2011 proved to be a positive year for small business marketers – one in which social media and other forms of online marketing moved further into the mainstream. Smart business marketers have begun to realize that social is not just a layer to add to their marketing, but an essential component that has to be […]
Blog or Website – The Real Difference
Blogs are indeed websites, but there are distinct and relevant differences and advantages to both. Most people think of a website as a digital storefront – a place for offering products and services, activities that you can also accomplish with a blog. Then what exactly is the difference between a blog and a website? A […]
Planning for Mobile with 20/20 Hindsight
Those of us who did not grow up with mobile technologies have an advantage. Before mobile we did something that is not now a common practice. We planned. Even as digital technologies emerged, we continued to plan to assuage the high costs of using the technology. So, notwithstanding the serendipitous benefits of mobile, we learned […]
Why Real Time Business Blogging is Cool
Blogging has been around for the better part of a decade from some – and more than half that for many of the rest of us. At the BlogWorld Expo last week we learned from a Technorati survey that the majority of bloggers are hobby bloggers. Only 13% classified themselves as entrepreneurs who blog to […]