When Blogging Advice is Bad for Business Owners

Is blogging for your business a serious way to achieve and maintain reliable search engine rankings? Yep. Is blogging along with audio and video podcasts a way to open dialog with your ideal audience, build rapport, and develop trust with your prospects and clients? Yes. Yes. And yes.

BUT. . . what about using a blog for proactive sales and marketing? Ask blogging evangelists and the answer you'll get is–absolutely not (usually accompanied by a condescending finger wag and a "tsk-tsk," too).

That's exactly why this next new media smoke eater is dedicated to these dangerous peddlers of online profit-killing elixirs.

New Media Smoke-Eater #4: Beware advice of the entrepreneurially disabled

I'm passionate about the market-equalizing power of blogs and new media.

TurnHere Launches Voiceover Video Product for Small Businesses

The voiceover offering expands TurnHere's portfolio of interview-based narrative video ads for small businesses and gives business owners a compelling way to tell their story without having to be on camera. Unlike other video products that rely on generic industry and stock images, TurnHere's voiceover video ads use real footage shot on site -- for a more authentic and personal touch.

Far more than just video production, TurnHere helps clients maximize the value of their video content and distribute videos across the web. The voiceover video option provides an online video for a business' profile that sets them apart from their competition and attracts the attention of viewers looking for their services.

TurnHere's voiceover video package includes:

-- Custom, onsite video shoot -- capturing real footage of local businesses in action -- Turnkey production -- from shooting and editing to publishing -- Professionally written, custom script with key business information and SEO-friendly words -- Professionally narrated voiceover with choice of male/female talent -- Choice of music -- Video preview via TurnHere's secure online screening room

TurnHere's turnkey production model removes the complexity and overhead typically associated with video production.

Ever-changing Cudahy plan morphs into Wal-Mart

But some Cudahy business owners say it's time to give up on the grand ideas.

"It's Cudahy; c'mon," Roger Stack, owner of the Fishin' Hole, said of the ice hockey and soccer proposals.

Stack, who for nearly 30 years has sold boats and fishing tackle just around the corner from the proposed Wal-Mart site, is eager to see the Supercenter built.

"I don't know what they're waiting for," he said. "It's a no-brainer for me."

The failure of the Iceport proposal still resonates in Cudahy.

After the developer, Sportsites LLC, failed to meet various commitments, the city launched foreclosure proceedings and was promptly hit by legal claims filed by Sportsites, which are pending.

Rather than complete the foreclosure proceedings, the city made an agreement under which Sportsites would sell the 26-acre property to Continental.