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In the ‘good old days’ – about three years ago – you used to keep in-touch with your customers using phone calls, email messages and face to face meetings. Nowadays the world has changed. People expect even more frequent updates, yet it’s nearly impossible to meet with every business contact on a regular basis.

Thankfully, blogging has come to the rescue. Setting up a blog on your web site – and having an associated RSS feed – means you can keep in constant touch with your clients and potential customers. Plus you don’t have to email them and they can get your latest news without having to visit your web site.

Well, has been an interesting month. I’ve not posted as much as I would have liked to but I have been working on learning a lot more about what I need to do in order to establish a business online.There are some basics which I have come to believe are unavoidable when it comes to doing business on the web:

One of the things I’ve learned is that you need to have a website and a way to capture names in order to build a list of targetted prospects. That is a fact of life that I don’t really care how many “get rich boys” try to tell you different, you can’t really get around it. Finding out how to create and use the pages needed for lead generation is not readily found. Here’s what I’ve found so far.

They shall grow not old, as we who are left grow old
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning
We will remember them

In memory of our fallen Canadians:

Cpl Keith Morley — Afghanistan Sept. 18, 2006
Cpl Shane Keating – Afghanistan Sept. 18, 2006
Cpl Glenn Arnold – Afghanistan Sept. 18, 2006
Pte David Byers — Afghanistan Sept. 18, 2006

Always Caring — Always Canadian — Never Defeated

The post that follows was just posted on my personal blog. After posting it, I realized that the post is as much a post about finding a niche as it is about what I’ve been up to. So, here it be.

Well, another week passes and life continues apace. A week ago I turned a year older which means another two and I flip over into another decade of my life. Two years that is, not weeks. I may lose a few senses here and there but ability to measure time isn’t one of them.

In my spare time this week I’ve been working on all three of my blogs and yesterday had a brainspasm as the concept for two others hit me. Actually, several others, but I’m only moving on two of them for the moment.

Ross Dunn has a good article over at Search Engine Guide with some pointers on what you need to watch for in order to have your site search engine friendly. Some of the points apply more to a regular website more than a blog but you can draw some pointers even if you are writing a blog.