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Trish Fehon, OnlineInfluence.com.au

Trish Fehon, OnlineInfluence.com.au

Trish Fehon specialises in creating business websites for small to medium sized businesses that bring in fresh leads, new customers and make money. Read more

Victoria Judge, Expert Agency

Victoria Judge, Expert Agency

Victoria Judge helps people build a successful business around their expertise, through a combination of one-on-one workshops and outsourced servic... Read more

Kalindi Chirmuley, Mulayam Products

Kalindi Chirmuley, Mulayam Products

Mulayam Products manufactures natural skin care products for all ages and all skin types. It helps to take care of the skin and enhance its beauty. Read more

Kate James, Total Balance

Kate James, Total Balance

Through her business coaching and life coaching, Kate James works with the concepts of mindfulness, creativity and authenticity to help people chan... Read more

Hazel Theocharous, Assisting U Virtually

Hazel Theocharous, Assisting U Virtually

Hazel Theocharous is a virtual assistant who listens to her clients and then assesses their admin, assists with their admin and answers their admin... Read more

Richard Jenner, The Type Shed

Richard Jenner, The Type Shed

Richard Jenner does graphic design, for any application - print, web, packaging, shop fronts, signs... anything that requires text / images arrange... Read more

Deb Pilgrim

Deb Pilgrim

Deb Pilgrim helps small business owners start, grow and lead their business, so that they can create the life they want. Read more

Terri Mitchell, The Profit Frog

Terri Mitchell, The Profit Frog

The Profit Frog is The ASSET and CASH FLOW MAXIMISER for SMEs, searching for cash flow problems at their source, helping create cash flow budgets a... Read more

Rachel Abdy, Pace Administration

Rachel Abdy, Pace Administration

Pace Administration offers administrative services to micro and self-employed businesses in Adelaide specialising in services for self-employed psy... Read more

Karen Churchill, The Churchill Consultancy

Karen Churchill, The Churchill Consultancy

Karen Churchill helps her clients achieve their goals by communicating as well as possible with the people who matter to them. This can be done by ... Read more

Paula Durrant, Durrant’s Accounting Services Pty Ltd

Paula Durrant, Durrant’s Accounting Services Pty Ltd

Paula Durrant is a tax accountant for small to medium businesses, and high income individuals. Read more

Mark Rubiolo, Bubbling With Energy Entertainment

Mark Rubiolo, Bubbling With Energy Entertainment

Bubbling With Energy provides entertainment and amusements for corporate events and private parties including jumping castles, mechanical bulls, su... Read more

Alex Levashov, Altima Interactive

Alex Levashov, Altima Interactive

Altima Interactive provides web business consulting, web design and web development to help people grow their business online. Read more

Amanda Pearce, Amanda Pearce Bookkeeping

Amanda Pearce, Amanda Pearce Bookkeeping

Amanda Pearce is an Australian MYOB bookkeeper and virtual assistant who works with small companies. Read more

Stewart Marshall, Uncomplicating IT

Stewart Marshall, Uncomplicating IT

Uncomplicating IT provides impartial, independent IT advice in plain English. We help those who don't know that much about IT bridge the technology... Read more

Ben Jones, Hire a Hubby Ringwood

Ben Jones, Hire a Hubby Ringwood

Ben Jones provides property maintenance services within Ringwood, Ringwood North and Warranwood. Read more

Roland Hanekroot, New Perspectives Small Business Bootcamp

Roland Hanekroot, New Perspectives Small Business Bootcamp

Roland Hanekroot is a small business coach in Sydney who works with small business owners who want to make a big shift in their business and turn i... Read more

Ann Nixon, Sydney Psych.

Ann Nixon, Sydney Psych.

