Blogging

Top 5 Mistakes Business Bloggers Make

By Lynette Chandler
It’s understandable. After all, blogging is still relatively new to the majority of bloggers and many businesses are still trying to make sense of the whole blogging scene. Also things evolve as blogging starts to mature, so a good strategy yesterday may turn into a mistake today. These are some of the most [...]

Article Site vs Blogs vs Podcasts

By Lynette Chandler
Just when you think you understand the content publishing trend of the day, here comes another one to mess up your plans. If you’re frustrated, confused and don’t know how to fit everything or if you even should. It’s not easy coming up with a web content publishing management strategy. It’s something I [...]

5 Ways To Blog Without A Lot Of Work

By Lynette Chandler
1. Assemble a team.
Gather a few people with complimentary businesses to come together and contribute to the blog. Have everyone involved promote the blog as a condition of participation. This helps everyone involved because now, you get to reach each other’s customer group in a non invasive manner. Everyone gets a chance to [...]

“Hey, It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane - No, It’s Twitter”

By Merle
What’s one of the most popular social activities on-line lately? If you said “Twittering”, give yourself a gold star for paying attention. Twitter is a communication and networking tool that’s huge with many Internet Marketers, and growing quickly. It’s everywhere, and everyone is talking about it.
So what is Twitter and [...]

How to Select a Theme for Your WordPress Blog

By Janet Barclay, MVA
So, you’ve decided to start a blog to let the world know what’s going on in your professional life, to share your expertise or your opinions, or to showcase your business. You have something to say, and you’re ready to say it!
If you’ve chosen WordPress as your blogging platform, once you installed [...]

Business Blogging Summer

By Biana Babinsky
Many solopreneurs experience a slowdown in business during the summer months. This is something business owners expect and work into their business plans. Many clients and buyers take vacations during the summer and spend more time with their children and family and do not devote as much time to running their businesses.
What do [...]

Market Your Own Business

By Janet Barclay, MVA
Many entrepreneurs struggle with finding customers, especially in the early stages of the business. Some spend a large sum on advertising, only to find it isn’t leading to the results they expected. Others decide to hold off on marketing until they have brought in enough income to pay for it, and then [...]

New Internet Marketing Tools

By Titus Hoskins
New Internet marketing tools are coming online each and every day. Why should you care? Mainly because these new marketing tools can have a dramatic impact on your online traffic, leads and sales. So much so, your online competitiveness can greatly depend on you finding and using these new [...]

The Top 12 Ways A Smart Business Will Use A Virtual Assistant in 2008

By VANA member Frances Palaschuk
OK, so in case you haven’t heard yet a Virtual Assistant (VA) is a real, live person who is highly skilled in their niche business [...]

3 ways to keep your blog reading under control

By: Marcia Francois
Blogging is so much fun and the reading is even more fun. But if you don’t have a system, it can get overwhelming very quickly. Especially if you’ve made lots of friends and you’re in a blog community.
I always recommend that you use a feed aggregator like Google Reader (my first choice) or [...]