How To Manage Contacts in GMail

Apr 30

GMail is one of Google’s oldest and best tools other than search. Most of my email, business and personal, is conducted through the Google Mail platform. In fact my “business” email address at Google is so old I barely represent that industry any longer! If you do not have a GMail account, if you are one of that few dozen people, they are free, they...

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What is Google Drive?

Apr 24

Simply put Google Drive is Google’s cloud storage service. If you are familiar with DropBox Google is offering something similar but integrated with other Google properties such as mail. Currently I would not call Google Drive “feature rich” but my guess is they have plans and designs on upping their offerings. In fact if you are an iPhone user you...

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How To Find Your Google Analytics Code

Apr 24

Some questions are asked frequently while others are asked regularly. This one falls into the regularly category. “How do I find my Google Analytics code once I have created an account”, is asked in virtually every session I do on the topic. Since I am not the quickest draw on the webnetz it took me a while to finally create this short how-to video to...

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Pinterest for Small Business Voice Amplification

Apr 23

Next month at SMB Atlanta (May 17) I will be speaking on the topic, “How To Give Your Small Brand a Big Voice” and one of the tools I will be talking about is Pinterest. It is important to note that Pinterest is a tool and the techniques by which you use it are a part of your strategy. Pinterest, in and of itself, is not a strategy. Pinterest certainly...

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Using Facebook to Vet Employee Applicants

Apr 20

Whether you are an employer, recruiter or employee you can bet Facebook can play a part in your role. Recently I needed to retain a contractor to help with some coding. I had been through my normal channels and needed to go outside so I went through a freelancing service which I have used in the past. I narrowed down from 68 applicants to 5 and then from 5 down to 2...

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