When She Says Your Marketing’s a Good Size…
April 16, 2009 :: Mike DoughertyThere’s a quote that I use to keep taped somewhere on the wall behind my monitor. It was:
“Go BIG or go home”
For the longest time I took that to mean that the actions I took in marketing, design, and in life, had to be larger than life. Ultimately, I learned the hard way that ‘big [...]
It’s Time for Your Marketing to Get Wicked…
April 10, 2009 :: Mike DoughertyMy name is Michael Dougherty, Mike if you don’t mind, and, through this blog, I will bring you content whose focus is to help you get into the mindset of marketing your company…from the point of view of your clients. Besides, they are really the ones who pay the bills, right?
To get it out of [...]
What You can Learn from a 12 year old about Budgeting
April 6, 2009 :: Steve FisherThe picture there on the left is of my first car – a 1967 Mustang Convertible.
This is a story of a boy’s love of cars and his first lessons in budgeting, saving money and building his first business.
This boy is me and this is my story.
Getting off the “Allowance Dole”
I put my first budget together [...]
Stupid Link Tricks: A Daisy Chain of URL Shorteners
March 9, 2009 :: Joe LoongURL shortening service tinyURL apparently had an outage last week (fittingly, it was a short one). I don’t know how widespread it was, though there have previously been longer, systemwide outages.
Since tinyURL is Twitter’s default URL shortener, it was immediately obvious. It was also annoying, as I urgently needed to know where in DC Angelina [...]
Chocolate, Roses and Shared Domain Names for Couples: One of These Is a Bad Idea
February 12, 2009 :: Joe LoongSince we’re coming upon Valentine’s Day, and I find myself unencumbered (yet again) this year, I think I have the intellectual clarity and emotional distance to take on a touchy target in an objective fashion:
If you’re a couple, should you get a shared domain?
To my mind, the sheer folly of getting a combined his ‘n’ [...]
What to Blog About, Restaurant Style: Pitas and Indique Heights
January 13, 2009 :: Joe LoongHere are a few more ideas about what you, the small business owner, can blog about, as inspired by real-life examples. Here, we look at two restauranteurs. (Incidentally, I’m going to go with “restauranteur” as an accepted variant, not a mistake for “restaurateur”)
* The Tampa Tribune reported that someone stole a chair from a local [...]
Solutions Out Loud Podcast Episode #4 – “The Predictions for 2009 Show”
January 9, 2009 :: Steve FisherUp on our servers is Episode #4 of Solutions Out Loud, the Network Solutions podcast that covers news, business trends, tips for small businesses and anything else that is relevant to you our faithful listeners.
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In this episode we are all about the predictions for 2009. We [...]
Happy 2009 Everyone! It is gonna be a great year for all of us. No, Really.
January 1, 2009 :: Steve FisherI know, you must be thinking that after all the bad financial news and cries from large companies that are supposedly “too big to fail” for money that we don’t have means that I must be out of my mind.
True, I am a little crazy, but I always try and see the positive side of [...]
Solutions Out Loud Podcast Episode #3 – “The Year in Review”
January 1, 2009 :: Steve FisherWe proudly present Episode #3 of Solutions Out Loud, the Network Solutions podcast that covers news, business trends, tips for small businesses and anything else that is relevant to you our faithful listeners.
You can subscribe to the feed on iTunes or RSS.
In our third episode, “The Year in Review” we to a look back at [...]
Solutions Out Loud Podcast Episode #2 – “Holiday Special”
December 26, 2008 :: Steve FisherUp on our servers is Episode #2 of Solutions Out Loud, the Network Solutions podcast that covers news, business trends, tips for small businesses and anything else that is relevant to you our faithful listeners.
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Our first podcast was a lot of fun for everyone and we [...]
