One Man Band

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Here are the first three posts that made me click through:

• The first-click-through award goes to Small Business Essentials for “5 Powerful Techniques to Help Your Business Stand Out” because every One Man Band needs a unique selling proposition (USP) or it’s just whistling Dixie. Need help figuring out your own USP? As a freelance commercial writer, I may be able to help you whistle up a different tune. (Okay, I’ll stop with the bad metaphors.)

• The second-click-through award goes to American Entrepreneurship for “Business Cards: A Valueable Investment, or a Waste of Paper?” because it emphasizes that, like any tool, a business card won’t get results unless it’s used properly. I’m a member of a local chapter of LeTip International, a well-established business networking organization. One of its strengths is coupling the exchange of business cards with a 30-second commercial or pitch at every meeting. This practice not only reminds the other businesspeople who you are and what you do, it allows you to polish that pitch, learn how to slant it for different occasions, and get friendly feedback on how to make it more effective. If your business cards are moldering in their shipping box, they were a wasted expense.

• The one-more-before-the-door award goes to Dax Desai for “Get Demographic Market Research for Free” because I love finding new webtools, especially if they’re free. This particular tool, ZipSkinny, not only retrieves U.S. Census Bureau demographic info on a particular zip code, it puts that info side-by-side with state and national info for easy comparison.

As always, there are more posts than the three listed. I look for posts related to this blog’s theme: do-it-yourself online business for one. Your interests may differ. Click through for the full court capitalist press.