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Is Your Blog a Business? [Business and Blogging]

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Here at Business and Blogging we usually blog about how having a business blog can help your business by enhancing your marketing efforts, increasing communication with customers and potential customers, and allowing you to manage your reputation online.

I still think that’s the way that most businesses will use a business blog. For a select few, however, their blog is their business.

I was reminded of this fact recently when I read Lindsay Buroker’s guest post series, Turn Your Love Of Writing Into A Money Making Blog, over at b5media’s Home Biz Notes Blog.

(You can read the introduction, and part 1, and part 2 by clicking on the links.)

Lindsay has some good ideas and it will be interesting to see how her series develops. I know that I’ll be following it, and I hope that you will too.

In the meantime, I’ve started to wonder: how many Business and Blogging readers use their blogs specifically to make money rather than promote another business?

Do you use your blog for no other purpose than specifically to make money?

Or, perhaps you’ve tried to blog for money and failed.

Either way, I’d like to hear from you.

Leave a comment here or drop me an e-mail and share your experience.

Image Source: Laura Spencer at WritingThoughts.



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