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What have you done for your small business?
Image via Wikipedia Have you got a small business? It could be a brick and mortar or a home business. Do you know how to use social media to promote your business? Most people don’t. Most listen to a friend who tells them to go to facebook. They don’t tell them what to do when…
Read MoreThree Tools for Your Small Business
In June I’ll be speaking at SmallBizSocialMediaSummit – and today I’m going to share with you three tools you can use today in your small business. 1. Google Profile Have you set up your own Google profile? Visit www.google.com/profiles and set it up. If you’re a business, include your physical address, contact info, lots of…
Read MoreSmall Business Social Media Summit
Debworks and G2 Web Media announce the Small Business Social Media Summit to occur June 5 and June 6, 2010 in Hutchinson, Kansas. This summit is designed specifically for small businesses to identify social media avenues (like Facebook, twitter, blogging), how to use them and walk away with a plan for their business. Hutchinson Kansas…
Read MoreBringing the best
It’s an exciting time for a geeky girl to be in small town America – things are changing. People are curious, they want to know things.
Read MoreThe Virtual Meets the Concrete
Last year I attended SobCon09 – and met many of the people I’d previously only had conversations with on twitter. Successful Outstanding Bloggers Conference – required to advance your business to the next level. I hung out with some of the big name people – and that created avenues to stronger conversations over this past…
Read MoreSmall Business Bloggers to Watch
They are not gurus, experts, mountain climbers or gods. They are not suits in an office or geeks in tshirts in the basement. They are real people, doing real work, in the real world. Jay Ehret Cody Heitschmidt Mary Lynn and George Krueger Kim Dushinski Becky McCray Grant Griffiths Justin Levy Deb Brown They were…
Read MorePlanning A Conference
I’m planning a Small Business Social Media Conference in June in the Kansas City area. You’d think it would be fairly easy to plan something like this. Decide the dates, find a location, book the speakers, get sponsors on board and put the word out. The speaker part was the easiest – and I’m happy…
Read MoreBio from a time long ago
DEBRA ‘WIZ’ BROWN Citizen of World The basic premise you must begin with is, life is an ontological* process. One things leads to another. Having survived the human war for the past 46 years, I am now qualified to talk and teach about those things I learned in that war. I stepped into the technological world…
Read MoreSimon Estes in Franklin County
Simon Estes is coming to our town. That’s right, Hampton Iowa – is hosting two days of Simon Estes in residency. It gets better – Simon is conducting a 99 county tour of Iowa. Franklin County (my county) is the inaugural county. The rest of the counties are looking to us to set the pace,…
Read MoreMark Your Calendars
I’m planning an event, along with some business partners. June 5 and June 6 in Kansas City. Two weeks ago I read about an event in Kansas and got all excited about it. Then I realized the marketing for the event did not really match what was happening. I started to get ticked off —…
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