Online Blogs and Other Internet Venues for Small Business
Here is a very short compilation of online blogs and other Internet venues for small business that we put together for a client a few weeks ago. Here is how the counselor put the request to us, "Please search and compile a list of message boards, forums, communities, blogs, and similar internet venues that are ‘business/entrepreneurship’ oriented."
We felt it would be a good thing to share with the SBDC network as a whole. Thus, here is a list of what we found after a quick search. The format will be familiar to counselors who use our research services.
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Entrepreneur Blogs: 10 You NEED To Be Following
Source: http://www.standoutblogger.com/blog-reviews/entrepreneur-blogs-10-you-need-to-be-following-in-2009/
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Entrepreneurship Blogs – The Top Blogs for Entrepreneurs
Source: http://entrepreneurs.about.com/od/blogs/Entrepreneurship_Blogs_The_Top_Blogs_for_Entrepreneurs.htm#b
This is a list of blogs useful to entrepreneurs, with a touch of social entrepreneurship and high tech bias. Future updates will be published on this page on Entrepreneur Commons website.
Source: http://entrepreneurcommons.googlepages.com/top150blogsforentrepreneurs
With more and more people jumping on the business blogging bandwagon, it’s getting to the point that there is far more out there than you could ever hope to read on a regular basis. To help you filter that infoglut down to a more manageable level, here is my list of the ten most practical blogs for entrepreneurs.
Source: http://entrepreneurs.about.com/b/2005/10/24/top-10-most-practical-blogs-for-entrepreneurs.htm
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There are new and exciting business tools being developed every day. These can help you improve your productivity and open up entirely new channels for your business to thrive online.
Source: http://www.blogtrepreneur.com/index.php?s=message+boards
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SEO encompasses the strategies for earning top rankings in free search engines. These are called "organic" or "natural" listings. You can actually direct the way your site’s listed–and improve your ranking–by giving the search engines what they’re looking for.
Source: http://www.entrepreneur.com/ebusiness/ebusinesscolumnist/article176398.html
HubSpot offers an Internet marketing system that integrates SEO, social media and marketing analytics to help customers increase website traffic and convert a greater percentage of visitors into customers.
Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29427719/
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For the last week, I’ve been counting down the top trends I expect to shape the field of social entrepreneurship in 2009. Overall, I expect that the language of "social entrepreneurship" will become an increasingly large part of the social change lexicon. The combination of a new administration, an economic crisis highlighting systemic failures in our approaches to business, and a growing frustration with promises to change the world and come up short, the idea of new, pragmatic approaches to tackling our toughest problems will continue to captivate.
Source: http://socialentrepreneurship.change.org/blog/view/recap_top_trends_shaping_social_entrepreneurship_in_2009
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