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Home Biz Notes

January 15th, 2008

Does Your Home Business Blog Measure Up?

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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 […]

By Mary Emma Allen -- 1 comment

June 16th, 2007

More Comment Info for Your Home Business Blog

We’ve been discussing the value of comments on your home business blog and how they might help your business.  Apparently there is one theory that, when you’re starting out, you close your blog to comments until you’ve built up a following.
I suppose that’s something like the question of which came first, the chicken or the […]

By Mary Emma Allen -- 2 comments

May 27th, 2007

A Work at Home/Blogging Project Begins….

At Working at Home on the Internet, a blogging project has begun (Work at Home/Blogging Project) and is underway until Sat., June 2.  At this blog, they will be accumulating tips on how home businesses use blogging…advantages or disadvantages  of using a blog to enhance one’s business.
(You can check out the requirements for participating at the Working at Home […]

By Mary Emma Allen -- 3 comments

May 6th, 2007

Cross-Promotion on Blogs for Home Businesses

Yvonne Russell, of Grow Your Writing Business, posed a very interesting suggestion abut cross-promotion  in her comment to my post, What Should Home Business Owners Blog About. 
She mentioned, “there is also scope for complementary businesses who are not in competition, e.g. hair care and skin care, to even develop a working relationship and do some cross […]

By Mary Emma Allen -- 0 comments

May 5th, 2007

Finding Time for Home Business Blogging

“That’s fine and good…blogging to promote your business,”  you might say.  “But where do I find the time?  I’m right out straight running my home business and producing items for it.”
(I discussed the importance of blogging to promote your home business and what you should blog about in a previous post.)
*If you do hire an employee(s), […]

By Mary Emma Allen -- 0 comments

May 3rd, 2007

What Should Home Business Owners Blog About?

“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 […]

By Mary Emma Allen -- 4 comments

April 8th, 2007

Boost Your Home Businesses With Blogging

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 […]

By Mary Emma Allen -- 1 comment