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A Google Profile helps build your online presence

May 27, 2010

If you don’t have a Google Profile yet, you may want to consider setting one up for a number of reasons.  To see what one looks like, take a look at mine. First, what is a Google Profile? It’s a personal page where you are able to share information about yourself on the various Google [...]

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Five things that can get you labeled as a Facebook spammer

April 28, 2010

With over 400 million active users on Facebook, you know there’s a lot of spamming going on. A lot of Facebook spammers are looking for that small percentage of people who will fall for whatever sales pitch they put out. There are others though, who are making a real effort to use Facebook to market [...]

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Facebook Instant Personalization

April 23, 2010

Facebook is at it again. This week they’ve announced some pretty major changes in the way your personal information is used. One of these changes is how your Facebook profile will be integrated with other websites – currently Microsoft Docs, Pandora, and Yelp. They call it “instant personalization” and you may or may not like [...]

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Saying thank you is a bit of a lost art

March 19, 2010

One of my pet peeves is how often people forget to say thank you. I know we’ve all been there. Maybe you sent a quick email to answer a question, did a favor in the real world, held a door open for someone, or any number of things. After all is said and done, the [...]

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Facebook profile backup with SocialSafe

February 22, 2010

Do you have nightmares about your Facebook profile going away and losing your friends, photos, profile and wall status updates? You’re not alone! If you were on Facebook at all this past weekend you may have experienced a certain level of panic as things got wonky (prompting some good subject matter for that nightmare.) They [...]

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Does social media equal anti-social?

August 12, 2009

As I was at the grocery store the other day, a young woman in front of me was busy texting as she slowly put her items up on the counter. The girl behind the register worked as quickly as she could given her customer’s unwillingness to put the cell phone away for a few minutes. [...]

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Google Voice invitations on the way

June 28, 2009

People who signed up for Google Voice are starting to receive invitations to set up their new accounts. Google Voice allows users to have one phone number that can be re-routed to ring at any number of other phones. There are a number of ways it can be set up. For example, it can be [...]

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Are you shouting "buy my widgets"?

June 23, 2009

Imagine you’re hanging out with some friends and along comes this person you don’t know, who gets right in your face and blurts out . . . “HEY YOU! My widgets are on sale today. When you buy two, you’ll get one free. Go to my website right now and buy some!” If you’re like [...]

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Social media teleclasses available for download

June 2, 2009

Over the past few months I’ve been doing social media teleclasses as part of the monthly teleclass series at Six Figure Pet Sitting Academy. The first one, which was a huge success was a general overview of social media, and in the second one I helped people understand Twitter and how it can be used [...]

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Social media for pet businesses

April 3, 2009

Social Media: How to Use Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, etc. to Make Money in your Business A Teleclass with Therese Kopiwoda, of PetsitUSA.com and Kristin Morrison, of Six Figure Pet Sitting Academy Join us April 28 for a teleclass on using social media to give your business a boost! ——————————————————————————– Knowing how to put social media [...]

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