Last time the frog broke news on the new “post to your place page” feature in the Google LBC. It was nice to have it picked up by Blumenthal and read his enlightening thoughts on understanding “post to your place page” feature’s importance. Today I noticed another new feature, “Service Areas” (something every small service [...]
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“post to your place page” – Google Local Business Center turning into a small business blog dashboard
So as far as I can tell Google just rolled this update out. The Google Local Business Center (the dashboard where businesses can edit their local business listings) has added a new feature: “post to your place page” It seems to be some sort of blogging functionality for creating posts about your business which then [...]
Just Say No To Flash
Flash makes my small business look more professional = Common misconception As a minimalist-loving web developer nothing gets my eyes rolling faster than a small business that “has to have” flash animation on its website. Please! read http://flashsucks.org/ It is a common misconception that small business people have that adding Flash to your website makes [...]
WoW, I’ve read all of these…. – Amazon’s Small Business & entrpreneur books
Getting Things Done Seven Habits of Highly Effective People The Five Dysfunctions of a Team (I haven’t read this one) Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What [...]
Strategic Planning – A consulting gem
Jaxworks.com, a brilliant small business website I found circa 2004, has an excellent Strategic Planning worksheet. I had a printout of it in my binder since November 2004 and gave it another look. Wow! I will certainly be using this in my consulting work.
Bootstrapping like Subway
A quick rant about Subway, bootstrapping and small business. I had the following article in one of my binders: Stake Your Claim It is all about bootstrapping your small business. Starting on a shoestring budget and building incrementally to success. The article is based on the ideas of Subway’s Fred DeLuca who wrote the book [...]
Book Yourself Solid certification
Book Yourself Solid by Michael Port is expanding into a certified consulting program. I am not one for being overworked and overbooked by any means and believe that balance and living are more important than money, so at first I judged the book negatively by its cover. (that is never a good thing…) Finally curiosity [...]
My recent projects, focus, and a refresher course
I have been quite busy lately with various projects for myself and clients. I have a large online project that I currently maintain and I am launching an online marketing campaign for a new client. I have three personal online marketing projects that I am working on. And I have two local marketing campaigns I [...]
Google Location Extension – confusing
So, I started seeing these strange additions to ads on general keywords that are being run by local advertisers doing geo-targeted campaigns. So I would type in “XYZ information” and the ads on the right would have “XYZ service, Florida.” hmmm. That’s new… Then today I receive an email from google talking about “location extensions” [...]
Frustrating Clients? This book might help
I am definitely having “one of those days.” I have clients ask me for ridiculous things all the time. Here is my theory as to why this happens (particularly to technical people like myself). As a techie I like to wow my clients with the amazing things the technology can do. I like to show [...]