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This is an ongoing series of interesting and helpful reads that I have come across on the Internet. I try to include the most helpful articles and links each week to provide the widest range of information for the home business entrepreneur.

 8 Common & Critical Small Business Website Mistakes You Don’t Want to Make by Dawud Miracle… Dawud not only gives a list of common mistakes that a lot of online businesses make, but gives you ways to avoid them in the first place.

Strategic Blogging and Some Tactics to Nail It by Chris Brogan… After you read Dawud’s post you may wonder what comes next for your business blog. Luckily, Chris has some ways to set goals and strategies for your consideration that could be boon to your business.

I hope you find some of these articles informational and helpful. I think they will be enjoyable reading nonetheless.

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It’s a short and sweet introduction to doing business on the internet for anyone who has questions about which is the better option- Blog or Website -for their online endeavours.

You can get a copy of the eBook and/or MP3 (with e-mail request for Audio) for the low price of $4.95 just by clicking the picture above or going to your Scribd account and looking for Blog vs Website in the search section.

If you would like to grab the link for the eBook to offer your readers on your site, feel free, but I can’t offer an affiliate program quite yet. Sorry.

Thanks for your support!

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Today is the start of the Blog vs Website Writing Project

Concept…

The idea is simple, to help Business people determine the Advantages or Disadvantages of using a Blog or a Website (or a combination of both) to enhance their businesses on the Internet. It can be about your experiences, successes and/or failures using either type of web presence, or even your opinion on the good vs evil of each as a way to reach potential or existing customers.

It’s pretty open, whatever has worked for you, you think could work for others, barriers you have encountered. Whatever, as long as it involves Business and a Blog v Website theme.

Rules…

The rules are pretty simple as well.

The post Must be Original. Written by you or someone involved with your business.

The article must have been written no earlier than the pre-announcement (6/25).

Submission links must be submitted through my contact form subject:contest.

No purely self-promotional posts, please. This is to try to help others in their Home Business endeavours. 

Linkbacks/trackbacks are optional.

The Prize…

Liz Strauss’ New eBook

The Secret to Writing a Successful and Outstanding Blog

An Insider’s Guide to the Conversation that’s Changing How Business Works

by Liz Strauss

Duration…

You can submit posts anytime between now and Monday (July 7th) and the Winner will be announced Wednesday (9th). That’s it a little over week and it will be over.

Submissions…

All submissions will be accepted through my Contact Form subject:contest. Please write your article and submit a link to it. Please don’t submit the full article through the form unless you don’t have a Blog, Webpage or some other way of publishing your own article. If that is the case, please explain the reason and I will be happy to publish your submission here and give you full credit.

Judges…

Dawud Miracle builds static websites and blogs and also help small business owners understand how to use the full internet to expand their own businesses. He also does a great job at business coaching and consulting. 

Chris Garrett is a professional blogger, Internet Marketing Consultant, new media industry commentator, writer, coach, speaker, trainer and web geek. He was also a founding member of Performancing.

Me You should know me by now I hope.

Depending on the number of articles submitted, I will post updates with links to the Original Articles daily or every two days, with a Final list being published on the last day of the project.

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Believe me, I have read Liz’s Blog forever and met her personally at Both SBOCon events (actually that’s how I met Dawud & Chris too), you can bet there is a lot of great information in her New eBook -

The Secret to Writing a Successful and Outstanding Blog

(An Insider’s Guide to the Conversation that’s Changing How Business Works).

Attention: Another Great Prize has been added, check out the introductory post.

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The reason I bring this up is that we’re going to have another, even more challenging contest. You see, I was going over my stats and found something really interesting. My most popular post is actually the Blog vs Website series. My Second most popular post is the Contest for Lorelle’s book, Blogging Tips, What bloggers won’t tell you about blogging.

I’ve been contemplating for a while having some kind of contest again, but could never decide what subject would work best. I thought, since these were both at the top of the list, I should do something about it to help people searching for an answer to this question. Being that this is not the formal announcement, I can only give you a hint (which you may have already guessed).

It will be about the differences between using a Website(page) or a Blog for promoting, selling, product exposure or business presence in general on the Internet. Oh, and there is a really cool prize going to be offered by Liz Strauss, her new eBook on how to build a community for your business online.

So, put your thinking caps on and ponder which you think is better for an online business; Blog or Website (maybe a combination?). Details to be announced Saturday (6/28), Contest begins Monday (6/30).

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