Do you blog? If you don’t, you could be missing out on a great business (marketing) opportunity. This is especially true if you run a service business.

Blogging isn’t used as an online journal of life events anymore. If people ask me “Do I need a website?” The first thing I ask is, “What do you do for a living?”

If they tell me that they run some sort of service business like a doctor, lawyer, contractor, carpet cleaner, or even a retired mom who makes beautiful bead necklaces, then I say…”Forget a run of the mill website, you need to start a blog.”

Why?

1. Blogs are easy to set up
2. It’s FREE in most cases
3. Adding your own writing and pictures is soooooo simple

Service businesses are made for blogs. You constantly have new projects and/or clients with problems you helped solve. Why not tell other people what you did to make your client’s life better?

Great Blog Example

The professional photographer that we used to take three-month-old photos of my son had the right idea. Emanuel takes two to ten of his favorite shots and posts them with comments. This not only shows off his best work, but also gets you… Read the rest of this entry »

Business 2.0 magazine was one of my personal favorites, but alas it is now kaput. I hear that the some of the editors and writers will be absorbed into Forbes magazine.

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Alternative Business Information Magazines
• Forbes
• Fast Company
• Entrepreneur

I was going through some of my blog feeds and found a link to an older post found on Blog written by professional Web Search Engine Optimization (SEO) consultant/guru. Her name is Rae Hoffman and she has been doing Web related projects for almost a decade now. Her blog posts are witty, extremely knowledgeable, and I can also appreciate the fact that they are from a woman’s perspective.

Here is a link to her advice on what to do when you are ready to put up a website for your local business. She has the normal website setup advice, but I found the list of Online Promotion of you new website links to be excellent.

Her advice is gold. Use it and prosper (online)!

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Wednesday (8/29/2007) we launched some new features to the website. One of the major changes was to our catalog’s paging list system. You will now find that the pages load much more quickly. This upgrade helped speed up the website’s Search capability too.

We also listened to your feedback on the 2006 Year End Survey and added a new feature on the Your Account page. You now have more options to edit your email newsletter preferences. Many of you stated that you would prefer to receive this newsletter monthly instead of bi-weekly. You now have the option to get this newsletter twice a month, once a month, or not at all.

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UPDATED - 9/19/07
We also added a text field on the Transfer a Subscription page below the transfer form so that you can now apply your discount promotional codes when transfering a subscription from other vendor or publisher.