Business Blogging Pros welcomes our newest client, APEX National Decorators.
APEX National focuses on the needs of general contractors and property managers, but they also have many high-end residential clients.
The thing that sets APEX National apart is how tuned in they are to the needs of their clients. If you are a general contractor or property manager, I'll bet APEX National can help you in ways that you've never thought of.
Business Blogging Pros welcomes our newest Client, Paul Schween Seminars.
Paul is a sales trainer who turns average performers into top performers. He recently spoke at a networking function I attended and can say that he is also a dynamic and entertaining speaker.
It looks like a website, doesn't it? A couple of weeks ago, Karroll K. Alexander of the Alexander K Group asked me to provide him with a proposal for replacing his existing website with a Typepad-based blogsite. The result is what you see here.
More and more, small business owners are opting to use a high-end blogging platform as their sole web presence, taking advantage of the platform's content-management features to provide them with an easy-to-maintain site.
Business Blogging Pros welcomes our newest client, Norma Huibregtse and Captivated Customers. Norma's company is dedicated to helping your increase sales through improved customer service.
Norma's blog is another great example of something we're creating a lot of lately: A single combined website and blog that is the client's entire web presence. The best part of one of these blogsites is that the owner can maintain it herself. We are teaching Norma how to maintain the site, create new pages, add them to the menubar, etc. It's really pretty easy, and it's very empowering for Norma.
I was an adult when my father handed me a well-worn, black notebook that had been tucked in among his numerous books and asked me if I wanted to read it.
I was amazed. It was a diary that he had apparently kept during his years in combat - a document that I had not know existed. As I began to skim through the entries, I discovered that he had been in almost every major battle with the Germans in North Africa and Europe. However, it was not just dates and places. Instead, he had noted details, included descriptions, and inserted his own opinions about the various events, places, and people.
It read more like a story than a diary, and it was unique because it had been written as these events were occurring around him, not written from memories of the past. Once I was able to convince him to let me turn his diary into a manuscript, he and I began my work, and we had three wonderful years before his death to complete the task. Chappie World War II Diary of a Combat Chaplain is the result of that effort. It is the account of an ordinary man’s response to extraordinary events going on around him.Anne worked with her father prodding his memory in order to flesh out the cryptic notes in the diary and the result is one of the most compelling stories I have ever read. This wa a blog that I wanted to build. The banner is comprised of some of her father's actual photos (just to the left of the third photo from the left, you can just see her father delivering a Sunday sermon). The background is one of her father's actual WWII combat maps which she graciously loaned to me for scanning.
We've built several blogs for Steven Phillips and Z Cleaners over the past couple of years. This time we decided to re-purpose his Dry Cleaning Zen blog.
Business Blogging Pros welcomes our newsest client, Pam Krulitz and Perspective Leadership Development.
Her blog is intended for all of those people who started out life and careers as scientists, engineers and technologists and who now find themselves in positions of managing or leading people—perhaps a small team, or perhaps a company.
Her blog is a place of learning, sharing and exploring together what leadership is, why it is important, and what it takes to develop as a leader, particularly for those who started out in a technical discipline.
Business Blogging Pros welcomes our newest customer Nick Pappagallo and his professional DJ service.
Business Blogging Pros welcomes our newest client, Bobbies Flowers.
Business Blogging Pros welcomes Nicjk Pappagallo and his professional DJ service as our newest client.
Business Blogging Pros welcomes ore newest clients, Maureen Weisner and Maya Balle of Women Living On The Edge.
Maureen and Maya are about helping women dust off their dreams, getting out there, and living - really living.
One of the things that was the most fun about this project was coming up with the banner. Usually our client has an existing website, collateral, or some artwork that we can use as a starting point. This time however, Maureen and Maya wanted a fresh look that would be a complete break from their existing designs. When I showed Maureen what our designer came up with she said, "You nailed it!". That made my day.
As with many of our recent clients, Maureen and Mayaa needed a website as well as a blog, and were very interested when they learned we could create a blog as a website for then.
The best part of one of these blogsites is that the owner can maintain it herself. We are teaching Maureen and Maya how to maintain the site, create new pages, add them to the menubar, etc. It's really pretty easy, and it's very empowering for the site's owner.
Business Blogging Pros welcomes our newest client, Dawn Rutledge and The Living well Retreats.
