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Media release     April 26, 2006
Gold Coast businesses are missing out on the greatest and cheapest Internet marketing asset since websites came into fashion, a leading business coach said today.
Des Walsh, a Tweed Heads consultant, said companies of all types and sizes were passing up growth opportunities by failing to set up and operate “blogs” or [...]

The 7 Step Business Blog e-book was written as a practical, plain English guide for non-technical business owners who:
are open to the idea of having a blog for their business
don’t want to have to learn a lot of technical information
want an effective, professional looking blog that doesn’t cost an arm and a leg.Key questions are [...]

Anyone who has gone looking on the web for news and ideas about business or corporate blogging can be excused for finding the experience either frustrating or bewildering, or both.
There is so much information, there are so many opinions. So how can a time-strapped business owner hope to keep up and sift the wheat from [...]

This post, about hotel blogs, is to some extent a segue from my post two days ago on Meetings and Events Industry Blogs in Short Supply.
Last night I was doing some more preparation for my workshop on corporate blogging, next week at the MEA Conference.  Going through the list of people who have indicated they will be participating [...]

Over the Easter weekend I’ve been preparing, off and on, a slide presentation as a framework for a workshop I’m doing a couple of weeks from now on corporate blogging. The occasion is the annual Australian meetings and events industry conference, to be held just up the road from where I live, on Australia’s Gold Coast.
I’ve done a version [...]

I’ve been a fan for a while now of the newsfeed reader NewsGator Online and actually mention it in my 7 Step Business Blog e-book as my current favourite aggregator and newsreader.
Trying to skim through my feeds on NewsGator Online today I’ve been very frustrated. You would see more action watching grass grow.
Going by a [...]

Tris Hussey is a professional blogging colleague, involved in a range of blogging business ventures including our shared activity as contributors to Business Blog Consulting, and whose blog posts are always interesting and enjoyable to read.
Andy Wibbels is a coaching colleague and blogging mentor of mine and is only about nine days away from launching his [...]

The Australian newspaper's IT Business section today has an interesting set of articles on business blogging. The main article Blogging the Brand by Chris Jenkins, has a segment on the innovation at big Australian telco, Telstra, where staff are blogging at the Now We Are Talking site which Telstra has set up.
I've posted about the [...]

I went to a networking function last night at a beautiful venue, the Emerald Lakes Golf Club. The event was sponsored by the Gold Coast (Australia) based National College of Business. 
The evening gathering was put on by indefatigable networking specialist Terri Cooper of Networking Works! The event was very well organised, entertaining and there was [...]

Also posted on Thinking Home Business and deswalsh.com 
Media Release:
Gold Coast, Australia
February 25, 2006
When business coach Des Walsh is not enjoying the great surf five minutes from where he lives on Australia’s Gold Coast, he is likely to be either coaching one of his clients by phone or else blogging – for fun and profit.
And now he’s [...]