The Baby Boomer Entrepreneur

One of the hardest things about being an entrepreneur is not having someone to bounce ideas off of. You don’t have anyone in the next cubicle to ask “hey, how do you do …”
However, if you’ve built a good social media network, you can have the next best thing.
I’m currently organizing a course - Getting [...]

When I first started using Twitter I didn’t expect it to be an effective social media marketing tool. Imagine my surprise at the almost immediate impact on traffic to my blog. It jumped dramatically. Since I hadn’t changed any other aspect of my blog promotion - and hadn’t won significant attention from a blogging superstar [...]

Those who haven’t tried the micro-blogging tool Twitter - and even some who have - wonder how it can be useful. If you’re Tweeting 140 characters into the ether, how does that help you build relationships?
It took me a while to figure it out, but now that I know the secret, I’ve found Twitter to [...]

The more I use Twitter, the more I have come to rely on it. It’s fast, fun to use and has become an essential business tool. In spite of this, I frequently get questions from people who have heard of Twitter but have never used it. The gist of most of the questions is “what’s [...]

I got back last night from a week’s vacation in Ottawa, Gatineau and Montreal. While I did bring my laptop with me, for the most part I just had fun. You can check out the photos I’ve published on Facebook if you want to see how much fun I had.
However, just because I was away [...]