Organizing Alltop: Making Sense of Its Small Business Blogs and News Links

Alltop.com has great links to small business blogs and publications. The site continually updates the five most recent stories and posts for all of these links. Think of it as Google News for small business.

Alltop claims their objective is to help you “explore your passions by collecting stories from ‘all the top’ sites on the web.” But it does not provide the scope or focus of these sources. You can’t print out the list. The order is “a complex algorithm, ” meaning no logical order.

To make these small business links more useable to myself, and perhaps to others, I’ve separated the blogs and sorted by large topic - Finance, Retail, Sales, Technology, Women, and General, the last being a big group. The publication news feeds are at the end.

I can’t help organizing it — I’m an ex-librarian. And some of us old timers still need printouts occasionally.

FINANCE

Wise Words: Lessons on Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital
http://www.seanwise.com/

The Profit Repairman: “The Profit Repairman’s” ® Lifelong Mission: Increasing the Success Rate of Small and Mid-Sized Businesses to Correct This On-Going Crisis Facing America and the World: “For the future safety of your Money, Career and Business, every single person must discover the results that “My Little Black Book to Success”, “Stop Biting Your Nails and Start Sharpening Your Claws” and “The Profit Repairman” can deliver to them”
http://theprofitrepairman.blogspot.com/

RETAIL

Mine Your Own Business: A Weblog for Independent Retailers
http://tacony.typepad.com/blog/

SALES, MARKETING AND BRANDING

Andy Sernovitz’s Damn, I Wish I Had Thought of That: Unusually Useful Ideas for Smart Marketers
http://www.damniwish.com/

B2B Lead Generation Blog: Brian Carroll’s Blog focused on B2B lead generation, sales leads, and marketing for the complex sale.
http://blog.startwithalead.com/weblog/

Big Identity Guru: Branding Blog By Brand Identity Guru Life Experiences and Opinions From Branding Guru Scott White
http://www.brandidentityguru.com/wordpress

BIG Marketing for Small Business
http://bigmarketing.wordpress.com/

Branding Strategy Insider: The Branding Blog
http://www.brandingstrategyinsider.com/

Bringing Brands to Life: Harnessing the Power of Remarkable Corporate Video Stories to Ignite Conversations and Spark Action
http://www.directortom.com/director-tom/

Change This, by Noah Weiss
There’s an inverse relationship between the options–the number of media outlets and sources of information–and the validity–how rational, fact based, and constructive–of those options. More now than ever, America is faced with an unprecedented number of options and an unprecedented lack of media validity and integrity. I believe that this relationship can be broken.
http://blog.changethis.com/changethis_newsletter/

Conversation Marketing: Common Sense Internet Strategies
http://www.conversationmarketing.com/

Copyblogger: Copywriting Tips for Online Marketing Success
http://www.copyblogger.com/

Duck Tape Marketing: Simple, Effective and Affordable Small Business Marketing
http://www.ducttapemarketing.com/blog

Entrepreneurial Salesman Blog: Colin Wilson’s Strategies and Tools For Successful Selling, Making Your Number and Increasing Commission
http://www.firstborder.com/sales-blog

Local Na8ion: Where You Are Is Where It’s
LOCAL Na8ion is a free resource for any business that needs to connect with local buyers for next-to-nothing using revolutionary online tools and methods.
http://www.localna8ion.com/category/blog/

Marketing Practice: World’s Largest Online Resource On Indian Brands.
http://marketingpractice.blogspot.com/

Selling to Big Companies: Jill Konrath
http://sellingtobigcompanies.blogs.com/selling/

Shoestring Branding: Branding for Independent People
http://www.shoestringbranding.com/

The Sales Coach, The Sales Blog “Join us as we develop the concepts and strategies of the new sales community.”
http://salesblog.karlgoldfield.com/

The Selling Sherpa: Showing You How to Reach the Peak Of Your Earnings Potential
http://sellingsherpa.typepad.com/the_selling_sherpas_blog/

Seth Godin’s Blog
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/

TECHNOLOGY

Billda.com: Ramblings on Entrepreneurship, Technology, and Web Design
http://www.billda.com/

Good Morning Silicon Valley (San Jose Mercury News)
http://svextra.com/blogs/gmsv

On Startups: A Community for Entrepreneurs. This site is for software entrepreneurs.
http://onstartups.com/

Signal vs Noise: a weblog by 37signals about design, business, experience, simplicity, the web, culture, and more.
http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts

Small Biz Technology: Tech Insights and News for Small Business
http://smallbiztechnology.com/

WOMEN

I Know A Mom: Celebrating Mom’s With Big Ideas
http://www.iknowamomblog.com/

Lipsticking: Marketing to Women Online
http://www.lipsticking.com/

Mogulette-in-the-making: Uncovering the latest tricks and tools to help small businesses thrive. “What would you try if you could not fail?”
http://mogulette.blogspot.com/

