Business Logs

I’ve been listening to Made to Stick on audiobook and it’s inspiring me in the way I blog. This book is already being called one of the best business books ever written because it shows clearly how to make you ideas memorable, or sticky (as the authors call it).
One of the things the authors [...]

From thefreedictionary.com:
simmer To be in a state of gentle ferment: thoughts simmering in the back of her mind.
Some of my most well received blog posts have been ones that I’ve let simmer for a couple days before publishing them.  What I say simmer, what I basically mean is not creating your blog post in one [...]

In my last post, I wrote that sharing your experience is a great way to blog. Your experience from running a business can provide many interesting blog post topics.
With that in mind, here are some ideas and questions to consider to help you get started.
1. Are there common problems in your industry that you [...]

The more I’ve been blogging, the more I see that tapping into your experience is the best source for blog post topics.
The posts where I share my experience are usually better received than my other posts. They get more traffic and comments.
Business Owners Have an Advantage
If you’re not familiar with blogs, you may not [...]

One trend I’ve been noticing is that website owners are adding forums on their business site to go along with their existing business blog.
If you’ve read this blog, you know that I definitely think having a blog is a good idea. But what about forums?
Why Forums are Great
Forums in general are a [...]

This is my first business blog profile, but I hope to review specific business blogs every couple of weeks. Today, we’ll be looking at Team JAPANiCAN Staff Blog. This is the business blog of JAPANiCAN.com, a site that lets you book Japan hotels.
Good Qualities
The JAPANiCAN staff is doing a lot things right with [...]

Eben Pagan has some of the best productivity/time management content for small business owners especially those that do their work on the internet. Here’s a recent video he did. It has a lot of great advice. I don’t usually take notes while consuming content, but Eben’s video had such great content that [...]

In my last post, I talked about guest posts as a powerful marketing strategy for your business blog. But if you’ve never done a guest post, you may wonder if other bloggers will actually publish your content. So today I’ll cover some fundamental tips to increase the success of your posts.
Observe the Target [...]

Writing guest posts is a great way to promote your business blog. If you don’t know what guest posts are, it’s basically publishing content on other blogs. You write a post that fits the existing content of another blog. And in the post, you include a quick bio and link back to [...]

About a week ago, a business blogger came to me wondering why she wasn’t getting more traffic. She had just started her blog three months ago. She said she checked out a successful blog in her industry and was publishing posts similar to the posts on that blog.
I checked out the [...]