This is a guest post by James Chartrand of Men with Pens, and is the first guest post for Guest Post Week here at Remarkablogger. Setting up a blog for your business can produce phenomenal results. You can increase your client base, show off your work, boost your credibility and tell people more about your…

Let’s face it: Ecommerce sites are boring. And yet, the people running them are often the most knowledgeable, passionate people on the planet about the products they sell. Maybe it’s the drudgery of dealing with the ecommerce system. Maybe it’s because people carry around in their heads some old ideas about how things are “supposed…

Your business blog sucks because… It’s duct-taped and stapled onto your existing site with no thought to how to integrate blog and web site or an overall redesign It’s on Blogger, which makes you look cheap and/or like a spammer and nobody likes Blogger’s commenting system It’s on TypePad, which means it’s probably ugly and…

Juan Tornoe tells the story of how his blog ranked higher than CNN for a search term and how amazing amounts of traffic ended up at his blog, where they followed a link through to CNN. The traffic permanently boosted his normal traffic from that point on. “Under blog posts, I was pleasantly surprised to…

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It’s vitally important to be where your customers are, but how, exactly, do you do that? Here are four actionable suggestions: 1. Forums Probably the most powerful online method to put yourself in front of your customers and hang out where they hang out is to participate fully in one or two popular forums for…

Take My Poll Choose the most important reason why you blog. I’m trying to get a sense of the numbers and proportions of bloggers who blog for different reasons, and how those groups break down among my own readers and elsewhere. If you can’t see the poll in your reader, click here to respond to…

I was cleaning house today and you know how stuff gets stuck in the cushions of your couch? Most people find potato chips, fuzz, and pennies. Not me. I found some old blog posts! They do have a little fuzz on them, but they’re still worth sharing! Do You Suffer from Blog Fatigue? 4 Strategies…

Sounds crazy, doesn’t it? Why the bleep is a blogging consultant telling you not to do all the usual things pro bloggers advise in order to become an expert blogger? Because it’s probably not your job. If you run a business (freelance, micro-ISV, small biz, Fortune 500, whatever), then your goal is to do that…

I write a lot about how blogging helps businesses of all stripes and sizes, but now I want to hear from you. How has blogging helped your business? Take the poll below, but also you can tell me in your own words in the comments below or write a post on your own blog and link back to this post. After a week or so, I’m going to take a look at the responses and collect some of them together into a summary post.

Business blog posts generally fall into one of 10 types. When you’re trying to write for your business blog and you feel a little stuck (or if you’re new to business blogging), you can just pick one of these 10 types of business blog posts to use as a guide.

If your company was hit with a crisis, how would you blog through it? Do you have a business blog crisis management plan? Learn how to set one up.

This is part 8 of a new series on how to start a business blog, and is aimed at businesses of all sizes. In these articles, I’m going to address business-specific concerns and requirements for business blogging. Previously: How to Start a Business Blog, Part 7 Nearly all blogs have categories, labels, or tags as…

This is part 6 of a new series on how to start a business blog, and is aimed at businesses of all sizes. In these articles, I’m going to address business-specific concerns and requirements for business blogging. Previously: How to Start a Business Blog, Part 5 Another issue to consider when starting a business blog…