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Showing posts with label business blogs. Show all posts

Business blogs

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I do read business related blogs. After all, I am also in business. I want to pass along what I find useful or interesting. I figure that if you find the business information helpful then you will take a look at the legal information. I also hope that the information creates a stronger business for you. With a stronger business, the more need for a lawyer.

MSNBC has a rather lively business blog, YOUR BIZ. What I like is it has a good tone - no business professor lecturing - and it is directly targeted towards small businesses. Here are the recent posts as of today:
I think the Internet can do one thing very well if we know how to use it. That thing is getting us together with like-minded people from different places. We learn there are others like us out there doing what we want to do or what we are doing. Then it lets us communicate with those people. I think anyone who is wanting to start their own business, is starting their own business or has their own business can learn something at The Indie Business Blog. I cannot copy and past their latest posts, but I do suggest this as a good start: The Power Of One.
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Business blog round up: Blogs for Small Business

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Thanks to IowaBiz.com for this collection. I must admit that I found the following links from IowaBiz.com. Here is a good rule for searching online: if the site is good, then the site it links to ought to be just as good. IowaBiz.com is good and so are the sites it links to.

I notice that Rush Nigut of Rush On Business is a contributor to the IowaBiz, and I think highly of his blog. Lots of good stuff on IowaBiZ and the following blogs, too much to easily or even properly summarize. Check these sites out if you have a small business. From what I see, these can be very useful to any small business owner.

Small Business Tips seems to be more about online marketing and branding tips. The Internet is not just the future but also the present, check it out folks.


Business Pundit - I swear I wish I had this cheeky style instead the pedantic tone I hear. Just warning you that I find it interesting to read because it combines good information with a good writing style.


Small Biz Survival
which describes itself as "By and for small business people in rural areas and small towns".

Small Business CEO:
Social Networking for Business
Are you looking to dive-in to the social networking world for your business but you want to find a service that is ALL business?

Then you should check out Fastpitch. I have been a member for awhile now and am continually impressed with the continuous stream of new features, functions and services they are bringing to members.

Small Business Branding:


By the end of THIS week, identify the one thing you could do that would have the most significant long-term impact on your business in 2008. Is it finally defining and knowing your brand? Is it creating a customer retention program? It is launching a new initiative? Whatever it is — commit to getting it done.
  • Write a very simple outline of what steps needs to get done
  • Create a calendar that corresponds to your outline
  • Be accountable. Tell your team your boss, your customers…whoever you know will hold you accountable to getting it done.

Then, roll up your sleeves and get to work.

Do not ignore this one. You’ll be amazed at how good you feel once you get this major goal accomplished!

Business Daily News is pretty much what it says and covers a bit of territory that is not strictly business. However, it is a good looking WordPress site and pretty well written.
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Alcoholic Beverages: a different sort of blog

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Since I post news about business related blogs and with my continuing interest in the legal aspects of alcoholic beverages, I thought I might as well post a link to The Bruery Blog. The person writing this blog is written by the people running a new microbrewery. Fun to read and maybe educational and/or inspirational for those wanting to open their own microbrewery.
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An Interesting Business Law Related Blog

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I ran across madisonian.net on November 27. Do not be put off by it being written by law professors. Anyone alluding to Chumbawamba possesses a good sense of humor which translates into a writing that is anything but pedantic. The following example comes from Real Online Competition: The Right to Exit (and I suggest reading all of the post):
I can just imagine the howls of protest–”Lock-in is the whole Web 2.0 business model! Give ‘em stuff for free, use their UGC, and monetize the eyeballs!” But my hope is that (user sunk costs + lock-in) becomes a much less compelling business model over the coming decade. Although optimism on “innovation markets” has largely anesthetized antitrust authorities looking at these situations, we should reconsider whether encouraging big players to compete to capture a market produces more gains and innovation than rules that reduce the cost of exit from dominant players.
I am aware of the Web 2.0 business model but have not studied it in any depth. Yet, I can see the writer's point quite clearly. One that is well worth thinking about for businesses, for consumers and for their lawyers.
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Business blogs November 2007

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If you are new here, you can find where I have posted on other non-lawyer business blogs. Just look click on these links: business blogs, online resources, and/or General business information.

I decided this month to just make a monthly review of business related blogs that might not be also law related. My biases may show - I do tend to tilt towards the marketing blogs and towards any business related blog that is well written. Here goes this month's selections:

Branding & Marketing

Victor Medina's Small Business and Solo Law Practice Blog

Small Fuel Marketing

Dane Carlson's Business Opportunities Blog

FC Now - The Fast Company Blog

BizzBangBuzz - Which is much more and much more impressive than its description: "Law blog focused on small business, technology start ups, entrepreneurs and emerging growth companies"

Duct Tape Marketing Blog - marketing for the small business
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General Businsess Information

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Take a look at The Small Business Wiki.

What is a wiki? Think collaboration with lots and lots of people. Wikipedia starts its description of wikis with this:
A wiki is software that allows users to create, edit, and link web pages easily. Wikis are often used to create collaborative websites and to power community websites. They are being installed by businesses to provide affordable and effective Intranets and for Knowledge Management. Ward Cunningham, developer of the first wiki, WikiWikiWeb, originally described it as "the simplest online database that could possibly work".[1] One of the best known wikis is Wikipedia.[2]
What has this to do with business? If this wiki develops as others have (think Wikipedia), this may be a good resource for businesses - especially small businesses.

Legal Literacy writes about the intersection of law and business - a subject often raised on this blog.
The purpose of this blog is to make visible the links between business and law. It uses current events and stories and to help you learn from other’s mistakes and raise awareness of the legal environment of business — how it can help you and how it can hurt you. The goal is to bridge the gap between these two disciplines to help you unleash the power of Legal Leverage®.

This blog is based on the book The Business Guide to Legal Literacy: What Every Manager Needs to Know About the Law (Jossey-Bass, 2006). As the Wired GC wryly noted, “It’s cheaper than a lawsuit” and is available through your favorite bookseller, including Amazon.

Since I often touch on intellectual property topics (trademarks, trade secrets, copyrights), IPWatchdog.com gives even more information:
IPWatchdog.com is dedicated to providing a free, reliable and easily understandable resource on intellectual property law and related topics. We promise to demystify intellectual property and explain to you what it is, why you would want to consider obtaining intellectual property rights and how to go about obtaining worthwhile intellectual property protection. We also explain various pitfalls to avoid, as well as what you can do to help yourself.

The founder of IPWachdog.com is Gene Quinn, who is a patent attorney, law professor and author. He launched IPWatchdog.com in October of 1999, and since that time the site has been a trusted resource on intellectual property for over 1 million unique visitors who have come here for information and news.
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Reading around: Employment and business law blogs

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Thanks to a week of nursing a strained back, neither my writing on this blog or my reading have been very prolific.

Today's business blog is Steven Carlson's Business Opportunities Weblog. While not a "how=to" blog, I think those thinking of a business or just starting a business may still find it interesting for its reviewing those who took the dare and became successful with their business.

Then there is Clientelevision. Here is the business page for this site. What you get here are some short videos. Rather interesting, actually.
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