It’s coming. We’re bringing the 140Conference to a small town. We’re very, very early in the process, so I want you to get involved. Jeff Pulver and me at the 140 Conference in London Entrepreneur Jeff Pulver is the driving force behind the 140 Character Conference, or 140Conf for short. It’s not about Twitter. It’s about…
Doug Stewart publishes a site called Power to Fight the Big Boys. His tagline is “helping the best small businesses dominate their space on the web.” Doug is a fellow Oklahoman, and after we met at the GetSocial Conference in Oklahoma City, he invited me for an interview. Here’s a short preview of my interview:…
If you are interested in training for social media marketing in tourism, look at the courses Sheila Scarborough and I developed at Tourism Currents. Enrollment for the new courses starts today. (yay!) Sheila Scarborough, Liz Strauss, and Becky McCray Sheila and I met on Liz Strauss’s Successful Blog, on her open mic nights a couple…
Third Tribe has turned into my marketing mastermind group. I’m taking time to talk about it today, because the monthly fee goes to $97 per month after Monday, May 31, 2010. If you want to lock in $47 per month for the life of your membership, now is the time to join. Third Tribe was…
In addition to everything we talk about here, I publish an occasional newsletter with extra bonus material. It’s intended to be the sort of thing you can pass along to other small businesses in your town, or maybe someone like your chamber of commerce folks. Although the newsletter has been inactive for quite a while,…
I have some invitations for the Google Voice and Google Wave services. I’d like to give them to you, small town business folks. UPDATE: The invitations have all been awarded. WaveTo me, Google Wave is mostly a collaboration tool. It’s kind of like email, and kind of like a chat, and kind of like a…
Our friends Pam and Michelle (and crew) at BatchBlue have launched BatchBook for Sales. BatchBook is a CRM (customer relationship manager) for small business. Think of it as a super-hero address book. Here’s an overview of the new sales features. It now has Deals, a Calendar, and more user restrictions, so you have more ways…
Besides here, where do you go for small business information? I’m wondering because a publisher friend asked me. So I’m asking you. When you want to answer a question about how to do something, or how to improve your small business, do you use… other small business blogs other small business resource sites (like the…
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