There are times in life when you just need to stand up and do something manually. Nothing wrong with using the computer to send an email or type a report for school. It should make such a task easier — identifying misspelling and grammatical errors that you might otherwise miss. But when you have to…
Junk Everywhere!
Have you ever visited a website to find the ubiquitous “Coming Soon” page? I’m not talking about the standard “under construction” or placeholder homepage, I mean in either browsing the site, or typing in a URL directly, you stumble upon an “Under Construction” or “Coming Soon” page on an otherwise completed site. “Junk everywhere”…
what they won’t tell you
In my last post, I told you all about great reasons to consider banner advertising to increase your brand recognition in the local area. Some of the ideas, like partnering with a local blogger, can be pretty inexpensive. Others, however, can get costly fast. Here are some questions you’ll want to know the answer to…
RSS is your friend
So what is RSS? It stands for “Really Simple Syndication” and just about every blogger and news outlet uses it. Basically, it’s a way to get notified that a website’s content has updated without having to visit. I follow 32 different websites with RSS because it’s easier than visiting 32 websites every day (several times…
Nothing personal, it’s just business!
The other day I was engrossed in a Twitter conversation about the best way to communicate with prospects. Even though we were communicating via Twitter, virtually everyone said “email” or “phone call” was the best way to communicate (and none of them had my email address or phone number). Phone calls are so demanding. Stephen…