Does Your Blog Need Some Love?
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Liz Strauss at Successful-Blog is having a Blog Show this weekend It will be like a Car (Auto) Show.
Does your blog need a tune-up?
As Liz suggests, give it a polish and a trim.
Maybe unload some of those widgets? I won’t suggest a new theme unless you are feeling very adventurous.
Maybe there is something you have been putting off doing that will improve your blog?
Liz is is going to line them up and look them over. This is a great free... Read Full Story
At the end of the first post in this short series on putting your business cards to work I promised some thoughts on:
why it is a good idea to have your card designed professionally and
why you should not leave it all to the designer
Getting your card designed professionally
Over the years I’ve been in business I have used professionally designed cards and ones I’ve designed myself. I’m not a designer, so guess what? The professionally designed cards looked better.
One reason for that would... Read Full Story
Is a business card an essential tool for doing business these days?
I certainly find them handy, both for giving people a way to contact me and for helping me learn more about people I meet in the course of business and, if appropriate, follow up with them.
But I’ve noticed lately that quite a few people I meet in a business context are not carrying business cards.
That has even happened when I’ve attended “networking events”. When there’s been a conversation that seems mutually interesting... Read Full Story
One of the best bloggers in the home business zone - as in most informative, most entertaining, most literate, most uncompromising - is Martin Neumann.
Host since 2005 of Home Office Voice, described then as “a new online media outlet (aka … a blog) that offers the latest news, reviews and general commentary in the world of Home Business”.
Since then there have been some periods of inactivity, but never - in my observation - a dull post.
Martin is not *just* a blogger. He is an entrepreneur... Read Full Story
School Hols Start - Where are the Waves?
Snapper Rocks famous break, Rainbow Bay, Qld, Australia, with a bunch of hopefuls at the beginning of school holidays
Photo Copyright Des Walsh 2008
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Thanks to Twitter and an alert Aussie expat PR guy in New York, Paull Young, I’ve just picked up on the marvellous story in today’s Sydney Morning Herald, of Olive Riley of Woy Woy, New South Wales, Australia, until yesterday the World’s Oldest Blogger.
Olive has now moved on after her 108 years on this planet.
In recent years she has been blogging about those years and her various experiences, including
…raising three children on her own, living through two world wars and the Depression... Read Full Story
I love making graphic images for my blog like this one below.
This takes time and can be fiddly.
Now there is a tool/toy you can play with that will create a graphic for you. It has the wonderful name of Woodle.
So what can you do with this:
Type in your URL. This what came out for Thinking Home Business.
This is from my Delicious account
And this is from text from an article on LOA
Click on this image to see the full size. This was also customized. There are a range of color palettes, a... Read Full Story
In her new ebook: The Secret to Writing a Successful and Outstanding Blog: An insider’s guide to the conversation that’s changing how business works Liz Strauss asks two key questions of her readers:
Can you Hear The Internet?
Can the Internet Hear You?
The first section addresses the question Can you Hear The Internet?
Community - like minds, Us and them,
Listening - are you listening?
Business
Conversation
Connections: 10 reasons to write and publish every day!
That first hello
The... Read Full Story
As July 1 is a national holiday, I imagine most Canadians won’t want today to be too concerned about business matters.
But for those who are thinking about starting a business from home, or who have already made the move, a good place to start for some advice and ideas on home-based business is provided by the Canadian Government site Canadian Business.
I have to say I found the advice a bit lagging behind what is possible in a Web 2.0 world and I would suggest that some of the advice needs... Read Full Story
