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My motto for the year is “Starting again in 2010″.  After the last two years of economic decline, I am starting from the beginning and rebuilding, reshaping, and reinvigorating my business and personal life. Wow, sounds like a lot of work.  Maybe I’ll start tomorrow.  NO!! I start today. Join me in this mission.  However, [...]

No, not my two front teeth.  I want a few well thought out gifts. #1.   A Search engine optimization program that really funnels clients to local businesses that actually are near the client.  I realize that the yellow pages have listings, but you have to pay to get listed, and the money is pretty tight in [...]

OK – Its that time of year.  The time to remember when we were nostalgic.  Sitting around the table, hoping that Uncle Joe didn’t tell that same embarrassing story again.  Gosh- Good Times. Here are the 10 Things for which I am thankful. 1.    My Family – I had to say this one, or my [...]

The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.Edwin Way Teale quotes I love this quote as it relates to the net.  Your web site is the center of a spider web, and the links that attach to you are the redials that capture your customers. So, [...]

I recently saw Yahoo’s commercial for its web hosting service.   It showed the many painful and wrong ways a small business used to have to go to get a website up and running.  My favorite was the couple reading an HTML book and saying they were designing it themselves.  I know that I did design [...]

At first blush, this questions seems a bit ridiculous.  Me?  Buy friends?  Ok, maybe I am a bit if a social outcast.  Perhaps I should be nicer and not such a misanthrope.  I guess I should bathe more often.  But, think about it.  You spend oodles of money purchasing leads.  You spend even more time [...]

In Minnesota, authorities were able to levy back taxes on the wages of a long-sought tax evader after he announced on MySpace that he would be returning to his home town to work as a real-estate broker and gave his employer’s name.  Nebraska collected $2,000 from a deejay after he advertised on his MySpace page [...]

TWITTER – Many of today’s online marketers are serious in using Twitter to drive traffic to their business sites. The social network is considered as one of the most effective and impressive ways to increase traffic. But, how do you get the most out of your twitter network? First off, you need to let people [...]

It is a very strange world out there.  The economy is still contracting, the government is in the auto business and wants to be in the health care business, people are still waiting to buy, so what should you do? Keep in contact with your client base!! JD Powers, in a  recently performed a study [...]

I was driving into work the other day listening to my favorite talk show host, when I saw a billboard that drew my attention. AUTO INSURANCE FROM $150.00 CALL JOE BLOW INSURANCE  XXX-XXX-XXXX I am an insurance agent. I have owned my own agency for 20 yrs. I know what insurance costs.  I know that [...]