It’s not because social media has been the most important factor in building my business. (Although it has.) It’s not because it levels the playing field in so many ways. (Although it does.) And it’s not because I’m now very much in touch with the quotidian habits of people I have not seen in twenty-five [...]
Emma Alvarez Gibson
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Tag Archives: webby bits
My Co-Workers: You, You, and YOU.
A few weeks ago, my friend Stacy put words to something I’d been thinking about for some time. Appropriately, she said it via Twitter: “…twitter is like the watercooler for the self-employed.” Of course! I thought. That’s exactly what it is. Since I am self-employed, I see very few other humans during an average workday, [...]
#5 is my favorite.
I use GoogleVoice primarily for business. If I get a business call at home, I can just answer the land line and rest a little easier, knowing the call won’t be dropped due to the sporadic cell phone coverage in my hometown. That aside, I think the main benefit of having voice-to-text messages delivered to [...]
Lite Sites! Lite Sites! Read all about it!
Have you met my friend Sarah Bray? She’s a kick-ass designer (and entrepreneur, and wife and mama), and she’s recently launched something that’s going to knock your socks off. It’s called Lite Sites. Here’s what Sarah has to say about them: LiteSites are gorgeous, customized pre-built websites that are packed with functionality and are built [...]
Pam Slim’s Big 5 Mid-Year, Game-Changing Questions
A few days ago, the fantastic Pam Slim published a post on her site that centered around the notion of examining one’s progress and direction, six months into the year. I loved the idea immediately (and you should go read it ASAP). One of the best lessons I learned from my five years in corporate [...]
Top Five Twitter Tips
(Originally posted April 3 on Old Soul Ink.) For those about to Twitter: I salute you. You’re taking a step in the right direction! Twitter will absolutely help you to connect to your audience (assuming your audience is on Twitter, right?), whether that audience is “women over the age of 35 who read AdBusters” or [...]
