Have you ever wished you could quickly and painlessly transform all that great content on your business blog into a book? Think of the possibilities!

• A free book that you distribute to your current clients, customers, or prospects to boost your credibility and positioning as a respected authority.
• An orientation overview for new clients when they come on board.
• A book that you sell for general exposure, niche positioning, or for pure profit!

Well now there’s an elegant solution that will help you quickly meet these goals and more. It’s called Blogbinders And this could be the tool you’ve been looking for to transform your strategically structured and well crafted business blog to book and make it a major component of your marketing.

So how does Blogbinder work?

The folks over at Blogbinders have done a terrific job in creating an easy to use, intuitive interface for busy business owners running popular business blogs. In six simple steps you can (more…)

Yes, I finally got around to upgrading the Advanced Business Blogging site to WordPress v1.5.2 and it’s incredible. Security, Spam protection, and presentation control is unbelievably simple!

Now I’m not a programmer, and I just know enough coding to get myself in trouble — but working with this latest version of WordPress definitely reminds me of why we think it’s hands-down the best blogging software for serious business bloggers.

• Ease of install/upgrading. Upgrading from version 1.2 took me 10-minutes, including the backup of My SQL databases.
• Total control of appearance and layout. I was able to create this site layout (working off of the “Rin” base template by Khaled Abou Alfa and Joshua) in under three hours, including the image research for the header design, and the graphic design of the header itself.
• Complete control in customizing navigation. WordPress v1.5.2 even allows you to very simply create custom static pages outside your regular posts. A great addition for business owners who’d like to educate readers more about themselves or their products/services without having to leave the blog.

If you’re a business owner who’s looking to integrate business blogging into your long-term marketing and communication strategy — WordPress should be at the top of your list!

Enjoy!

John-Paul Micek is a contributing partner in the only multi-media course that truly coaches business owners how to integrate business blogging for more traffic, more clients, and more profits — How to Master Business Blogging.

He’s a weekly columnist for the business section of the Honoulu Star Bulletin. He’s known as the “Click-and-Mortar Business Coach” by by business owners around the world thanks to members of the Business Owners Coaching Club.


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If you’re a small business owner looking for music you can use to make your free business podcast sound more professional, this is a business blogging resource you’ll love! New tech Podcaster from Philly, Mike, from the Mike Tech Show had a really kewl song on his new podcast on tech where he shares great tons of free resources for podcasting.

The song was called “goodbye beautiful day“, and I couldn’t help but play it over and over, after listening to several of his podcasts, many of which were live from the Trenton Computer Festival but more importantly, he replied back to my comment on his blog to share where he downloaded the free podcast song from.

Mike shared the resource he got the free music download where you can get Pod Safe music for your podcast.

Garageband.com is the place where you can listen to songs, review the songs, post your songs, or download songs.

Another free podcast resource he shared from his new podcast is for people who want to find sounds for your podcast to entertain while you educate your podcast listeners (aka - your audience).

Here’s what Mike shared about Pod Safe music:

“Here’s the scoop, if the artist has the song to download, you can play it, copy it, just not make a profit from it. We call that, “POD SAFE”, free from the wrath of the RIAA.”

So enjoy downloading free songs from GarageBand and be sure to adhere to the rules, and you’ll be Edu-Taining in no time!

Also be sure to check out and subscribe to Mike Tech’s new Mike Tech Show which also serves as his blog, where he’ll continue to share technology and computer podcast discussing cool sites, software, tips and tricks that will make you more productive at home and work.

Coach Deb
BusinessOwnersJournal.com

PS: Too funny about the blogging and podcasting world. Mike lives not too far from where I used to live back in New Jersey, but apparently, I had to move 6,000 miles away to Hawaii in order to connect with him. Small world the podcast community and blogosphere has created for all of us! Small world indeed…

Small business owners have been asking me about automated blogging programs they’ve seen. For entrepreneurs and business owners who are serious about building relationships with their target audience and maximizing the impact of their business blogs, beware of the claims these software programs make.

All the blogging automated programs I’ve seen thus far will have some immediate and long-term detrimental effects on your marketing efforts.
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On March 29, 2005, Yahoo launched their new social network communication multiplier – Yahoo 360. It’s a powerful, new, all-inclusive interface that the average person with little or no technical knowledge can use to easily and instantly communicate with an infinite network of friends and associates.

Yahoo 360 is still currently in “invite only” beta testing, but I’ll share a quick overview with you. And more importantly – I’ll explain why understanding this new service is critical to your success as a small-business owner.

First, a quick review of what’s included in Yahoo 360

With Yahoo 360, even the greatest techno-phobe can easily access and use his or her own blog, instant messaging, photo storage/sharing, and Internet radio in one convenient interface. Yahoo 360 includes a host of other sharing tools including reviews and listings of your favorite restaurants, movies, music, etc.

Online social networking and blogging are not unique in and of themselves. Microsoft has stepped into the world of blogging with MSN Spaces. Google has Blogger.com and Orkut for social networking. But even with some current shortcomings, Yahoo has stepped it up to a whole new level.

It’s not for Pros – it’s consumer connection on digital steroids (more…)