Your contact database is one of the most valuable resources in your business and managing your contacts should be part of your daily routine. In the past, I have struggled using Ace of Sales to manage my groups. I found myself over analyzing my group development and going back and forth between Ace of Sales [...]
October 28, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Merge Your Google Apps and Personal Google+ Accounts
Got a Google+ Personal Account? For those of you that may have setup your Google Plus account with your personal Google or Gmail account, Google Plus finally launched today Google+ for Google Apps accounts, but there is no merge functionality. Well….should you setup two different Google+ accounts? If you are logging out of your Google [...]
October 28, 2011 By Leave a Comment
How to Get Listed in Google Places
1. Claim your listing. Go to http://places.google.com . Login using your existing Gmail account or create a new account (if you don’t have a gmail account) to claim your business listing. Once your account is created, login and l select the “List Your Business” button. First, find out if your business is listed. Enter your Country [...]
June 30, 2011 By 1 Comment
How to Use Gmail to Build Your Social Network
Now there is a great way to build your social network from directly within Gmail. Last month, I installed this fantastic app called Rapportive that displays social media information about your contacts directly from your Gmail inbox. You can immediately see what people look like, where they’re based, and what they do. Amazingly Simple Whenever [...]
June 1, 2011 By Leave a Comment
8 Essentials to Build Your Brand
Branding is networking…both in person and online. Sifting through the maze of online tools to communicate your brand can be a daunting task. Fear not, read on and use the power of eight! These are eight essential tools that will make a powerful impact and help you create and manage your personal and/or organizational brand in [...]
May 12, 2011 By 1 Comment
Lessons from the Ant Hill
If you spend more than 30% of your online time networking and browsing social media sites, you are not alone. I often spend time contributing and engaging with others that I have often never met? There must be a self-serving purpose to contribute our time, thoughts and energy to engage within these communities, right? [...]
May 12, 2011 By Leave a Comment
5 Tips for a Great Website
Online messaging is coming at us from all directions. Videos, email, apps, RSS feeds and tweets pull us in all different directions. The addictive nature of web browsing is shortening our attention span to nine seconds, according to a recent article by BBC News. Make sure your website is able to quickly attract your readers [...]
April 30, 2011 By Leave a Comment
For the love of sales, not the love of money.
Do you love sales? Do you love what you do? Do you love your product? Do you love your company? Do you love your customers? These are not questions I pulled out of the air. These are questions that directly affect your productivity, your attitude, your income, your success, and your fulfillment-not to mention your [...]
February 15, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Lead Generation and New Marketing Strategies
Generating leads is something that people have been doing for years, and although the playing field may have changed as a result of the Internet, the effectiveness of gathering those leads has not changed at all. Here are 7 different ways that you can use the Internet in order to gather these leads through new [...]
February 1, 2011 By Leave a Comment
You are the essence of your reactions and your responses
I tweeted: “Resilience doesn’t start with experience – it STARTS with attitude – your attitude.” It got more than 100 “re-tweets.” Evidently people understood what I was saying and chose to tell others. But since Twitter only allows 140 characters, I wanted to elaborate on the word resilience because it has a much deeper meaning [...]
January 26, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Two New Ways to Pimp Your Profile on LinkedIn
This week I discovered two new services that make LinkedIn even cooler: PingTags and InMaps. Both are free, and both are easy to install. PingTags – self-dubbed “Your New Business Card” – helps you to create a QR code that you can print on the back of your business card. Give your card to someone [...]