Creating a Facebook Profile & Building a Business Page

Facebook is a widely used social media site that has over 120 million users, is growing by 250,000 users daily and is the 4th most trafficked website on the internet.  Chances are many of your business partners and potential clients are using it, so it’s a great place to establish a presence for yourself and your business for more exposure on the web....

Is your business featured in Local Search?

Here are two articles about a new tool called www.GetListed.org – the perfect solution for small businesses to ensure they are well represented in Local Search. The neat thing about local search is you don’t even need a website to get some exposure online for your business – just make sure you claim your listings and provide accurate information on the many local search...

Some of the Best Free Downloads for Small Businesses

Here are some of my favorite Free downloads for small business marketing, link building, social media and more… Zero Dollars, a Little Talent and 30 days by Jennifer Laycock This is a great place to start if you’re new to marketing yourself or your small business online.  Zero Dollars follows entrepreneur and writer Jennifer Laycock as she tries to start a successful online business...

Ways to Promote Flattering Content

Don’t forget to promote client testimonials and reviews on your website and blog.  If someone endorses your service, product or property, make sure you share it with the world by including it on your website, blog and on your list of testimonials that you mail to prospective clients....

Make Your Own Commerical on YouTube.com

Here’s a great article about a Chiropractor who did a short video of one of his treatments on YouTube.com.  Creating a short video of your tour, vacation rental, treatment, service or product isn’t that hard to do if you own a digital video camera.   Uploading the video to YouTube.com is free and easy and you’ll want to make sure you embed your video into your website or blog...

Preparing Photos for the Web

The following steps are recommended for cropping, adjusting and optimizing your images to be used on the web.  You can use Adobe Photoshop, Fireworks or your favorite image editor:...

Windows XP Service Pack 3

If  you’re like me – still running Windows XP – you’ve probably been reminded recently to update to Service Pack 3.   A few months ago I tried to update both my PC and my laptop to Service Pack 3 and kept running into errors.  Well this week I finally decided to tackle the job of figuring out why the service packs weren’t updating properly on my machines. I like...

Fujita & Miura Public Relations

Featured Web Project: Fujita & Miura Public Relations is a full service PR firm that provides the finest communications consulting services. Ranked as one of Hawaii’s top 15 PR firms according to Pacific Business News, FMPR’s Competitive Edge ensures unequalled service. Located on Kauai, Hawaii, they counsel clients in a variety of industries worldwide and specialize in...

Promoting Your Blog…

If you’ve started a blog recently, here’s a list of sites you’ll want to submit to so more people can find and be exposed to your blog content. Feedburner Technorati (claim your blog at the bottom of the page) Blog TopSites Reddit (submit a link) Digg (Provide social media icons on every blog post, encourage readers to submit your posts) Delicious (Create an account and...