Feb 052012
 
5th Feb – Daily Small Business Social Media tip – Recommend a connection using LinkedIn

As a small business owner, if there’s one thing I know I love, it’s to be acknowledged for a job well done. How does that saying go? Do a good thing a hundred times and no one hears about it, but do a bad thing once, and everyone hears about it. That pretty much sums [click to read entire post]

Nov 272011
 
7 super things you should do in LinkedIn before you decide to give it up and ignore it

LinkedIn has been around for ages. Seen as the business (or more professional) version of Facebook it’s known for its lack of status updates rather than having too many. Even though this doesn’t stop people from leaving it all together, it just stops them using it too often, if at all. So to combat that, [click to read entire post]

Nov 222011
 
top 10 things you should do with your small business social media

Ok, so your small business is now all over social media.  You have a Facebook fan page, a twitter account, a YouTube channel, a LinkedIn profile and you’ve even started blogging.  (If you haven’t done any of this don’t worry, I’ll have a solution very soon ) So now you’re thinking to yourself, “what do [click to read entire post]

Nov 022011
 
print media is dead.  long live social media!

Today for me, marked the end of a very important part of my life.  I have just received in the mail, my last ever magazine, from my last ever magazine subscription. Now it may sound a little melodramatic, but magazine subscriptions have been part of my life for the better part of 15 years (which [click to read entire post]

Oct 262011
 
how to gfc-proof your little shop using social media

The Struggle In a previous life I ran a little computer store.  We sold PC’s, laptops, and computer parts.  We also fixed them, gave out free advice, was active in the community, and for a while, the world was a nice place. Then the GFC (Global Financial Crisis, not the Geelong Football Club) hit, and [click to read entire post]

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