Have you thought about turning your blog into a business in an effort to receive a few perks? It’s certainly possible! Whether you’re offering small business blogging advice or if you’re just blogging as a hobby, there may be perks involved as a way to reward you for your time and effort. We’ve talked about how to use your blog for marketing purposes so this should be of gr...

As with many of the stories we tell on this blog, some of the greatest entrepreneurial ventures start out as a result of people no longer working in their initial field (needing a fresh start), or unemployed professionals with an idea. Today’s featured entrepreneur is, let’s say, totally chill in Southern California and freezing out the competition by capitalizing on small business social medi...

Small businesses and entrepreneurs have increasingly been using social media integrated in the marketing and promotional campaigns. But social media for small business is still quite new for a lot of entrepreneurs. There are plenty of small business owners that believe they should be doing social media as a form of marketing and customer interaction. But as The Wall Street Journal points out in th...

Everyone writes and blogs about trends and predictions for the coming year, so we’ll join the crowd. John Arnold wrote about 10 online marketing trends for 2010 on Entrepreneur.com. We’d like to list them here and debate whether or not we agree with his assessment to “test, invest or rest” the tactics. Many we agree on but there are a few we disagree with so here’s ou...

You’ve heard it before: social networking sites are useful tools for finding and connecting with new clients. But what are the best ways to do that? How can you use LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook to find new clients? In this blog post I’m going to let you in on a few secrets and give you a guide to getting started on these social networking sites. LinkedIn Linkedin is a powerful networking too...

I often come across entrepreneurs and small business owners who say that they see the importance of using social media in building their businesses, but they feel overwhelmed with the time commitment involved.  They often think that it takes hours of time to maintain their profiles on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter etc…but it can be done as little as 10 minutes a day with a few small busin...