I get emails every day from readers of this and some of my other blogs. Many of these contain comments like “how do you find this stuff” and “you are really great at finding….”. To which I say, thank you, but I have to admit that more than 50% of the time, it’s not me. [...]

Sticks and stones might break bones, but libelous statements may lead to litigation….. A flame, according to answers.com is : Informal. To make insulting criticisms or remarks, as on a computer network, to incite anger. So when it comes to the competition, it’s really tempting to flame the heck out them. Especially when their products [...]

SPLOG: Spam Blog. Business is business, right? It’s all about the duckets, the dollars, the bottom line. Period. Right? Well, sort of. Because sometimes corporate blogs and the bloggers that write them are very short sighted. Writing every blog post as a sales pitch for a product or service. Ultimately becoming one big spam blog. [...]

With the blogging boom has come literally thousands of would-be blog coaches. Each with their own opinions and different methods for developing successful corporate blogs. Which is fine, many of them offer sound advice that if followed, could help your blog perform better. But some of them seem to focus on areas that might not [...]

I find it kind of disturbing when I come across a business blog with closed comments. Am I the only one that is irked by this? I’m going to venture to say that I’m not. In my opinion, closing off your company blog comments is a huge mistake. Not only are you totally blocking the [...]

During the last round of presidential debates, there was quite a bit of mention for “Joe the Plumber.” Now, you’ll get a lot of different web addresses, depending on who you ask, as the official “Joe the Plumber.” If you go to JoeThePlumber.com you’ll see that they are selling what they are calling the “official” [...]

What is the difference between a professional blogger and a writer? Can’t someone be both? Yes, they can. But there are differences between the two. Bloggers are almost all writers, with the exception of some photo and multimedia bloggers. But not all writers can be bloggers. At least they can’t be professional bloggers in my [...]

Remember “Glengarry, Glen Ross?” If you’ve never seen it, I really recommend that you do. It’s a great movie about some shady, high pressure real estate salesman / telemarketers. At one point in the movie, Alec Baldwin (I think it was Alec, or one of the thirty other brothers that keep crawling out of the [...]

It was. I missed a day blogging here. I could make a bunch of excuses about how I couldn’t get online and make a post here at Business Blogs yesterday, which is true, but I won’t…. Point is this. It happens. No harm, no foul. It’s going to happen with your business blog as well [...]

We hear it all the time. What is the best way to write a blog post? A blog post is simple if you know the basics of writing. It really comes down to three different parts. 1. Tell them what you are going to write about 2. Write about it 3. A summary of what [...]