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

I sent out an announcement earlier to my Meetup group about a new LinkedIn Group I started. I hope it will supplement my efforts to teach through Meetup and allow a larger platform for those self employed small business owners who really want to learn how to market on the Web via do it yourself [...]

or, When Is A Fan Page Guru Not A Guru? I don’t think anyone who calls themselves a guru is really a guru! I know I am not. I have soooo much more to learn about Web marketing. After all, I self confess to work on a shoestring budget and avoid all forms of paid [...]

This New Year’s Eve morning I saw a quote on LinkedIn shares posted by Howard Larson, who I have known casually for some years. He appears to be as much a philosopher as I am. He posted: “When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get [...]

My best education source for successful on line marketing comes directly from Google.  Read and implement their “book” and you will not need me nor any other coach, mentor or self acclaimed guru. Here is another gem from Matt Cutts of Google once again.  He talks about one of my favorite subjects on how to [...]

Here in Chicagoland inclement weather is on the way.  It is a glorious thing to invite someone to view your desktop remotely while you make a PowerPoint demonstration when travel is impossible.  So, here is another small business resource worth noting and using. I have been sharing my thoughts in Beta with the developers of [...]

My education in publishing Web sites and e-marketing began over four years ago. At that time I started working on my first Web site as a hobby. I promoted Judy’s (my fantastic bride of 33 years now) party planning business A-BnC Parties and More. My goal was to see if we could increase her sales [...]

Judy handed me this flyer the other day and we looked at it in puzzlement. Perhaps you could figure it our before you read below…. Well, besides not having any details on the reverse…. What year is this happening (from the days, dates it is 2010)? Where is it happening? What are the event times? [...]

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, [...]

At our BG Networkers meeting earlier this week I quoted on a report mentioned in an interesting article by Steven Fisher. His article appeared on March 8th at Grow Smart Business.  The article focused on innovation and why small businesses scored only a C- in one of the six scored categories in a recent small [...]

I heard and saw the words Committed and Curious used over and over again by Mark at at yesterday’s gathering. He used them as he gave his morning networking presentation during a semimonthly meeting of the BG Networkers Group. Mark emphasized these words and referred to them as successful traits to face to face networking. [...]