Technology to help run your business
Okay, I’m exaggerating. I usually love technology. But sometimes technology – the very thing that’s supposed to increase your productivity and save you time – slows you down.This can happen when you upgrade or change software programs. For example, when I first started using Microsoft Office 2007, they’d changed the layout and commands so much […]
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Recently on a discussion forum of bloggers a rather heated discussion ensued about whether RSS feeds should send the full post or just the first few lines. It wasn’t something I’d given much thought to and had never considered it was a subject that could generate much passion.I began wondering if the passion was unique
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Yesterday I spend an amazing day at Hick Tech – a technology conference here in Owen Sound. Starting at 7:30 am and finishing at 6:30 pm, I was exhausted by the end of the day. But I learned a ton, particularly in the workshop on SEO by Yahoo! Canada’s Darryl Peddle.Darryl made SEO sound simple.
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I recently came across the following post: How To Avoid Google’s Duplicate Content Penalty (For Bloggers) The main point of this blog post is if you have a single page that can be reached by: www.blog.com/post www.blog.com/post/ http://blog.com/post http://blog.com/post/ Google reads these pages as four separate pages – each with duplicate content. As a result,
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I love getting comments on my blog. Working from home and writing away at my computer, it’s easy to start wondering if anyone is reading what I write. Sure, I can look up the stats showing traffic on my blog, but it doesn’t tell me if people are connecting with what I’m writing. Comments however
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Running a business and staying organized is a challenging prospect. Particularly for solopreneurs who don’t have anyone to delegate to, keeping all the balls in the air sometime get to be too much. I’m a fairly organized person – I keep lists of tasks, binders for major projects, and a calendar of events – but
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This will probably show my age – but then again I am blogging on the Baby Boomer Entrepreneur 😉 – but I really didn’t have an interest in Facebook until very recently.I didn’t even join until a year ago. I have some childhood friends who live far enough away that I only see them once
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I’ve been reading and hearing a lot about “Web 2.0” and I didn’t really know what it meant. Then Friday I picked up the book How to Do Everything with Your Web 2.0 Blog. Author Todd Stauffer describes web 2.0 as “the next generation of Web applications that were turning the Web from a sort
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That’s the title of Ray Edwards’ February 17th post on his blog Copywriting Tips And Tricks. What he writes is that ugly sites that are easy to read and navigate do better than visually stunning sites that don’t get the message across. You don’t want the reader to get distracted – or worse annoyed –
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Sunday I ran into a colleague at a social event. She was still waiting for an email I had sent the week before. Monday morning I checked her email address and resent it. Tuesday she emailed me saying she still hadn’t received my message. I checked the address on her email – yes, it was
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