Dawn offers The mission of The Living Well Retreats is to provide faith based wellness programs.
As with many of our recent clients, Dawn needed a website as well as a blog, and was very interested when she learned we could create a blog as a website for her.
The best part of one of these blogsites is that the owner can maintain it herself. We are teaching Dawn how to maintain the site, create new pages, add them to the menubar, etc. It's really pretty easy, and it's very empowering for the site's owner.
Busines Blogging Pros welcomes our newest client, Alisa Keeton and AKA Fitness.
AKA Fitness helps women who are overweight, out of shape, and unhappy about it.
As with many of our recent clients, Alisa needed a website as well as a blog, and was very interested when she learned we could create a blog as a website for her.
The best part of one of these blogsites is that the owner can maintain it herself. We are teaching Alisa how to maintain the site, create new pages, add them to the menubar, etc. It's really pretty easy, and it's very empowering for the site's owner.
Tom Selling is a long-time customer who has been extremely successful using his blog to build his brand. The Accounting Onion is read by columnists at all the major financial publications. Bravo, Tom!
A few days ago Tom and I were discussion placing a banner ad in the header of his blog. His blog's existing appearance was looking rather dated, so I asked him if he would allow me to propose a 'makeover'. He agreed and when we showed him the result he loved it.
"How did I get the banner ad in there?" you asked. That's my secret. It did NOT involve advaced templates, however.
Business Blogging Pros welcomes Builder Marketing Society as our newest client.
Starting your own business? A blog makes a great website.
Get Your Site Up Quickly
Using a blog, you can have a web presence in hours or days, not weeks or months. If you've just escaped from cubicle nation, you know you need to move fast. You're running on what's in the bank and the sooner you can get established, the better. And face it, you are not looked upon as a legitimate business unless you have a website.
Low Startup Costs
Sure, there are web-hosting companies and domain registrars that tell you they can deliver a website tonight. It usually looks that way too. First impressions are important, and you want your clients (as well as your friends and family) to see a professional-looking site, Even with custom graphics, the cost of a blog will be much lower than what a reputable web-design firm would charge.
Your Own Domain Name
Yes, your blog/website can be at www.YourDomainName.com. 'Nuff said.
The Best Reason
You don't need a webmaster. If you've had a website in the past, you know the drill: Type up the changes and give them to your web guy. He makes the changes. You review the changes and make corrections. He puts the corrections up there. When you're finally done he makes the changes live. Sometimes it takes weeks.
With a blog as a website, you are using and very easy simple online tool. You login. You bring up the text you want to change. You make the changes. You hit 'Save'. That's it. Doing without a webmaster saves you money, but more importantly it gets everyone else out of the way. You are in control.
We're doing a lot of these 'Blog As A Website' projects lately. And we have several underway right now. We can turn these projects around very quickly.
Business Blogging Pros welcomes out newest client, Creative Therapy.
Greg Peterson and The Urban Farm has been a client for a long time. His blog needed a facelift, we wonted to add a front page with more static content, and we wanted to be able to feature some video we have started doing.
We chose to migrate his blog from Movable Type (version 3.2) to the latest version of Wordpress. We're still working out some kinks and consolidating categories but already the improvement is dramatic.
Business Blogging Pros welcomes our newest client, Therese Skelly and Accelerating Your Success.
I've known Therese for a long time. She is not your ordinary business coach. Her passion is helping business owners be happy in their business and showing them how to to allow their businesses to help create a lifestyle of freedom and purpose.
Therese took the initiative to start a blog a few weeks ago, but she soon realized that it needed a tune-up. While I usually set my clients up with a Typepad blog, Therese had already started hers in Wordpress. Wordpress has come a long way in the past two years and we've been spending a lot of time with it lately. I think this is the third Wordpress blog we've done recently.
We are also working on another interesting project for Therese which I hope to be able to talk about soon, so stay tuned.
Business Blogging Pros welcomes David Banther and The Corporate Mac as our newest client.
I met David and his father Barry Banther at CONFAB last year when I spoke there and subsequently set of a blog for Barry.
David is a fellow Mac lover, and is doing a great podcast about deploying Macs in corporate America.
Business Blogging Pros welcomes Synergy Home Care of Mesa as our newest client.
Mike Endredy and his team provide all manner of non-medical in-home care including transportation, personal hygiene assistance, Alzheimer's care, Bathing and showering, Assistance with dressing, etc.
