JEM Consulting - Help For Self Employed and Small Business Web Site Owners

Gary Vaynerchuk is literally living his American dream. Born in Belarus, he immigrated to the U.S. as a young child. Gary took a $4 million dollar family owned wine business, rebranded it on the Web as the Wine Library in 1997. By 2006 he turned it into a $60 million dollar enterprise using social media. [...]

Of course we are familiar with the Dancing Guy video, with almost 4 million views thus far on YouTube. Derek Sievers interprets the video from a leadership point of view and has some interesting insights in his video. He summarizes this video as a lesson in how a leader starts a movement. Firstly: “A leader [...]

Here is the first video in a series as recently published on YouTube. The transcript follows. In these recessionary times too many people set up Websites just because they think it’s the thing to do. After a while and after spending a great deal of time and money they often wonder why the site has [...]

Early this past Wednesday I was reviewing and updating an Excel spreadsheet I use to reference an extensive library of resources. This lists both WEB based links to articles and videos as well as pdfs stored on my computer.  It is additional to the articles posted on my Meetup group, as well as this blog and [...]

My last blog article featured a video from Andrew Patricio of BizLaunch. I had the pleasure to register, watch and contribute to his Webinar earlier this afternoon. It was called: “9 Steps to Building a Successful Website for Small Business.” I want to let you know I really enjoyed his frankness and candor. I suggest [...]

For those of you who do not know, I organized a Meetup group called Chicago-DIY-Web-Networkers. It is geared toward self employed and small business owners and managers who want to take a hands on approach to marketing their businesses on the Web.  It is face to face rather than learning by reading and watching videos. [...]

A small business owner must be quick and nimble enough to see opportunities and take advantage of them. Owners must react to an opening in the line as fast as a good football back does as he makes his split second cut and bursts into the second level or beyond. As Ralph Waldo Emerson said: [...]

Yesterday ComScore released its results for viewers watching videos. In the report they stated there were over 30 billion (yes, with a ‘B’) videos watched. Google sites accounted for 13+ billion of those views, or 43.2% of watched videos. The press release went on to say “…178 million U.S. Internet users watched online video during [...]

I found an article a while back entitled “Web Self-Help for Small Business” by Bill Slawski, posted on January 18th, 2010 on his blog at SEO By The Sea. Slawski detailed ten areas he had to study and learn in his earlier days as a Webmaster. His outline includes the following areas, with comment Accessibility, [...]

Three friends and I launched a new Meetup group called Chicago DIY WEB Networkers just about two months ago.  The membership is now over 60 with several meetings taking place. The group’s focus will be on the needs of small business people and the self employed. More personal than the Web or large presentations, it [...]