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What Small-Business Owners Can Learn From Blogs Part -1

Looking for advice on starting or running a business? Check out what the blogosphere has to offer. It’s filled with scores of Web journals on various topics of interest to entrepreneurs.

I will publish a number of examples in this niche and what small-business owners can get out of reading them, over the next few weeks.

Example 1:

WorkHappy.net
www.workhappy.net

Carson McComas is on a mission to help fellow small-business owners succeed. His two-year-old blog provides advice, ideas, inspiration and resources he’s accumulated through his own experience as a consultant to entrepreneurs and owner of four Web-based ventures. “A lot of entrepreneurially related content on the Internet is get-rich quick garbage,” he says. “It’s very important for me not to be that.” Writing about once a week from his home office in Spokane, Wash., Mr. McComas reviews products and services such as mynewcompany.com, which helps entrepreneurs with the paperwork for incorporating a business. Readers can suggest items for review and submit their own write-ups, he says. Another feature, called “Happy Links,” lists URLs to Web sites and blogs with helpful information for entrepreneurs, and “Happy Quotes” offers a regular dose of inspirational sayings. Look for interviews Mr. McComas conducts with entrepreneurs such as Markus Frind, founder of PlentyofFish.com, a dating site.[Source: SARAH E. NEEDLEMAN - www.startupjournal.com - April 2007]