4 Key questions to ask before hiring a web developer
Someone I met recently had a dreadful experience with the company they hired to design their website. Sadly, this person I met is not alone. The thing is unless you know what to look out for you can easily sign up to something that does not serve your purpose and may result in a website you are not happy with. Generally what happens after that is you go and find someone else having to spend even more money and in a lot of instances having to start all over and you might not be happy with that result …
How you can manage your time and keep up in today’s fast moving world
Quite a few of us are swimming frantically around at the moment trying to keep our heads above the water. We have so much going on in both our business lives and personal lives right now that it has become a challenge to keep up. This is not happening only for small business but it is happening at a global level. I thought I'd share this article with you on how Japan's Earthquake has tilted the planet's axis and sped up the earth's spin by a micro second. Scientist Greg Braden talks about it here in this video …
How social media helped us catch a thief
We often fail to fully appreciate the extraordinary links created by the vast network that is social media. We blog, we post, we comment – not realizing we are laying indelible prints of our private lives on the world’s cyber highways. Imprints that can be tracked as easily as distress flares on the ocean. This incredible story of what happen to my mom and her husband Rupert on a tropical island in the Philippines is an example of the power of the internet to connect – proving itself a communicative tool par excellence. My mom, (Erleen) and Rupert had been …
What is the quickest way to navigate to a Google+ community?
"The Launchpad has been set up as a Community on Google Plus, right? If so, what is the quickest way to navigate to a Google+ Community or set it up so that when I go onto Google+ it is there for me to click on. Similar to how we have it set up on FB? I'm having trouble finding it each time." Thank you for asking Lucy, it helps me a great deal when people ask me questions, that way I'm able to serve you better. Google Plus sadly is not as user friendly as Facebook in …
Would you like to take control of your financial future but don’t know how?
How to give your money great leadership inside your business and your life. Many of us struggle when it comes to figuring out how we are going to make sure we have enough money in the next few months, the next few years and how on earth are we going to retire? I’ve always been a very good saver but over the years I’ve never quite figured out how to make it work for me in a way that helps me to earn an additional monthly income. I’ve also had to dip into my savings over the years which has …
How can I convert Social Media into actual sales?
I was asked, "How can I convert social media into actual sales the other day in an online community I run for small business owners whereby I asked a set of questions for very specific reasons. How long have you been using social media? I ask this question when I want to understand a few things about a new client. A few people complain because they jump on board and start using social media, they set up a fan page and maybe a Twitter account, post a few things here and there and expect results within a few weeks . As with …
6 Ways to improve your ranking and visibility to generate leads
Since the inception of social media we've seen a huge change in how people use the internet. On average every second 8 new people are signing up to get onto the internet. Daily more and more people are finding it easier just to connect online to save time. Giants like Google, Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, WordPress, Google Plus, LinkedIn are constantly evolving - and to keep up we need to adapt to these changes. As a Social Media Manager, and with considerable experience in the virtual world, I recommend 6 tips to improve your ranking and visibility in …
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Why should you comment on blogs
Before social media came along a strategy professional bloggers would use was to comment on other blog sites because it was a way of generating more exposure and it creates a link which would point back to your blog site. This is not the same as posting a comment in social networks, no, this is posting a comment on blog sites you find on the internet. When I do blog training with clients one of the tasks they need to do is to comment on blog posts. The biggest reason for this is to help my clients to develop …