Do you have a work from home blog…or blog for your home business?
If so, let me know about it and I may feature you here at Home Biz Notes.  Also, let me know how you consider a blog important for your business.  Obviously, if you have a blog associated with your business, you have a reason for establishing it.
Did it come about because of your business?
Does it help you promote your business?
Does it enable you to provide information for your customers/clients?
Did your business grow out of your blog?
Has your blog helped you “brand” your business?
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Noted retailer and author, Carolyn Howard-Johnson, will blog for the Gift and Home Channel. She’ll bring her nearly three decades of retailing experience, as well as her expertise in journalism, public relations and publishing to this blog, The Frugal Marketer.   This will give home business owners, as well as others, an opportunity to learn how to market their products and services in this cash strapped economy.
Also, Carolyn’s newest book, A Retailer’s Guide to Frugal In-Store Promotions: How To Increase Profits and Spit in the Eyes of Economic Downturns with Thrifty Events and Sales Techniques was just launched at the National Stationery Show  at Javits …read more

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Laura Spencer, at Business and Blogging, has written a fun post about blogging personalities.  You might enjoy checking it out to see if you recognize yourself and anyone you know.
Since blogging is rapidly becoming an imperative part of many businesses, especially if you’re mainly online, you may want to see where you fit and if you need to change any of your practices.
Have a wonderful blogging and business day!

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As a newspaper reporter and freelance journalist, I learned to “get the most mileage” from my interviews and research.  Most of the time, a journalist has far more information than needed for the immediate story. So why not write a variety of articles/stories from it?
The same can be said for your blog posts.
*Some might act as springboards for new ones.
*Some could be revised and used again at a later date.
*You could link to them from new posts.
*Also, check out Liz Fuller’s suggestions, at Business and Blogging.  She has some very creative ideas in her post (#2 in a series): What to …read more

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Most businesses can benefit from a business blog.
If you haven’t started a business blog, this free white paper on blogging for business from Kendall Copywriting is well done and worth a look.
It’s comprehensive enough to get you thinking and get you started. It goes beyond the practicalities, and ventures into basic social media. I’ve been a business blogger for quite a while, and I picked up a few new things.
I was interested in their mention of a Firefox based social web browser called Flock – all your social media at your fingertips while you browse.

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 (Oops!  Somehow this title got posted instead of saved.  So I’d better finish  and let you know what I was thinking. So if you saw only the title, here’s “the rest of the story.” )
Generally we regard blogging as a method to help promote a business by informing customers, providing added information resources, bringing a more personal side to one’s business and reaching customers/clients whether you have an online or walk-in business.  So, in general a blog connected with a business adds value.
However, can blogging by disgruntled customers (someone who thinks their feelings have been slighted, a person who doesn’t like your product but doesn’t give …read more

2007…..2007…..BEST AT THE BUSINESS CHANNEL….2007…..2007
Bloggers at b5media’s Business Channel compiled their top business stories for 2007, coming up with a great round-up at Taxgirl, 123+ Top Business Stories of 2007.
Among them was our selection of posts by Yvonne Russell and Mary Emma Allen:
Home Biz Notes rounds out the year with five popular posts including Mary Emma’s winning country grocer entry and mistakes for the home business owner to avoid.
Check out these b5media Business Channel stories and the others at the above Taxgirl link for great reading, information, and encouragment in your business world!
(c)2007 Mary Emma Allen