Business Blog Wire

Here’s a great little article by Derek Gehl to start your weekend, from Entrepreneur.com: "Harness the Marketing Power of Blogs."  Gehl offers several excellent tips for the beginning business blogger, and he echoes my firm belief in the superlative value of quality content, regular posting and individuality.
My favorite quote from the article: "You don’t even [...]

Earlier this week, Nicholas Carr suggested seven rules for corporate blogging.  The post has garnered a multitude of responses, resulting in a highly useful conversation.
In his rules, Nicholas emphasizes that businesses should blog primarily for profit, and not merely to enhance their image or develop personal relationships with their customers.
What I got out of reading [...]

Note by Easton: Thanks go to Stewart Mader for this guest post, which forms part of the Know More Media Guest Blogger Week event.  Stewart has also posted about wikis twice this week at this blog (see "Wiki vs. Blog" and "The Difference Between Steve Jobs And Bill Gates; The Zen Wiki").
Chartreuse wrote a great [...]

I stumbled (I’m always stumbling) across a fine new blog by Brian Brown about small business blogging.  It’s called Pajama Market, and I like what I see so far.  Shel Israel says the new blog hits at his "heart strings."
Brian’s first post is dated March 8, 2006, and in the three weeks since then, he’s [...]

I scoured the entire new Web 2.0 Awards list for useful business blogging tools that I hadn’t heard about.  I discovered the following excellent tools:
Eurekster Swicki - Lets you add a smart little search engine ("swicki") to your blog that anyone can use collaboratively to generate focused searches on topics that are important to you.  [...]

Note by Easton: Many thanks to Paul Chaney for guest posting here.  It’s Know More Media Guest Blogger Week and we’re welcoming a variety of guest blogger opinions and insights on our network.
I have a friend, David Crockett, a Realtor from Mentor, Ohio, who has done something really evolutionary where business blogging is concerned. (No, [...]

Note by Easton: Special thanks to Ted Demopoulos for this guest post on business blogs. It’s part of the continuing Know More Media Guest Blogger Week.
It’s extremely important to plan a business blog instead of just "starting" it. Part of the planning must include what type of blog is being started. I break business [...]

Note by Easton: Thanks go out to to Chris Bubny for offering us this guest post on real estate blogging.  This week is Know More Media Guest Blogger Week.
Thanks to Easton for the flattering invitation to participate in Know More Media’s Guest Blogger Week. The chance to evangelize on blogs is always one I [...]

Note by Easton: Thanks again to Stewart Mader for guest posting here. He also posted on wikis yesterday. This special guest post is part of the Know More Media Guest Blogger Week effort.
In my last post, I made a comparison between Bill Gates and Steve Jobs - not so much to be critical, but to [...]

The Bloggers Blog (an excellent resource for anyone interested in blogging news) has a list of a bazillion (okay, more like maybe thirty or forty) add-ons for blogs.  I think I’ll give some of them a whirl.  You ought to as well!  If you’ve tried any of them out, let us know how you like [...]