Welcome to the Online Business Roundup at SoloBizCoach.com. This roundup was created by scouring the web in order to bring you the best articles of the week in Business, Online Business, Internet Marketing, Blogging, Writing, SEO, Freedom, Education, Life, Productivity, Personal Development, Careers and Social Media.
Online Business, Business, Marketing, and Internet Marketing
Does Every Business Plan Include a Marketing Plan? What’s the Difference? – every solo business owner needs a marketing plan
How Natalie Sisson Built A Six-Figure Business Helping Women Out Of Her Suitcase – great interview with a lifestyle independent entrepreneur
How to Build a First-Class Email List in 30 Days — from Scratch – interesting way to piggyback off of other people’s success
Easily Create and Market Your Ebook – great ideas
The Perfect Pitch: How to Land a Gig or Job Every Time – honesty and respect wins over a good con job
How I Found My Passion (And How You Can Find Yours) – find what fuels you’re interest so you will stay with it
Conversation Agent: Everything is Obvious (once you know the answer) – the value of hindsight
Four Content Ideas for Driving Inbound Leads –paths that get you thinking
Why Etsy Stores Are At A Disadvantage Compared To Online Stores That Own Their Domain –why you should break away from the pack if you are a serious online merchant
Social Media, Blogging and Writing
The Secret to Growing Your Twitter Audience — being active is just part of it
Create A Standard Background Image For Your YouTube User Page With Photoshop – step by step instructions that works
6 Free eBooks To Build Your Social Media Muscle – these eBooks are not a rehash but a new approach
Content Curation – 5 Ways to Succeed…Eventually for those that desire traffic but cannot write good content consistently
5 Powerful Steps To Eliminate Writer’s Block – a sledge hammer that works
My Content Amplification System – using the social media to your advantage
How to Write 35% Better and 45% Faster –good advice that has positive results but the software can be avoided if you just have discipline
17 Tips to Get More Exposure for Your Blog Posts—some repeats but still good ideas
How To Write Award Winning Blog Headlines – input from an experienced affiliate marketer
11 Interesting Ways to Make Money on Your Blog – good ideas if you can make them work
How To Clone A Blog (And Why) – this is really a good way to backup your site
Learn how to improve your blogging and SEO with Topic Buckets – positive path to help you concentrate on your core topics for improved results
Personal Finance
Send 2011 Out with a Financial Bang –financing tips that can help anyone
Millionaire Investors Leverage Their Knowledge – advice that has worked by those that used it
Search Engine Optimization
How to Choose Keywords for Your Blog – why long tail keywords are a must
Keyword Analysis Guide—advice that works with links to tools that will be helpful
David Leonhardt: SEO Small Business Writer | BizSugar Blog– being a contributor to other blogs does pay off
Google Panda and User Experience – Good explanation but using the web as an experience was not responsible by Google
Submit URLs to Google with Fetch as Googlebot – new way to get exposure for your blog directly from Google
Education
Thinking About a Ph.D.? – what the letters stand for in plain language so you can decide if this path is for you
Econ Grad School –a helpful resource set of links
News: Hostile Witness – Inside Higher Ed –the absence of morals at law schools is a fact but law schools are not a scam
Education, Anti-Matter, and Black Monday – opinionated views that needed expressing
Ask an Economist: What’s the Deal with College Tuition? – advice from a professor in this business that has insight
Productivity
How to Get Your Kindle Highlights into Evernote – I was already a fan of the Kindle App and Evernote. This just rocks both applications!
Personal Development
7 game-changing personal development exercises you’ll actually love doing—how your interests overlap and influence you in places you never thought they did
Careers
Why saying, “This is not part of my job,” is a big career no-no – multitalented employees keep their positions
I am always looking for great articles to share. If you see anything that should be included in the next edition of the Online Business Roundup, please email a link to fred@solobizcoach.com.
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Great list of helpful resources. I’m glad my guest post submitted at sitesketch101 is featured right on your blog here.
Thank you for taking out time to make this a success. God bless you.
Michael @Blast4trafficnow recently posted..The Ultimate 7 Steps To Guest Posting – Guest Blogger’s Key
Thank you for your inclusion of that Site Sketch 101 article. I really appreciate that. This looks like a good roundup. I’m going to spend a little bit of time browsing through these.
Nicholas Cardot recently posted..Cut Out the Deadwood In Your Writing
Thanks for the mention, Fred!
Thanks for the awesome links, as always. But special thanks for the building an email list in 30 days link. We’re struggling with a client right now because they only have work addresses in their database. There were some really good ideas in there.
Gini Dietrich recently posted..We Interrupt Your Regularly Scheduled Programming
I hope that article helps you Gini.
Holy smokes! This is quite a list, Fred. I’ll have to read some of these. Also, thanks for including my post in this list. Really appreciate it!
Laura Click recently posted..Reading Roundup: Mind control, Psychology & Special Sauce
Sure thing Laura. I hope you find some great reads.
Hi Fred! I obviously haven’t checked my pingbacks in a quite a while:) Nice set of articles and thank you for the link love.
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Thanks for stopping by Steve. Keep up the great work. Your blog is one of the best.
Your attitude towards starting a business is awesome.
I am from India and so lucky to have found you.Please carry on your good work.
Thanks for leaving a comment Rakesh, and I am glad that you are liking the site. Do you have your own business? Having you been thinking about starting one? I would love to hear about it.