Tips for Small Business Bloggers

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After two weeks of traveling and family visits, it was refreshing to have the past fews days alone in my office. I utilized the solitude to collect some notes and to schedule my remaining work weeks for 2009. To plot changes in my schedule and to examine my priorities.

A tangible change for this site will be the merging it with my main (and recently revamped) site, The Star Garden.

Although there are some topics specific to for rural business development, I have learned that most of my regular readers simply want links and quick reference. Thus, merging the resources I post here with the posts and resources at The Star Garden just made sense.

So … What about those tips? Click here.

Do it. Now.

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“I don’t have time.” Common answer to any sort of suggestion regarding adding something new to one’s business day. Freelancers and small business owners get particularly dazed when I introduce them to being online — being active in social media.

When you fall into a trap, you know it. It binds you — it hurts! — and it prevents you from moving on … It keeps you from your journey and your dreams in the distance — as they fade from view.

The most common trap?

Blogging (and being social) conversation versus content

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There has long been discussion regarding how to increase traffic and “circulation” of one’s blog. I myself tend to lean on relationship (conversation) and networking-servanthood.

However, it has never been about the numbers for me.

I blog because I have been an advocate and resource person since I was self-employed in college. It has been my experience that when one person has a question or a need, said person is merely the first one in a line of others who seek the same. Engaging in conversations and networking what is learned have always (always!) inspires action!