Note: this is a very personal post, and I totally understand if you skip it. Last year at this time, I was blogging every weekday of July and writing my book. I spent my vacation publishing posts, managing comments and working on my book. I feel like I completely neglected my family during this [...]
What happens when the person in charge of social media for a company goes on vacation? As summer is upon us, this is something all of us that use social media for business should consider. As the sole employee of my business, I am always connected to clients and others no matter where I am. Even on [...]
Katy Perry “gets” social media or at least the people she works with get it. I’m a fan of her music so I started following her on Twitter and “liked” her Facebook page. In the beginning of June, Katy introduced a character Kathy Beth Terry and encouraged people to [...]
If you have spent any amount of time using social media, you know that everyone uses it in their own unique way. Some strictly for work, some strictly for personal and many a combination of both. I definitely fall into the both category and my guess is that if you are reading this, you fall into [...]
I share a lot of the same characteristics with my parents, especially the desire to always be learning new things. For as long as I can remember, my dad has been building an HO scale train platform (to the left is a picture of one section), but once he retired it really grew with the addition of an [...]
One challenge businesses have is getting their blog in front of enough eyeballs. There are a lot of ways to promote your blog and LinkedIn gives you a great tool that allows you to set it up and forget it. If you have a WordPress blog, you can pull it into your LinkedIn account using on of their [...]
I do a fair amount of speaking, which is something I really enjoy. In the past, I tried to manage notes either in the form of hand-written notes or in the little area for notes that PowerPoint provides. Either way they had to be on paper which caused a few problems: 1. I would lose them 2. They [...]
I don’t typically promote events here, but wanted to pass on an event that Network Solutions will be holding a Small Business Mobile Livestream on May 17th. Given the new trend of mobile, the more information we can all gather the better, so that we can better understand when and how to best [...]