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, three basic [...]
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 this [...]
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 wife and [...]
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, how do [...]
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 [...]
I was driving into work the other day listening to my favorite talk show host, when I saw a billboard that drew my attention.
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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 there are many [...]
In my part of the country, we have a convenience store/gas station called Quick Trip. We also have a competing chain named Circle K. It used to be that Circle K was the dominant player followed distantly by 7-11. When Quick Trip burst on the scene, people didn’t know what to make of this upstart [...]
A few weeks ago, I decided to add a new phrase to my Google Alerts. I added my name “Tim Hawley”. Any time my name is posted on the net, I know about it. Well, each time I have posted on my business blog, I see it on my alerts. So, imagine my surprise when [...]
My webmaster told me to get a face book page, along with twitter, a blog or blogs, and any other method of getting my name on the web. I realize the need to get the word out. I know that the way for the search engines to work in your favor is to have a [...]
Do you wonder how you would get started blogging? Here are 31 topics to get you started.
And if you think “how will I make money from my blog?” Think again. The correct view of business blogging is provide by small business owner and blogger, Shana Albert:
I don’t make money from my blog, but I make [...]
