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SOB Business Cafe 01-12-07

January 12, 2007 by Liz 14 Comments

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 titles to enjoy each selection.

The Specials this Week are

Success from the Nest has a question that could impact our bottom line.

Do You Know Where Your Nuts Are?

Deep Jive Interests has offers Yahoo! a plan to get their ROI from MyBlogLog.

Here’s How Yahoo! Could Capitalize on MyBlogLog

Solo Business Marketing reminds us of one thing we should be certain to find out.

Does Your Client Have the Authority to Pay?

Workboxers explains how to name a real world business opening online.

Selecting a Solid Business Domain Name

Drew’s Marketing Minute has an important ultimatum.

Love me or let me go

Logic + Emotion gives us a tour of what will soon be the newest and fastest growing habitat of the business world.

The iPhone Ecosystem

Technosailor details a series on the business of podcasting.

Podcasting Essentials: Strength in Numbers

Whimspiration has gathered a comprehensive list of non-GMO, natural, heirloom, organic, and CNG seed vendors for gardeners looking to buy products on the Internet

Winter’s Grasp

Related ala carte selections include

Scribbit reminds us that not all things should be business.

Creative Family Activities: Part One

Creative Think explains the benefit of resting to change and creativity.

Pause for a Bit

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, Creative-Think, Deep-Jive-Interests, Drews-Marketing-Minute, logic-+-emotion, Scribbit, Solo-Business-Marketing, Success-from-the-Nest, Technosailor, Whimspiration, Workboxers

Shirley George Frazier Is a B.A.D. Blogger!

January 8, 2007 by Liz 1 Comment

Blogger A Day Call: Hello is Shirley there?

BAD Blogger Button

Shirley George Frazier’s first comment on Successful-Blog was November 10, 2005. Making this call was going to be exciting. It’s not every day I get to have a conversation with a Week 4 SOB!

Shirley and I started right in talking about her books. She’s written several, but I was asking about one — the one she was writing and documenting on her blog when I met her. She told me the story of how her publisher had a slightly different vision for the release of it. She related one of the biggest differences — the book was finished months ago, but wouldn’t be published until next fall. We talked about her disappointment that 1.8 billion individuals who work as solo entrepreneurs would have to wait for the help she had gathered, how some of the information might be outdated. . . . Then there was the boring title issue, but we didn’t dwell on that one.

Shirley’s reaction? “Things that are negative make you want to go after the things you can control.” She’ll be self-publishing her next book for sure. That’s what Shirley said.

Thinking like that and being an entrepreneur, Shirley told me, is in her DNA for generations. She provided the proof by telling me family stories. My favorite was the tale of her grandmother, who ran a strawberry business in 1905 Virginia. That story lead to the stories of each of her parents in New York City. I told a story or two of my own.

Shirley’s own entreperneurial path led her into the specialty gift basket business. She was all energy when she talked about how it began and how the business grew into something remarkable. Shirley had some quite famous clients, who still call her up when they need something special even though she doesn’t do that for anyone but them anymore. When she wrote a book about how to do what she did and began to speak on the subject, Shirley had to hire people to run the business. Now her primary work is speaking, writing, and blogging on small business topics both online and traditional. She sounds jazzed about every minute of it.

What fun it was to get to know someone I’ve known for so long. She’s exactly as cool and as much fun as I expected, only 100 times even better.

B.A.D. Blogger Quote

A person who is under the radar can share an opinion, and still stay under the radar if they want . . . but they can still have a voice. —Shirley George Frazier

Stop by Shirley’s Blog, Solo Business Marketing, and say hi!

Thanks, Shirley, you B.A.D. Blogger!

–ME “Liz” Strauss
Want to be a B.A.D. Blogger see the. . . a B.A.D. Blogger? page in the sidebar.

Filed Under: SOB Business, Successful Blog Tagged With: B.A.D. Blogger, bc, Blogger-a-day-call, Shirley-Frazier, Solo-Business-Marketing

SOB Business Cafe 08-25-2006

August 25, 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

Lorelle at WordPress celebrates by remembering when she told us how to get started. Happy Anniversary!

WordPress for Beginners

Manage To Change has a series that reminds us weird ideas often work the best.

Weird Ideas that Work

I Can’t Say That! offers counsel that silence is not more than silence.

Silence Does Not Equal Yes

Ramblings From A Glass Half Full gathered the wisdom of a community to find the secrets of success.

Secrets to Success

Solo Business Marketing knows the importance of timing as a decision-making tool.

Make a Decision Any Decision

Related ala carte selections include

Blogging Pro can show you the way to make your site load faster for FREE.

 CSS Optimization

Ensight has a list of fixes for folks moving to IE7.

List of IE7 CSS Bug Fixes

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: SOB Business Tagged With: bc, Blogging-Pro, Cant-Say-That, Ensight, Lorelle-at-WordPress, Manage-to-Change, Ramblings-From-A-Glass-Half-Full, Solo-Business-Marketing

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