Business

Are You Zip Code Challenged?

April 6, 2011

Each and everyone of us has experienced a time in our life of great transition. Whether you moved to a new part of the world as a child, left the job you hated or loved, departed from a loved one or just needed to re-invent yourself for some apparent and important reason.  We have all [...]

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Personal Branding Tip – Secure Your Name

August 17, 2009

All about domain names, usernames and email adresses… Make sure You Get Them All! I have a few new projects in the works and one of the first things I do is run extensive searches on name availability.  I search for top level domain names (.com, .net, .org) for the project name or with a [...]

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Building Your Business With Social Media

August 14, 2009

Why do owners fail at promoting their business with Social Media? Because its too technically oriented, its time consuming, its a fad, its for kids, its for internet marketers, its not a proven marketing strategy, its this and its that…. A colleague and small business consultant of mine asked me to speak to a few [...]

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Content is Not King

August 9, 2009

Listening to the quick 20 minute schpeel by John Alanis – I perked up pretty quickly when he mentioned that “Content is Not King”! What!  I paused the video and tried to think about what he was going to say next.  Was he going to talk about that there is so much recycled content out [...]

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Make Your Blog Interactive

March 26, 2009

What do you do, to engage your readers? You hear a lot about driving traffic to your blog.  Making pretty permalinks, seo titles, keyword saturated posts, valuable content, knowing your market and of course a nice site design always helps.  So you do your research, implement all the tips and tricks and you start to [...]

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TechCrunch Readers Over Twitter

March 14, 2009

Readers of TechCrunch are complaining that the company writes too much about twitter. The TechCrunch article entitled ‘Lance Armstrong: Natural Born Twitterer caught my eye.  Not that I am an Armstrong groupie by any means, but I am an avid cyclist with a great amount of respect for any Tour de France competitor especially for [...]

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MasterMinding and Saving Face

March 6, 2009

Do you ever get a really great idea? You know one of those huge lightning strike kind of ideas that you’re convinced will change the world. So what do you do next?  You research.  You try to find out if anyone else has thought about it. You google everything you can imagine related to the [...]

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Transparent Marketers Perfect Customers

January 30, 2009

Some important questions your potential customer will ask themselves when evaluating your product or service, especially in the making money online Internet marketing industry. 1. Who is this person? 2. Do I relate to them? 3. Can I trust who they are? Yes they are many ways to make money online today from affiliate programs, selling [...]

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Words About Me

January 27, 2009

I asked some friends and colleagues for a few words that they would use to describe me to someone that does not know me. Then I took those words and created a Wordl or word cloud. You can create a word cloud from any text, just cut and paste at http://www.wordle.net.  Some fun uses would [...]

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Brand New Social Media You Inc.

January 20, 2009

There is a persistent theme in the air, riding shotgun on the digital pulse of the web and its something you know very well…. “Ladies and Gentlemen I present to you,  the latest and greatest, highly acclaimed, googled and twittered, facebookalized….Yooooouuu….. If anyone is going to make it outside (or even inside) of corporate America [...]

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