging about the [...] ...»

Business Blogs Can Bring You Killer PR
When talking to people about the benefits of business blogs I often mention “establishing your credibility.” This goes hand-in-hand with “getting killer PR.” Let’s face it, journalists are having to do more with less, so they’re more and more likely to turn to Google and other search engines to track down “experts” in a given field. As [...] ...»

Upcoming Blogger Conferences
WordCamp Dallas is later this month — March 29-30. Netconcepts’ own Chris Smith will be speaking on SEO for blogs. There’s a great lineup of speakers, including WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg. Registration is only $20. There’s no reason not to attend! Even if you blog on a different blog platform, you should still attend. The [...] ...»

Is Your Monitor Size Holding You Back?
Bloggers are information workers. And information workers need a big screen monitor — and/or multiple monitors — to be optimally productive. The Wall Street Journal blog recently posted about a study by the University of Utah that found that folks using a 24-inch screen completed tasks 52% faster than those with an 18-inch screen. And [...] ...»

Bloggers, What’s Your Hook?
Whether you’re just starting out in the blogosphere or you write for an established blog, you’ll need an angle to set your blog apart from the rest. Ideally, this theme will carry through all your posts, injecting the blog with a unique style and personality (e.g. snarky, witty, professorial, egotistical to the point of humorous, [...] ...»

Do You Need a Blogging Regimen?
As a certified Business Blog Consultant–I’m still awaiting the paperwork, but I’ve been assured it’s on it’s way–I work with a number of businesses on their blog and other Web marketing strategies. Being a blog consultant is tricky; much of our work is up front. We often design a blog, set it up on either WordPress [...] ...»