Why should small business owners have a blog?

Because they need it. Blogging can do wonders for you due to the following 5 reasons:

1. Blogs are powerful marketing tools.

When you are blogging you are communicating with the public making you more accessible and reaching more potential customers.
You can inform your customers about your latest products, promotions, and other plans for your business.
You can post new or useful articles that are related to your business for the benefit of your customers.
If you get a lot of mail inquires, you can discuss them in your blog.
You can also add photos of your products and showcase special offers.

2. Blogs allow you to share your companies expertise.

Blogs can help you become an authority in the industry. If you publish good posts and show people you have what it takes, you become the expert that people go to for help.
You can also collect testimonials and feature them in your blog. Nothing does a better job of selling than a good testimonial.

3. Blogs build real community.

A blog lets you connect with people, meet potential clients, and start a new community. It is a lot easier for people to comment and leave their feedback on your business, products or services.
Having easy access to constructive comments lets you better your business so it is more in tune with what your customers want.

4. Blogs can take the place of websites.

Blogging is an affordable alternative to a professional website. You no longer need to pay for a web designed to establish an online presence. Your business blog can function as your company’s official website.

Even if you already have a website, you can always add a blog to it. Remember, a blog is an excellent way to drive targeted traffic to your site through the search engines.

5. Blogs help build trust and credibility.

When you blog, you are sharing your honest thoughts with the public. You gain the trust of your readers by relating with them on a personal level. By putting a face on your business you can become more credible to your customers.

Here is a timeless classic book by James Allen.

Over 100 years old, but full of content for every day living.

As A Man Thinketh has inspired millions around the world and is partly responsible for launching an entire self-improvement industry.

It is a quick and interesting read with free distribution rights, so you can give it away on your websites, blogs, Facebook or Twitter as a welcome gift.

Enjoy!

As A Man Thinketh, by James Allen. Download.

Charles Capps, in his book ‘ God’s Creative Power Will Work For You‘ has listed a few scriptures to do with wealth and prosperity that you need to start each day out in the right frame of mind for being successful in your business.

Proverbs 4:20-22, “attend to my words… they are life…and health (medicine) to all their flesh.”

In the second chapter of this powerful book, God’s Word Is Medicine, Charles states, God’s Word ministers to the total man. His Word (Jesus) is our wisdom, righteousness, sanctification and redemption.

Most people have used the words of their mouth to hold them in bondage. But as you begin to speak the Word of God from the heart, it will produce liberty. It will produce the health and healing the Word said it would.

Most people have spoken contrary to the Word. They have spoken things that the devil has said. They have quoted what the enemy has said about them. Therefore, they have established on earth the words the enemy has spoken.

If we will begin to establish the things God said, and establish His Word on this earth, then thank God! we’ll rise to a new level of faith.

We will walk in the level of life where we release the ability of God by the words of our mouth. We can release the ability of God within ourselves by the words of our mouth and cause His Word and His power to become available to us.

Let’s learn to take God’s medicine daily.

For material needs, confess these three times a day until they are manifest.

Christ has redeemed me from the curse of the law. Christ has redeemed me from poverty, Christ has redeemed me from sickness, Christ has redeemed me from spiritual death (Galatians 3:13; Deuteronomy 28).

For poverty He has given me wealth, for sickness He has given me health, for death He has given me eternal life (2 Corinthians 8:9; Isaiah 53:5-6;John10:10;John 5:24).

It is true unto me according to the Word Of God (Psalms 119:25).

I delight myself in the Lord and He gives me the desires of my heart (Psalms 37:4).

I have given and it is given unto me good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, men give unto my bosom (Luke 6:38)
With what measure I mete, it is measured unto me. I sow bountifully, therefore i reap bountifully. I give cheerfully, and My God has made all grace abound toward me and I have all sufficiency of all things- do abound to all good works (2 Corinthians 9:6-8).

There is no lack for my God supplieth all of my need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus (Philippians 4:19)

The Lord is my shepherd and I DO NOT WANT . Jesus was made poor, that I through His poverty might have abundance. For He came that i might have life and have it more abundantly (Psalms 23: 1; 2 Corinthians 8:9; John 10:10).

I, having received abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness do reign as a king in life by Jesus Christ (Romans 5:17).

The Lord has pleasure in the prosperity of His servant, and Abraham’s blessings are mine (Psalms 35:27; Galatians 3:14).

If you have not tried speaking the Word of God, you need to try it. Tell Him what you want and ask for His blessings in your business and every area of your life. Most people speak their problems and NEVER ask God’s blessings. Start speaking what you want and see how God will bless His servants.

It has worked for me. Praise God!

The law of straight lines states, “The shortest path between 2 points is a straight line.”

It is one of the simple laws of geometry, but how does it apply to business?

If you want to take a trip from New York to LA, you would take the most direct route and not add extra steps, like a stop off in Atlanta.

Unfortunately, we tend to add extra steps when trying to get something we want. Many times those extra steps prevent us from getting to our destination at all.

Anything you want in life is subject to this simple, but powerful law. So why don’t we live our lives like this every day?

The problem is, you are bombarded with so many distractions every day that the straight line is no longer obvious.  The world is full of people trying to sell you on the idea that you need some other steps, like their magical product, that we have been trained to believe that these other steps are necessary.

How many times have you sat down to do something only to be caught off guard be an email, a phone call, or even a thought that came into your head that you had an impulse to act on? Did it hinder the process of what you were trying to get accomplished? Did you even get back to the task at hand, or was it forgotten about and left for ‘another day’?

You can have all the right intentions and positive thinking and even faith that you are going to get results from your business, but the bible says in James 2:16 “If one of you says to him, ‘Go, I wish you well; stay warm and well fed’ but does nothing about his physical needs, what good is it? In the same way, faith by itself, if not accompanied by action, is dead.”

Take positive action in the direction you wish to go and stay on the path until you reach your goals. Do not stray to the right or the left, but keep a straight line.