From the monthly archives:

March 2009

A Week in Paris, and the Joy of Technology and Doing Business Online

by Christine on March 29, 2009

in Online Business

Last week I spent a week in Paris with my husband, staying with friends.  It was an amazing experience, and my first trip to Europe.  Our friends are a married couple with a one year old and an English bulldog named Angus.  The husband is in Paris for 9 months for work, and they return [...]

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The Art of Social Marketing

by Christine on March 27, 2009

in Social Media

This is a guest post from Gordon Blackwell of Starta Development. His personal website can be found at The Alert CIO.  His musings on social marketing over at one of the forums I frequent so impressed me that I asked him to allow me to post it here.  He hit all of the points [...]

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Ten Ways to Create Business Visibility on Facebook

by Christine on March 19, 2009

in Social Media

With Facebook recently overtaking MySpace as the top social networking site, it’s definitely worth taking a look at if you are in business.

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Why Blogging is No Longer Optional if You Do Business Online

by Christine on March 16, 2009

in Small Business Marketing

Many of you already have a blog and understand how important it is for gaining visibility for your business.  But I know many others are still resistant to it.  You think it takes too much time and effort, you don’t feel you are a good enough writer, you’re not sure how to set one up, [...]

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Taming the Social Media Time-Suck, Part 2: What Do You Want Out of it?

by Christine on March 12, 2009

in Social Media

It’s so easy to hop on a social media site and suddenly find that several hours have gone by–without you really knowing what you have spent your time on.  We all do it.  Explore and get lost at first, but eventually you are going to need a plan.

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Taming the Social Media Time-Suck (Part 1)

by Christine on March 10, 2009

in Social Media

A common complaint I hear among small business owners and solopreneurs is that they just don’t have enough time to keep up with it all. There are so many items competing for our attention on a given day that social media can seem like one more overwhelming thing we don’t have room for on the [...]

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Why Integrating Blogging with Social Media is a Great Combination

by Christine on March 8, 2009

in Social Media

Having a blog is not only a great way to create community through the comments, but it’s made up of dynamic content that is always changing which Google of course loves.  I happen to prefer Wordpress, which is a very powerful platform for several reasons.

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Recession Marketing: Communicating Value is Even More Crucial Now

by Christine on March 2, 2009

in Small Business Marketing

I will be the first to say I don’t watch much news.  I don’t buy into the doom and gloom and I don’t think that everyone has stopped spending money.  I like to think that we create our own economy.  That being said, there is no doubt that our country, indeed the world, is going [...]

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