(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 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...
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...
There are two main components to setting up every website. The first part of is registering your website or blog's domain name (ex. acmecompany.com). Some of the most popular domain registrars are GoDaddy or Network Solutions. After you've registered the domain name, you'll have to set up website hosting. That's the...
At some point, you may want to forward your Gmail emails (or a copy of them) to another email address. There could be several reasons: You're no longer using that Gmail address You have multiple Gmail addresses and don't want to have to check each account all the time You don't want someone...
I send/receive a ton of emails on a daily basis. I make sure that every email includes my name, company name, contact information and links to all my social networking profiles. These easiest way to do this automatically is to create an email signature. Every time I create I new message...
Below is a presentation that I gave last night at Social Media Club of Evansville. Growing Your Business With Social Media - Social Media Club Evansville View more presentations from Jay Lane. If you're viewing this in your RSS reader and are unable to view the embedded presentation above, please go to the...
I just helped a friend set up a Wordpress Web site at Network Solutions. I've set up a ton of Wordpress sites with Site5 (the hosting company I use) and GoDaddy but never Network Solutions. I wasn't sure if it would be a smooth installation or if I'd run into...
Let's say that you have a company selling digital cameras and that you want an easy way to find out what's being said about you and your company and your products on the Web. Sure, you could go to Google and type in your company name or product names and...