Category Archives: Social media

Be open to opportunities

Welcome back! I truly value my regular readers and if you have any questions or comments let me know!As I write this, I’m sitting here listening to my boyfriend play his guitar which would normally be a pretty unremarkable event. (Not that he’s an unremarkable guitar player, it’s just that he plays guitar all the [...]

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Measuring success

Oh what an exciting life I lead! I spent my Friday night reading the latest issue of Inc. magazine. An interview with Stan Lee (yes, the Spiderman guy), another interview with someone who wrote a biography on Ayn Rand, and then a piece on Jason Fried of 37 Signals and what a typical day looks [...]

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Do you need to blog regularly if you have a service-based business?

Earlier this week, I had a nice long chat with a friend and colleague of mine who started her business around the same time I started mine. We were discussing some of the things we’ve learned over the past year and one of the topics was something along the lines of advice we’d been given [...]

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Stop listening to Twitter “experts”

Just because someone takes a word and throws a “tw” in front of it does NOT make them a Twitter expert. Seriously. There are only two things that you need to get the most out of Twitter: common sense and a personality.
Twitter is basically just a simple form of communication, much like the telephone.  Do [...]

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My guest post on WAHM 2.0

I wrote a guest post for Sparkplugging’s WAHM 2.0 about Social Media Overkill.
I’d love to hear your thoughts on how you’re using social media effectively without it monopolizing your time online. And while you’re visiting Sparkplugging, be sure to read some of the great posts there.
Here are some of my recent favorites:
From ‘Freelance Parent’ – [...]

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