How to Use the Editorial Calendar

Why use the editorial calendar as part of your social media marketing? It’s simple, and Dwight D. Eisenhower said it quite succinctly, “Plans are nothing; planning is everything.” When you use an editorial calendar, you force yourself & your team...

Should My Business Outsource Social Media

Should My Business Outsource Social Media? The burning question, should my business outsource social media, is one that comes up at almost every meeting we have with potential clients. Whether they are just starting an online marketing program or have an established...

Facebook Features for Business

Facebook features for business can be overwhelming to many small business owners — and lost altogether on many more. Before we jump into a couple specific Facebook features and how they affect your company, let me tell you about an experience I recently had. I...

Time Management

Time management is critical to success in any business. Unfortunately, for many small business owners, finding enough hours in the day to check every item off the to do list is equivalent to herding cats. Those hours keep slipping away just when you think you’ve...

How to Add an Email Signature

Today’s How To focuses on a topic that comes up a lot: how do I add icons/images and links to my email signature? The answer to this questions depends on whether you’re using Gmail or Yahoo, maybe it’s Outlook or Apple Mail. Unfortunately, we...

Why Twitter Rocks

Photo image: Flickr Each social media site is unique, offering different advantages for why you should use them to market your business and self. Today we’re featuring Twitter, and the advantages it has over some of its fellow social media sites. Twitter, like Tumblr,...

Facebook Vetoes “Dislike” Button

Negativity isn’t a “like” for Facebook, as they determine not to add a “dislike” button to the news feed. According to product engineer Bob Baldwin, “Actions on Facebook tend to focus on positive social interactions. Like is the lightest-weight way to express positive...

Tis Better to Give than to Receive

What a Waste 80% of the people I’ve talked to about it think networking is a waste of time. Granted, these are anecdotal interviews, not exhaustive research. However, as a sales rep, account manager, business development specialist and business owner, I’ve...