Making time for your blog can be a real challenge for many business owners, particularly if you are wearing a lot of hats. I get it. I hear it often. In fact I even get paid to solve this very issue. So I have a few thoughts on the subject of how to find time to blog when you are trying to find time to run your business.

Use Your Time More Effectively

One of the tools that I spend a decent amount of time utilizing is a service called Boomerang. The service is a nice add-on to your Gmail inbox and while they have been rolling out some nice upgrades over time, the main function is to have emails come back into your inbox whenever you'd like.

There has been a definite merging between how business marketing and many other aspects of how a business manages affairs, something most businesses are currently trying to address right now. Much of this is driven by so many of our processes utilizing new computing technologies that have the ability to communicate with one another. All these moving parts need to align into a comprehensive, coherent and compelling workflow, and for us we call this workflow Corporate Digital Identity Management.

I am extremely happy to announce that my friend and colleague Tom Hoarty and myself will be co-hosting an upcoming speaking engagement titled "Business Blogging and Profits." This FREE to

Hi there.  I am very happy to announce that I will be hosting my first online marketing webinar next week. The format will be Q & A, and you can

Curious about how to format you blog posts? Hopefully this blog post will help shed some light on the entire process. Blog Post Anatomy Diagram Want to Print Out Your

This presentation was created by Dave McClure - I don't know him, but he's a big deal in the world of venture capital. Now most of you probably think of

Right now I'm working with an architect as a new client - my role is to help guide him through the process. One of the early task I have been concentrating on is focused on research. We're looking at all kinds of things, but in particular we're looking at what other architects are doing.And that brings me to the point of this post. As I was reviewing one site I commented to my client that while a particular attribute might be interesting, unfortunately from a web usability perspective it was problematic because the site owner had completely broken away from standard convention in such a dramatic way that it was actually hard to achieve the goal of this particular page (in the case of this page it was to click on something.)

Classic blogging decision. Someone else is killing it so you decide to do the same thing.  If it seems to be working for them then clearly you should be doing it too.The truth is what they are doing might a great decision for their business, but not necessarily the right decision for yours.  Then again, maybe they aren't even doing the right thing for their own business in which case copying their strategy would be even more foolish.We've all been there.  Those "deer in headlights" moments...