Business

The Problem! Do you have a small business?  How about a medium sized business?  Word-of-mouth can be great but at some point business will start slowing down.  Furthermore, how are you suppose to get new customers to get positive Word-of-mouth started?  How are you suppose to get people in the door?  If you had an unlimited amount of money you would think about hiring someone to do some outside sales.[...]

Found an article today about how to more effectively engage your Facebook fans. It provides 9 'tips' to help you get your clients to remember who you are! Sound weird? Let's lay some groundwork before we get to the 9 tips: Primarily I would like to talk about the amount of sincerity that goes into your social media. The point of social media is to engage your customers and potential[...]

Logo's are a funny thing.  As you can see in this BuzzFeed article, some of the most iconic logo's didn't cost a cent.  Other's might seem ridiculous a little high.  I thought it was real interesting to find that Coca-Cola never paid for their logo.  Pepsi seems about right.  I remember when people were freaking out over the logo back in 2008.  What I think is important to understand while[...]

All right. I'm into this article for two reasons. #1 - it's just a good article about getting the perfect domain. #2 - Jane Porter mentions Jersey in the first example. For many reasons I'm a big proponent of domains. Many times I'm a big proponent of having a few domains, I mean...they're pretty cheap.  Why wouldn't you have at least two! I've suggested multiple domains to multiple people over[...]

A recent post from Forbes (via Lifehacker) talks about the problems with having too many hands in a pot.  Simply put, "Nothing destroys a good idea faster than a mandatory consensus. The lowest common denominator is never a high standard." It seems to happen to a certain extent on every committee, work meeting and non-profit group I have been a part of. It even happens with bands...I believe they call[...]