Pick of the week is slightly delayed this week due to a busy schedule - as a result it’s also a bit shorter.
This weeks most popular post on Business Opportunities and Ideas has been How To Start A Blogging Business. This weeks picks from around the web are:

Ben Casnocha on why Thinking in Public [...]

I’m busy working on an update to the Top 100 Business Blogs but I’m can’t help feeling that there must be loads of excellent business blogs that I just don’t know about, so I want your help. No I NEED your help!

So if you’ve got a business blog that you think should be included - [...]

I’d like to apologise to everyone who has ever commented on this blog. This afternoon I upgraded my WordPress installation and re-enabled a plugin that sends you an email the first time you comment on the blog. It’s supposed to be a nice gesture to thank you for commenting.
Unfortunately if you enable it when there [...]

The Business Opportunities and Ideas is one year old today!
In the first year there have been over 500 post attracting over 1,000 comments. I’m aiming for even more over the next year and I hope to build up the forum into a more useful resource for budding entrepreneurs - so if you haven’t visited the [...]

A few weeks ago I was sorting out some old boxes of stuff - you know the sort, things you’ll never use again, but you just can’t bring yourself to throw away - in amongst it all I found a diary of my 1985 childhood holiday in Manaus (Brazil). I don’t remember writing it, but [...]

I’ve finally settled on my list of questions to as an entrepreneur, I’m going to start sending this out with interview requests to people that I consider to be interesting entrepreneurs.

In your own words, who are you and what is your business?
Why did you choose to start your own business?
How did you come up with [...]

Looking back over 2007, I’m proud to say that Business Opportunities and Ideas has come a long way since it started on 1st March. So here’s a quick recap of what I believe are the best posts from each month:

March - Play To Your Strengths which advices small business owners to focus on promoting their [...]

I’d like to wish readers of Business Opportunities and Ideas a happy and prosperous new year. I hope 2007 was a good year for you, your business and your entrepreneurial dream and I hope that 2008 will be even better.
I’ve got lots of new features planned for Business Opportunities and Ideas in 2008 plus there [...]

I’m planning to start interviewing some entrepreneurs in the new year and for this blog. I have a list of the questions I’m planning to ask:

Why did you become an entrepreneur?

How would you describe your business?

How did you come up with your business idea?

How did you know it was the right idea?

Did you write a [...]

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