Tag: Small business

  • Small Business Mobile Marketing

    Mobile marketing for small business continues to grow by leaps and bounds.  It is important for local small business owners to make full use of mobile marketing to best reach their audience. What is mobile marketing? SMS text message marketing Creating mobile optimized websites to ensure that your whole website is thumb-navigation friendly, that all…

  • Let Your Friends Know

    As a business owner, it’s important to let your friends and family know what you do. That may seem like an obvious thing, but last week I was having coffee with my friend Larry.  He shared with me his challenge of wearing 2 different hats for work, a realtor and a printer salesman. Part of…

  • Christmas 2011 – Memberships, Conferences, and Events

    It’s time to prepare for any memberships, conferences, events, and organizations my business should either participate in or present at during 2012 as my “business” Christmas 2011 wishlist.

  • Tumblr is still down, is self-hosting more reliable?

    Tumblr is still down, is self-hosting more reliable?

    Yesterday I began preparing to record a GFYD Member Tip of the Week, a training service we offer to train small business owners in social media. This week’s tip was to be an hour long jam-packed lesson on maximizing Tumblr for social networking and search engine optimization. However, this is what I found, not just…