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5 Technology Tips to Grow Your Small Business
Technology tips to use to your advantage In the recent years we have all seen technologies increase incredible amounts and at a rapid pace. However, not a lot of businesses are utilizing these technologies to their full potential, and in 2015 this can mean whether or not your business succeeds or fails. All too often...
Competitors Are Not Your Enemy – Part 3 – Networking
Competitors Are Not Your Enemy – Part 3 - Networking This is the third article of a three part series that discusses why "Competitors Are Not Your Enemy. Part 3 focuses on "Networking," a low-cost activity that involves more personal commitment than company money. Many people think of competitors as the enemy. Not necessarily true....
One Little Marketing Strategy That Reaps Big Results
I love writing. No, let me put it another way, I love words. Writing is the one skill that I am grateful for. Yet, I'm the first to admit that I'm not a great writer, but just an okay one. There are people who take the written word to a whole new level, and while I...
Get More Customers with Foursquare
Note: This is a guest post by Social Media DIY Foursquare is currently one of the most popular services that combines social networking and location-based social media. Launched in spring 2009, it includes businesses in more than 100 cities across the United States with more than 300,000 users. Foursquare allows customers to check-in when they arrive...
Small Business Profile: Guideposts.com
To follow up on a previous post requesting feedback on topics and offering to highlight members of the community, I learned of Guideposts.com—a site devoted to helping people find and reach their potential. This site interested me not so much from an entrepreneurial standpoint, but because of its history. The nonprofit organization was founded in...
3 Do-It-Yourself Marketing Tools to Brand You–the hottest new thing
A friend of mine is thinking of starting her own insurance business, but she can't leave her full time job until she's tested the waters and determines if she has what it takes or if there is enough demand for her offering. We talked about the kind of marketing practices she could dabble in that...
Be Clear. Be Brief. But come back…often.
So I've spoken briefly about Twitter in the past. I am still observing the form to understand its place in the overall ecosystem of social networking...and I heard recently that Strunk & White just released a 50th Anniversary Edition of the Elements of Style. To me, it was the perfect collision of old and new...and...
Faces and Blogs and Tweets, Oh My!
The big buzz in marketing these days is all about social networking and viral campaigns. In the past two days alone, I received about nine e-mails inviting me to various, educational seminars online. And I’m sure you have been inundated with this same kind of information. It can be overwhelming…Do I start a Facebook page,...
Why We Had Kids… For Social Networking Help
I guess my husband and I always had in the back of our heads that we would have kids, so that when we were old and grey we would have someone to push around our wheelchairs, or at least extricate our Rascal scooters when they get hopelessly wedged between oddly out-of-date pieces of furniture. I also had...
Twitterers actually aren’t twits
Twitter. It's ridiculous, right? The distractions of visiting a website to provide updates to your "followers" about where you are and what you're doing. Sounds like such a waste of time! But alas, I beg to differ. From what I'm learning, it's one of a variety of really effective vehicles to achieve business goals. Developing...
Using social networking to increase company visibility
With hundreds of millions of registered users across the world, social networking web sites are among the most popular places to communicate and trade information. There are numerous reasons why people use these sites: to find colleagues, friends or classmates, read breaking news, or make new business connections. As social media continues to evolve, how...