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SOB Business Cafe 11-03-06

November 3, 2006 by Liz Leave a Comment

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

Brightmeadow explains the fine art of writing instruments and why quality counts.

pen snobbery

Essential Keystrokes demonstrates how search engines are interconnected in complicated ways.

Search Engine - What a Tangled Web They Weave

Simplenomics educates us on the art and history of the compliment and how it applies in our business lives.

The Art of the Compliment

Fool for Five knows we can learn something from a Prison Break.

What Can We  Learn from Michael Scofield?

Trevor Hampel gives some thought about our audience, knowing full well that “for whom” is just stuffy talk.

Who Do You Write For

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Converstations lets us know that the frequencies are changing with the times.

WII FM Losing Its Signal

Purple Wren reminds us to keep track of what’s going on around us.

My WUP

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

Filed Under: Successful Blog Tagged With: bc, Brightmeadow, Converstations, Essential-Keystrokes, Fool-for-Five, Purple-Wren, Simplenomics, Trevor-Hampel

SOB Business Cafe 09-08-06

September 8, 2006 by Liz Leave a Comment

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

Blog Blog has a new look, but the same great service since we met.

Blog Blog New Look

Simplenomics reminds that folks value what we value.

Be Proud of Your Prices

Business Blogwire is getting wired into a series on big, big business blogs.

Fortune 500 Corporate Review Series

Service Untitled takes us to the Ritz.

Customer Service Difference #3 Ritz Carlton

Workboxers has THE interview with Patrick Gavin, explaining everything, including how signing up for a Text Links Ad will help put my son though college.

Revealing All about TextLink Ads

Related ala carte selections include

The Hillbilly PhD has a great question and the answer’s not 42 OR 43.

 How Do You Define Your Personal Mission

It’s a Numeric Life isn’t telling tall tales here.

Tall People Earn More

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

Filed Under: Blog Review, Business Life, Customer Think, Motivation, SOB Business, Successful Blog Tagged With: bc, Blog-Blog, Business-Blogwire, Customer Think, Hillbilly-PhD, Its-a-Numeric-Life, Service-Untitled, Simplenomics, Workboxers

SOB Business Cafe 09-01-2006

September 1, 2006 by Liz Leave a Comment

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

Chartreuse BETA names the new “Catcher in the Rye.”

The Importance of Catcher in the Rye

Bloggers Blog reviews mistakes we should steer clear of.

Blogging Mistakes to Avoid

Seth’s Blog considers the options when folks take advantage of a business’s good faith policies.

What Should Starbucks Do

Simplenomics is right on the money again.

I'm Cheaper Is A Terrible Marketing Mantra

Publishing 2.0 has a suggestion for emerging blog media moguls.

Advice to Blog Media

Related ala carte selections include

Working at Home on the Internet has a toy that spoof Web 2.0.

 Web 2.0 Logo Generator

The Selfish Savvy Giver has the peace chant for 2006.

Make Drinks Not War

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

Filed Under: Blog Review, Business Life, Marketing /Sales / Social Media, Successful Blog, Tech/Stats Tagged With: bc, Bloggers-Blog, Chartreuse-Beta, Publishing-2.0, Savvy-Giver, Seths-Blog, Simplenomics, Working-at-Home-on-the-Internet

Looking for This Week’s Ideas?

July 9, 2006 by Liz 24 Comments

Look No Further

Mike Sigers at Simplenomics has done your idea work for you. He’s got a keeper of a post on his front page offering 10 Post Ideas for Business bloggers. Go on over and check it out. Click the shot to get there.

10 Post Ideas for Business that Blog

This one is a classic. Thanks, Mike!

I’m going now to print it out.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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Filed Under: Business Life, Idea Bank, Successful Blog, Writing Tagged With: bc, blog-promotion, business-blogging, ideas, Mike-Sigers, Simplenomics, Writing

SOB Business Cafe 06-16-2006

June 16, 2006 by Liz Leave a Comment

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

Mike Sigers at Simplenomics shares a seven-day plan to build a brand and customer relationships, to improve the blogosphere, and to make the world a better place. This one I printed out, put over my desk, on my bathroom mirror, inside my front door, next to my bed, and on my kitchen cabinet.

Simple Seven Day Plan

Ariane Benefit at Neat Living explains how clearing the clutter from our workspace not only pays off in productivity, it makes room for important new business to enter our work days.

Clearing Clutter Pays Off Big Time

Ben Yoskovitz is holding a Father’s Day Special at IGotNewsforYou. This might be news for you and for your dad too.

Father's Day Special

Rob at Jamdo has a great post outlining four crucial steps to making our blogs more attractive to readers — stickier.

4 Steps to a Stickier Blog

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Sidharja Qhaum at Jamloceng offers gamers a treat called “Alky,” a tool that converts a Windows EXE to MacOS or GNU/Linux.

Alky:Converts your windows neatly.

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

Filed Under: Marketing /Sales / Social Media, Personal Branding, Productivity, SOB Business, Successful Blog, Tech/Stats Tagged With: Ariane-Benefit, bc, Ben-Yoskovitz, customer-relationships, I-Got-News-for-You, Jamdo, Jamloceng, Mike-Sigers, Neat-Living, personal-branding, Productivity, Sidharja-Quinn, Simplenomics

Blogging Your Neighborhood

April 17, 2006 by Liz Leave a Comment

Just because you can do it, it doesn’t mean that you should.

Your Neighborhood Niche

Customer Think Logo

The Internet affords us the ability to blog for business all over the world. Just because we CAN do that, it doesn’t necessarily mean that we SHOULD. As commerce moves to the Internet, all advice points to thinking smaller. People no longer want one-size-fits-all. We should be casting a smaller net into a smaller pond. Niche-brand marketing is what I call it — doing one thing better and more efficiently than anyone else.

Writers are always told, Write what you know.

Customers You Know

Where do you know better than your own neighborhood? The people are the customers you know best. You’re one of them. You live in their world. You go where they go. You have the same problems they have. You know the language and the culture. You even know a lot of the people by name.

Mike Sigers at Simplenomics has a great post today on the many ways that bloggers can make money working with businesses without leaving their own neighborhoods.

You are a customer to your neighbors. Why not have them as your customers as well?

The first advantage of blogging your neighborhood is that your customers have a real world address. What other advantages are working for you when you choose to blog your neighborhood, rather than to blog the world?

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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Filed Under: Marketing /Sales / Social Media, Personal Branding, Strategy/Analysis, Successful Blog Tagged With: bc, blog_promotion, blogging_your_neighborhood, brand-niche_marketing, customer_relationships, customer_think, Mike_Sigers, Simplenomics, thinking_smaller

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