If you’re in Pittsburgh – Great networking group
If you are in the Pittsburgh area or Visalia CA, let me recommend the Business Exchange Networking Group to you. If you’re in business, it’s a great way to promote yourself, meet other like minded people and open your network a bit more. It’s been the best leads tool for me. One day a month […]
Make sure your hosts can contact you
I cannot say this enough. Make sure your hosts can contact you. I just had a situation with a client where their email suddenly stopped working. She had many email accounts and only one stopped. After several hours and many emails back and forth with me, we were both baffled and she was frustrated. Then […]
If you are thinking about connecting your TV to the web
Last post I mentioned that thought “connected TVs” would limit your choices too much. This looks like an interesting little box running android. Just a browser and media player. All you really need Disclaimer: I haven’t tried this box myself, but the specs look good. I had Android 2.2 on my phone and it’s pretty […]
Don’t buy a “connected” TV (yet)
If you know me you probably know that I dropped cable TV about two years ago. My friends asked me how I was going to be able to see anything at all with just an antenna and an Internet connection. I had done my research, so I knew what I could get and also believed […]
Finally something is free!
Guest blog post by Meg Huwar, Huwar Marketing & Media Services. They say nothing in life is free…well not anymore! Introducing SpOfferZ! SpOfferZ (Special Offers) is a website developed by me. SpOfferz features coupons for discounts on products and services. Unlike most of the “daily deals” this site provides advertisers with one free coupon. The […]
Help for non-profit organizations from Google
If you know anyone who is running a non-profit organization you probably things are just as tough for them, or maybe more, as the rest of us. Google has been offering non-profits free advertising for quite some time, but many don’t realize it. I had even forgotten about it until I saw this post. You […]
Is there a natural order of promotion
Someone in one of my groups on LinkedIn asked “what is the best way to allocate (promotional) resources?” Asking how best to allocate their limited resources (time and $$) I answered and thought I’d share it here, you may have heard this before. Start with the free stuff. There are some good ones http://www.lillicotch.com/Blog/?s=marketing When […]
Everyday lessons on security
I went to a BLX Luncheon today. The Pittsburgh Business Leads Exchange is a great networking group that I highly recommend. Today’s speakers were addressing security, something I have a keen interest in. First, John McCool spoke about ID theft and there were some interesting ideas. John’s talk got the next speaker Paul Gatto of […]
Website security news from Google
One of the things I try to constantly pay attention is security. Especially website security. it’s very important that you keep the programs running on your site up to date. Ones like WordPress and their plugins are constantly updating and they make it really easy to install the upgrades. usually with one click. What about […]
Starting on a new website? Read this
If you are thinking of building a new website or redesigning your old site this great post on speckyboy.com is definitely worth reading. When starting a new site I try to ask my prospective client not just, how do you want your site to look, but what do you want your site to do? That’s […]
