As July 1 is a national holiday, I imagine most Canadians won' t want today to be too concerned about business matters. But for those who are thinking about starting a business from home, or who have already made the move, a good place to start for some advice and ideas on home-based business is [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Canada Day Greetings", url: "http://www.thinkinghomebusiness.com/2008/07/01/canada-day-greetings/" });

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Our local Market Each Sunday (c) Des Walsh SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Wordless Wednesday:Free Range Cackleberries", url: "http://www.thinkinghomebusiness.com/2008/06/25/wordless-wednesdayfree-range-cackleberries/" });

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This post lists some resources to help someone who has good web skills but does not know a lot about blogging and wants to set up a blog as part of, or an adjunct to, a business website. I' m putting the list of links together tonight, following a conversation with a colleague in the web [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Some Basic Resources for Starting a WordPress Blog", url: "http://www.thinkinghomebusiness.com/2008/06/24/some-basic-resources-for-starting-a-wordpress-blog/" });

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Las Vegas is a long way from where I live, about 7,400 miles or 11,909.1 kilometres. So going to BlogWorld Expo in Las Vegas last November required a non-trivial decision. I did not regret it and am now gearing up to go again, for Blogworld and new Media Expo 2008 on September 20-21 - with [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Still Time to Get the BlogWorld Early Bird Rate", url: "http://www.thinkinghomebusiness.com/2008/06/19/still-time-to-get-the-blogworld-early-bird-rate/" });

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Dolphins Playing at The Anchorage Islands, Tweed Heads, (c) Suzie Cheel SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Wordless Wednesday:Dolphins in My Backyard", url: "http://www.thinkinghomebusiness.com/2008/06/19/wordless-wednesdaydolphins-in-my-backyard/" });

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Just under two weeks ago I posted on my Social Media Show podcast site a 30 minute conversation I recorded with Professor Lonnie B. Hodge, about the workshops on the digital media release, which we are scheduled to deliver in China from July 18 to July 25. I had intended to publicize the podcast but have [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Downloading Trumps Listening to Podcast Online", url: "http://www.thinkinghomebusiness.com/2008/06/17/downloading-trumps-listening-to-podcast-online/" });

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SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Wordless Wednesday: Wine of the Country", url: "http://www.thinkinghomebusiness.com/2008/06/04/wordless-wednesday-wine-of-the-country/" });

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As I mentioned here back in February this year, my friend and colleague Paul Chaney, a leading blogger and great encourager of others in the business of blogging and the blogging of business, is Internet Marketing Director at Bizzuka, based in Lafayette, Louisiana. Bizzuka provides custom Web design and content management services and intranet development services [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Bizzuka Platform Now With Blogs", url: "http://www.thinkinghomebusiness.com/2008/06/03/bizzuka-platform-now-with-blogs/" });

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Tranquillity : The Anchorage Islands (where we live), Tweed Heads, Australia - Copyright 2008 Des Walsh SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Wordless Wednesday: Tranquillity", url: "http://www.thinkinghomebusiness.com/2008/05/28/wordless-wednesday-tranquillity/" });

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My partner and co-blogger on this site, Suzie Cheel, with our good friend Glenda Watson Hyatt, the Left Thumb Blogger , have been working feverishly to get their Tweetathon going. It launched for us tonight at 7pm Australian eastern time and will keep re-launching around the globe in the coming hours. The aim of the Tweetathon is [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Tweetathon Up and Running", url: "http://www.thinkinghomebusiness.com/2008/05/28/tweetathon-up-and-running/" });

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There' s saying thank you with courtesy. And there' s saying thank you with courtesy and style. Leah Maclean is a virtuoso in the latter category. Some time ago, Nancy Batenburg, a good friend of ours, asked our advice on a quote she had received for a new website with blog, for her business (link is to existing [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Chocolates and Doing Business With Style", url: "http://www.thinkinghomebusiness.com/2008/05/28/chocolates-and-doing-business-with-style/" });

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Liz Strauss is running a great series : The Ultimate Guide to a Wildly Sticky, Successful and Outstanding Blog. Today' s post in her series is about Finding A Direction — Goals, Titles, and Taglines. Liz asks Surely You Have a Goal? A blogging goal gives a blog a heart and a direction. It’s a powerful exercise in [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Does Your Blog Have a Goal?", url: "http://www.thinkinghomebusiness.com/2008/05/27/does-your-blog-have-a-goal/" });

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Barbara Ling has a fantastic 21 day step by step training going on over at Barbara Ling. Today is on Day 4, but I would recommend going back and starting at Day one and learn to internalize where online money comes from. Barbara is a very successful online marketer and her blog is full [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "21 Days to a More Profitable Blog", url: "http://www.thinkinghomebusiness.com/2008/05/24/21-days-to-a-more-profitable-blog/" });

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When' s Dinner : Water Dragon (C) Des Walsh SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Wordless Wednesday:In My Garden Today", url: "http://www.thinkinghomebusiness.com/2008/05/21/wordless-wednesdayin-my-garden-today/" });

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Picture by JMGRIFFIN via stock.xghang We announced a couple of days ago that part of the plan to help Suzie get to Vancouver in June was to sell some web domains. In the process we found that a couple of actual sites we had set up had, without any care or tendering, much less blogging, on our [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Domains and Sites for Sale", url: "http://www.thinkinghomebusiness.com/2008/05/14/domains-and-sites-for-sale/" });

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Surfing around the net I have been collecting some tools and tips that are saving me time. I decided to share them with you. 1. Easy Hyperlinks from Mark Wilson is a great tool for those wanting to put links into forums (BB code) or your own posts and if you don' t know html. 2. Want to [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "5 Great Time Savers", url: "http://www.thinkinghomebusiness.com/2008/05/13/5-great-time-savers/" });

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As far as I can work out, the term scrawled on a million whiteboards by corporate trainers, Big Hairy Audacious Goals (BHAGs), was coined - or at least first publicized - by Jim Collins and Jerry I. Porras in their now modern business classic, Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies. Some readers will already [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Suzie' s Big Hairy Audacious Goal Generates Good Deals", url: "http://www.thinkinghomebusiness.com/2008/05/12/suzies-big-hairy-audacious-goal-generates-good-deals/" });

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The domain name thehomebusinessguydotcom is for sale. The Home Business Guy was a name and a brand I toyed with about four years ago, around when I set up my original Thinking Home Business site. I bought the domain thehomebusinessguydotcom then. But because of all the other things I was learning and doing I just never got [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "thehomebusinessguydotcom Domain Name up for Sale", url: "http://www.thinkinghomebusiness.com/2008/05/12/thehomebusinessguydotcom-domain-name-up-for-sale/" });

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Once again, the challenge of distance has meant that the SOBCon business school for bloggers event, in Chicago, has come and gone without Thinking Home Business being in attendance.  So it was a particularly agreeable surprise today to see that Thinking Home Business had been included in Buzz Logic' s Top 25 Influential SOBs,  the bloggers who are [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Listed in Top 25 SOBCon Influential Blogs", url: "http://www.thinkinghomebusiness.com/2008/05/09/listed-in-top-25-sobcon-influential-blogs/" });

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Photo courtesy noahwesley, via flickr, under a Creative Commons licence Reading Caroline Middlebrook' s post asking whether one' s blog monetization left money on the table reminded me that I had once posted something here on the topic.I had, but longer ago than I had thought, almost two years ago. I was interested to see that my views [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Thinking About Blog Monetization", url: "http://www.thinkinghomebusiness.com/2008/05/08/thinking-about-blog-monetization/" });

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