Resources for Students Attending Online Business Management Schools

We live in a fast paced society.  No longer can you expect to succeed at your job by just knowing about your job and doing your job.  As a business professional you are expected to stay on top of a wide variety of subjects.  Sometimes your local newspaper won’t have enough information to help you with your job.  That is where the Internet and blogging comes in. This post lists 50 blogs designed to help you with your future career in business management.

Time Management
Every successful businessperson needs to know how to manage his or her time well.  It is the very thing that can make or break a career.  Read these blogs for tips about time management. 

1. CEO-Blog Time Leadership
Time Leadership discusses philosophies on Leadership and Time Management. 
This is of interest to anyone that is obsessed with time and managing it well.

2. Get Organized Wizard
This blog discusses tips on having an organized home and work life.  This is important because how well you perform on the job is determined by how organized you are at home.

3. Effective Time Management Strategies
This blog gives strategies on how to manage time better.  It also gives information about managing stress.

4.  Mindful Time Management
Get tips on how to manage your time better by reading this blog.  You can also learn how to get work-life balance and reduce stress.

5.  Get Everything Done
Read this blog for tips and systems to help you get and stay organized.  Simple systems are provided to help you stay focused and organized

6. The Productivity Pro
Get tips on how to manage your time better.  This blog also gives tips on how to motivate employees to do better at their jobs.

7. Get Your Success Now
Learn about how you can be more successful in your life.  This blog gives tips on time management and image management.

8. 2 Time
This blog gives the reader edgy ideas for upgrading your life using time management 2.0 There seems to be a lot of discussion about various gadgets and software that can help make managing your time easier.

9. Productivity Today
Denise Landers helps you find time for success. Her time management tips help you organize your life better.

Women
Women make up a large part of the workforce and marketplace.  It is a good idea to know how to work with women and how to sell to women.  These blogs cover either one or both of these topics.

1. Boomer Women Marketing
This blog gives information about marketing to baby boomer women.  This market is too huge to ignore so business students need to pay attention to this one.

2. Wonder Branding
This blog gives information about how to market to the female consumer.  Workplace issues are also discussed here.

3. Marketing To Women Online
Holly Buchanan discusses what women really want.  Gives insight into the mind of the female consumer.

 4. Learned On
Andrea Lee discusses gender issues, consumer behavior and sustainability on her blog.  Read this blog to gain insight on how to create value for the customer.

5. One Woman Marketing
Kelly Watson discusses marketing to women on this blog.  She also discusses Search Engine Optimization, direct mail marketing, and copywriting on this blog.

Management
It is important to know how to manage a business properly.  Knowledge about management, marketing, and human resources will help a businessperson manage a successful business.  Read these blogs for tips on business management.

1. Business Management Blog
This blog provides helpful resources about business, management, finance, organizations, marketing, and technology.  These fields, especially technology, change rapidly so make sure you are up to date by reading this blog.

2.  Managers Realm
This blog gives people who want to improve their management skills the tools and resources to do so.  This information will be valuable even after graduation.

3.  David Zinger Employee Engagement
Learn how to manage your employees better by reading this blog.  This blog teaches managers how to engage with their employees and make them feel like a part of the company.

4.  The Business Blog At Intuitive.com
This blog gives you information about business management.  Leadership issues are also discussed on this blog.

5.  Let’s Talk Business!
In Let's Talk Business! the focus is on Operations. Operations encompasses all the activities that are directly related to producing and delivering your products and services.

6.  Management Skills Blog
Every business professional could use some more tools to help improve his or her management skills. This blog delivers those tools.

7. Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog
If you are looking for ways to improve your management skills, you have come to the right blog.  This blog gives information designed to help you grow as a manager.

8. Management Craft
This blog discusses issues pertaining to business management.  You will also find reviews of books pertaining to management and marketing.
 
9. The Management Issues Workplace Blog
Learn how to manage workplace issues at your company.  Deals with everything from absenteeism to how the work environment can harm employees.

Leadership
Every businessperson is a potential leader. With a little guidance and the right tools a businessperson can climb their way to the top of the company ladder leading the entire company.  Read these blogs to learn more about leadership.

1. Sanders Says
This blog about leadership.  It is impossible to read too much about leadership when you are a student.  Even after graduation, it is important to keep up with what is being said about leadership if a businessperson wants to become and stay a leader.

2. Mitch’s Blog
This blog is about leadership, customer service, management, diversity, motivation and health care finance.  Read this blog for the leadership and diversity information.

