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Why Your Domain Name is Your Business

Thanks to our preferred partner, NameCheap, for this informative blog. In the early days of the Internet, a business that wanted an online presence had the relative luxury of simply adding “.com” after their name and registering the domain. Those were indeed the good old days, but alas, things aren’t quite as easy now. MyBusiness.com Just Won’t Cut It Today, there’s so much more competition for top level domains (TLDs)

December 18, 2019

Juggling your schedule

Schedules are a necessary evil As an entrepreneur, schedule juggling, shuffling and rejiggering is an art form. As we add responsibilities, clients and products or services, we are constantly rearranging things. It’s not always easy to stuff more into what seems to be a schedule already bursting at the seams. And to make matters worse, everything has to work around doctors appointments, networking meetings, business lunches and everything else life

November 7, 2019

Communicate regularly with your target

Your best source of referrals is your current list of clients, prospects and friends. Communicate with them with a monthly newsletter via email. You will this this is a good way to make the most of your list. The process doesn’t have to be painful. Build your mailing list Of course, the more people who are on your mailing list, the better. Use your contacts, referral sources and friends to

September 11, 2019

16 ways to help search engines find your website

Get some tips on how you can make your website rise in the ranks of the search engines.

April 4, 2019

11 tips to make the most of your Facebook posts

Grow your following We all have Facebook pages, but getting new followers is can be tough. Here are some tips to increase your following and engagement of your posts. 1. This one is obvious. You can buy page likes. However, when you buy followers, they might not remain followers. Some will follow for a short period of time and then disappear. 2. Using the correct demographics for your business when

July 18, 2018

How do you define success?

After watching the Barbara Bush funeral on Saturday, I have been thinking about legacies. What will your business leave to the world? How do you measure whether or not your business, and you as a person, are successful? How do you define success? We had a discussion in my networking group today about this topic. Of course, there is the money definition. A successful person is one who has a

April 24, 2018

Dangerous spam

Lately there has been a lot of talk about hacking. Criminals are getting into corporate databases and getting people’s email addresses or even credit card information. For those hackers who get your email, they may send you something that can wreak havoc on your life. We’ve all received suspicious emails without knowing whether to open them or not. If you’re in doubt, do not click on

June 29, 2017

Fake news

A couple weeks ago one of my Facebook friends posted a news bulletin announcing the death of an actor. I had seen the actor that very morning on live television and I doubted the post was real. A few of the person’s contacts doubted it as well. We all responded to the post saying we thought it was fake. She took it down immediately, but I’m sure many people posted

February 28, 2017

A word for the ladies…

With all of the talk about sexual harassment and abuse in the news today, I feel like I need to go off topic and address this issue myself. I was a victim more than once of this type of abuse when I was young. The men were not billionaires or famous, just predators who thought they could do anything and get away with it at work. And they actually did.

October 13, 2016

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