Marketing expert Seth Godin has more than once noted that a book is souvenir – a vessel for ideas that allows them to be readily used and shared. I believe we can further expand on that idea. Have you ever considered that the products and services your small business creates are souvenirs too? What Exactly […]
Social Media for Small Business – It’s Still Early Days
The art of marketing has always been about making meaningful connections with ideal buyers. Modern marketing is a practice that is new to most small businesses. Prior to that small businesses made meaningful connections through selling, not marketing. One of the reasons for this is that most of the media available in recent decades, including magazines, […]
Let’s Keep in Touch
By now many of you have heard that this week Google announced effective July 1st it is eliminating Google Reader, a tool that many of us have relied on to consume massive amounts of online content. Many of you are subscribed to this blog using Google Reader. So, in order for us to keep in touch, […]
Google+ Goes Big and Bold
It is clear that Google+ is not sitting back waiting to see what Facebook does next. On the contrary, they are making bold moves. The recent redesign of Google+ promises to take it from an identity service to a true social destination that now boasts 500 million users. In the meantime, Facebook continues to roll out […]
Two Productivity Apps to Better Manage Your Digital World
The recent updates for productivity list manager Any.Do make this an app that will help organize your personal life and connect the dots to new business opportunities. Any.Do has been around for a few years and has always had a nice user-friendly interface. The calendar and web-based email integration are what really separate Any.Do from […]
3 Essential Small Business Writing Practices
You do not have to be an accomplished writer to write things down. You only need to learn how to capture your best ideas, refine them, and then use them to attract more customers. The Internet thrives on useful information and ideas – and so does your business. Knowing this, it is interesting that many […]
The Facebook Trust Dilemma
The recently announced Facebook Job Board has inherent risks for everyone – users, advertisers, and Facebook itself. Facebook became what it is today by innovating – “moving fast and breaking things.” While that may be a viable strategy for a start-up, by social networking standards they are now an established business. Do you think IBM […]
The Social Global Internet [Infographic]
One of the best ways to understand the future of the Internet is to study its past. The Internet was built to connect multiple computers so that they could communicate. That is built-in social. Of course, as more and larger computers were connected, search became a driving force for helping people discover what they were […]
Google for Authors Simplified
One of the best search features to come along in a while for authors of original content is Google Authorship – one that is not particulary well known outside of tech circles. About Google Authorship This week I received an email from Google about Google Authorship that suggests they are hoping to take it mainstream. […]
When Users are Not Customers
The Ideal User Experience Google’s mission is to deliver the most relevant results for ANYONE performing a search within their platform. Google knows their customer. It’s any person doing a search query, regardless of whether that search is for business or personal reasons. When Google focuses on providing the best user experience, they are equally […]
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