ShawnHessinger commented on the following stories on BizSugar
17 Hot Biz Tips for Private Co.s
"I like number 16...despite the somewhat unflattering metaphor for customers. Recently a business partner asked me if I'd like to go speak with someone from SBA about a startup we're working on. I said sure. Never say no to free advice even if you don't end up taking it. However, our product has already been launched and has some users...and a sales person out looking for customers. Never wait to prove a product until you've shopped it to investors. That way you can move forward regardless what they decide to do and say no easily to opportunities you don't think are right for you."Will your B2B prospect take time to read your message?
"The key mode of communication is Twitter, a medium that limits messages to 140 characters and everyone is on what author Tim Ferriss calls a low information diet. Think about this the next time you send two pages worth of business communication to a customer or client. Cut it then cut it and then cut it again! It's still probably too long and it had better come with photos and graphics."How to hire a professional blogger for your business
"Cindy, What it generally comes down to is the expectations of the person doing the hiring...and to some degree the skill of the blogger. Following some advice ProBlogger Darren Rowse once shared in a post, if you "link like crazy" to other blogs with similar context to your post and, as many other bloggers have suggested, blog consistently (a certain number of times a week often on the same days and try to post at about the same time so readers come to anticipate the schedule), your blog should grow organically. BUT bloggers who can promise a certain amount of traffic on a certain schedule should be treated with some suspicion. After all how can they guarantee an exact number of readers? Isn't this the reason some online ads are now performance based? AND employers who wish to hire bloggers on a certain click through rate without taking into consideration all of the other less tangible benefits of having someone blogging for you (like increased page rank from relevant links) is probably just trying to get off cheap or to avoid paying all together."Six tips to increase traffic for your small business blog
"If you've seen SEO gone horribly wrong, you'll notice these pages that were pretty obviously written only to attract search engines. When you land on them and start trying to make something out of the content, you become quickly disappointed. It's kind of like promoting a movie. You want an attractive trailer, but, if the movie is terrible, it won't matter much how great the promotion was. In the end, bad content hurts you more severely than bad SEO because once people see it they'll leave your site quickly and probably never link to it."How to use StumbleUpon to grow your small business
"Martin, Haven't really had much experience with del.icio.us yet, though I'm sure that will change soon since I have a client that interacts with them all. Suffice it to say, that it has been pretty much my experience thus far that all these communities are different with their own distinct style. McLaughlin, Hey, that's cool!"Subscribe
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Google adds AdWords Bid Simulator feature
"More good information for the many online entrepreneurs who continue to find Google Adsense a bit of a mystery. There's as much to this as there is to SEO if you choose to look into it deeply, and while some people are now trying to persuade bloggers and Web designers to start trying to sell their own adds, AdSense, despite its shortcomings, remains at least the simplest way to get started with making money off your blog."