business buzz 9-24-11

A weekly roundup of craft, design, and business related news and links.

Top Things To Do If You Only Have 20 Minutes A Day For Twitter – You know that it’s easy to waste your time when you’re online.  Here are some tips to help you focus and set a time limit.

Five Tips for Running a Successful, Small Business Publicity Campaign – So you have a new line, new workshop, new book, etc.  Now you need to get people to buy it, come to it, spread the word.

Four Ways to Deal with Your Dangerously Educated Client – Your customers now know more than they ever did in the past thanks to the internet.  Here’s how to help them process that info.

13 press release topics when there’s nothing newsworthy – These ideas also work for content generation for your blog &/or newsletter

Why You Aren’t Writing to Your Audience – If you want to build an audience, you must make others your audience, not yourself.

How Social Curation Builds Your Following – We follow people like Mari Smith and Guy Kawasaki because they help us filter the news we’re interested in, but have no wish to research ourselves.

How to Use the Power of Silence to Boost Your Writing Career – Sometimes less is more…