Contest Highlights Business Bloggers

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Joe Hauckes over at Working at Home on the Internet is running a little contest. And you can be a part of it.

Help Others and Win

All you have to do is to write a post and share some ideas about business blogging. By sharing a little about your experience with business blogging, good, bad, or ugly you will be helping others who can learn from what you already know.

Here is what Joe says about his idea in the contest instructions. (Be sure to read his whole post to find out how to be entered to win your prize.) Read more

Book Review: Blogging Tips - What Bloggers Won’t Tell You About Blogging

I had the wonderful opportunity to spend some time getting to know Lorelle VanFossen a bit while we were both at SOBCon a few weeks ago in Chicago. She is one of those high energy folks that I imagine would be exhausting to try to keep up with long term.

She was incredibly helpful to us at SOBCon. If you were there you know how much she helped Gorgeous there at the front registration table, for example. The two of them were the dynamic duo out there.

Lorelle’s Credentials

Lorelle is one of those folks who has probably forgotten more about blogging than many others have learned yet. She’s been writing and running her own web sites for over 10 years, since long before there was such a thing as blogging software to make it easy for us.

Whenever I’ve needed some info about WordPress, Lorelle’s blog has long been one of my go-to sources for tips, pointers, and a heads up on what is coming down the pike in new WordPress updates. She is listed on the WordPress.org About Page as one of their documentation and support folks

I asked Lorelle why Lorelle on WordPress is on WordPress.com and not a self hosted site and how she got started working with them on their documentation. I wish I had written down exactly what she said, but here is the gist of her response as I remember it.

I’ve got a gift for breaking things. So over the years I’ve become one of the crash test dummies for WordPress. They let me play with it. I break it. Then Matt and the guys go and fix the bugs I find.

That’s a gift every software developer could use!

Suffice it to say Lorelle is an expert on blogging in general and WordPress in particular. Read more

Business Blogging 101 - I Don’t Have Time to Blog!

So you’ve decided you really need to find out more about this whole blog phenomenon to try and decide if your business really needs a blog or not. (Hint: It does.) But you say learning all that new blogging stuff is a bit overwhelming?

How can you make informed decisions when you don’t even understand what those bloggers are talking about?

Well today is a good day for you because we’re here to help at SuccessCREEations. Welcome to Business Blogging 101 where we’ll try to explain some of the basics about blogging so that you can feel more comfortable entering the conversation.

This series is not meant to be the final word on anything, but like those 101 level courses in college we’ll just be introducing the various topics and point you to some additional resources so you can bring yourself up to speed as quickly and painlessly as possible.

So lets get started with today’s lesson!

I Don’t Have Time to Blog!

OK. Now we have a basic understanding of what a blog is. We know what RSS is and why feeds are such a good thing for us in so many ways. (Can you feel the power?) And we looked at comments and talked about how they add value to blogging and to your business.

Today we are going to address one of the first things I hear when I talk to businesses about blogging. The perception that it takes too much time.

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