Sometimes we simply create too many points of contact on the internet. After all with so many “free” services available it is so simple to think, “I’ll create this account and share all the wonderful things I am learning about ________.” Hey, I’m a “professional” and it happens to me! In fact I have a Blogspot account I...

Do Twitter hashtags work for business? They do if they are used. That’s the answer. Now I’ll take the next few hundred words to be a little verbose. What Is a Twitter Hashtag? Perhaps beginning with a definition of and short “how to create a hashtag” may help. For our purposes, Twitter, a hashtag is simply a key word or set of characters used...

There it is on Twitter the exact text you’re looking for even if you didn’t know it. “Five Ways Guaranteed To Increase Sales FREE” or whatever it may say. So you click the link and land on a page filled with advertisements and a blurb which makes no sense but seems relevant to the link you clicked and it has a “Read more” link so...

One of the most often asked questions I answer is “how can I be on page one of Google?” This is a good question for me since I am, after all, in the business of getting people as close to the number one organic search results as I possibly can. There is a concerning aspect of this too: people who believe they are on the first page of Google search results...

I had a rather unique question today and I really had not thought of it. “How do I delete my Facebook account?” Of course I wanted to make sure the caller was asking how to delete the entire account, remove their self from a group, leave a page or just exactly what the goal was. “No, I want to completely remove everything from Facebook. I...

And with responsibility popular becomes more likely. Try missing your first couple of speaking engagement invitations where you are to be a speaker. You’ll have much greater difficulty in finding future invitations. Even though [insert star/starlet name here] can get away with it the average business person cannot. It only takes a few mistakes in today’s...