June 20th, 2008
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Tip: Prepost to avoid gaps in posting.
Most blog platforms support a preposting function. By using this function you can avoid having large gaps in between posts.
To learn more about preposting in WordPress, check out this post from Katy Tafoya.
Why it’s important: Everyone needs to take a break sometimes.
You may need a break, but it’s not […]
By Laura Spencer -- 1 comment
June 20th, 2008
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Tip: Use graphics and other types of content to liven up your business blog.
Many business bloggers make the mistake of thinking that blog content must always be text.
Nothing could be further from the truth. There are many types of content that you can post on your business blog including photographs, images, podcasts, videos, and more.
For […]
By Laura Spencer -- 0 comments
January 14th, 2008
(businessandblogging.com) The Internet is filled with advice on what to do and what not to do with your blog. Some of that advice applies specifically to personal blogs, or to hobby blogs, but much of it applies to business blogs as well.
Tomorrow Liz will be listing some of the attributes of good business blogs. Today, […]
By Laura Spencer -- 2 comments
July 9th, 2007
I’m sure I’m not the only blogger in the world who is pleased today to hear about the writeup of Read/WriteWeb’s Richard McManus, in New Zealand’s Dominion Post.
Under the heading Hobby leads to career for tech blogger, journalist Reuben Schwarz writes of how, from Richard’s home office in Lower Hutt (pop. 97,700), New Zealand, Richard […]
By Des Walsh -- 1 comment
May 30th, 2007
There are times when spelling errors can be good for business.
For instance, my mother once told me a story about her father, Thomas Murphy, who was the local school teacher in the small country town of Tumbarumba.
It seems my grandfather was in town one day and happened to see, passing by Mr Henneckie’s general store, a hand-written sign, “Pertaters, 2d a […]
By Des Walsh -- 5 comments
May 9th, 2007
In the first post of this short series on monetizing your blog, one of the distinctions I mentioned was between direct and indirect income:
On direct vs. indirect income, many blog posts about monetizing blogs, or even whole blogs dedicated to the subject, are focused on direct income, such as from advertising.
But how to do it […]
By Des Walsh -- 2 comments
May 6th, 2007
This post has been prompted by my watching a very funny video about medieval tech support. Thanks to Tim O’Reilly for the video link and comments that prompted the following.
In any field of learning or endeavour, it’s not difficult to go from knowing little or nothing to knowing a lot and having the jargon to […]
By Des Walsh -- 1 comment
May 5th, 2007
One place I’ve never been and would really like to be a week from now is Chicago, Illinois.
Not just because of the architecture, although that would be something to look forward to. Rather, and more immediately, because that’s where the SOBCon07 is to be held, from the evening of Friday May 11 through Saturday May 12.
SOBCon07 […]
By Des Walsh -- 3 comments
March 29th, 2007
One of the key distinctions about blogging that I endeavour to communicate to business people is to see their blog not just as a kind of new style website, but as a way for them to join in new conversations, especially but not exclusively with customers and potential customers. That’s not about conversation for conversation’s […]
By Des Walsh -- 1 comment
February 21st, 2007
Brian Clark, author of Copyblogger.com, which like this blog is part of the b5media network, describes himself as a recovering attorney. Which figures - he has a lawyer’s love of language.
He also writes directly and to the point.
For example, in the intriguingly titled post Let Cicero Build You a Sticky Blog, where he comments on the necessity of making […]
By Des Walsh -- 3 comments
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