19Dec
Ahh! Finally. For the past few weeks I’ve been engrossed with the redesign of www.SmallBusinessDelivered.com. It has been an extremely time consuming project but except for a few small tweeks here and there that I may make it is done. And I can say with a great deal of satisfaction that I am extremely pleased with the final product. Now I can go back to finding more incredible authors willing to contribute their knowledge to the site as well as new resources for everyone to use. And I’ve got some interesting ideas for the site that I’d like to pursue in the near future.
I truly hope that this much cleaner look will be enjoyed by all. My focus now will be on finding new authors. And I plan on posting more blogs as I’ve decided to slow the pace of my own article writing for awhile. Which allows me a bit more time to devote to this blog. Keep checking back with me as I’ll be sharing some of my ideas for the future of www.SmallBusinessDelivered.com right here.
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Tags: Article Writing, Entrepreneurship, Management, New Features, Website Future, Website Redesign
07Dec
Early on when I first envisioned what www.SmallBusinessDelivered.com could become I started to do my homework on what was already out there. It was only a couple of years ago that I didn’t know what an ezine was. I wasn’t much into social networking either. I had always been a brick and mortar business owner. I knew how to surf the web like everyone else and I’d struggled through many fruitless hours searching for what I needed but I didn’t know much about SEO and article writing, or how Google and the other search engines came up with the results that they do. Of course that has all changed for me now. But I still had the question of what I wanted www.SmallBusinessDelivered.com to be.
I finally think I know the answer to that question. You see ezines of which there are more than enough have many things in common with each other. First and foremost they have a lot of articles. They have thousands upon thousands of them in fact. But many of these sites use a cookie cutter approach to their websites. In fact you can download a premade template or dashboard that many of them use. The owners of these sites hope they can make a few buck on Google advertising but there is no real focus to the sites themselves. They publish just about anything whether the writing is good or bad.
On the other side you have the big boys such as Entrepreneur.com and Inc.com that cater to entrepreneurs and small business owners. These sites of course have the money and the muscle. And while they are very well done sites and magazines I feel like they are lacking something. Many of their writers are business owners but often their businesses are past the small stage of business. I think sometimes they lose touch when it come to the issues that small business owners need information about.
So what do I want www.SmallBusinessDelivered.com to become. Well I think the Subtitle sends the message that I want to send. Entrepreneurs Helping Entrepreneurs. Not only should the site provide the resources that small business owners need but it needs the focused information that entrepreneurs are always searching for. To that end I decided to go searching for the authors that could provide strong focused information. Instead of letting just anyone post articles and be an author.
I want to find writers that are entrepreneurs as well. Dan Boudreau is a great example of the kind of expert in a field that I want to find. He’s published a book called “Business Plan or Bust” that you can find on Amazon.com and his website www.Riskbuster.com. His expertise is of course on how to write a business plan. And his writing is focused. Roger Ingbretsen is a business coach that has written two e-books that he offers through his website www.Inbretsen.com. Shirley Fine Lee our newest author is an expert on how to hold business meetings and she too has written a book that you can find on her website www.shirleyfinelee.com and Amazon.com as well. Her book is titled “R.A! R.A! A Meeting Wizard’s Approach”. And of course I wouldn’t wat to forget Steve Smith who is a business Coach from Saddleback Valley and runs www.saddlebackvalley.onecoach.com.
So I’ve ultimately decided that the site needs to help the authors as well as the readers. I hope that the authors will in some small ways be involved with the site and that I can help them network with other professionals to reach new readers and new customers. Sites like Entrepreneur.com and Inc.com while being very good in their own right often fail to see what their readers are truly looking for. And their focus in many cases drifts away from what it originally was. I want to find the diamonds in the rough. The people that are dealing with entrepreneurial issues everyday and have a great deal to offer others. If I can do that then I am confident that www.SmallBusinessDelivered.com will become a bona fide success in its own right as well.
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Tags: Article Writing, Authors, Entrepreneurship, Freelance Work, Future, Motivational, Uncategorized
04Dec
Well I finally found time to get up a post on this blog. It’s not been on purpose but I haven’t had much time to work on this blog recently. And I’ll try to do better in the future.
But hey let’s talk about what I have been doing instead. Skiing in the Aspens! Yea right I wish. No really I’ve been working on some major improvements to www.SmallBusinessDelivered.com. For quite awhile now I have not been happy with how the site looked or felt. So I felt that changes were needed. In a couple of my own articles I’ve talked about continuing your business education. So I decided to follow my own advice. I started looking more at other websites and how they were laid out for viewers. And after a couple of weeks of research and redesign I finally found a layout I could be happy with. Since then I’ve been working to make the necessary changes to the site. Which because of all the changes I wanted has been a little slow going. But progress is being made. If you’ve checked out the category pages and articles recently you can really see the difference.
Ahhh, but what else have I been doing? I’ve been signing up new authors with new fresh content for everyone to dive into. Entrepreneurs need to have many different points of view and experiences to draw on and that is what I am going to try and provide.
I’ve recently signed up Dan Boudreau the writer of Business Plan or Bust! from www.Riskbuster.com. As well as Roger Ingbretsen of Inbretsen Consulting LLC. www.Inbretsen.com. And Steve Smith of OneCoach www.saddlebackvalley.onecoach.com. Each of these Authors, Entrepreneurs and Coaches brings a wealth of experience and knowledge to the table. And I am happy to help them share that knowledge with you.
Ok well time to get back to the site for some further changes. I’ll make sure to post as often as possible to keep everyone up to date.
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Tags: Article Writing, Authors, Business Coaching, Business Plans, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, Freelance Work, Ingbretsen Consulting, Motivational, OneCoach, Riskbuster.com
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