Why should you claim your business listing on Facebook Places, Google Places, Foursquare, Gowalla, Yelp, or a number of other social media outposts?
Chances are high for business owners to already have a presence on these sites. Often these outposts are generated by users ...
In “The Great Physician’s Rx for Health and Wellness”, Jordan Rubin breaks down the food groups into what we need to know most, and what we’ve missed the mark on with fad diets.
Fiber: indigestible remnants of plant cells from fruits, vegetables, whole grains, nuts, seeds...
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EP429 – do_action: WordCamp US 2002 Contributor Day – WPwatercoolerThis week on the show we are going to be discussing the contributor day that happened just after WordCamp US 2022 in San Diego. Joining us this week is a returning guest Courtney Robertson who is a web design dev advocate at GoDaddy Pro and WP Training team co-rep.wpwatercooler.com
WordPress 4.2 is due to ship on April 23, 2015. Get a preview now of the upcoming features.
Customizer Theme Switching
When changing your theme, you previously had to activate a theme before you could begin customizing settings within the theme. This meant that m...
When you are planning your new logo, it is important to keep in mind that you may need more than one option.
Planning Your Primary Logo
More than likely, you will be hiring out the work of actually designing your logo. A good designer will know key components abou...
When creating a social media account, people still get confused if they should use a personal account or a brand account.
The social networks where you must have a company profile and where to create:
Facebook: Facebook Pages
Google Plus: Google+ Pages
LinkedIn...
Do you need a mobile site or a mobile app, and landing page, all of the above, or none of these? It really depends upon your business, but most likely you need at least to make your website mobile ready. Earlier, I shared how to check your website on mobile devices and how...
This is obviously ideal for destination locations, as well as promoting tourist events. However, local and small business owners can put their pins to work as well.
How to Add a Place to Your Pinterest Boards
When viewing your boards, select “edit” at the bottom:
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Have you ever used your smartphone to view a website and waited forever for the images to load? The problem is that the file size (not the screen size) is using lots of your data plan to load the images. In addition, the quality of the image may still look blurry on your fa...
How does your email newsletter look on a mobile device? Have you opened it up to preview it that way? I’ve opened up two different email newsletters and snapped a screenshot on my iPhone 4s. Which of these is easier on your eyes to read?
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Have you looked at your Facebook Page on Mobile lately? Does everything show up for visitors?
Facebook recently announced that most of the activity happening on their site is via mobile devices. That is a staggering thought.
If you’re like most business owners, you don’t ...
Foursquare can be a powerful tool for local businesses to be discovered by their community and now has a stand-alone iOS and Android app for business owners. It’s important to claim your local listing on Foursquare before using the app.
Open the app to view the venues you ...
Toni responded on Bluesky. I couldn't fit my reply in 300 chars, so I wrote it here.
Toni, thanks for responding. Lot of food for thought here.
My main interest is text, I want to be part of a network on the web that allow us to write text in one place and have it show up...
Relationships are crucial within a group of people. Everyone seeks to belong to some group, a part of something bigger than themselves. The dynamics of a group, or a tribe, are fascinating. Recently, Jill McClendon shared with a group on relationships. The message shared...
Ever notice how many people offer up their rendition of rules for Twitter?
Follow everyone back
Only follow selectively
Reply to everyone
Don’t self-promote
Tell us when you make a new blog post
Send a welcome messasge
Don’t send an automatic welcome m...
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Starting a business is no easy matter. In the past year and a half, I’ve learned many valuable lessons, often the hard way. When starting business, many have false notions of how they should do a variety of things – from getting support staff, to imple...
Have you ever wanted to back up all your social media accounts? It’s no simple task to download all your Facebook photos, Twitter posts, blogs, Flickr photos, Google Docs, or Gmail contacts back to your computer. While we also believe these companies will stick around, there’s no sure way to know. To help solve this, check out Backupify. This service will allow you to automatically back up all your accounts daily.
Saving your favorite websites to your bookmarks or favorites makes it easy to access sites you like. But – Keeping that information only on your computer can be bad if you switch or reformat your computer. By saving your bookmarks to Diigo, you are able to access your bookmarks from any computer at any time. Social bookmarking helps you store the links you want, share them with others, and refer back to them from any computer at any time. In the next few posts, you’ll see how to use Diigo for a variety of purposes while getting your online navigation organized.
How to use Social Bookmarking with Diigo
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Tired of the old Google Contacts? It was pretty frustrating and a bit awkward to even locate. The Gmail team has been rolling out changes for where to find these contacts, making them also more useful in the process. Now the contacts area acts much as t...
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I just finished reading Scott Stratton‘s book Unmarketing. Scott has a refreshing perspective and shares marketing advice from the perspective of both the business owner and the consumer. In the end the consumer’s opinion is the driving factor in busines...
People turn online to review everything lately. Whether it’s books, music, movies, or food, you can find out quickly what others think of things. If you’re a local business, you need to be monitoring these reviews, as well as seeking out reviews from your customers.
Let’s...
Facebook Places allows users to check-in a various locations and sharing with others where they are located. Business owners are recommended to claim their business listing on these pages, enabling them to control the listing. While I still don’t suggest business owners only claiming their place pages, but rather focusing on a fan page (due to customization features), it is good to note that anyone can suggest edits to Facebook Place pages.
Here are a few pictures of suggesting my edit to a place page that I do not administrate:
So the suggestion for business owners: claim your Facebook Place Page, and monitor all activity happening there.
I’ve been asked by clients and local business owners about how to test websites on mobile devices. Knowing how your site looks on different platforms is crucial as visitors are already looking at your websites from iPhones, iPads, and Android devices. It may not look anywh...
In both Launch (Michael Stelzner) and Defy Gravity (Rebel Brown), the idea of gravity drag is related to how running a business comes with friction. I’ve experienced enough friction, resistance, navel gazing, and focus on the perceived competition. These are my areas of ...
Whether we’ve met offline or online, organizing how I connect with you online should be clearly organized for me.
In Twitter, I organized and publicized most of my lists. Some are regional connections, and some are based upon niche industries I follow.
In Facebook, I’v...
Google Place Pages have once again made some massive changes without making it clear to business owners what they can do to help their ratings. Since the YellowPages is quickly becoming outdated, and people are instead rapidly turning to searches either on their computers or...
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