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Home sweet blog: sell your home with a blog

July 29, 2007

“Can Blogging Sell Your House?” reports that: Fizber.com is a “for sale by owner” site that is the craigslist of real estate but looks a whole lot nicer. The website claims to get 650,000 page views per day, and has recently added blogs as a feature for people to attract interest in their homes. Per [...]

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Blogging as a promotion for a special event

July 15, 2007

Blogs make great promotional tools, especially for special events, like a conference, a product launch, or the publication of a book. Create the blog six to 12 months out from the event Let’s say you’re writing a book, and Publication Day is July 17, 2008. Start blogging as soon as you sign the contract – [...]

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Blogging to raise your online profile: you’re a brand

July 3, 2007

Blogging is a great way to raise your profile online. You may want to gain visibility because you’re a freelancer, want to boost your prospects at your current job, or want a better job. Way back in 1997, Fast Company published “The Brand Called You”, and the advice is even more useful a decade later: [...]

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Work at home/ blogging project – great entries

June 5, 2007

If you’re a work at home business person and are wondering whether a blog can help your business, check out the entries on the Work at home/ blogging project. Great advice and tips – and a great prize too. Related PostsBlogging as a home business tool: a new competitionHow’s blogging working for you? Working At [...]

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Home Business Blogging: How a blog can help your business

May 28, 2007

One of the major challenges of any small business is marketing – promoting your business and getting publicity for it. If you’re the sole operator, or are part of a small team, then doing the work takes precedence over ensuring that new work keeps rolling in. Or, if you’re selling products, fulfilling orders takes precedence [...]

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Blogging as a home business tool: a new competition

May 26, 2007

How’s blogging working for you? Working At Home On The Internet has an excellent competition – you can win a copy of WordPress maven Lorelle VanFossen’s new book, but more to the point, you can share what’s working (or not working) for you, as the case may be, in using a blog to grow your [...]

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Blogging Your Blogging Business

January 3, 2007

As a freelance blogger, you’re running your own business. This means that you should blog your business in exactly the same way you blog other people’s businesses. So how do you blog your blogging business? It’s simple. Just blog. (Note: your business blog should be separate from your own personal blog.) Tell people what’s happening [...]

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Sell your house on your blog

November 18, 2006

Here’s another way to get value out of a blog: sell your house on it. Why pay high realtors’ commissions when you can sell it yourself? “Owners post Internet blogs to sell properties” says: Griff Wigley and his son, Tyson, are using blogs instead of Realtors to sell their respective homes in Northfield and St. [...]

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Business blogs: getting hired to blog for a business

October 1, 2006

A blog is an easy way for a business to market its wares and have conversations with its various publics, so business blogs are becoming popular with tiny businesses and with large corporations. What do you need to know to get hired as a business blogger? When you’re hired to blog for a business, you’re [...]

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Naming a blog

September 21, 2006

Imagine this scenario. You’ve been hired to blog for a small business. The business manufactures widgets. You know nothing about these particular widgets. Nevertheless, you’re a blogger, so you’ve accepted this high-paying gig. You need a name for the new blog. Here are several ways you could create a title for the blog: * Use [...]

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