Business Blogging Pros welcomes Lisa Koss and International Advantage as our newest client.
International Advantage is a speciality consulting firm that supports leaders within global or culturally diverse work environments to navigate organizational change.
One of the strengths of Lisa's firm is that they are excellent listeners, and since blogging is as much listening as speaking, I suspect that she will do well with her blog.
Business Blogging Pros welcomes Zoe Industries and Showerbudy as our newest client.
Showerbuddy offers shower heads, faucets, and sinks, and is probably most famous for recently bucking the low-flow trend and providing a shower head for those of us who like a high volume of water in our showers.
Business Blogging Pros welcomes our newest client, Jim Taszarek and TazMedia, Inc.
For the last ten years Jim Taszarek has provided seminars, consulting, new revenue and management systems to radio and television groups, stations and and newspapers in the US, Canada and Europe. Taz is now focusing his knowledge, experience, and talents on helping us New Media people create an maximize our revenue as well.
Business Blogging Pros welcoms our newest client, Norwood Furniture.
I have visited Norwood Furniture in Gilbert Arizona several times and I wish I had known about them when my Sweet Lady Wife and I were picking out furniture for our new house. I was really impressed by the quality of what they sell.
Todd Brundrett, Norwood's Manager invited everyone in the company who has a specialty to participate in writing the blog. I spent a couple of training sessions with them and what was pleasing to see was how eager they are to share their respective passions and expertise with the world.
One bit of trivia: Todd Brundrett was instrumental in getting Gilbert's new Water Tower Park established.
Business Blogging Pros welcomes my long-time very good friend Heather Burton and Plate It Up! as a client.
Those of you who read my foodie blog already know that I spend all my extra money at her gourmet kitchen tools store in downtown Glendale, AZ. The products she carries are very high-quality, she knows them inside-and-out, and more importantly she makes it a point to stay tuned in to her customers.
Business Blogging Pros welcomes our newest client, Clavé Body Care. Clavé offers several lines of all-natural, organically-created soaps and lotions.
Their hand-crafted soaps are made by artisans all over the world. One of their most interesting products is Candle Caress, a fragrant candle, massage oil, and moisturizer all in one.
Business Blogging Pros welcomes our newest client, Michelle Evard and ME Financial.
Michelle provides financial pallning and advisory services for her clients. Michelle began her own practice to change peoples' lives and was fascinated by the relationship they had with money. Her vast knowledge about emotions and money and her quest for good, honest advice inspired her to open her own practice. A practice where people could trust their advisor and not expect to be sold to. She truly has her clients' best interests at heart, and seeks to nurture and grow their wealth. She'll explain what you need to know, in depth, and in terms you can understand.
Business Blogging Pros welcomes our newest client, Bonnie Mattick and Your Business Detective.
Bonnie and her team are focused on solving some of the stickiest problems a business can have - like disengaged employees, workplace behavioral problems, and under-utilized subject matter experts - to reinvigorate companies and help them grow.
Bonnie is a great example of why I believe that every consultant should have a blog. It's difficult for Bonnie to distinguish herself from her competitors using a few sentences on a website, no matter how well-crafted the words are. Get her talking in an informal setting however and it's easy to see how her methods are unique and why they are so effective. Her blog will give her a platform to tell those same stories, provide that same education, and let her passion and skill shine.
The goal is to develop Credibility Upon Entry, meaning that by the time the prospect picks up the phone to call Bonnie, he already knows three things:
Credibility upon entry means the prospect has already made the buying decision before making the initial call to you. Used this way, your blog can be a tremendous time-saver.
Business Blogging Pros welcomes our newest client, Seaside Shoes.
Our team has created what promises to be a fun blog. About twice a week, we'll publish some lighthearted trivia or historical tidbit about shoes. We also plan to run a couple of fun contests just to see what happens.
Our desire is that some of the traffic will spill over onto Seaside Shoes' main website and they'll sell a few pairs of Crocs as a result.
Mike Leeds is one of my clients. Mike works with companies, managers, teams, and individuals to increase their sales and profitability.
