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Online Tools

Focus Your Marketing Efforts on What Works with Your Strategy

02.04.2010
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I recently came across the image to the right on a post by Greg Verdino. His post and the image bring up some great issues for discussion when it comes to marketing and the tools that are out there. The reality is, the tools aren’t going to stop coming. Right now there are some dominant [...]

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A Cow Helps With My To-Do List

02.03.2010
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Ok, not really, but their milk sure does. Ok, that’s not true either, but works for a reveiw on a new tool that I have found. I have been looking for an integrated way of managing my to-do items for a while and found something that almost perfectly fits the bill. Remember the Milk – [...]

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Bookmark War: Delicious vs. Google Reader, My Review

11.24.2009
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I was watching a keynote speech by Chris Brogan the other day and right at the end of his talk he mentioned that people could see a list of case studies for social media by simply going to delicious.com/chrisbrogan/casestudy. If you don’t know what delicious.com is, it’s a way for you to bookmark your favorite [...]

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Every Small Business or Small Group Should Consider Google Apps

10.29.2009
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I have been bitten by the Google Apps bug. I use it for my personal/family, my business, and any group I can convince to use it. Why? Simply put, it works and it’s absolutely free (up to a certain limit). The overall concept is you can utilize the primary Google applications (Email, Calendar, Chat, Docs, [...]

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Google Voice: Pros and Cons

10.29.2009
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‘Back in the day’ I heard about GrandCentral so I signed up. Then never used it again. Not sure why, whether it was the product itself or my ability to grasp the benefits. Either way, I didn’t adopt. The benefit of trying that product out was that when they were acquired by Google, I immediately [...]

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The e-Newsletter Alternative

09.01.2009
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For a small-to-medium business, keeping a website fresh with content is a big enough challenge. Add to that the desire to produce a quality newsletter and the pressure begins to mount. As mentioned before, there are some great options for high-quality, profession, painless e-newsletters (ConstantContact, MailChimp, Emma, BlueSkyFactory to name a few). The greatest challenge [...]

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