Ann Nixon provides broad counselling and psychotherapy services to clients in the inner city and eastern suburbs of Sydney. Read more

Amy Barry, Pendle Party and Event Hire

Amy Barry, Pendle Party and Event Hire

Pendle Party and Event Hire is a family business that offers party and event equipment for hire to south east Queensland. Read more

Jane Woolard, WordLaundry

Jane Woolard, WordLaundry

Specialising in editing, proofreading and copywriting, WordLaundry takes the froth and bubble from communications, leaving them crisp and squeaky c... Read more

Trish Fehon, OnlineInfluence.com.au
Victoria Judge, Expert Agency
Kalindi Chirmuley, Mulayam Products
Kate James, Total Balance
Hazel Theocharous, Assisting U Virtually
Richard Jenner, The Type Shed
Deb Pilgrim
Terri Mitchell, The Profit Frog
Rachel Abdy, Pace Administration
Karen Churchill, The Churchill Consultancy
Paula Durrant, Durrant’s Accounting Services Pty Ltd
Mark Rubiolo, Bubbling With Energy Entertainment
Alex Levashov, Altima Interactive
Amanda Pearce, Amanda Pearce Bookkeeping
Stewart Marshall, Uncomplicating IT
Ben Jones, Hire a Hubby Ringwood
Roland Hanekroot, New Perspectives Small Business Bootcamp
Ann Nixon, Sydney Psych.
Amy Barry, Pendle Party and Event Hire
Jane Woolard, WordLaundry
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Many soloists are adding small business blogs to their website as a way of communicating better with their clients or target market and also as a way to increase traffic to their website.

In this section you will find helpful articles covering the basics of blogging for business as well as tips on making money from small business blogs. Small business blogging could be a cost-effective way to market your business or even a direct revenue channel.


Podcast: How to use blogging for your business

04 Feb 12 | Tim Reid and Luke Moulton

In this podcast discover how to make blogging a part of your marketing arsenal. Read more

Creating content for your blog

10 Nov 11 | Troy Dean

Writing a blog establishes you as a market leader in your field and helps to build trust with your readers. The challenge lies in knowing what to write when creating blog content. Read more

Comments: 4

Better blogging

27 Aug 11 | Jo Macdermott

Started a blog, but guilty of neglecting it? Or maybe you’re just not seeing results? These tips will help you get the most bang from your blogging efforts. Read more

Comments: 3

Creating effective blog content

27 Apr 11 | Deb Pilgrim

How do you ensure your blog content is relevant to your target audience? These tips should get you on the right track. Read more

Comments: 11

Why write a blog?

25 Mar 11 | Deb Pilgrim

Are you looking for more creative, cost effective and unique ways to market your products and services? Why not write a blog? Read more

Comments: 17

How to make money from blogs

15 Jun 09 | Zoe Warne

We all know blogging can be good for business, but how do you make money from blogs? I have worked strategically on a variety of blogs and other web 2.0 strategies and have some sage advice and revenue models for would-be bloggers to consider. Read more

Comments: 15

Seven reasons NOT to blog

06 May 09 | Amanda Gonzalez

You’ve read enough articles telling you why you should blog. What about reasons not to blog? This will help you objectively decide whether you should or shouldn’t start a blog. Read more

Comments: 21

How to make money from business blogging

03 Feb 08 | Melissa Norfolk

Business blogging takes a big time commitment, but it could be worthwhile if it generates more customers and dollars. So how do you make money from business blogging? Read more

Comments: 22

Business blogs: Can a blog help your solo business?

12 Jun 07 | Melissa Norfolk

Many businesses are now adding business blogs to their website to better communicate with their target market and build traffic to their website. Can a blog help your business? Or is it simply a fad? Read more

Comments: 57

Business blogs: how to make money blogging

03 Sep 06 | Yaro Starak

The self-styled Blog Traffic King describes the opportunities business blogs have presented him, explains why blogging has changed his life and outlines some ways to make money blogging. Read more

Comments: 14

Internet marketing: The basics of blogging for business

21 May 06 | Yaro Starak

Blogs make it easy for soloists to create dynamic websites with little technical skill. Blogging is one of the best communication tools to “talk” to your potential customers and build relationships. Here are the basics of blogging for business. Read more

Comments: 8

 

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