I helped Mike start his blog about eight months ago. Mike is living proof that you don't have to dedicate a lot of time to blogging in order for it to produce results. Mike writes a new post on his blog about every other week. He recently told me that he landed a new client in NYC as a direct result of blogging. He received a phone call from a consulting firm in New York, NY looking for assistance with developing a sales process for their team. They read his blog, checked out his website, and gave him a call.
I've known Mike for a long time and I will tell you that he is very good at his craft. The cold hard truth however is that the New York firm would never have known about Mike except for his blog. And consider as well that there are probably dozens of other firms in New York offering the same kind of service as Mike.
To Mike's credit, he is doing everything right:
Mike is building a great example of what Hugh MacLeod calls his Global Microbrand. It's a microbrand because it is what Mike wants to be known for. It's global because Mike can live in Phoenix Arizona and his market is not limited to the people that live here.
Way to Go Mike!
Business Blogging Pros welcomes The Healthy Cooking Coach as our newest client.
I met Rachel when I was speaking recently at a conference of the National Speakers Association. I'm a foodie myself so we hit it off right away. I think what interested Rachel the most was that her blog could serve as a website as well. When you look at her blog, you can see pages dedicated to a description of her services, press releases, her book, as well as her own Amazon store.
The initial cost of creating a site like this is higher that just a basic blog, but the big advantage to this approach is that you don't need to rely upon a webmaster. Once everything has been set up, you can update the content as frequently as you like all by yourself.
Business Blogging Pros welcomes our newest client, Allan Himmelstein and the Scottsdale Arizona franchise of The Alternative Board
I was talking to a friend who is the CEO of a multi-million-dollar company just yesterday. He was bemoaning the fact that he does not have a mentor or anyone to bounce ideas off of. He has nowhere to turn to discuss his problems and issues. He is a candidate for joining one of Allan's boards because their purpose is exactly that - to provide you with a peer group with which you can share and discuss ideas, challenges, and issues and learn from each other.
Business Blogging Pros welcomes EJ Kai and Dry Cleaning Zen as our newest client.
EJ Kai is a thought leader in the drycleaning industry. I - who knows nothing about drycleaning - was fascinated. EJ wanted a platform to share his thoughts, views, and opinions with the rest of the world about dry cleaning.
You will notice that Dry Cleaning Zen does not look like your ordinary Typepad blog. We have an outstanding graphic designer here at Business Blogging Pros. Frankly, she is the best graphic designer I have ever known. I have been looking forward to the opportunity to show off her talents. If you want a custom design for your Typepad blog we can do that for you very reasonably.
Business Blogging Pros Welcomes Sue Shipman and the Institute for Optimum Balancing as our newest client.
This is Massage For Your Brain and it's cool. And it works.
Business Blogging Pros welcomes Cindy Kenna and Staging Solutions, LLC as our newest client. Cindy is a Home Stager. Almost everyone knows what home staging is, but for those that don't, it is a mild form of redecorating a home that is for sale with the intent of making it more appealing to prospective buyers, and many times with the added bonus of a higher sale price.
Home Stagers normally market their services to realtors. Our purpose with Cindy's blog is to talk directly to the home seller, educating them,opening their mind to staging's potential, and dispel some of the misconceptions produced by shows such as Designed to Sell.
Business Blogging Pros welcomes Mike Leeds and Pro Sales Coaching as our newest client.
MIke is also the President of AZ Sales Pros. I have known Mike through AZ Sales Pros for a couple of years. Mike's passion is helping professional salespeople be more effective. I have actually been to a couple of Mike's workshops and found them to be very beneficial.
Mike is clearly enjoying blogging
Business Blogging Pros welcomes RV Hometown and Jaime Bruzenack and Alice Zyetz as our newest client. Jamie and Alice have an online store, RV Hometown in which they dispense advice about seeing the country in an RV, including topics such as working on the road. They also offer a series of books published by various authors providing advice about various aspects of RVing.
Through their blog, Jaime and Alice's will provide advice, tips, and techniques. They will publish reviews of the campsites they stay at, and provide us with tales of their adventures!
Business Blogging Pros welcomes Leo Gillen Consulting as our newest client. I met Leo at CONFAB last week.
As Leo says, the world is changing at warp speed. Our markets, economies, and business enviroments are changing, and the pace of change is continually accelerating. Leo helps companies not only cope with these changes, but to actually thrive upon them and leverage them.
Leo has a lot of interesting, thought-provoking ideas and it will be fun to learn from him via his blog.
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