Andrea J. Stenberg, Author at Andrea Stenberg

Facebook Wouldn’t Let You Reserve Your Fan Page Vanity URL? Do it Sunday

1 Comment / Facebook, News, Social Media Marketing / Andrea J. Stenberg

At midnight eastern June 12th, Facebook opened the doors for people to reserve their usernames as vanity Facebook URLs (I’m www.Facebook.com/AndreaStenberg). There was a fully of activity at midnight and many experts were amazed that Facebook didn’t crash as people rushed to reserve their own names. Meanwhile, many people rushed to reserve vanity URLs for […]

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Managing Your In-box During Vacations

1 Comment / Business Basics, organization / Andrea J. Stenberg

Have you ever taken a day off work and come back to the nightmare of hundreds of emails in your in-box? Now what happens if you take a week or two of vacation? I know one day last week I took the afternoon off and woke up to 154 messages in my in-box. I was

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How to Build Relationships With Your LinkedIn Connections

3 Comments / LinkedIn, Networking, Social Media Marketing / Andrea J. Stenberg

LinkedIn has a much more rigid set of rules regarding adding new people than other social media sites. If you break the rules you are much more likely to get a virtual hand-slap or get your account frozen than on any other site. It’s also not immediately clear how to converse with people you don’t

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Why Bricks & Mortar Businesses Need to Be On Twitter

1 Comment / Social Media Marketing / Andrea J. Stenberg

Recently I spoke at the Business Women’s Network of the Owen Sound Chamber of Commerce about why every local business needs to be on Twitter. Most of the women present were not using Twitter so I needed to give some concrete examples of how people are using Twitter to promote small businesses to a local

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Happy Summer from the Blogging Boomers Carnival

Marketing Basics / Andrea J. Stenberg

For those in the northern hemisphere it is officially summer. And here in Owen Sound we’ve finally passed the unseasonablely cool weather we’ve had this spring and are actually having some warm weather. Unfortunately my son is being his usual stubborn self and insists on wearing his winter pants – then wonders why he’s too

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Website design changes – are you SURE they’re working?

7 Comments / Marketing Basics, Technology / Andrea J. Stenberg

As you have probably noticed, I recently did a major redesign of my site. I chose a new theme that I hope makes everything look cleaner and easier to read. However, I made a major mistake when I completed the update; I forgot to check how the changes look in multiple browsers. A rookie mistake

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Cirque du Soleil Understands Public Relations

Marketing Basics / Andrea J. Stenberg

I woke up this morning to a radio news headline about Cirque du Soleil’s 25th anniversary. Not only is today the official anniversary, but to celebrate the day, Cirque is trying to break the Guinness World Record title of the most people simultaneously walking on stilts. Their publicity stunt will take place simultaneously in cities

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Check out Blogging Boomers Carnival #119

Marketing Basics / Andrea J. Stenberg

Happy Monday everyone. It’s finally starting to feel like summer here in Owen Sound. My peonys are finally blooming and I didn’t need a coat this morning. Along with the locally good weather, it’s time to enjoy another edition of the Blogging Boomers Carnival. Ann Harrison at Contemporary Retirement Coaching. Ann is a Retirement OptionsTM

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Why You Should Partner With You Competitors

11 Comments / Business Basics / Andrea J. Stenberg

Recently some local colleagues and I came together to create a one-day training session for local small businesses (www.BrandCamp.ca). Although we are all technically competitors, we have all been talking and sharing ideas for years. Since we enjoy each other’s company and respect the work the others do, it seemed natural for us to look

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