How to Manage Your Startup Operations on a Time Crunch

How to Manage Your Startup Operations on a Time Crunch

By: Carolyn Knight As a startup CEO, you have clients to acquire, meetings to attend, paperwork to fill out, taxes to file, and a million other things to do. It can sometimes seem as though you don’t have time to fit in managing your operations. Of course, managing your operations is one of your most [...]

Twitter for Business – Young Female Entrepreneurs Guest Post

Twitter for Business – Young Female Entrepreneurs Guest Post

I’m all a-twitter about Twitter this month and the wonderful people over at Young Female Entrepreneurs have let me share some social love and advice on their site. I’ve written a guest post for them on 3 ways to use Twitter for your existing  business. Young Female Entrepreneurs is directed by Jennifer Donogh. Since she [...]

Why You Should Use Twitter

Why You Should Use Twitter

Ever wonder why you should use Twitter? Ever question what is the real benefit of using the micro-blogging service for your business? It’s really not that complicated. The video below will detail 5 key reasons you should use Twitter to boost your business.

Why I Didn’t Buy a Mega Millions Ticket

Why I Didn’t Buy a Mega Millions Ticket

The web was all a buzz with everything mega millions this week. People lined up at convenient stores everywhere just hoping to get a chance at striking it rich off of a one dollar ticket. My friend and Austin, Texas realtor, Adrianne Craft, was behind a man at 7-11 who bought $780 worth of chances [...]

Find Your Happy Space

Find Your Happy Space

A positive environment is fuel for motivation. Unfortunately, we can’t all have perfectly customized workspaces. Dull grey cubes and paint less white walls often invade the areas where we need to be our most creative and in the best of spirits. We can combat that by simply making an effort to incorporate things that make [...]

Book Review: The Zen of Social Media Marketing

Book Review: The Zen of Social Media Marketing

The world of social media marketing can be a confusing place. Luckily for marketers and business owners, Shama Kabani has written a guide to help get them through the pain points. Her book, The Zen of Social Media Marketing: An Easier Way to Build Credibility, Generate Buzz, and Increase Revenue, just came out in its [...]

Engaging Unsubscribers

Engaging Unsubscribers

I currently have 2,235 unread emails in my Gmail inbox. Painful right?! As I started clearing the pile, I realized that most of them are sales emails and other notifications that I apparently don’t take the time to open. In my mind that many that starting to unsubscribe from some things. Strangely enough, I was [...]

Has longtail optimization gone to the dogs?

Has longtail optimization gone to the dogs?

A few days ago, SEO Book posted a very interesting infographic that laid out the changes Google has made to their algorithms and products that have had a negative impact on an SEO’s ability to optimize for longtail keywords. It’s one thing to think about all these elements separately, but when you put them all [...]

Uncontrollable Word-of-Mouth Marketing

Uncontrollable Word-of-Mouth Marketing

Word-of-mouth marketing has been around… well kind of forever!! From the days that people used the bartering system, there were people who traded quality product and those who tried to get by trading the scraps. Villagers would warn their friends “Don’t barter with the man who lives in hut #2. Walk an extra mile to [...]

Ilya Zhitomirskiy of Diaspora passes away at 21

Ilya Zhitomirskiy of Diaspora passes away at 21

It appears that Ilya Zhitomirskiy, co-founder of social networking community Diaspora, has passed away at the young age of 21. Not many details are available regarding his death at the moment. However, I feel confident that the tech community will miss his contributions in attempting to change the way we use the web. You can [...]