GENERAL

Ask Lacerte: My Thoughts, Your Business
http://www.asklacerte.com/blog/

Biz Informer: Where We Are Never Without An Opinion
http://www.bizinformer.com/

BizBox: Blogs and Buzz about Small Biz (Slade)
http://bizbox.slate.com/blog/

BizSugar: A social news site for small businesses and mid-sized companies. Business owners, managers and entrepreneurs can now discover, share and vote for the best business tips, trends, news and strategies on the Web. If you find a business story, tip or video that you like, give ‘em a little sugar!
http://www.bizsugar.com/

Business Forward: Looks at the companies, leaders and issues, driving business success in today’s economy
http://businessfwd.com/

Dane Carlson’s Business Opportunities Weblog
http://www.business-opportunities.biz/

Entrepreneur Daily
http://www.entrepreneur.com/blog/index.html

Escape from Cubicle Nation: How to Go from Corporate Prisoner to Thriving Entrepreneur, by Pamela Slim.
Escape from Cubicle Nation

ExecutiveHacks.com: Tools and Tips for Entering the Boardroom
http://executivehacks.com/

HomeBiz Resources: Bukiki, Making Money Online
http://www.homebiz.bukiki.com/

How to Change the World: A Practical Guide for Impractical People http://blog.guykawasaki.com/

Iinnovate (many interviews and index of interview topics)
http://iinnovate.blogspot.com/

Inc.Com — 14 Blogs and 31 Resource Center Blogs
http://www.inc.com/blogs/

Just Tell Me How To Manage: If Nothing Changes, Nothing Changes
http://www.justtellmehowtomanage.com/

Make Money with EZ Wealth Solution: Recommended Home Business Opportunity
http://howimakemoneyfromhome.blogspot.com/

Microsoft Startup Zone: Blogs
http://microsoftstartupzone.com/blogs/default.aspx

Mind of a Hustler: The Road to Success Starts in the Streets
http://mindofahustler.com/

My Venture Pad: The Online Community for Business Owners and Managers
http://myventurepad.com/MVP/

Planning Startup Stories: Tim Berry on Business Planning, Starting and Growing Your Business, and Having a Life in the Meanwhile
http://blog.timberry.com/

Solutions are Power: A business is a lot to handle, so we’re here to help by providing solutions for everything from driving traffic to your Web site to local networking and advice from your peers, supplying you with tools that will empower you to take your business to the next level, and beyond.
http://solutionsarepower.com/

Small Biz Survival: By and for small business people in rural areas and small towns.
http://www.smallbizsurvival.com/

Small Business Essentials: News, Tips and Advice from the NHG Network
http://www.smallbusinessessentials.info/

Small Business Labs: Tracking and Forecasting the Future of Small Business
http://genylabs.typepad.com/small_biz_labs/

Small Business Trends
http://www.smallbiztrends.com/

Springwise.com: Your Daily Fix of Entrepreneurial Ideas
http://www.springwise.com/

Startup Nation Blog: For Entrepreneurs, by Entrepreneurs
http://www.startupnation.com/blog/index.asp

Superinnovator:
http://superinnovator.blogspot.com/

Tecoris: Illuminating The Path To Success For Small Business
http://www.tecoris.com/

The art of business: a forum celebrating creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship
http://chrissoderquist.blogspot.com/

The Employee Factor: Where Employees Drive the Experience
http://employeefactor.com/

The Entrepreneurial Mind: Center for Entrepreneurship, Belmont University
http://forum.belmont.edu/cornwall/

Up and Running: Starting Your Business with Growth In Mind
http://upandrunning.entrepreneur.com/

Venture Hacks: Advice and introductions for entrepreneurs.
http://venturehacks.com/

Young Entrepreneur Blog
http://www.youngentrepreneur.com/blog

NEWS FEEDS FROM SITES THAT ARE NOT BLOGS

All Business
http://feeds.allbusiness.com/rss/2471213?format=xml

About.com
http://entrepreneurs.about.com/

BNET.com
http://www.bnet.com/

Business Week
http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz//index.html

CNN Money
http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/magazines/fsb/?section=magazines_fsb

FastCompany.com: Where Ideas and People Meet
http://www.fastcompany.com/

Forbes
http://www.forbes.com/entrepreneurs/?feed=rss_entrepreneurs

New York Times: Small Business
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/business/smallbusiness/index.html?partner=rssnyt

Hacker News
http://news.ycombinator.com/

Kauffman Research Portal
http://www.kauffman.org/research

US. News
http://www.usnews.com/rss/usnews.rss

WSJ.com
http://feeds.feedburner.com/wsj/xml/rss/4_1037?format=xml

Work.Com: How-To Guides for Your Business
http://www.work.com/

ZDNET: 73 Resources for Entrepreneurship
http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/Entrepreneurship.html?t=0

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