Ten or fifteen years ago, the internet was starting to see wide adoption… or at least beginning to start to see wide adoption.  Local businesses started going online… and they all had the same thought… I can sell my product/service to the WHOLE WORLD!!!

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Analysis Paralysis… If you haven’t heard the statement, it is summing up the “Ready, Aim Fire, Aim Fire, Aim” menality.  Basically, spending forever making the plan, and then never following through and actually “doing” the plan. And then… There is the opposite side of the coin…  “Ready, Fire, Aim”.  That doesn’t work, either.  You can’t […]

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RSS…  Really Simple Syndication.  Rich Site Summary. Most of us know what it is… but few are really leveraging it to help create business or simplify our lives… For those that don’t know, RSS is a news feed.  Basically, by subscribing to a website’s RSS feed, each time the site is updated, we will get […]

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Here is the Before… Ok, so if you have been following along, you have seen that you really need both a self-hosted WordPress blog and an Active|Rain RainMaker blog. You say, “OK there Skippy, now what?” Well bunky, you need content… GREAT, compelling, addictive content.  And you need to present it in a great, compelling […]

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I can’t help it.  Each year, as summer wanes towards fall, I get the itch to mess with my blog.  I don’t know why… I just can’t help it.  I like it.  I think it is pretty cool, but I just want to mix it up again. So, because I know that I am really […]

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Image via Wikipedia We’ll assume that you already have a FaceBook (personal) Profile.  In fact, we should start to assume that you already have a FaceBook (Business) Fan Page… because if you don’t, it is like not having a website just a couple of years ago… in fact, you should have several FaceBook Fan Pages.

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