February 6, 2012

Earning trust and developing relationships

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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 [...]

Run Your Business With Google Apps

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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 [...]

There’s a social media owl in my barn!

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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 [...]

Accounting: Online billing systems

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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 [...]

An introduction to Google Adsense

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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 [...]

“Bigger than TV? Social Media’s Power Shift”

Great video by Radian6 on how social media is changing business through personal interaction and instant feedback.