Okay, okay, I'll admit it... for me LinkedIn is the forgotten social network. Yes, I have profile, yes I've spent time optimizing it but I really don't spend any time on it or do the simple things I could do to leverage it as a powerful network. Watching this video [...]
My brother is a geek like me and for a while, he was helping people (mainly friends and family) build static HTML sites. He's a cracker jack programmer so his sites were always clean from a code perspective but being that they were static HTML, they weren't always the easiest [...]
One of my favorite tools in my business is Freshbooks. I've been using this online invoicing and time tracking software since last fall and it's been an awesome addition to my toolkit. Freshbooks is a web-based time tracking and invoicing application that makes it easy for virtual assistants, consultants, and [...]
Sometimes it's the most obvious things that are overlooked in a business. Tuck Self, The Rebel Belle as she's known, has been getting some excellent exposure as a guest speaker for certain events. As we were speaking during one of our regular strategy calls, I asked her if she had [...]
A few weeks ago I received a call from David Dutton. He was looking for someone who could customize a Multiple Streams Theme WordPress blog theme and wondered if I was up to the task. Turns out he had already contracted someone for the project and they had delayed on [...]
You've heard me say this before: people buy who you are long before they buy what you're selling. It's another way of saying people do business with the people they know, like and trust. In UnMarketing: Stop Marketing. Start Engaging, author Scott Stratten challenges us to think differently about our [...]
Several of my clients have had success with targeting local small businesses to help them get online and get noticed by their ideal customers, as well as Google. I myself have also been targeting offline local business owners and using the proven strategies that I know work for online business [...]
Oopsie!! As I was recording this week's video, the battery died on my Flip cam. Guess I ran them down last week as I was recording my video for Round 3 of the Tiger Blood Intern search. Gosh if only I'd spoken a little faster (I think it cut off [...]
Okay I'll admit it, I applied to for Charlie Sheen's Tiger Blood Internship and I'm excited to have made it to Round 3. Like him or not, you've got to admit that it would be a really cool summer job (for the record, I do happen to like him). #TigerBloodIntern [...]
Did you know that one simple WordPress plugin could dramatically increase your email list opt-in rate? Zach Even-esh knows and that's why he hired me to customize the popular Popup Domination software for two of his blog sites. Be sure to check out both his WordPress site (built by yours [...]
