Archive for May, 2009
3 Must Reads – Twitter
Are you looking for a few good reads on the best ways to use Twitter? This post will give you advice from three people that are using Twitter brilliantly to spur online business. How To Use Twitter Without Twitter Owning You – Five Tips From the author of the #1 New York Times best seller [...]
Four Options With Your Online Marketing – Part 2 – Hiring In-House
This is part two of a four part blog post that discusses the four choices you have when marketing your business online. You can find part one which describes how to get internet marketing training and manage your own web presence by clicking here. Below are the four options that business owners have in all [...]
Could Twitter Be the Next Generation of Customer Service?
Have you ever been in customer service hell? With the mass outsourcing of customer service responsibilities I think it goes without saying that you have. You have been stuck on the phone for hours, you have been disconnected numerous times, you have hung up the phone in frustration with your problem unsolved. Companies have been [...]
Should Your Online Video Be a Snack or an Entree?
What is the proper duration for your online video? To answer this question you need to ask another one — “What is the purpose of this online video?” As a general rule of thumb, online video should be kept as short as possible to ensure the clarity of your message and maximize the amount of [...]
Four Options With Your Online Marketing – Part I – Internet Marketing Training
Online marketing is just one of many activities we are charged with overseeing as small business owners. We have to wear a lot of hats. If your website is going to drive business to you it is going to cost you one of two things: time or money. There are no “magic bullets” that [...]
3 Must Reads – Optimizing Your WordPress Blog
These are some great posts I have run into over the last few months that deal with the all-powerful and open source blogging platform – WordPress. 100+ Massive WordPress Tutorial Collection There are lots of great screenshots for the beginner to the amateur user of WordPress on this page. This is a good one to [...]
Can Google Predict the Next Swine Flu?
Google has been busy looking for correlations between the keywords we are searching online and the events that are unfolding off line. A simple example correlation would be the increase in the number of people searching the keyword ‘barack obama’ as the 2008 election drew to a close. A more complex and possibly more useful [...]
Off Line Meet Ups Should Be Part of Your Networking Strategy
The Internet has certainly changed the rules of networking and made it truly possible to network with people all over the globe at any time of the day. Twitter, Facebook, and Linked-In are just the big names in a sea of socail media websites that are giving us unprecedented access to friends and business associates. [...]
Good News For Small Biz — Online Video/Social Media is Exploding
As if we didn’t know — online video is growing like crazy along with social media sites like Twitter, Linked-in and Facebook according to the media ratings company, Nielsen. This is is good news for those of us that run small businesses and have to market against larger competitors with marketing budgets that exceed our [...]
[Video] How To Use Tube Mogul to Upload Video
Have you been looking for a way to upload video to multiple websites all at once — for FREE? Look no further – Tube Mogul is your answer. Tube Mogul will upload your video to: You Tube Yahoo Video My Space Meta Cafe Dailymotion Blip.tv Veoh i2TV And all for the low, low price of [...]
