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March 19th,2007

This Week in the Business Channel

By Doug

As always, the Business Channel bloggers have been busy working away. Here are some highlights from the last two or so weeks from the Business Channel at b5media:

- Ron at Brandcurve talks about understanding the emotional brand benefit. This is something that every brand manager and business owner must know to attract consumers via their hearts. Plus, the two main characteristics that your brand strategies must have to make the brand-consumer connection stronger.

- Ben shares the 5 Most Common Mistakes Made by Startups at Startup Spark. Startups are always going to make mistakes, but hopefully they can avoid these 5 common ones.

- At Home Biz Notes, Mary Emma mentions that customers are the lifeline of any business. She gives some tips on listening to your home business customers and determining how you can provide more and better service or products.

- On Business and Blogging, Des talks about support at the various blogging platforms. In this sixth post of his series on blogging platforms for business, Des looks at the issue of support as a key criterion in assessing which blogging platform will be most appropriate for a particular business. Issues to be considered include whether the support is part of a paid hosting arrangement or reliant on a volunteer-base community, and how readily it is available.

- Rico at Contract Worker writes about The Perils of Plugging In, showing why today the dangers of not upgrading your house’s electrical system.

- At Digital Money World, Mark shows us the fast and easy way to accept online payments with ‘buy now’ style buttons for digital currency.

- At Property Crossroads, Maricel writes about the celebrated (true) story of Casey Serin. He is a 24 year old property investor, who had 8 properties in 8 months and now facing foreclosure.

- Jim at Small Business Boomers shares a post for Baby Boomers who are not really the retiring type. It contains real hard concrete advice to Boomers about how and what to think about as they prepare to take on that next work experience.

- On Common Sense PR, Eric Eggertson writes about the relationship between marketing and communications, and the benefits of coordination between the two areas.

- If we constantly improved our shortcomings, our strengths are neglected, and before we know it we’re mediocre at everything. Just forget about those weaknesses and improve your strengths! Glen at LifeDev tells you how.

- Bren at Slacker Manager discusses the several habits of wildly successful Twitter users.

Be sure to check out some of these posts when you get a chance. You’re sure to find them interesting and learn something (and even be entertained!) in the process. If you find them interesting, post a comment with your thoughts. The bloggers would love to hear from you.