If you are a small business owner, have you ever considered joining a Networking Referral Group? Just about every community has a networking organization where business people and entrepreneurs meet and try to build their businesses. The networking group offers a lot of benefits for your business. By joining one of these groups, which is [...]

Are you still unfamiliar on what Twitter is all about? It seems like this social medium is a natural phenomenon, but many people I know just don’t get it. What is it all about and how can it help my business? Twitter is a way to tell people something in a small amount of text. [...]

Three years ago, I left my job as a Director of Marketing to make a new life as a small business owner. It is one of the best decisions I ever made. It’s not like the steady paycheck of the office job wasn’t good – because it was – but having the freedom of owning [...]

Ever since the Apple iPad was released in 2010, the tablet has made a huge impact on the computing world. Never before were people able to carry a compact computer with a touch screen and do their work. The original tablets were seen as only being capable of reading and playing games. As time has [...]

Do you own a blog?  Looking around the web, I found that there are very little choices to list your blog for free.  Many of them want you to pay a yearly charge!  I understand why they do this, but is it really necessary?  I am not trying to make money from helping people out.  [...]

I grew up reading works of J.R.R. Tolkien and his tales of Middle Earth. Those stories formed some of the fundamental ways I look at life. No, I don’t think there are orcs running around wanting to take over the world of Men, but I do think there are some very good lessons that can [...]

I’ve been praising the qualities of the blog for about five years now.  With every client, I explain that by using a blog is essential to their marketing toolbox. Many people, who do not change their websites, often get less than one person a day to visit their site.  Believe it or not, this is [...]

You may have seen it on your favorite blog post.  It might have shown up while you were shopping.  It’s the ‘+1′ button you keep seeing all over the web.  But what is it?  Welcome to Google’s +1.  Google is attempting to cash in on the success of Facebook’s “Like” button which has been showing [...]

I am interested in finding other companies who would like to have a guest blogger write on their web site.  I am a blogger and work with social media for my clients and would like to write on your blog!  In the past two years, I have written over 1500 posts and now I am [...]

Why don’t we take the responsibility in our lives? You could throw a wonderfully thick steak on the grill, a bottle of wine and have a wonderful dinner with your spouse for less than $20 or you could go out and have the same meal for $80 and complain about the service. You could drive [...]