Creating regular content for your small business blog can be challenging, stressful, and time consuming. This is particularly true for small business entrepreneurs – myself included – who are not professionally trained writers and bloggers. You want to communicate regularly with your blog readers but how does one continually write witty, captivating, useful content for your small business blog without it consuming so many brain cells – or time!
Month: March 2013
Is Your Small Business a Hollow Chocolate Easter Bunny?
This time of year we dream of the yummy, rich, sweet chocolate Easter bunny. We envision, in excited anticipation, our first bite into that scrumptious, lip-smacking bunny ear made of solid chocolate….only to discover the bunny’s ear is hollow! How disappointing! Unfortunately, there are many small businesses much like the hollow chocolate Easter bunny. Let me explain.
5 on Friday: 5 Sources of Content for Your Small Business Blog
You sit down at your desk with a big cup of your favorite beverage. You’re excited! You’re ready to craft a blog post for your small business blog. That would be great – if you only knew what you were going to write. You find yourself staring blankly at a stark-white word document willing brilliant words of wisdom to appear magically across the screen. Although the spirit is willing, the brain cells are wavering!
Cracking the Code on Facebook for Small Business
If Facebook were an employee, he* would be a bit of a slacker in my small business. He shows up every day for work in a rumbled plaid shirt he slept in. He slumps in his chair and clicks lazily here and there on Facebook. He scrolls up and down, down and up, with about as much interest as watching paint dry.
Five on Friday: Five Ways to Erase Your Fear in Business
I’ve had my share of fear in business. I’m sure you have, too. It’s a horrible place to be. Fear in business can get on grip on your creativity and ingenuity that can be challenging to surmount.
10 Tips for Entrepreneurs to Achieve Work-Life Balance
Coaching entrepreneurs in work-life balance challenges contains some of the biggest obstacles to overcome. If you’re an “always-on, always-available, always-connected” entrepreneur, you apt to feel like you’re running hard but not getting ahead. Moreover, you’re predisposed to all sorts of overwhelm and lots of unnecessary stress. Is that what you intended when you launched your business!? I didn’t think so.
Five on Friday – 5 Business Ideas for Women to Rock Their Success
Have you heard? March is Women’s History Month! Since 1987, when Women’s History Month was declared a national holiday, we’ve been celebrating the accomplishments of the daring, passionate women that forged the way for so many of us. In fact, I don’t remember a time that I felt unable or uninvited as a woman to participate in the entrepreneurial dream. And, I owe it all to the fearless women willing to do the hard work of breaking through traditional beliefs about women and their roles.
Five on Friday – 5 Signs the Price is Right for Your Small Business
Setting proper pricing can be a challenge for most small businesses. It’s finding the right balance between being competitive and staying in business that leaves most small business owners scratching their head. Like Goldilocks, the three bears, and the dilemma of the porridge, many small business entrepreneurs wonder if their pricing is too high (i.e. hot), too low (i.e. cold) or just right (ahhh!).