MyBizQuiz

February 19, 2007

We are one of the featured businesses on MyBizQuiz, a site dedicated to successful work-at-home-moms. You can read the answers and see the questions here.

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What’s the deal with blogging?

February 14, 2007

From a recent subscriber email:

"I keep reading how I should be blogging to promote my small business, but I don’t understand why an online diary will help me. Before I waste a bunch of time setting this up, can you please explain something to me - what’s the deal with blogging anyway?"

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The Problem of Internet Marketing

February 12, 2007

Internet marketing is a huge trend on the internet right now. It is important for small business owners to understand what it is in order to develop effective strategies for marketing themselves. It is equally important for marketing professionals to maintain a code of ethics and not follow this lead of falsehood in order to allow the system to correct itself naturally.

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The Best Way to End the Day

February 9, 2007

As a small business owner, I often find myself working up to the very minute I pass out for sleep, and then work begins the very next morning the second my eyes open! I read a tip recently from Neen James, a wonderful woman who I had happened to meet the acquaintance of recently. And the tip goes like this: Spend the last few minutes of your day in closure, preparing for tomorrow and shutting everything down; and spend the first hour of your day starting yourself off on the right foot. I have started to use this tip in my own business life, and it is working great! I no longer feel rushed in the morning or frantic in the evening. For more great tips, see Neen James’ Website or read her book, Secrets of Super-Productivity: How to Achieve Amazing Things in your Work Life (available at Amazon).

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BusinessWeek: Less Search Ads for Small Biz

February 6, 2007

In another installment of “The Death of Search Engines as We Know Them”, I present this article from Business Week:

The Small Fry Sour On Search Ads
Priced out by brand giants, the outfits that pioneered the medium are looking elsewhere

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Small Business Website Tips from Startup Nation

February 5, 2007

Startup Nation recently featured a podcast regarding a few things small businesses can do that will pay of in big ways. I felt they did a good job summarizing some key points in a language that non-geeks would understand. You can hear this podcast at StartupNation.com (this link will open an MP3 of the content directly). I have also summarized a few of their tips for you here:

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