Courtney Robertson

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Google Apps for Small Business Productivity

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How does your business coordinate with others internally or remote workers and virtual assistants?  Sharing calendars within your organization, contacts, and documents are just the beginnings of what your business may need.  While the corporate world may look to MS Exchange Server, the more ideal solution for small businesses is Google Apps.
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Google Plus Hangouts for Business

Are you using Google Hangouts in your business? As Google Plus as officially launched Business Pages, I hope to see more businesses using Hangouts. I’ve been really considering how to use them, why to use them, and a variety of ways they could be best implemented.
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Yelp matters more to Local Business Owners now due to Siri

Local business owners need to be watching their presence on Yelp.  Earlier we looked at how small business owners can claim their business page on rating/review/check-in services. For some time Google Places aggregated the reviews on other systems into Google Place Pages.  Google’s Place Pages and their reviews matter in terms of search engine results. […]
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Networking vs. Not Working

Recently I was browsing around Facebook, Twitter, and Google Plus.  I saw someone in essence yelling “Buy My Stuff!”.  Sigh… I wanted to scream that the user’s method was Not Working rather than Networking. Clearly this violator hasn’t yet mastered the art of networking, offline or online.  I’m certainly of the mindset that before you […]
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Google Analytics with Webmaster Tools

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Measuring the traffic and goals on your website is vital to knowing if your efforts are working.  By integrating Google Analytics, you can easily see what traffic is reaching your site and what they are doing once there. Google Webmaster tools is related, but different, in it’s purpose.  Google Webmaster Tools will reveal what people […]
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I love WordPress

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Reasons why I love WordPress to maintain websites: Plugins when a a new social media sharing option arises, like Google+, it is easy to make a site-wide change. customize and tweak functionality of your website without messing up your design ease of use for posting updates Updates Just like your computer needs an update, your […]
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