Monthly Archives: July 2009

Tips to Starting a Business

Emerson Taymor Business Cards standing up Front/Back

Starting a new business can be so exciting.  So exciting that sometimes the basics are forgotten.  I would like to share a couple pointers that need to be analyzed if you are starting a new venture, or taking your company a new direction.  After you have decided on your venture, I recommend that you…
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How to Get Noticed Online

how to get noticed online

Are you selling something?  Are you trying to get your product or service into the hands of the right people?  Are you frustrated?
Traditional marketing plans don’t cut it online.  Trying to reach the masses isn’t going to produce the desired results.  Frankly, many companies don’t have the resources to buy a Super Bowl ad or [...]

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Seesmic Web is Here!

Last month we blogged about Seesmic Desktop.  We have been using this for a few months now and have really like its versatility and the ease of maintaining multiple twitter accounts.  The only drawback we saw?  It was only a desktop version.
No longer.
Seesmic Web has launched and now we can access our information from any [...]

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Twitter Basics- Lingo

RT hashtags

So now that you have some of the basic knowledge of twitter, let me help you with some of the lingo that you will see while you are on there.

RT- Retweet.  Use a RT when you like what someone has said, or would like to repeat it to your followers.  It gives credit where credit [...]

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Facebook Fan Boxes

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Facebook has now added a new feature for its fan pages.  It is an embeddable box that you can place on your site.  You’ll notice that we added one to our sidebar.
If you have a fan page, you can find the link under your profile picture.  That will take you to a page with the [...]

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Twitter Basics- Dashboard

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Are you still wondering what all this twitter craze is about?  Well, let me try to help.  I think of twitter like texting to the masses.   Twitter limits updates to 140 characters.  Which is awesome.  Short, sweet, and to the point.  Since it’s short and sweet, it challenges you to use those 140 characters wisely.  Twitter is [...]

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Niche Blogging is a Good Thing

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In his book, Meatball Sundae, Seth Godin lists one of the foundations of new marketing is the shift from “how many” to “who”.  You can spend a lot of money trying to reach as many people as possible or you can spend that money more wisely to target your core audience.
Most of us have interests [...]

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Google Docs and Spreadsheets for Collaboration

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Toolulu is a partnership and because of that, we are often collaborating on the same tasks.  We use Google Docs and Spreadsheets to organize our business documents and have found it to be a very useful tool when working with others online.
If you have gmail or a blogger account, you already have a Google login. [...]

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