Small business blogs: A selection

Stephen,
Thanks for including Aldo Coffee Co. in your list (even if not by name). If you ever get back to visit your old stomping grounds in Mt. Lebo, first cuppa is on us.

Btw, Hugh McLeod, who was the one that got English Cut into blogging, is now doing the same with Stormhoek, a South African winery. You can read about his strategies for both companies (and others to come) on his GapingVoid.com blog. Smart dude.

Well i may have failed to get your attention with an email but the beauty of the blogosphere is commments.

RedMonk is an industry analyst firm. We use blogs are a primary publishing mechanism, in order to distribute our ideas and thinking. Like google, we have a 20% time. but in our case its for blogging, in order to build community. we have increased web traffic from 4k page views a year ago to more than 300k today, in under 12 months. We use full text, rather than forcing people to visit the site, so i have to imagine readership is even higher.

We also use wikis for community initiatives and shared content.

finally we use creativecommons licensing to make it easy to distribute our content, where appropriate, or with share and share alike licenses, say, for shared IP models with partners or interested parties.

note to self - don't forget to include urls
www.redmonk.com/sogrady
www.redmonk.com/jgovernor
http://www.redmonk.com/wiki/index.php?title=COA

Stephen:

all about qtags is a blog by QTags co-founder Allison Gower which focuses on the use of mobile phone texting as a marketing tool (disclosure: I contribute to it as well as QTags is a client of mine).

QTags is a startup business trying to build a market for its service, and the blog is the company's primary external communications tool at this point.

www.allaboutqtags.typepad.com

Stephen:

I publish a couple of daily web magazines concentrating on travel using blog formatting:

http://www.hotelchatter.com

http://www.jaunted.com

Or organization is small, but growing. With the success of our early publishing efforts we hope to publish more web magazines in the future.

Check 'em out if you get a chance.

Good Morning Stephen,

I am in the process of building a blog to help people manage the liability side of their balance sheet. This is done primarily with proper use of mortgage tools and using non deductable debt only when necessary.

Please check out my progress.

David Porter

Thank you for including my blog in your list of small business blogs! Blogging is both challenging and fun, but sometimes one does wonder if one is talking to oneself. It's nice to know others are taking note.
Paul Purdue

Thanks so much for the mention of our blog in your list. We're having a great time leveraging blogs at Marqui (note correct spelling), as we explore this uncharted territory.

We have certainly learned a lot about the potentials and pitfalls of leveraging the blogosphere, which we are pleased to share with our readers.

Your mention will go a long way in getting the word out. Cheers!

Steven
, I'm an organizational development (OD) consultant and I publish a blog with news and views on emerging workplace issues. After six months the blog is still evolving. Would be interested in hearing from others who may be engaged in similar blogging. My URL: www.TheDeevyReport.blogspot.com
I always look forward to all the good info that you and Heather have to share.

Stephen,

I mentioned in the other blog comments that we are starting a new business right now and much of our marketing strategy will be centered around blogs but I didn't include a link because we weren't ready with our first blog yet.

Well, we just launched our first blog. It's called the Small Business Cookbook:

http://www.sbcookbook.com

Our target audience for our new venture will be businesses with 10 employees or less. This blog is our first effort to serve this community. We will also be starting a podcast for the cookbook soon.

You can read a bit about our new business as well at:

http://www.okito.net/sprout

We will be launching in October.

Hi Stephan:
We've recently launched Smallbiz America which celebrates small businesses and people who make small business work. It's utilizes both radio thru audio profiles of small business owners (airing in several markets) and the smallbizamerica.com website to highlight small business owners.

hi stephen-
wanted to show you what we're up to at KitchenArts. We're a small retail operation in boston with no online presence...until now. we have started a videoblog with demos of kitchenware and a link to an ebay store where items can be bought. we plan to update regularly and start publicizing in the fall (you might say the site is currently in beta...) know any other business videoblogs? -owen

Seeming I keep getting trackbacked, I thought it'd be rude not to pop on and say thanks.

Don't want to appear ungrateful and all that.

There's a half decent list of small business blogs here:

http://blogthenticity.com/links/

And an even more exhaustive list here:

http://jeffreyhill.typepad.com/voiceblog/

Enjoy.

I mentioned in the other blog comments that we are starting a new business right now and much of our marketing strategy will be centered around blogs so it could be your first step Towards your sucess with us.
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Good morning all,

I am new to the blogging world as I have yet to really endulge in this as a communications tool, but I must say, this is incredible.
I'm the owner of i2imarketing a marketing consultant company who work with small businesses to make them more competitive and overall successful.
Blogging is definitely a tool I have pointed out to them, and I have started my own @ http://i2imarketing.blogspot.com/ ... I welcome anyones thoughts and comments!

Blog on!

G'day - Sorry to post such a late comment Stephen but I am a relative newcomer to the world of blogs. I am an Australian business writer - I have five books sold in 40 countries around the world. Have a look at my site and see how we compare in my neck of the world.

Cheers,

AG

i like south african wines but first you read about all this warning labels

Small business blogs: A selection nice article for all those who want to open there business i also want to open a wine club in south africa so thats blogs is good for me

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Sandy Reed has some excellent ideas on Small Business at Small Business

Stephen,
It's amazing that you're still receiving comments on an article that's almost 3 yrs old! The power of the Web.
We recently launched our blog at America's Best Companies. Updated daily, this blog covers a wide range of trends and issues affecting small business. There is lots of great information here!

Feel free to leave your comments.

http://www.americasbestcompanies.com/blog

Great article....Just started my own blog On Scrap Metal Prices and Scrap Metal Auctions http://www.scrapmetalpricesandauctions.com which provides current and historical scrap metal prices, price charts and metal market info on various scrap metals and recycleable items.

I just started blogging today and I must say I am impressed with how many people actually take this in a serious matter. Blogging is a great way to advertise a business.

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hmm same thing is observed by me also flora.http//:www.live-conferencing.com

Well...Flora you are right...
But on the other hand , many people are not serious regarding many blogs.
It depends on the nature of business.

small businesses blogs can propel a business to greater heights. In deed in this era of IT many people are constantly browsing on the web and who knows you could meet potential clients through these blogs.