What I have found in my life as a business consultant is that most people don’t know how to use the powerful features on LinkedIn to grow their business.

I’ve taught classes on LinkedIn, and in my opinion, the Companies Feature of LinkedIn is the number 1 reason that every business owner should Read More
LinkedIn is a great site. Everytime I use it, I get amazed at the people and the companies that I can connect to.

Aunt May, we’re no longer in Mayberry. Now I can connect to companies in Taiwan as easily as I can here in Puyallup. Not only can I connect to the company, I can connect to a specifi Read More
I see a lot of people fail on LinkedIn because they don’t have a strategy for connecting with people. So they connect with anybody and everybody for no reason at all. They get no benefit from this willy-nilly strategy, and pretty soon they quit using LinkedIn.

I’m here to tell you that LinkedIn Read More
So I have started looking at the Yakezie challenge a lot closer and there does seem to be some merits in participating in that group, as well as the other group I have of fellow bloggers.
The numbers seem to be doing OK, although my number of RSS readers has stalled and actually seems to be droppi Read More
The cellphone carrier Softbank announced new handsets designed to link to the micro-blogging site, part of a concerted effort to get a piece of America’s tech savvy. Read More
It’s been awhile since I’ve had a good ole-fashioned rant. Normally I live in a zen-like state where nothing gets to me. This was harshly interrupted the other day by a dishonest, stupid person who asked to do a guest post for my site. Let me explain… Read More
Munish Gandhi came up to me and asked me to check out hy.ly‘s newest app – an apparently very easy-to-set-up Facebook welcome tab, for what he calls “Very Small Businesses.”

This is a term he credits Navin Ganeshan of Network Solutions for (disclosure: my client, but they had nothing to do with Read More
peaking at the Leadership for a Better World – Creating Social Value through Innovation Conference, Paul C. Light set out to define what it is to be a Social Entrepreneur. Lack of clarity in the term often creates conflict between groups that feel they have been promoting social values throughout Read More
I find that Twitter is slowly becoming a “last resort” for consumers who are having issues with businesses and cannot get them resolved through the normal means of phoning or emailing customer support. We’ve seen it time and time again, made famous by @Dooce and the Maytag washing machine incident Read More
It’s time to abandon the press release. Reporters rarely have time to read them, receive a tremendous number of them in their inbox every day, and your competition uses the same strategy to win attention. The traditional media is also Read More
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