I just finished reading Seth Godin’s new book, Linchpin and one thing that struck me was his focus on the need for right brain activities in the business world. In fact he said, “All Artists are entrepreneurs and all entrepreneurs are artists”. What he is saying is that what we need and is now valued [...]
Eric Stromquist, of Stromquist and Company, had a vision and he also has a great radio voice. His company has been in business for 54 years and they have the Southeast territory as a distributor for commercial/industrial HVAC Control Systems. They already had a website that people could find and buy the many products they [...]
This is a great little article about building your business one true fan at a time. In it Kevin Kelly is talking about making a living in the music industry, but the concept works for all of us. Build your list of peeps one at a time. True fans. True believers.
Marketing Guru, Seth Godin then [...]
The New Tricks motto is,
It is never too Late
Here is a list I created of 10 free steps that will jump start your business into the New Year using social media technologies:
Google your business name and find out what comes up. Do you come up? Is it what you want to see? Does your business [...]
Florist’s have a wonderful opportunity, with the new technologies available with social media and content management websites, to beat out their competitors in showcasing their finest work and specialties on-line. These technologies can be used to increase revenues from business activities they love to do, large parties and wedding for example and decrease their [...]
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New Tricks For Social Media
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Dene and I presented some Social Media Tips to a meeting of the Lady Rogue Business Network last night. Some of the tips were not exactly New Tricks to everyone, but I guarantee that not everyone had done all of them. I think for most it was new information and I hope for the others it was a good reminder. I too learned something from Dene’s presentation. I didn’t know that I could customize my Google profile and when I am finished posting the PDF file of the Five New Tricks of Social Media presentation to this post, that is exactly what I am going to do.
For the past ten years, I ( Judi) had been working as a builder/developer converting warehouses into lofts, doing historic restorations of apartment buildings and rebuilding beach houses blown away by hurricanes. At one point back then, I Googled my construction company’s name. Lo and behold what came up was my dog, Craig’s blog on [...]
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the volume and quality of traffic to your web site from search engines. By doing the following steps you can greatly improve your website’s search results and hopefully increase the traffic to your site.
Add keywords and a description to your site. If you are using WordPress, [...]
Spring seems to mark the kickoff of fund raising season with this walk or that run happening every weekend.
Given the tough economy, the demand for community services is on the rise while the supply of contributors continues to decline. Non profits must find creative ways to reach potential donors.
Having just wrapped up our very own ‘Buy Kwanza Hall a Real Camera Phone‘ campaign, we thought it might be a good time to post our friend Amani Channel’s ‘Lessons From My First Social Media Fundraiser‘. In his post, Amani recaps what worked and what didn’t as he used Social Media to raise money for the March of Dimes in memory of his twin sons, Rico and Jordan, who were born prematurely in 2006.