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Are You Making These Common Blogging Mistakes?

One of the ways you can promote your home business Web site is with a blog. But you can’t just put a blog up and expect people to come. Deb, over at Network Blogging
Tips, offers some great insight into the mistakes that many new bloggers make. Don’t let yourself fall into these traps:

1. Thinking that blogging is a way to get rich quickly.
2. Not doing enough research for your blog.
3. Blogging in a niche that is over-saturated.
4. Blogging about something you don’t know.
5. Not promoting your blog.

Remember: If you do a good job with your blog, and you get out there and promote it — especially by being a member of a community — you will build a loyal following for your home business.

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Are You Building Your Online Credibility?

by Miranda Marquit Leave a Comment

One of the things you can do to help boost traffic to your home business blog is to takes steps to boost your online credibility. This is not done just by offering relevant and useful content on your home business blog. There are are things that you need to do in order to increase your credibility and your visibility.

Problogger points out that it takes time to build online credibility, and that it can’t be rushed. Here are some other tips that Darren Rowse has with regard to building online credibility:

*Leave useful (and not self-promoting) comments on other blogs in your niche.
*Build relationships with others in your home business niche.
*Offer to guest post (and also accept guest posts) on related blogs in your niche.
*Have an opinion about what’s happening in your niche.

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Are You Thinking About Getting a Second Life?

by Miranda Marquit Leave a Comment

Second Life is becoming a bigger and bigger trend. It is possible to attend jobs fairs and even get exposure real-world items and businesses when you create a Second Life.

And now, some experts are saying that ignoring virtual worlds like Second Life may be a bad idea. After all, if you want your home business to appeal to an under-30 crowd, it is important to start connecting with them on a variety of levels.

Learning Second Life can be time-consuming, though, so you need to carefully evaluate your home business and decide whether other avenues of social networking may be better for your time.

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Do You Have a Blog Posting Workflow

by Miranda Marquit Leave a Comment

One of the tools in the home business Web site arsenal is the blog. Your home business blog can help you drive traffic to your site, and increase your sales. Having a home business blog can be very helpful to nearly anyone.

But it does require effort.

You need to figure out how to make the posts to your home business blog useful and informational, as well as interesting. Over at ProBlogger, Darren Rowse shares his blog posting workflow, and there are several comments as well. These can give you some great ideas for arranging your own workflow.

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Marketing Ideas for Your Home Business

by Miranda Marquit 4 Comments

When it comes to a home business, marketing can be tough stuff. However, over at Biz Chicks Rule, they’ve got some good ideas kicking around from readers. However, be warned: Most of the marketing ideas are geared toward those whose home business is writing.

But you can head over and get some good ideas, as well as leave your own marketing ideas.

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ProBlogger Book Coming Out

by Miranda Marquit Leave a Comment

My home business is freelance writing. And, at this point, it is mostly professional blogging. Most of my livelihood comes from blogging. But the überexpert on making a living from professional blogging is Darren Rowse. And he’s got a book coming out at the end of the month: ProBlogger Book — Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income.

While it can a while to get going with professional blogging, it can be a great home business choice. And, as Liz Strauss points out at Successful Blog, the gold rush is just beginning…

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Do Your Home Business Blog Visitors Like a Good Laugh?

by Miranda Marquit Leave a Comment

Hee, hee.

Sean Kelly over at FranchisePick.com put me on to this great Web site, blaugh.com. If you are looking for a funny way to lift the spirits of visitors to your home business blog, or if you are looking for a clever addition to your "error" page, this might be the way to go.

(cartoon source: blaugh.com)

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Sending More Pageviews to Your Home Business Blog

by Miranda Marquit Leave a Comment

One of the reasons for having a home business blog is to help bring traffic to your work from home Web site. So, it follows that you need to bring traffic to your home business blog.

At Just Make Money Online, there are some great suggestions for increasing pageviews on your home business blog. Many of them are based on some tips offered by Darren Rowse over at Problogger:

*Emphasize related posts (add links to posts that are related).
*Create compilation pages that include "best of" lists or posts that are related to each other.
*Make your home business blog interactive (allow comments, etc.).
*Create quality content.
*Include social networking marketing in your efforts.
*Include images and video on your home business blog.

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Can Twitter Help Your Home Business Blog?

by Miranda Marquit 1 Comment

One of the online trends that keeps getting bigger is social networking. You can’t keep up with everything out there, but you can pick a few things to help improve traffic to your home business blog. One of the things I have recently discovered is Twitter.

Well, someone told me about it. This is a social networking site that allows you to post brief updates as to what you are doing. Things like "Good morning. Time to get to work," and "Off to the store for some bread." But you can also use it to update your "followers" (the people that look at your updates) about the latest post on your home business blog. This is done via Twitterfeed.

Cautionary point: As with all social networking, it is important for you to be involved in your community. Twitter is no different. You need to add valuable content so that the Twitterfeed of your home business blog is viewed as more than just spam.

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Home Business: Typing

by Miranda Marquit 1 Comment

One of the best home business ideas is typing. But, as Mary Emma Allen points out at Home Biz Notes, you need to be more than a good typist. You should also know how to format papers and articles, as well as consider learning editing, research, design and transcription (especially medical transcription) skills.

You can look to a variety of sources for a clientele pool for your home business in typing:

*Online job boards and listings.

*Local universities and colleges often have students who need help with editing or formatting their papers. Even professors sometimes need help preparing articles and papers for journal publications.

*Businesses that outsource. If you know medical transcription and billing, approaching doctors and specialists may be a good idea.

*Join organizations and networks of writers locally and online.

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