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create facebook page

In the past, if you didn’t have a website you were deemed an illegitimate business and “behind the times”. Now that attitude has shifted to social media marketing. If you’re not where your clients are you are losing business.

So someone chimes in at your staff meeting that “we need a Facebook” and everyone nods in agreement, though completely uncertain of what that means.

Create a Facebook Page:

  1. Create a page, not a profile. Just go to www.facebook.com and towards the bottom you’ll see a “Create a Page” option. You can and should sign up a new user as the page  owner (I recommend something generic within your company like facebook@company.com and NOT creating the page using an existing employee’s Facebook profile).
  2. Fill out as much info as you want for your page and then promote! 
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self-hosted Wordpress install

WordPress is a great platform and has ventured beyond being just a blogging platform as it was traditional known as.

But how do you get a WordPress site? There are 2 different routes to take:

  1. Let them host it – www.wordpress.com
  2. You host it

If you let them host it (check out the steps here) you then are limited mainly by the domain name.

If you want to host it yourself, here’s what you need to do:
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One Powerful Shopping Cart

01.23.2011

So you want to open an online store?  Great!  Just get your web-guy cousin to hook you up with one…there’s just a few things you have to get figured out first: What store software will you use? How will you host the store? Will your site have an SSL Certificate installed so you can accept [...]

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Desktop Sharing Using join.me – a Review

08.29.2010
join.me review

I recently found the need to share my desktop with a few people and wanted a better option to LiveMeeting, GoToMeeting and Yugma.  I could review those as well, but will stick to one that I found recently that is still in beta but was a great alternative. After stumbling upon join.me (created by LogMeIn) [...]

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Salesforce and WordPress Integration is Great For Small Business

04.30.2010
wordpress salesforce integration

I am definitely a fan of open-source content management systems (CMS) like WordPress and Joomla, especially for the small business.  The scalability and efficiency not to mention the technology make it a no-brainer for any new web project. Small business and Salesforce.com is also a great idea if you are looking for a scalable client [...]

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A Great Restaurant, A Very Good Use of Joomla

03.08.2010
Urban Solace restaurant using Joomla

Last night my wife and I decided to venture out of suburbia San Diego and head south into North Park/Hillcrest to check out a new restaurant that was recommended by some friends called Urban Solace. I can go on forever about what great food we had, the unique menu selection, the chic decor, the uniqueness [...]

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Tips for Keyword Research
Tools to Help Your SEO and PPC Campaigns

03.04.2010
SEO small business

One safe point of entry for any small business person trying to work with Search Engine Optimization (SEO) to hopefully drive more leads from the search engines to your site is to use Pay-Per-Click (PPC) campaigns. These are the “sponsored” links that you see on the top and right side of your search results. The [...]

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Some Things I Learned Using Thesis Theme For WordPress

03.03.2010
Thesis theme for Wordpress

I just finished my first launch of a WordPress install using the Thesis theme (beer money link). I had a fellow web developer who has been not only pushing WordPress but more specifically pushing me towards the Thesis theme. Coming from a pretty basic understanding of WordPress (way more experience/understanding of Joomla) Thesis was quite [...]

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Simple Online Diagram Software, Free

03.03.2010
free diagram software online

Trying to explain a work-flow idea to someone I ran across www.gliffy.com. Not being a designer myself I was hesitant to try my hand at creating a diagram from scratch (even in PowerPoint/Keynote) and plus, to me those mediums are getting a little played out…I wanted something I could move around, adjust, then snag an [...]

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Open-Source Content Management Systems

03.03.2010
open-source content management system

For someone running their own small business, the constant issue is money. Couple that with even less time and you have a serious challenge when trying to succeed in the web world. You know it’s important to be found online, you want to put your best foot forward as, for you, it’s personal what the [...]

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Why You Should Build Your Website With A Content Management System

03.02.2010
Content Management System CMS

Anyone can be a ‘web guy/gal’ these days. You can look like a super-hero to your boss/group just because you have figured out how to easily add content to your website. No longer do you need to be at the mercy of a hard-to-reach webmaster or billed for every second you call to ask for [...]

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A Cow Helps With My To-Do List

02.03.2010
Thumbnail image for A Cow Helps With My To-Do List

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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