Social Media is Dumb and A Waste Of Time— Pt. 2
In case you missed yesterday’s post, I talked about getting your small business involved in social media through blogging. If you are going to do one thing with regards to social media, that is where I feel you will get your most bang for your buck. Once you start blogging and assert that social media is not dumb and a waste of time, you may want to get more involved with social media. This is the point where business owners get curious about sites like Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. What are the best social media outlets for your business. That’s really up to you and your clients to decide. You
More Media Tools to Build Your Business Platform for the Bootstrapper
This is my last post for a while on the subject of media. Having covered video, podcasting, newsletters and blogging up to this point. The cool thing is that I have covered a lot of different media outlets to produce your content but there are still so many media tools that you can use to build your business platform. Today I want to talk about social media (briefly as this one has been hit a ton already), teleseminars and the use of recorded messages. Social Media Social media is getting so much love in the media right now that it makes me wonder if the next thing in communication isn’t
If You Don’t Have Goals, Why Worry about Time Management?
Once you have a set of core values down for yourself. The next piece to your time management platform is to have a goal or plan. I have always wondered why people get so concerned with how they manage their time on a day-to-day basis when typically they have no goals or plan. In the end all that ends up being managed is busy work. When you don’t have a specific plan of intentional action, time management is meaningless. Not too long ago, I ran across a statistic that said that only 5% of people actually have written goals. I was surprised by how low the number was. When I
Picking the right Tax Professional for Your Business…hint it’s not about location
There are questions to be asked and answered when picking a tax professional to help your small business grow and stay in the good graces of the IRS. Some questions to ask are; Who should I use and what kind of tax professional is for me? What do they need to know? How do I know they are the right person for me? Here are 3 types of tax professional that you will hear about most often although there are tax professionals that are practicing without any kind of additional certification. Click on each to learn more about them. I would have written this out for you but just writing
Tales of the rugged individualist
The definition of rugged individualism as defined by dictionary.com: rugged individualism- noun- individualism in social and economic affairs; belief not only in personal liberty and self-reliance but also in free competition. I have heard that this person still exists out there and have run across him/her several times in the past few years. Is this how you run your business? The problem with going it on your own is that we don’t know everything there is to know about setting it up and running it on our own. Because of this we are intimidated by the process. Small Business owners move forward every day and try and complete campaigns
The underlying theme of Social Media
I have been thinking a lot about why we use social media today. The reconnection with past friends, the ability to connect with people more frequently that live far away and also the possibility of finding like minded individuals that you may be able to do business or collaborate with in one way, shape or form in the future. These are all great things. The problem is that I think we start to forget why we blog, use Twitter or Facebook, comment on other people’s blogs. When it’s all said and done, the underlying theme is to build meaningful relationships. The key word being meaningful. While I was thinking about
