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Blog – Create a Creative Portfolio Blog to Get Jobs
Are you a creative? Writers, designers, photographers, film makers and other creative workers can quickly develop a paying audience for their work, and can get jobs too, using a blog. Your blog is a hub for all your marketing activities. Before you start blogging however, you need to plan to ensure that your audience finds [...]
10 Twitter Do's & Don'ts
In case you haven’t heard Twitter is the hottest rage in Social Media at this moment. The following is a list of everything you should and shouldn’t be doing when using Twitter. But first lets brush up on some basic Twitter verbiage and/or slang twitter slang terms. New twitter terms are continually being invented and [...]
Social Media Marketing – 11 of the Most Critical Words to Use in Social Media in 2009
Conversation. Yep- that is what the core focus is in Social Media. Ok- let’s get REAL. If Social Media marketing is about conversation, then should there not be words that fit in to what the culture of social media is all about? Should not you paint a picture with your words? Should your words not [...]
Web Developers – Dealing With Your Clients
I’d like to discuss how to properly deal with your clients, setting expectations and holding everyone accountable. Defining the Rolls and Creating Goals During your initial meeting with the client, after they’ve agreed to hire you, you need to define everyone’s role in the project. You should create a spreadsheet with deliverables, and assign a [...]
Make Money Online Through a Paid Membership Website
Savvy Internet users are quickly becoming interested in creating their own paid membership websites. Since the Internet has become more and more useful to society-from being a reliable source of information to one of the major providers of entertainment, the Internet, nowadays, is as widely used as the television. Everywhere, you would not find a [...]
Benefits of Search Engine Optimization for your Website
Find out how search engine optimization and internet marketing can help your company reach new customers online like never before. The purpose of search engine optimization is to increase web site traffic by obtaining quality results within the most used search engines. In simple terms, search engine optimization is making a Web site generate traffic [...]
If You Don't Read Your Website Analytics, You're Driving Blind!
Once you are started with your own website, you need to understand how It’s faring. You need to know whether it is able to attract a good number of visitors, or is very rarely visited by people. Keeping a tab on the proceedings of your website becomes utmost important when you are doing business online. [...]
The Top 3 Pitfalls Of Outsourcing Your Web Development
Every day, thousands of businesses like yours make the same critical mistakes when outsourcing their software or web development. Mistake #1: Assuming that the outsource company you are working with can read your mind. Most outsource vendors expect complete requirements before they start the work, and will charge you for every additional change, regardless of [...]
Self Managed Team – Practical Experiences
What is a self managed/self organizing team? What is mentioned here may not be an industry standard description. This is actually the end result of my experiment in setting a self managed team. The team members choose and plan the task with minimum support from line manager. Tasks were completed without follow up and with [...]
Managing Small Projects
As both an active project manager and project management trainer, I often get asked whether the project management best practices that are applicable for large projects can be applied on smaller projects. This is a really important question and one which all project managers must face up to when managing small projects. Focusing on project [...]
