Social Media Points of View

I’m starting to post here on the site to  share the wisdom from different age groups regarding a common computer related question. Our experts here are Eleanor McCallum – also known as Granny Blogger (shown in the photo to the left), myself – the non-techie online marketing specialist, Bridget Greenwood – our photographer and model […]

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NAMS Training Tidbits

I’ve just returned from the NAMS marketing workshop in Atlanta that I attend twice a year. I admit the first two days back I was feeling a little brain dead, but I’m slowly getting back to normal and itching to implement some of the great ideas I found out about there. For instance, in a […]

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Video and Teleprompter Use

Creating a welcome video for the home page of my motivatedtolearn.com site has been on my to-do list for a long time. Last night, I decided I was going to do it, no matter what. A couple of hours later I had a number of videos done but none that I was really happy with, […]

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Using Paper.li

If you’d like to start your own online magazine full of curated, current content, why not try the service at Paper.li?  Thanks to Karen Coleman at Kaz DesignWorks for letting me know about this program. It takes time at first, like all good things, but can be quite useful as a means to share information […]

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Group Screen Sharing Options

Once a week I facilitate a mastermind group. We’ve tried a wide variety of programs, from telephone based to using the Internet only, and sometimes a mix of both. Here are some of our experiences so far: At first we always used freeconferencecalling.com since it was an easy way to use the telephone and record […]

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Using Hootsuite and the Hootlet

Hootsuite is an application that allows you to monitor your Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn accounts all from one dashboard. It saves me loads of time and so far I love it. There are also extra features such as the ability to send your messages now or later, stats to show how many readers clicked on […]

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Promoting Your Business Online

One of the presentations I make is called  ‘Promoting Your Business Online’ and the following are the key points I cover. How many of them are you including in your marketing plan? Start the same way that someone looking for your product or service would start. Search on Google and see whether you are listed. […]

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Your Content – Are You Re-Purposing It?

As business owners, we spend a lot of time creating content – for presentations, websites, marketing pieces – any number of things. Why not re-purpose that content and let it work for you in many different ways? Here are my favourite ideas for keeping my content in front of people: After creating an interesting article […]

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