I can admit it – when I started out in a career in sales, I was that cheesy guy using every hard close in the book. There I was, 17 years old working at Future Shop, peddling cell phones and fax machines. I was using sales techniques with names like the columbo or the puppy dog close. What’s worse is that because I was selling low priced goods, my techniques were mildly successful. This only fed my ego and further convinced me that I was on the right path, …
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Build your brand using social media, web applications & content syndication tools
A little while ago I came across this great tool for making word clouds. I find that when the word cloud text matches the topic of your post, the visual helps entice visitors to read further.
To make your own word clouds, head on over to Wordle.net. They make it really easy to create your own cloud by simply entering keywords into their text box and then clicking go. You can also provide Wordle with a website url and they will create a word cloud based on the keywords from that …
Ping.fm is a very cool application that updates your status on all of your social networks and instant messaging services from a single web portal. Instead of visiting each site separately to update your information, go to Ping.fm and update them all. In addition, Ping works with programs like to make syndicating content even easier.
Ping.fm works with over 42 different social networks . There are too many to list them all but here are some of the main ones:
Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, Skype, MSN, Google Gtalk, Ning, Delicious, Blogger, …
This video will show you how to create a Facebook fan page. It will also as show you how to upload your company logo and embed blog posts on your fan page using RSS. If you’d like a hand setting up your Facebook page and other social networking sites, visit our .
I can admit it – when I started out in a career in sales, I was that cheesy guy using every hard close in the book. There I was, 17 years old working at Future Shop, peddling cell phones and fax machines. I was using sales techniques with names like the columbo or the puppy dog close. What’s worse is that because I was selling low priced goods, my techniques were mildly successful. This only fed my ego and further convinced me that I was on the right path, …
For any startup or small business, being cost effective while maintaining productivity is essential. Using Google Apps provides your business or new venture with sophisticated tools for email, group calendars, shared documents and instant messaging without you having to invest in costly software applications.
Gmail
With Gmail for Google Apps you can send and receive e-mail from a corporate e-mail address – yourname@company.com. Instead of investing in an exchange server, try setting up your staff email with with Google Apps. You can be up and running within a few minutes.
Google Calendar
Google Calendar …
Hootsuite is a free online application that helps you manage your social media channels such as Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin and Ping.fm from one easy to use dashboard.
Their application let’s you send updates to all of your networks from one dashboard and provides a scheduling function so you can time new updates. It also lets you group and monitor incoming information from your social networks. This way, you know what’s being said about you, your company and your industry on your networks in real time.
Because HootSuite is connected to you …
SaaS – Software as a service makes it brilliantly easy to run a cost-effective business, while still having sophisticated tools at your fingertips. Online billing systems are one great example. I’ve selected five options that will enable you to manage your billing, track time and expenses, process online payment and much more. I’m starting with my online billing system of choice – FreshBooks.
FreshBooks offers a feature-rich application that allows you to create, send and manage invoices, track your company’s time and expenses, and receive online payment through a host of different …
Adsense is a program offered by Google that allows website owners to earn revenue by placing Google ads on their site. You get paid when someone clicks on an ad.
Google Adwords
Google Adsense works in conjunction with another Google program called Adwords. Google Adwords is a network of advertisers that buy ad placement on Google search and also on Google’s site partner network (Adsense).
Adwords advertisers buy ad space on the content network by bidding on keywords. If their bid is high enough, they get placement on sites with that particular keyword.
Because …
