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Monthly Archives: July 2009
Building your Brand Online
Looking to gain more clients? With so much noise online, it’s crucial to standout. Here are a couple tips how to do this online:
1. Determine your purpose. Are you online to meet people, or tell everyone that you are an expert in making BLTs, or grow your business? Decide what your top goals are in using social media. [...]
Conference Tips
At Toolulu, we have been to our fair share of conferences, and have even spoken at them too. Conferences are a great way to expand your knowledge and meet new people (and reconnect with friends). Usually conferences will be full of trendsetters, educated and successful individuals so it’s always good to have your game face [...]
Time Management & Productivity
Most people are busy. Really busy these days. Here are a couple things I’m working on to help my work day be more productive.
Checking email- Check your email at set times throughout the day. (i.e. first thing in the morning, before lunch, and 4pm). This helps you control your day rather than responding to others [...]
Retweet with Tweetmeme
Have you seen those great little buttons in posts that allow you to retweet a post? They’re popping up all over the place. In fact, we finally added our own to our blog. You can find this at Tweetmeme. If you use Wordpress there is a plugin and you’ll have your retweet button ready to [...]
Tasks added to Gmail
Tasks was available as an experiment via Gmail labs about 6 months ago. Now it has a spot on the main gmail page, located right under Contacts. When you click on it, it pulls up a small screen in the lower righthand corner of your screen. It’s easy to use, and it gets better. You can [...]
Our Top 5 Free Social Media Listening Tools
Making noise on social media is easy. It’s the listening that takes a little finesse. I’ve gathered up some of our favorite FREE tools that make it easier to listen to what people are saying about your business online. These tools have had a little bit of staying power and while they might not provide [...]
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Blog Ranking
Want to know how your blog ranks? I found out about Blog Grader (via Hubspot) recently and I really like all the stats and information it gives you.
It tells you about a variety of different things:
Traffic Rank- This is from Alexa and tells you how your site is rank among all the other blogs out [...]
July's Social Media Club
Wow! What an awesome time last night. We had a great turn out for our 2nd meeting for Social Media Club.
Since we are still a small group, everyone had a chance to introduce themselves. It was great to hear about the different companies that are “with it” in the Lincoln area. Some people were there [...]
Three Key Business Ingredients
We had a meeting with a client yesterday and she is working on getting an Etsy shop up and running. Our plans include a lot of specifics but when it all comes down to it, you need to have these three things working for you.
1. Style
Your photographs, banner, and avatars are all you have to [...]