3.  The Practice Of Leadership
Gain insights on how to use your skills to influence the world.  Get tips on how to become a better leader.

4. Coaching Tip-The Leadership Blog
Read this blog to stay current on effective leadership.  This blog also provides coaching.

5.  Wally Block’s Three Star Leadership Blog
This blog says it is for bosses at any level.  The author strives to give the reader insights about how to do a better job and live a better life.

6.  Leading Blog
If you want to grow as a leader, this blog should definitely be on your reading list.   This blog gives useful and insightful information designed to help you on your quest to be a better leader at your company.

7. Great Leadership By Dan
Read this blog to learn about leadership. You’ll learn the opinions of Dan McCarthy about leadership.

8. Organic Leadership
Read this blog to follow one author’s journey into leadership.  Learn from the author as he develops his own leadership skills.

9.  Chris Brady
Best Selling Author Chris Brady writes about leadership in this blog. He says the only way to be happy is to give happy.
Contact Info: chris_brady@comcast.net

10.  Mick’s Leadership Blog
This blog is about getting better results together.  This blog discusses ways teams can get better results.

Public Relations
Even though a businessperson might not work in the public relations department, it is still important for a business person to know about public relations.  When a customer sees an employee of a certain business they don’t know what department they represent.  Read these blogs to stay up to date on public relations issues.

1. POP! PR Jots by Jeremy Peppers
PR and publicity are the main topics of this blog.  This blog also discusses social media’s impact on public relations.

2. Strategic Public Relations
This blogger discusses how businesses can have a more integrated public relations strategy.  This blog discusses how business can blend traditional methods with new technologies.

3. Karen’s Public Relations Blog
Blogger discusses public relations and social media. Reputation management and crisis communication are also subjects discussed in this blog.

4. Journalistics
This blog is about all things related to journalism and public relations.  Since it is written by more than one author the reader will get a different perspective from each post.

5. Online Public Relations Thoughts
Check this blog daily for public relations thoughts.  You’ll find a unique perspective on the daily news by reading this blog.  The blogger always ties the news back to how it affects the company’s pr.

6. PR-Squared
The next big thing is already here. Read this blog for conversations about social media and public relations.
 
7. Tom Murphy-Murphy’s Law
This blog discusses a myriad of topics.  You’ll learn about public relations, social media, and some miscellaneous topics from reading this blog.

8. Hispanic PR Blog
This blog discusses issues related to hispanic pr.  You can also learn about hispanics in social media from reading this blog.

Internet Marketing
The Internet is a force that no one can ignore.  This is especially true for businesspeople.  People search for information to make buying decisions online more than ever.  If a business is going to succeed, it must have employees who are savvy about Internet marketing, Search Engine Optimization, and Social Media.  These blogs cover those topics.

1. ClickNewz! Internet Marketing with Lynn Terry
This blog contains Internet marketing tips, and reviews to help you succeed in an online business.  Even though this blog is geared towards solopreneurs, companies of all sizes can benefit from the information shared in this blog.

2.  Social Media Blog By Michael Brito
This blog contains insights into the social web and real time community engagement. In English, it discuses social media trends.

3. Marketer’s Mojo
This blog discusses Internet marketing.  This blog also discusses issues surrounding running a business from home. 

4. Promoted Profits
This blog discusses ways to drive traffic to your website using the Internet.  Topics discussed include, Search Engine Optimization and Pay Per Click Advertising.

5.  Mark Flavin’s Blog
Learn how to use the Internet to get more traffic and customers to your website.  Topics discussed on this blog include Search Engine Optimization, social media, and website traffic.

6. E-Strategy Internet Marketing Blog
Learn how to use Internet Marketing to grow your business. You’ll learn all about Search Engine Optimization, Website traffic, and other online marketing strategies to drive traffic to your company’s website.

7. Henry Zeng’s Internet Marketing Tactics
If you want to learn what the latest tactics are in the Internet marketing world, read this blog.  You can even learn from the author’s mistakes so you don’t make the same mistakes in marketing your company’s website.

8. Redfly Marketing Blog
This blog helps you learn how to use Internet marketing properly to get positive results.  Read this blog to learn about search friendly web design, search engine optimization, and pay per click advertising.

In conclusion, this list is just a starting points.  There were a lot more blogs that could have been added to this list.  Keep reading and studying to become a successful businessperson.

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