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Mobile and Small Businesses
Head on over to the Local Fresh blog where I tackle 5 Reasons Why Mobile Is Important For Small Businesses. In this day and age, it is NOT optional, so check it out and learn why you should make sure your website speaks Mobile, why “only 74% of consumers will wait only 5 seconds for…
Read MoreWhat Makes A Good Intern
Walking by a diligently working intern the other day, I was reminded of the interns I’d worked with and about my own experience as an intern. There was a four- or five-year period when I was Communications Manager for Downtown Boulder in which I had a new intern every few months. The interns were abundant, as Boulder…
Read MoreIs Facebook At Work The Next Enterprise Answer?
Over on LocalFresh.biz blog, I peek into the whys and whats of Facebook At Work, the social media giant’s recent entry onto the enterprise collaboration software and social communications scene. While Zuckerberg and crew are hoping to conquer another, more lucrative vertical, will Facebook At Work be an abject success or will other platforms already…
Read MoreMy Digital Marketing Predictions for 2015
It’s 2015 and it is going to be another year full of change in the digital and social marketing world (though maybe not exactly how Marty McFly experienced it). Here’s our take on the trends we think will move and shake the industry this year: 1. Mobile Innovations Even as the march towards wearables will again dominate…
Read MoreWhy Yelp and Google+ Reviews Are So Important
A little primer on one of the most important tools right now in the great struggle for SEO dominance: The Review Listing. Check out my new blog for Local Fresh: “How Getting Business Reviews Increases SEO” – where I go over the whys and hows of this fundamental change in how we search for everything.…
Read MoreMy Dear Facebook Post Rant On The Thoroughly Modern Marketing blog
Sick of the Facebook? It finally pours out of me over at the Thoroughly Modern Marketing blog so have a read and learn about “dainty little Faustian bargain with Mr. Zuckerberg” and why it’s a “Hashtag hell filled with selfies, crappy food pics, and duck faces.”
Read MoreLooking for Content Creation Tools?
In my latest entry over at LocalFresh.biz I have the 5 Best Content Discovery Tools For Small Businesses for your reading pleasure. In it I detail a few of my favorite time-hacks for any business to take advantage of to help connect with their online communities and to easily become a content curator with some great…
Read MoreAll About Klout
I take on the mysterious social ranker: Klout – over on the LocalFresh.biz blog. Now it’s got bells and whistles like content creation and even it’s own content sharing platform. But how does it stack up against the rest and is it even worth it? You’ll have to read the post here to find out.
Read MoreHow To Choose The Right Database and CRM
I blog occasionally over at the LocalFresh.biz website on SEO, small business marketing, WordPress, and other such online marketing content and strategy topics. The latest post tell you how to help find the best database and CRM for your business. Comes complete with a handy list too, so head on over there now.
Read MoreLeaping, trusting, and breaking the internet: Lessons in being an entrepreneur
After 27 different jobs and over 20 years of working for other people, I recently opened my own business. I am still getting used to the moniker of entrepreneur or founder, and instead feel like crazy, lucky bastard may be a better title. Having just burned out in the nonprofit world and looking for change…
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