Using YouTube to Promote Your Business?

www.inkthinkerblog.com — I blogged about this a little at Biz Chicks Rule, but I thought it warranted some more tongue-in-cheek follow-up. There are definite advantages to YouTubing your business, but some disadvantages as well — the biggest being that you may just end up looking like a MORON instead of actually helping your business efforts.

For a primer on what NOT to do, check out this handy reference on making a crappy YouTube video:

Admittedly, that’s not so business oriented, but this is, if you think of promoting your business online as a kind of  video resume (because really, that’s what it is!):

Would you ever use YouTube to promote your services? Or have you? Share your opinions — and your links — in the comments.

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Best Business Advice Ever?

www.inkthinkerblog.com — What’s the best business advice you’ve ever received? That’s the theme of this week’s Apprentice-style challenge in b5media’s Business Channel. I posted my response at Biz Chicks Rule.

What’s the best business advice you’ve ever received? Leave a comment here or at BCR.

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“Blog” vs. “Post”

www.inkthinkerblog.com — “I loved that blog he wrote about Google Books.”

“Your blog last week on abortion was really controversial.”

“This blog is one of my favorites.”

Great sentiments, all of them, but do you know what the speaker is actually saying? Because I don’t. A blog, short for weblog,  is this whole thing you’re looking at right now, this collection of writings and links. A blog post is a single entry in the larger entity that is a blog.

Think of it this way:

blog = diary/journal/notebook

post = what you wrote on January 27, 1987

So people, and especially bloggers, please stop using “blog” and “post” interchangeably. They’re not the same thing.

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Freelance Writer’s End-of-the-Year Checklist

www.inkthinkerblog.com — Are you ready for the next calendar year? This list of 9 things freelancers should do before the end of the year is a definite must:

  1. Go over the books.
  2. Pile up the receipts.
  3. Compare your total income with your total hours worked.
  4. Review your client list
  5. Recycle or donate unused or outdated office equipment.
  6. Weed out the unnecessary stuff from the file cabinet.
  7. Get a 2008 calendar.
  8. Research, research, research.
  9. Clean up your hard drive.

Read the original post to get the details and more advice on starting out the new business year on the right foot.

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Bloggers on Strike?

www.inkthinkerblog.com — Deb posted it first, but it’s too funny not to repost!

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