Linkedin, Facebook’s buttoned up cousin, has loosened their ties, rolled up their sleeves and started on some much needed improvements.
Linkedin has added a Skills and Expertise feature which allows you to add keywords to your Linkedin profile. This means you can showcase your areas of expertise to easily connect with people that have similar skills or with companies looking for subject matter experts. Continue reading
So the SXSW conference took place this March and a bunch of interesting things came of it, not the least of which were comments made by Matt Cutts, the Google guy in charge of the webspam team. He said that basically, Google is going to change the Googlebot to put less emphasis on SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and more on great content. So to those webmasters that are wearing the black hat of SEO: You’re going to get your come-up-ins. Continue reading
Get on the Bandwagon!
On March 30, 2012, all Facebook Pages will get a new design.
-A message from Facebook on the top of all the Facebook Pages I manage.
No sooner had I just finished three Facebook business pages when Facebook comes out with a game changer: Facebook Timeline for Business Pages. Continue reading
Alright, so everyone would love another income stream. Lately we’ve been seeing a trend of clients setting up online stores that provide products and services to generate a passive income stream. It’s a passive income stream because these are people who have jobs and are just looking for another income to pay for things like vacations or maybe to save for retirement.
For example, we have a client who made a deal with a manufacturer to sell their products online. He now not only uses his online store to sell products, he uses it to automatically supply the brick and mortar businesses that re-sell his products. We’ve set up his store so when anyone securely purchases a product from his website, it’s automatically packaged and shipped from the manufacturer and our client’s only effort is to read the receipt emails that come in with every purchase.
If you have a product you’d like to bring online, talk to me and we can discuss your options.
When new technologies and new methodologies emerge on the internet, people make up new words to try and communicate these new ideas with others. There really isn’t any problem with buzzwords unless they are used to confuse people. All too often people use buzzwords in order to sound knowledgeable about a subject.
Ok, I admit; I did it too, way back in high school. I try to simplify things now and explain to clients what a particular buzzword means before I start using it in conversation. I certainly don’t want to be accused of playing “Buzzword Bingo”.
