Archive for the ‘business blogging’ Category

Embracing the web

Small Business Owners – here are what you’ve missed by not having any web presence for your business: opportunity and competitive advantage. Learn why you MUST go online for the sake of your business.

Placing web presence on highest priority in your business plan is no longer a smart move. It’s a mandatory move.

No matter what you’ve planned for your small business: search engine marketing, social media marketing, or simply setting up your first business website –…

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Business blogger

Blogs are no longer function as diary or journal – they are now branding tools, either for the purpose of personal or business branding. How to use blogs for brand evangelism purpose?

I remember the early days I learn about blogging (way before I started to think about the possibilities in make money online via blogging) – blogs are full of personal stories, rants, raves, and more. Since then, blogging has entered the business-slash-money arena and blogs are no…

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Working capital

Remember the Wendy’s fast food chain tagline, “Where’s the Beef?” Buyers ask, “Where’s The Cash?”

Working capital is essential to operating a successful business. There must be free flowing cash to pay the bills. Simply stated, CASH makes the economy function and credit is the great (cash) enhancer!

Buyers, sellers, business brokers and other professionals need to not only understand working capital, but know how to leverage it to close more deals.

Most accountants agree that the definition…

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Business valuation

Business valuations are one of the least understood tools for a business owner.  There are many reasons to perform a business valuation. These include but are not limited to buying a business, selling a business, financing expansion, estate planning, retirement planning, protecting owner income and equity, modifying ownership and unfortunately, owner divorce.

You should expect to pay over $3,000 for your valuation. Depending on your annual revenue and situation the fee could be closer to $10,000.  It is worth every…

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business blogging

Are you thinking of starting a business blog? Here are 9 full proof strategies that you can implement on your business blog today to make it a success.

• Host a Blog on your own domain: One of the biggest mistakes made by many business owners is hosting blogs on a third-party domain, like “blogspot.com” or “wordpress.com”. Third-party hosted blog solutions can be very easy to set up and can get you up and running fast, however in

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Quality blog network

Running and owning a blog network have always been my interest in webpreneurship. Here is how to build and run a quality blog network and have advertisers come to you, naturally.

I always dream about running a blog empire that consists of dozens – if not hundreds – of blogs. B5media is always the model I am after, but I seem not to have enough firepower. So I guess I have to start slow (unless someone…

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Engaging business blog readers

Your prospective readers are busy, and in order to gain and keep the readership as a blogger, you really need to offer your readers content that makes their lives better, easier, and less hectic. Sometimes it’s really difficult for a Business blog to write something that is interesting and appealing to a wider audience, because the subject matter always tends to be a bit dry and boring. So it’s entirely up to you as the blogger to…

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Small business blogging

I browse the blogosphere for entrepreneurship, small business and make money online blog posts, and I am surprised to learn that many top notch blogs are not well-visited.

Of course, I can only estimate about the number of visits – I usually use Alexa Rank to learn whether a blog is well-visited, well-reached and well-searched. For example, Noobpreneur.com’s Alexa Rank fluctuates around 110,000 – 145,000 – That’s roughly about 1000 visits or more a day.…

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Partnership and collaboration

Business blogging is a daunting task, whether you blog for your business (i.e. Blog.Entrepreneur.com) or for a stand-alone business blog (i.e. Noobpreneur.com.)

You must provide value to your readers on regular basis – Lack of quality content will not attract readers, and a blog without readers is just a mere personal diary.

Sometimes, you have to play to your strength, as blogging is not for everyone – Everyone could blog, but not everyone has the…

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Small business owners are among the group in the community that are slow to adapt web technologies to pursue new market, enhance branding, and serve customers.

I have just stumble on a news piece on USnews.com reporting that, although everyone seems to have some sort of web presence, small business owners are notoriously slow to adapt web technologies – A report by…

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Small business owners, I’ve said this a thousand times, and I will say this another thousand times again: Start blogging about and for your business.

No matter what your small businesses are, either online or off line, you have to blog, for the sake of your business.

Having a business website is not enough these days. Your business website is great for informational or order-taking purposes; Having an online support is nice, too, but it is often limited to some…

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