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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.
Do you …read more

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 egg?
Aren’t comments supposed to help build a readership and a dialogue?  Or is it better, as some suggest, that you develop the following first, so you don’t seem like a beginner.  In business, the “beginner” term might not apply.  Granted, you could be a beginning blogger, …read more

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 on the Internet link above.)
I found this project very interesting since I’ve been researching and writing quite a bit lately, here at Home Biz Notes,  about blogging as it applies to home businesses.  Also, Des Walsh at Business and Blogging does a great deal with …read more

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 promotion on their blogs, just as they would if they were around the corner and working in tandem.” 
This would be a productive use of business blogging and promotion.  By various home businesses planning joint promotions, they could get twice as much mileage from their blogging…since …read more

“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), have them do the blogging or collaborate with you.
*No employees?  What about family members blogging?  You’ll often find your children and grandchildren know more about something like this than adults do.  Coordinate with them about the topics you want covered.  They also may enjoy researching …read more

“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