When I have to either give a talk to train people in my niche, or to commit it to print, it serves to clarify my own thinking and direction. Even though I have had this experience many times, it never fails to astonish me. Writing posts about blogging has helped me to clear the mists and to see quite clearly what I should be using my web log for. Read more »

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The last couple of posts have been scratching the surface of blogging, making money directly from a blog and using your blog as a marketing tool for your home based business. There is a wealth of evidence that blogging can be rewarding both personally and financially, but I feel that blogging presents the same problem as any orthodox occupation or business. Read more »

I haven’t been into blogging for very long and it has been a steep learning curve. I first started with blogger.com and soon realised their was more to blogging than just writing rambling thoughts. If anyone actually read my posts they didn’t return for more. Perhaps there was a message there somewhere! The other thing that I realised about blogging is that it is a process and requires consistency and discipline. This is especially important if you want to use it as either a marketing tool for your home based business, or to monetize your blog and make it the core component for generating your online income. Read more »

There has been lots written during the last few years about the concept of blogging for dollars, or blog marketing. Supporting evidence proves it can be done and in fact is being done. There are people that believe that those making money from blogging are the exception to the rule and that most cannot truly expect success. Regardless of your views, if you look at the concept of blogging for dollars from a theoretical standpoint, it is definitely one that makes sense. This is because the blog contains of all of the different things that you need in order to make money. Read more »

It’s quite likely at some stage in your home based business, that you may consider whether you want to include your family, or not. Lots of people choose either option. There are many home based businesses that contain several members of the founder’s families, and there are others in which the person running it is the only family member working there. This is a decision that you should think about carefully, because it could affect your home based business in a multiplicity of ways, both good and bad. Read more »

Running any home based business, whether online or off, can be like navigating a mine field, especially where ethics are concerned, so some knowledge of law, a certain degree of fair-mindedness and a large dose of that seemingly rare commodity known as common-sense, are necessary to conduct business professionally and equitably. As in any business, ethics keep Read more »