Sunday Link Love: 15 Great Finds on Promotion, Working at Home and Productivity

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Can’t Have You Sitting Home with Left-Overs

I’ve collected 15 more links for you to read or add to your tool kit over the weekend — more help and treasures.

Blog Promotion and Traffic

  1. How to Rank Well in Google with Your Blog Matt Cutts Style


  2. Blog SEO: Link bait option Simply put, if no one finds your posts of value, no one is going to link to them.


  3. Quick Blog Traffic Tip - Link To Another Blogger Spend some time continuing the discussion they started or recommend an article they posted to your readers. In other words, send some link love. :


  4. Building “Word Of Mouth” Capabilities Into Online Apps “Put a tell-a-friend form on every page of your website.”


  5. How to Rank on Google Base



  6. Do-It-Yourself Search Engine Optimization Guide

    7. Working at Home

  7. What the Heck is a “Real Job”? How I Learned a Business Doesn’t Count


  8. Working from Home - What to Do When the Kids Are on Holiday from School


  9. Paying Fixed Bills With a See-Saw Salary

  10. Top 30 Free Windows Software Apps

    11. Productivity

  11. Self-Destructing Distractions


  12. Take a Break and Refresh Your Productivity


  13. How to manage your blogging schedule


  14. Neat Living “Do-it-Yourself” Organizing Library - Our FREE Gift to You!


  15. Procrastination hack: “(10+2)*5”

Have a great Sunday!. :)

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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Business Rule 1: Working at Home and Doing it Right

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What I Do for a Living

Business Rules Logo

I no longer work in an office. It’s been years. Now my desk is glass. It sits in my living room in Chicago behind a Chinese rice paper screen. Out the windows behind me is Lake Michigan and, in the wee hours when I have a chance, I can look at the water and think about what I’ll write next.

My office is the Internet. It’s inside my computer and inside yours. It’s open 24/7. My friends will attest that I’m almost here. I like it when you stop by or interrupt. It’s kind of lonely when no one’s around.

When folks ask me what I do every day, I say I write about thinking, and writing, and strategy. They usually get what I mean by that. But what I really do is try to share what I’ve learned and have fun while I’m doing it. It’s a rule of business and of life —

If you’re not having fun, you’re not doing it right.

What work did you do that was fun today?

–ME “Liz” Strauss

You might have heard of my new service for small businesses, entrepreneurs, and folks who are forging a path of their own. I’m calling it PVM, the Perfect Virtual Manager. We all need Managers. It’s perfect because you get to decide your manager’s job description. What could more perfect than that?

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SOB Business Cafe 7-21-2006

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SB Cafe

Welcome to the SOB Cafe

We offer the best in thinking–articles on the business of blogging written by the Successful and Outstanding Bloggers of Successful Blog. Click on the title shots to enjoy each selection.

The Specials this Week are

Creating Passionate Users makes the point that if you’re not having fun, you’re just not doing it right somehow.

Usability through Fun

Solo Marketing offers some advice on how to deal with spousal distractions. These aren’t just tips for holidays.

How to Avoid Spousal Distractions

Symplebyte shows us how to make smaller PowerPoint files in five easy steps. Maybe then we can actually send them to clients via email.

5 steps to Smaller PowerPoint Files

Service Unlimited has some customer service tips for freelancers. They really apply to any business that has clients.

Customer Service Tips for Freelancers

Related ala carte selections include

Scrappy Marketing Solutions reminds of the qualities that make an effective business blog.

What Makes an Effective Small Business Blog

Sit back. Enjoy your read. Nachos and drinks will be right over. Stay as long as you like.
No tips required. Comments appreciated.

Have a great weekend!

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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Great Find: How to Create a Positive Home-Work Environment

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Home, Sweet, Home

I found this while researching The Zehnkatzen Times.

Great Find: How-To: Create a Positive Home Work Environment
by Beth Dean

Permalink: http://designorati.com/web-design/2006/how-to-create-a-positive-home-work-environment/

Audience/Topic: All work-at-home folks
Content: Beth Dean offers ten points that all of us would better to remember when we set aside a space at home for working — whether we work at home always or only occasionally. It’s easy to read and offers some new points. To get there, click the title.

How to Create a Positive Home Work Environment

Thanks, Beth, for the reminders!

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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