http://www.greatsmallbusinessadvice.com/ : For a lot of small business owners, this is an overlooked factor that sells our products and services 10x better than we ever could. In this video, find out about the SP factor and how you can apply it. http://tinyurl.com/yjvsl5x Related posts: You Are in Sales…Believe it Or Not This is What Sells Accelerate Your Sales Process with … Read More
To achieve self-determination, here are ten self- affirming beliefs you can internalize and incorporate in your own life to help bolster your self-acceptance and self-trust. They came from Denis Waitley’s program The New Dynamics of Winning . 1. I control my thoughts, emotions and actions and direct them to improve the quality of my health, my relationships, my performance, and … Read More
This isn’t exactly news anymore, but it’s worth noting that two more reports this week confirm the idea that consumers tend to do their research online prior to buying offline/locally. The first is a Kelsey Group study that indicates 97% of consumers use the Internet to research products or services in their local area . What specific online research tools … Read More
My worlds are colliding. I mean my “U2 world” and my “SEO world.” I try to keep them separate, but this story makes that impossible. Check it out on the Somerset County Gazette web site. Apparently, a local/small business owner recently got a job fixing a broken GRAMMY Award that belongs to U2. The article makes several cheesy references to … Read More
That was one of the topics of Luther Lowe’s presentation Tuesday at the annual SearchFest conference in Portland. Lowe — Yelp’s Manager of Business Outreach — gave a generally clear description of what the company says are the benefits of advertising on Yelp. I say “generally” because he said that advertising on Yelp gets a business owner “SEO,” but he … Read More
The 4th annual SearchFest conference is in the books, and this one was a lot different than previous SearchFests. The venue was bigger, the crowd filled it, and — for the first time — there were three tracks running concurrently. I’m hoping to do another post on one content-related element from the show, so this post is only going to … Read More
This is a guest post by Richard Heinberg. It is a shortened version of a longer post published by the Post Carbon Institute. What if the economy doesn’t recover? In 2008 the U.S. economy tripped down a steep, rocky slope. Employment levels plummeted; so did purchases of autos and other consumer goods. Property values crashed; foreclosure and bankruptcy rates bled. … Read More
Oil King Warns Of ‘Green Bubble’ It’s Ghawar that is of utmost interest to the industry. The biggest oilfield ever found, it has been producing for five decades, often putting out more than 5 million bpd, a level that Aramco has been able to maintain by injecting millions of barrels a day of water into the field to push up … Read More
According to The New York Times , Facebook is set to introduce location sharing into their arsenal of social networking tricks this April at the F8 conference. I predict that 98% of my Facebook updates will read “My bedroom.” This is unconfirmed, but according to trusted sources, Facebook has been developing this location-based feature in-house for awhile now, tinkering until … Read More
Google’s up to its old tricks again , extending software tentacles in new directions to capture or subvert entire markets: This time it’s aiming at business software by launching Google Apps Marketplace, which does clever cloud-connecting stuff. Digging through Google’s slightly obfuscating explanation in its blog post on the news, it seems that the App Marketplace has been conceived to … Read More