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I’m pretty sure the only things we’ve ever given away on this blog in the past five years have been suggestions, advice and how-to tips. So it’s a new experience, and a pleasant one, to be able to announce a more tangible giveaway, courtesy of Hewlett-Packard (HP), in the form of a HP Officejet Pro [...]

Source:Win a HP Officejet All-in-One Printer

I’ve been having an interesting time – for “interesting” read “time-consuming and frustrating but I hope it’s worth it” – working out how to communicate a particular message to friends on Facebook. For experienced Facebook users what I’ve learned the hard way will probably seem terribly obvious, but someone might find some value in my [...]

Source:Notifying Facebook Friends About My New Page

Affiliate marketing as a business concept makes complete sense to me, especially for someone who has or wants to have a home-based business. That doesn’t mean that my attempts to earn income from affiliate marketing have been successful. On the contrary.
I do make a little money from affiliate links and a couple of services [...]

Source:Who Wants to Be a Self-Made Millionaire?

I’m currently re-jigging my business presence on Facebook and finding myself on a new learning curve about the platform and how it works.
I don’t mind going through that learning process, because I believe that understanding how Facebook works and being able to manage how we use that for our brands and how it can affect [...]

Source:Getting Serious About Facebook

This post on Secret Weapons for the Serious Business Builder is the last in the Working From Home and Loving It series.
I’ve identified five “secret weapons” for people building a business from home.They are not “secret” in the sense that nobody knows about them. They are however secret in the sense that many people I [...]

Source:Working From Home and Loving It: Secret Weapons for the Serious Business Builder

A blog post a few days ago by the very savvy “Community Guy” Jake McKee, Why is a lack of knowledge cool? struck a chord with me.  Jake was commenting on the fact that in an otherwise quite interesting set of comments about social media and specifically Twitter, US Secretary of State Clinton made a [...]

Source:Social Media Ignorance Not an Option for Business

The social media release service provided by Pitch Engine empowers small businesses, as well as large, to be more effective in their online marketing.*
Although the term “social media release” has wide currency, I don’t know of any one, generally accepted definition or simple explanation.
My adaptation of an explanation by social media template author Todd Defren [...]

Source:Pitch Engine Social Media Release Works for Small Business Too

I need a new business card and I’m thinking through what I need to have on it and what the basic look will be. My existing one is a 2007 quick adaptation I did online of a professionally designed card which was originally done about four years ago.
The old card is pictured here.
With a [...]

Source:My New Self-Designed Business Card

This week’s contribution to the series Working from Home and Loving It is on the challenges a home based professional faces when she or he decides on being a serious business builder.
I’ve drawn up a list of nine challenges for the serious business builder. There is no particular significance in the number: it’s just the [...]

Source:Working From Home and Loving It: Challenges for the Serious Business Builder

Early in April I wrote about some of the things that give me joy in my business, mentioning that it was a way of kick-starting a series of interview-based posts on the topic “What Gives You Joy in Your Business?”.
This post, the first in that series, incorporates a video interview with Tim Bamford, [...]

Source:What Gives You Joy in Your Business? Tim Bamford, Professional Photographer