One of the tools that you can use in your home business marketing efforts is your blog. A blog filled with interesting and useful information can be a great way to draw people to your home business web site, as well as build your online presence. However, it is important to promote your home business blog as well.

Darren Rowse, from Problogger, offers some great tips in this video about how you can promote your home business blog using social media.

If you are interested in sharing your expertise, you can win some cool prizes from JobMob. JobMob is holding a guest blogging contest. You write a post, submit it, and then, if your post receives the most traffic for a certain amount of time, you win. There are a number of prizes that will be given out, many of them exceptionally helpful for those with a home business. Some of the prizes include:

* 20 hours of outsourcing time.

* Personal Branding Magazine.

* Cash.

* 15 minute coaching session.

These are actually pretty cool prizes. You can find out more about this guest blogging contest, and how to enter, at JobMob.

With recession on, many people are looking for ways to make money from home, selling skills they already have. Freelancing is one way to do that. If you are look for resources for your freelancing skills, you might consider reading a blog post from oDesk about the Top 100 Freelance Blogs.

oDesk has done the work of putting together a list that includes:

* Top freelance blogs.

* Freelance graphic design.

* Freelance illustration and animation.

* Freelance software development.

* Freelance Web design.

* Freelance blogging.

* Freelance writing.

* Freelance marketing and copywriting.

* Freelance lifestyle.

* Freelance social media.

* Specialize freelance blogs.

With these resources, you can learn more about freelancing with your own skills, helping you better reach clients and learn the ins and outs of freelancing.

It's a multi-tasking sort of world. So often, we find our attention drawn off in multiple directions as we work on several different tasks at one time. As you might imagine when you really stop to think about it, this is probably not the best method of trying to get things done efficiently. And yet we continue to multi-task.

Enter the concept of single-tasking.

Doing one thing at a time is not really new, but it is starting to make a comeback in some productivity circles. Indeed, Health Money Success points out that you can simplify your day — and increase the speed and quality of your work — if you single-task rather than multi-task.

Instead of doing several things at once, prioritize your necessary tasks for your home business. Then work on them at once. I'm going to start applying the single-tasking method in my daily freelance efforts. Here's my to-do list for most days:

Right now, I check my email more than I probably should, and get side-tracked by social media. I think that if I focus my energy better, I am more likely to work efficiently, getting more done — and doing work of higher quality.