It may be August, but it’s never too early to start planning for the holidays. If you start now, you have time on your side, and you can stage a successful Small Business Saturday event that will have everyone talking! Saturday, November 28th is the date for 2015...
Scenario: you decide to sign up for a Facebook account and find out just what this Facebook thing really is. You upload a profile picture and maybe a cover photo, add some details about your life; you then proceed down the path of collecting friends: your family, your...
This is a picture of my real junk drawer. *Notice the plastic baggie full of flash lights, key chains and pens--all from the same company, hoping I'll call them someday. And the can koozies hiding among the phone charger and batteries.* Admit it, you have a junk...
Part 2 of an ongoing series, discussing social media tips you can put to work right now. Today’s topic is Facebook Posting/Liking/Sharing Ahh, Facebook. You are like a fickle teenager. What you said yesterday may still hold true for today, or maybe not! Here's a...
Marketers have learned so much about consumer behavior through the various social media platforms, including whether or not to do business with a company, monitoring peer reviews, and much more. Today, more than ever, marketers are turning to these channels to create...
Bullying is rampant in our society, and has become more so with the technology we have today. Too many of our young people have fallen victim to bullying; some teens have even taken their own lives due to the extreme bullying they have endured. How do we as a society address this problem?
In recognition of Clean Off Your Desk day, guest blogger Cyndy Ratcliffe offers her 4 top tips for creating an organized work space.
how much time should you spend managing your social media sites per day (or week)?
Images are powerful. Without a doubt, any marketing material we produce is going to be more effective when we include images: photos, graphics…
It was time to get my daughter’s senior portraits taken, and an awesome photographer and family friend offered his services. So off we went, on a glorious day in October. One of his favorite places to shoot photos is the De Hart Botanical Gardens just south of Louisburg, NC. I had driven past the entrance to the Gardens
I checked in with my Facebook newsfeed a few minutes ago and noticed a friend had liked a local business page. I was curious, so checked out the page. It’s a general store that hasn’t opened its doors yet.