What is Pinterest? According to Techopedia.com “Pinterest is a social media website that allows users to organize and share images and videos from around the Web. Images uploaded by users are called Pins and may be organized into pinboards, which may be customized,...
Social Networking for Business No-No’s
Social networking for business is nothing new, in fact, Social Media Today reports that more than 90% of marketers use social networking for business. Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn... they are all beneficial to not only your brand visibility and SEO, but they also allow...
Positive Review Are Great – Until You Get Caught
Reviews make a huge difference in today's world. Customers and prospects are consistently checking for reviews of products, services, and even individual service providers. You can't do a Google search for a company without seeing their average review rating. Amazon...
The Power of Involvement
You've probably heard of the Occupy movement. A largely dis-organized group of protestors and bystanders have been staging protests around the world, with the media slowly catching on to the themes and messages of the movement. Perhaps the biggest weakness of the...
Enhance your presentations online – and offline.
Nowadays, Powerpoint doesn't really cut it. Every person with a mouse and a keyboard can create a Powerpoint these days and most of them are not pretty. Too many words, too many visual effects, not enough contrast, etc. We've seen it all. Well, now there's a couple of...
Why price hikes really cost you business
It's old news by now that Netflix recently hiked their prices. They made the pricing decision to split their DVD and online programs into separate pricing for their customers, effectively resulting in a 60% price hike with little to no added value or reasoning for the...
The 4 P’s of Marketing – Place
Today is the last of a 4-part series about the 4P’s of marketing and how they relate to local and online companies. In case you missed the last several posts, the 4 P’s are a framework that have guided marketing decisions for the last 50 years in most successful...
Google’s Me on the Web
A few days ago, we introduced you to Google Dashboard, a method of managing all of your various Google tools. Well, now there’s a brilliant new tool from Google that you access through Dashboard; Me on the Web. Me on the Web is your online personal identity management...
Congratulations Fort Collins Motorsports!
Congratulations Fort Collins Motorsports! Yesterday, they were visited by the head-honcho of the head-honcho of one of the world’s largest motorcycle manufacturers: Yamaha. President “Toshi” Tako and his executive team took time out of their busy schedule to visit...
QR-Codes
They come to us from Japan where they are very common. QR is short for Quick Response (they can be read quickly by a cell phone). They are used to take a piece of information from a transitory media and put it in to your cell phone. You may soon see QR Codes in a...