Happy St. Patty’s day, everyone! Sure hope you wore green today. Or, if you didn’t, that you don’t have the kind of friends that would actually pinch you for not wearing green. So, typically, St. Patrick’s Day is regarded as an Irish holiday. Clovers, green, leprechauns, and beer (supposedly all things Irish). But today’s fun fact (brought […]

Recently, I’ve been working with a client to clean up her online bios. As she has a prolific web presence, we have scoured high and low to make sure all her online bios say the same things. As she has changed her offerings, published a book, and is actively working to grow her brand in […]

As a follow-up to lasts week’s challenge to google yourself, we want to show you what you can do to make sure you are aware of what’s being said about you. We want you to control how people see you. And Google Alerts is a great tool to do that. Jensie has created this really […]

Once upon a time (actually, about two years ago), I lived in the Philippines. The Philippines was a great experience for me for a bunch of different reasons. There were some things that were reDUNKulously hard to get used to (i.e. cold showers, bugs bugs bugs, no air conditioning, sweating all the time, more bugs, […]

Recently, I’ve been to a number of events where I’d be talking in a small group of people, and the conversation would unexpectedly split into two side convos, leaving me super confused as to which thread I should be following. I realized this was due to one individual literally talking over another person to get their two […]

I was on the phone earlier today with Jensie and she asked, “How did we ever get by without Google?” Google has changed the way we use the internet. And for the month of March we want to help you help Google make you look good, but we’ll get to that in a second. March […]

Pinterest is ALL the rage right now. It has over 70 million users. Nearly 80% of those are women. And the average visit to Pinterest is over 15 minutes. That’s a lot of time to stumble onto some good content. In short: Pinterest is a BIG DEAL. But is right for your business? Both Pinterest […]

Ever what you’re supposed to be posting to social media? How do you make good use of your networking sites? In a recent article, Social Media Examiner presented an 80/20 rule for content. This basically suggests that 80% of your content should be informative, but not sales/strategy oriented. It can be anything that appeals to […]

I have a confession. Until I had to use Twitter for a journalism class last semester I had never really appreciated Twitter. I used it just because I thought my Twitter handle was clever and my brother didn’t have Facebook at the time. Since then, I’ve discovered that some of my favorite social media moments have […]