LinkedIn is a professional social media website used for networking with colleagues, business partners, and clients. Online profiles resemble a resume showing your current and past positions with personal summaries. Co-workers and managers can also write recommendations which appear on your profile (if you would like them to appear, you also have the [...]
We’ve talked about Facebook, but Twitter is also a Big Dog in the world of Social Media. Twitter is an instant messaging site that was originally meant for individuals, but businesses started honing the power of Twitter as a way to reach out to current and potential customers. Dell, Whole Foods, Southwest [...]
In this day and age, we are using many outside hosting services to store documents, files, information, etc. These web-based tools are great, especially for collaboration, but what happens if the company hosting your valuable information goes under? What if something on their end causes you to lose your files? We [...]
As of Nov. 2009, the social networking site, Facebook, had 350 million active users and they get more and more every day. Many businesses want to get in on the action, but are unsure of how they should use it. Facebook is an especially good tool for small businesses because it provides an [...]
James Lea, a professor, speaker, author and family business adviser, wrote a great article in the latest Triangle Business Journal. It’s titled What do you need to hit the green? Focus, focus, focus. He compares using the focus you would put in your golf game to your business.
Lea says to [...]
Joel Splotsky wrote a great article titled When and How to Micromanage, but we found that the article was less about micromanaging (often a dirty word in business) and more about doing the right things right. In the article, Joel from Fog Creek Software was going to give a presentation in Austin, TX. [...]
