One New Client Challenge – Day 4
What do you do? How do people know that's what you do? Tell your story. The story is what you want to be known for … about the things you want to do.This is more than just writing up an 'about' page or a...
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Sep 26, 2012 | GooglePlus | 7
Middle of the week here. How have you been doing so far? This morning over coffee & my daily reading I found this gem of an article on +SEOmoz written by +Lindsay Wassell.While SEO isn't my industry and I know just...
Read MoreOne New Client Challenge – Day 2
Sep 25, 2012 | GooglePlus | 6
Yesterday I came up with this idea of challenging myself to finding a new client this week and thought others might need some motivation as well. The idea of finding a new client 'under pressure' (or a new...
Read MoreOne New Client Challenge – Day 1
Sep 24, 2012 | GooglePlus | 9
If you had to find one new client this week … could you do it? If you couldn't pay your mortgage or feed your family unless you landed a new client this week could you get a brand new client? Would your sales process...
Read MoreGoogle Pulls the Plug on Feedburner
Sep 21, 2012 | GooglePlus | 100
Warning: This is the time where Lynette completely flipped out, raged, and called Google on the <bleepin'> carpet for forgetting how to think like a...
Read MoreDon’t Waste Your Talent
Sep 18, 2012 | stuff i felt like saying | 4
I’m at a crossroads right now with being an independent business owner working in digital publishing and social media. I spend too much time working to find clients or justifying my value to them (no, I will not take a 40 hour a month project for $250) than actually doing meaningful proactive work for clients. At least that is how it feels lately.
Read MoreHow Marketers Can Get Banned From Google+
Sep 17, 2012 | GooglePlus | 6
Thanks +HubSpot for the recap! If you are using Google+ for your business or brand there are a couple items in the Google+ Policies & Principles (http://www.google.com/+/policy/content.html) you need to be aware of. Hubspot...
Read MoreThree Questions Every Business Needs To Ask Themselves
Sep 14, 2012 | GooglePlus | 13
Marissa Mayer asks startups these three questions, but I think it is just as important for existing businesses to ask themselves the same.1. Can you deliver?2. Can you connect?3. Can you grow?Businesses , especially solopreneurs...
Read MorePatterns & Plans
Sep 10, 2012 | GooglePlus | 7
I'm going to take Monday mornings to assess what I need to do for the upcoming week and organize my schedule. My kids are back in school. The days are getting cooler and shorter. Somehow autumn always feels like getting...
Read MoreBing vs. Google Search
Sep 9, 2012 | GooglePlus | 31
I took a trip to a mall yesterday and got to stop in a Microsoft store, not my reason for going, but a pleasant surprise I had to check out. It reminded me exactly of an Apple store right down to the style of name tags hanging...
Read MoreCricket Queen
Sep 6, 2012 | stuff i felt like saying | 0
Crickets are back tonight driving me insane. They are so loud the chirping actually shows up over my microphone when chatting online. This needs to stop, I can’t survive having an office where every single night they make...
Read MoreStand Up To Cancer
Sep 6, 2012 | GooglePlus | 7
This year I have decided to do something pretty radical for me. I've signed on to help promote the +Stand Up To Cancer fundraiser. It's not that I'm not charitable or don't ever share worthwhile causes with the...
Read MoreGoogle+ For Enterprise
Aug 29, 2012 | GooglePlus | 15
Lately I've been talking with a few companies that made the switch to Google Apps from Microsoft products within the last two years. Maintaining licenses for Office as well as Exchange systems was not only increasing the...
Read MorePinterest Drives Traffic – But Is It The Right Traffic?
Aug 28, 2012 | GooglePlus | 9
Ok. Here's the thing. I like Pinterest. I like Pinterest when ordinary people use it to have fun or share ideas or creativity. I like Pinterest when companies use it to have fun or share ideas and creativity with the...
Read MoreIt's time to evolve. Again. Be different. Be extraordinary
Aug 28, 2012 | GooglePlus | 1
Hey businesses… Have you been doing the same old RT or LIKE campaign on other social networks for years? Guess what? You've stagnated. Gotten predictable. Gotten comfortable. Gotten boring. What happens next? You get...
Read MoreGoogle+ Custom Vanity URLs
Aug 27, 2012 | GooglePlus | 17
My thought on this is that Google may charge for vanity URLs in the future when it is for branding purposes for use by big companies. I don’t feel that the payment for a vanity URL is targeted to people. But, this is the...
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