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| Awesome! This is some great Pinterest information. It's definitely true that Pictures are worth more than 1,000 words. The call to action in the picture was really cool. | tcamba | Pinterest For Business - Your Ultimate Pinterest How To Guide | 2 hours 32 minutes |
| Wow, thank you BizRock! That means a lot! | theresa.walsh125 | Content Marketing 101: How to Attract New Customers With Content | 2 hours 32 minutes |
| Thanks for the reply Trevor - I don't normally tout an article but if you look back on my submissions on Bizsugar to a week or so ago you'll see a great article from one of our contributors on Tweak Your Biz about the legal problems you can face when employees use Social Media on your behalf. It really opened my eyes - worth a read if you get a chance. It's written by Flor McCarthy | Sian Phillips | Social Media and Your Small Business's Employees | 3 hours |
| If the guest poster asks things that are already in my guest post guidelines, I trash them. The least they can do is find out if I have a guest posting guideline. LOL! | tcamba | 3 Things to Avoid When Guest Blogging | 4 hours |
| That's the problem with being self employed. There's too many things to keep note of, too many things to worry but if you manage to do these balancing acts right, then the benefits are boundless. | tcamba | Self-Employment Do and Don'ts: How to Create the Right Balance | 4 hours |
| Rather than interrupting the interviewee with questions, just take down notes and ask later. TRUE! If you keep bothering and stopping them just to clarify something you didn't hear, you'd totally ruin the interview especially if the interviewee is so immersed in telling their story. | tcamba | Turning Interview Notes into A Blog Post | 4 hours |
| Really great tips, Marsha. I think I like the last one the best. Your rivals are doubtless after the same community you are. Joining forces can give everyone a bigger pie. Thanks for sharing with the BizSugar community! | HeatherStone | Simple Strategies for Building Your Social Media Audience | 5 hours |
| Hi John, I think the comparison of blogging to journalism is right on. More importantly, many business owners are in tune with some of the basics of journalism thanks to the number of newsletter publishers both in e-mail form and on paper before the blog was born. Hope bloggers out there will take note. There is much to learn from the world journalism, even if blogging need not always be confined by the same boundaries. Thanks for sharing this post with the BizSugar community! | HeatherStone | Turning Interview Notes into A Blog Post | 5 hours |
| Hi Arden, Always find it interesting to see Tumblr listed among the ranks of social media. By some definitions, all blog are, of course, regardless of the platform. And Tumblr's position as a social platform seems certainly to have figured into Yahoo's decision this week to buy the company. But it's always interesting to me that Tumblr stands alone as a platform as often identified with social sites like Facebook and Twitter as with its blog brethren. Thanks for sharing with the BizSugar community! | HeatherStone | Social Media Marketing: How to Get it Right | 5 hours |
| Hi Heather, agree about trying doing do everything all at once leads to failure and let’s face it who has the time or resources to do it all at once. Susan | m4bmarketing | Attract Customers By Making A Simple Change | M4B Marketing | 6 hours |
| Hi Peter, I think whether a business analyst, business coach or just a close colleague, asking for an extra set of eyes to evaluate what you're doing right, what you're doing wrong and what you could be doing better is always a good idea. Thanks for sharing these thoughts with the BizSugar community! | HeatherStone | Do I Need to Hire a Business Analyst | 7 hours |
| Hi Mary, Despite what management critics will probably say, this sounds like an idea whose time has come. Thanks to Tom Pick for sharing this one with the BizSugar community. | HeatherStone | Process Improvement | 7 hours |
| Hi Tom, Thanks for the great list of resources and for sharing them with the BizSugar community. There are certainly tips here for any small business owner with a blog. | HeatherStone | 30 Awesome Blogging Guides, Tips and Resources | 7 hours |
| Hi Susan, Fantastic comments about the need to make these changes to a business slowly over time. Making the changes all at once is scary and overwhelming. Like everything, break these tasks into manageable pieces. Trying to do everything at once almost guarantees failure. | HeatherStone | Attract Customers By Making A Simple Change | M4B Marketing | 7 hours |
| Hi Martin, For the benefit of both the Small Business Trends and BizSugar communities, could you explain a bit more about what specific benefits you see in Tumblr and how you use the platform for the niches you've mentioned here? | HeatherStone | $1 Billion Tumblr Deal Turns 26-Year-Old Founder into Mega-Millionaire | 7 hours |
| Congrats to David Karp and thanks to Joshua for sharing this story. I have the same questions as Ivan and Robert about the monetization of the deal. If Yahoo! would implement smart ad options similar to InfluAds and BlogAds, that could turn out in a good way for Tumblrs' users and readers. I have been a Tumblr user for a pretty long time and I am using the platform for some of my own domains and niched sites, e.g., NameDayGift, AtlasAnd, and ObjectiveArgentum. Talking about argentum (the Latin word for silver and money), I hope that Mr. Karp will be paid in real money and not in paper money! ;) | lyceum | $1 Billion Tumblr Deal Turns 26-Year-Old Founder into Mega-Millionaire | 8 hours |
| Hi Harry, It does save time and I was surprised at the number of service businesses that did not have one. Excellent point about the About page. Susan | m4bmarketing | Attract Customers By Making A Simple Change | M4B Marketing | 8 hours |
| Susan - Having an FAQ page allows your customers to get information they need without you having to spend time replying the same set of questions over and over. It's a win-win for both. Another important page that every website should have is About page for the same reason. | AngelBiz | Attract Customers By Making A Simple Change | M4B Marketing | 9 hours |
| You have summarized the marketing very effectively in these 5 bullets. I also like that you included top-notch offering in the list. My view is no amount of marketing will help you sell if it is not supported by product or offering with great value proposition. I also liked the experiment you conducted in the workshop. I will try to use it sometimes to see what kind of response I get. | AngelBiz | How to Market Your Business Effectively | 9 hours |
| Excellent topic of discussion. I agree that we need to simplify things in this world that has become increasingly complex in terms of choices and technical details. However, any simplification comes at the risk of alienating those who like to tinker themselves. A great example is Apple vs. Google. Apple advocates simplifying gadgets and user interface to make it easy for an average Joe to use. However, those who are technically savvy and like to play and customize their own way will prefer Google. Which path you follow depends on what type of customers you want to attract. | AngelBiz | DumbingThings Down Versus Radical Simplification | 10 hours |
| Thanks for the comments!! | georgescifo | How Search Engine Marketing Makes Your Small Biz a Success | 10 hours |
| Thanks Ana for the awesome review of Triberr. I'm going to have to check them out! | QueenMaa | Triberr: Your Step by Step Guide to Being Heard | 10 hours |
| I totally agree with you Martina. It's best to have your own blog so people can have somewhere to visit you at. That way they can decide whether they want to do business with you or not. If people are only sending out affiliate links to their social media accounts it's hard for people to get to know you and they might label you as a spammer. Thanks for writing an enlightening blog post! | QueenMaa | Not blogging? You’re wasting your time on social media! | 11 hours |
| Martin, I understand what you mean :) I like Ms. Marse's article because it's smartly titled (horror is identical with Stephen King,) and Mr. King did offer some great tips on content creation. | ivanpw | Article Writing Tips: Horrifically Effective Content Like Stephen King | 11 hours |
| Coming up with new blogging ideas can definitely be challenging. I have come up with some of my ideas by solving some of my own problems and I just turn those into blog posts. | QueenMaa | Some Odd Blogging Ideas | 11 hours |
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