Do you have an elevator pitch? You know, the one where you try to give someone an inkling of what you do in 30 seconds.
When someone asks you what you do for a living, what do you say?
I have to admit, when we first started Toolulu, my pitch went something like this…
“I work for Toolulu. [...]
I was listening to this podcast earlier this week about local IT company, Five Nines. I was really impressed by the way they run their business. Here are a couple things I picked up from the podcast.
1. They put their clients first. They are available any time of the day, 7 days a week. And [...]
What types of characteristics do you look for in a new hire or a co-worker?
Deb and I have been thinking about this a lot lately as we’ve been adding people to our team as freelancers. These are our top four:
Dependable/Reliable
Fast
Creative
Team Player
When you are looking to add people to your team, what are your must-haves?
Twitter recently launched a service meant to give its followers some great deals and Twitter a means to monetize. Earlybird is a Twitter stream you can follow to get the latest deals offered by advertisers on the site. By following @earlybird, you’ll be among the first to know about these offers. What does this mean [...]
This weekend, we attended Big Omaha and had the pleasure of hearing from Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos story and how Zappos approachs business. They take what they would spend on advertising and invest it into the customer experience. Because they know that word of mouth advertising will give you the biggest bang for your [...]
We spent last weekend at Big Omaha. It was an amazing conference and we got so much out of it. If we had one complaint, it would be that we would love to see more inspiring women in tech! We’ve got some suggestions for next year. Let’s see if you agree with those on [...]
Using Twitter as a news source is not a new phenomenon. But, it hit close to home when I called my family members tonight that live in Oklahoma. Some of you may know that tornadoes have been tearing through the state this evening. I was noticing a few tweets and some Facebook status updates and [...]
