As a business owner or marketer, you will inevitably work with outside contractors/vendors (web developers, designers, marketing agencies, etc.) or even other employees on your company's digital marketing and/or social media efforts. They will need to set up/use various online services/tools on your behalf as they are doing work for...
There are a lot of ways your customers, prospects, and others find your website or blog. They might happen to know your website URL (the actual address that someone types in the browser's address bar), they might find you through a search engine or maybe they clicked on an ad...
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The very first step in launching your website or blog is registering/buying a website domain name (i.e. acmecompany.com). This is what people type into their browser's address bar to find your website. There are countless domain registrars out there. These are websites where you can go and buy your domain. Some...
(This blog post was originally posted on LinkedIn on January 29, 2015. Since then, it's been one of the most popular pieces I've ever written. The content is pretty timeless but I've made some edits over the past couple of years to keep it up to date.) Today, I was reading a...
I first posted this on LinkedIn in 2015 and then updated it in April 2018. Back in 2015, I wrote about how to turn off LinkedIn profile notifications so that your LinkedIn network wouldn't be notified every time you made a change to your profile. This used to include making changes to your...
I think Facebook is a very valuable resource but not for the same reason that most people do. Sure, I follow what's going with family and friends but more recently, I started it using Facebook more for following companies, blogs and news sites that interest me. Almost every day I come...
Do you have a Facebook friends that annoy you with there annoying posts about _______________? Or maybe you have friends that post updates all day long and fill up your newsfeed. If you're like me, your Facebook newsfeed is precious real estate. There are certain people (and brands) that you want to...
I'll be honest. When I write something on my blog, I don't really expect many people to read it. I mean, I'm no Lewis Bertolucci or Jeff Ross (two of my co-workers that are experienced bloggers). Sure, I'll share links through my social networks but I don't expect these people to make...
Recently, my computer's hard drive crashed and I lost everything, including 11+ years of digital photos and videos (plus countless documents and software). Those photos and videos were priceless to me because they chronicled every life event involving me, my wife and our three kids. It was easily 10's of...