With social media sites being just another part of our daily lives, it’s no wonder we tend to beef up security. We don’t get in our cars and drive down the road without a seat belt and we don’t leave the front door unlocked in the middle of the night - it only makes sense to put those online security settings to use and keep the boogy man out.
So you’re walking down the street and you ask a nice lady for directions to a local coffee shop. She says to you, “If you go one block and turn right you’ll find the Starbucks. Have a nice day.”
The story really does not need to be repeated, we all learned Aesop’s popular fable in grade school and it’s a tale that has stuck with all of us through out the years. The quick and bragging rabbit challenges the slow and thoughtful tortoise to a race and falls asleep before the race is over only to awaken as the tortoise crosses the finish line as the victor.
As a small business owner you are likely chief, cook and bottle washer. Adding social media maven to your job titles probably seems like a headache but, like it or not, if you have a product or service that people use then people are going to talk about you for good or bad.
How fitting to give the writer who also happens to live on a cattle ranch the topic of Purple Cows to blog about, right? Absolutely! As I sit here in my cozy chair with my laptop resting comfortably on my lap, I chuckle and applaud myself for choosing a second degree in business.
As you contemplate your social media game plan for your small business you’ll need to begin to include Google+. Google is now claiming membership of 90 million humans and while the popular belief is that 89 million of them are Google employees it’s becoming apparent that the active membership is growing slowly but surely.
I don’t need an excuse to throw a party. Hey, it’s Tuesday — come on over! Some folks are not as keen to open up their houses so soon after the holidays and the merry chaos that comes with them…it can take up to months to find where the cousins hid grandma’s fruitcake and has anyone seen the cat….?
When Google debuted way back in the Dark Ages of 1998 their motto was “Do no evil”. Now it seems it’s changed to “Bwaa aah aah aah!” as they continue to occupy more and more of the digital space.
If you have not already heard the word, Facebook is going public. On the first of February just shortly after the closing bell, the highly anticipated S-1 document was filed with the S.E.C.
