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My boy Gary V. does it again in this short video blast! He is, as you know, a firm believer in the use of social media to promote and market your small business. I am in that same boat along with Gary as well. Vaynerchuk suggests we believers part ways with non-believers by saying: “See [...]

Michele just emailed me and asked: “Tell me more about the Business Blogging class you are teaching next week at the Buffalo Grove Park District.” Anyone who knows me Michele knows I tout WordPress for do it yourself self employed small business people.  In fact this page your are reading is a WordPress format.  Like [...]

Like any good salesman my response to a question about humor and entertainment being mixed with business and blogging would be… “that depends”. (No, I am not a lawyer.) I would then go on to explain the options, as I see them. “On one hand it blends in, while on the other hand” it does [...]

This is the a series of planned articles on niche marketing.  Here I will discuss Niche marketing as a great opportunity for self employed small business people to expand their impact on the Web.  Following this post I plan to share my views on the need to consider a proper business mind set as well [...]

Bette emailed me this morning with this information: Thought you might find this social media company interesting … what they offer their clients.  I was particularly impressed with their Facebook games/contests as a way of going viral on the web. http://www.socialups.com Bette: Thanks for the suggestion and link. I briefly looked over the site and [...]

This one surely had me in stitches! Someone wrote on a Google group in LinkedIn: “ please help me with this question that i want to make meta tags with “indian data center” site and i need some best keywords and title, which will help better to starting traffic….” To which I replied: “Excuse me [...]

comScore released its report on United States Search Engine Activity for January, 2011. Google Sites ranked first with its 11.1 billion searches  Although Google slipped a percentage point, it still holds a sizable lead over all the other search engines combined.  For my money (rather time), that’s where I continue to put my primary efforts. [...]

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 [...]

Watch the full episode. See more Nightly Business Report. This is the third and final video in a three part series of Nightly Business Report as reported by Scott Gurvey about a year ago. There is some great wisdom advice in this summary report for smart small business people. That is businesses should be aggressive [...]

I added this comment to a newbie on a LinkedIn discussion in the Party Event Business group.  She asked: “Hi guys, I am just starting out in the party planning business, any advice you could all give me would be fantastic.” I felt she was seeking for the Holy Grail.  Since I am not Prince [...]