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Woody Allen is quoted as saying that 80 percent of success is just showing up. In my experience, this has proven true in real life. This also proves true on the web. Too often, business owners neglect showing up on the web at all. Many who do make an effort to [...]
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Tonight I got to talk about web presence with some social media friends over dinner. We have all had experiences with clients who want a website or a social media presence; but they do not want to spend any time building it. By this, I don’t mean the technical parts; those can be [...]
I had the need to log into my Grandcentral account today and discovered that it is transitioning to Google Voice. Google Voice takes many of the great features of Grandcentral like call screening, listening in to voicemail, call blocking, sms alerts, phone routing, and call forwarding, amongst others; and adds features like voicemail transcripts, personalized [...]
I’ve been hosting with Godaddy for a while, maybe over 2 years. They used to be pretty good about taking care of stuff. In fact, they used to call me on occasion to make sure everything is OK. Something must have happened because they are just not able to take care of things as quickly [...]
Lately, I have been a bit scatter-brained, which resulted in a one-night mass consumption of beer on Friday night. The main problem has been a bit of a project overload. There are several seemingly important things tugging at my attention from day to day, and it gets more and more difficult to figure out [...]
T-Mobile G1
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You can now link your T-Mobile G1 with your Highrise account. I’ve heard the G1 called a “toy” by early adopters who simply wanted to play with it rather than actually use it for business. Well, thanks to a third-party app, it’s not just a toy.
The leader of [...]
This weekend I had the chance to travel to San Antonio with Sergio Chapa to the 2nd Freelancecamp in the nation, and first in Texas. As a recent freelancer, it was a great experience for learning what other freelancers are doing and for a little bit of moral support. When you make the choice [...]
I ran across a video of a T-Mobile ad on Swiss Miss today. It’s cool that they got so many dancers out to pull off this stunt. But what I want to point out is how T-Mobile has the right idea of combining a live event, mobile phones, and the Internet.
Think about how it is [...]
One of the most frequent questions people have when talking about social media in the business is, how much is this going to cost the company? I can understand that there are several concerns for any business, like productivity, control of the company’s image, what are recurring costs, and any number of concerns. Adweek has [...]
As the popularity of social media continues to grow, many businesses are beginning to ask how this medium fits into their business model. Chris Brogan asks questions in his post titled Aligning Social Media Within Companies. He has a ton of comments on that one. Some people describe social media as a tool. Others call [...]
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