Your business’ physical presence can be utilized as a tool to reach more people using Facebook Places. If you already have a Facebook Page and a physical location you will gain higher visibility if you add a location to your Facebook Page. Like Foursquare, Facebook Places is a location based service which helps businesses spread [...]
There was a world before the internet when what your neighbors or your community thought of a business mattered most. When you hear about the old stories of moving to the west, a person’s word meant a lot. But now, in the internet world, strangers create your reputation. There are few ways now to show [...]
Repeating the advice of my friend and Small Business Guru – Ramon Ray – Technology should be used to solve a business problem.I have been using a variety of tablets. I think of tablets as an excellent After Hours device and I feel the need to use a laptop for business, document, spreadsheets, email, connectivity, VPN [...]
This article is intended to advise me as much as it to advise any my readers who are glued to their phone, and even sleep next to it. My original title for this article was “Phone in a Well Syndrome”, a modified version of the philosophy “a frog in the well that knows nothing of [...]
Small business owners don’t have a lot of time. Now, along comes the 24/7 media – the social media – and it clogs up even more of that precious time small business owners don’t have. Should you check your social networks and respond immediately? Should your life be filled with alerts/beeps from your phone at [...]
Just like Twitter, Ham Radio (Amateur Radio) is a way to connect with others openly, without going through any level of filtering that we otherwise face in other communication avenues. In the 70s, Ham Radio was very exciting for me. I was still in school and did not have a Ham license but was referred [...]
On June 28, Google launched what it calls a “ Google+ project: Real-life sharing, rethought for the web. I got an invite last Thursday night and having tried it out for the past three days here are some initial thoughts. Google+ Features: Circles : Just like Facebook allows you to add friends into groups, in [...]
According to a survey published today from the Pew Internet & American Life Project (Smith Aaron, John.Twitter Update 2011) the number of adults using Twitter has increased from eight percent in November 2010 to 13 percent in May 2011. This is a significant increase in usage, noting that over 50% of these users are using [...]
These days the news channels are full of “Microsoft bought Skype” and Ramon Ray wrote a post on the Microsoft and Skype acquisition . Now as a geek I am presuming a lot of these companies like Skype are household names but is that true for all internet users? Maybe not. Skype started off as [...]
According to the latest Small Business Success Index sponsored by Network Solutions and the University of Maryland ( released March 2011), most small business owners are aware of various mobile marketing activities, the best known including: sending text messages to customers about a promo (73 percent) and listing the company on a location-based website (68 [...]
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