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We’ve mentioned here that blogging has become a great promotional tool for businesses, home enterprises included.   In Boost Your Home Business with Blogging I’ve given you suggestions for using a blog for your business.  Then in What Should Home Business Owners Blog About presents more ideas on how a blog can work for you.   At Tips on Maximizing a Blog for Your Home Business, you’ll find additional information.
Now Liz Fuller and Laura Spencer at Business and Blogging give you a checklist so you can determine whether your home business blog measures up.  Take a look at Business Blogs: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.
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Soon it won’t be enough simply to write thoughts and ideas, publish information, and post photos on your blog or web site.  You’ll need to consider videos when promoting your products and services and keeping your customers informed.
Des Walsh, at Business and Blogging, considers this in Time to Get Serious About Video.
“For some months now I’ve been hearing plenty of people going on about the importance of video for online communication and marketing.  But up until now it’s frankly not been on my high priority list to get into.”
What is making Des change his mind?  Read more here…..

“Do you have a blog?”  business owners often are asked nowadays.  Customers expect them to have a web site, but a blog as well, or instead, if you’re not an online business.
“What should I blog about?” the business owner asks.  “I’m not a writer!”
(Writers have discovered the need to blog to promote their work and are among some of the most avid bloggers…whether they’re blogging about writing or some other topic related to their work.)
I noticed quilters and artists have picked up this trend. (My daughter has a blog, Meandering Threads, to share her world and her quilting.)  
What about the person who has …read more

Des Walsh, at Business and Blogging, has written a very interesting article about a small business owner who discovered that blogging can help attract and inform customers. Home business owners can apply much of the information this small businessman learned about blogging and how it promotes customer relations and boosts sales.
From being skeptical about sharing too much information about his business, the owner discovered that blogging is a “valuable business tool” for informing customers, obtaining new business, and including the staff.
You, too, can set up a blog for your home business and become more involved with your customers …read more