business buzz 10-2-10

A weekly roundup of craft, design, and business related news and links. FYI, American Craft Week began yesterday and runs through October 10th!

6 Web Design Principles to Get Visitors to Stay Longer – You’ve finally got people to visit your site, but do you make it easy for them to spend some time there?

10 Ways To Find Inspiration To Develop Content For Your Blog – Some more ways to keep your blog posts flowing

The Oatmeal Guide to Getting 5 Million Unique Visitors a Month – OK, you probably don’t need 5 million visitors a month, but here are some suggestions to help your posts go viral

Listen up! The Importance of Monitoring in Social Media – how to find out who’s talking about you and what they’re saying

Facebook Ads: Success Secrets From a Facebook Insider – you want to expand your FB presence and you’re ready to take take the plunge and create your first FB ad.  Here are some tips to help you get started.

8 Reasons to Add an Ecourse to Your Blog – Looking for another way to make money besides selling your art? How about selling your expertise?

8 Bad Habits that Crush Your Creativity And Stifle Your Success – Are any of these bad habits holding you back?

And two posts about using your voice:

The Moment You Speak To The World, You Speak to No One – You’ve got to be be able to solve a very specific problem for a very specific person in order to succeed in business

Storyselling 101 – The big four steps of using storytelling to sell

4 Comments

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    xo
    -A

  2. Thanks for including my web design tips, Wendy!

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