Archive for the social media
Join us Thursday, July 10th at 3PM EST
Join Attorney Bob White (Gunster Yoakley), Bruce Rector (The Rector Group) and Chris Muccio (SFGI Solutions) as they discuss “Social Media, Focusing on Balancing the Business Growth Potential with Legal Concerns and Considerations.”
These three gentlemen bring to bear over 70 years of combined business experience successfully helping companies from $250,000 to over $12 Billion accelerate their growth.
This promises to be a lively (free!) webinar as they discuss point and counter-point the legal considerations of Social Media.
Register for the free webinar here: http://www.SocialMediaMadeSimple.com/teleseminar
As many of you already know, I’ve been focusing more and more on Web 2.0/Social Media and two things are becoming very apparent; many people are struggling to understand where to begin and just as many are simply trying to find out which sites to participate in.
Given the power of Social Media and how it might help your business, I’d like to invite you to a teleseminar on May 19th, at 7PM EST, where Chris Muccio, the CFO Strategist and I will introduce you to, and begin to help you sort through the Social Media puzzle. To register for this free call, please go to http://www.imarket20.com/teleseminar. If you can’t make the call, but are still interested in hearing it, sign up anyway. We’ll send out the recording.
Hope to talk to you Monday!
Here’s a cool tool for you- a multi-use IM service.
Trillian will allow you to set up Yahoo, AIM, ICQ and several other IM accounts all on one piece of software, so you don’t have multiple IM windows open on your computer. I’ve been using it for a couple of years now and love it. Now if they’ll just add Skype capabilies…
After literally MONTHS of fighting with yahoo, I have found a business email-hosting solution that (so far!) is outstanding. MailTrust ranks top of the list on customer service - from the Live Chat guy to everyone on their customer support team ( I think I’ve met them all!). Super quick to respond, courteous and they go above and beyond what I would expect of a company with ‘good’ customer service.
They guarantee 100% uptime - so far so good.
They also have broadcasting capabilities, so it doesn’t look like I’ll get tagged as a spammer (for some reason, Yahoo didn’t like my 16,000+ sent emails - even though they were all sent to individual clients/ inquiries with at most 2-3 CCs).
I’ll keep you posted, but two thumbs up for Mail Trust.
If you are in the initial stages of having a website or blog created, or you are looking for new hosting, choose your new service carefully. One appealing factor of going with a small hosting company is the personal service you are assured to receive. The problem with going with a small company is that many do not allow you to have access to your own website - meaning any changes or updates must go through that company. This can present a challenge if you need work done and your host has closed down for three weeks over the holidays. Or if you didn’t purchase a big enough package and they only promise your changes will be made within 3-5 business days.
Even if you are capable of doing your own maintenance tasks, or you are working with a VA or other web designer, you are still at the mercy of your hosting company.
I recommend that you choose a hosting company where you have full-time access to your website or blog. There are many good, reputable hosting companies that will not hold your website hostage. GoDaddy is popular, as is Hostmonster and my favorite, Bluehost.
I’ve had three clients recently who had trouble with these ‘personal’ web hosts. Interestingly, two of them were with the same company. These boutique hosting companies may be fine if you will be setting up your website and leaving it alone. However if you plan on even a moderate amount of Internet marketing, you need to consider how easy it will be to access your site for updates.
I use Yahoo! mail - my main email is a yahoo account, all of my domain-based email accounts are routed to Yahoo!, along with my email accounts I have through my clients’ businesses.
And Yahoo! is down.
Yesterday morning, a bright red error message appeared on my screen:
Unusual Activity Detected
To protect you, your account has been suspended from sending, saving, and receiving mail for up to 48 hours
I panicked. I can’t be without email for 48 hours - I run my business through my email account! So after searching through the site for almost 15 minutes, I found a phone number. Not one for customer support, but one for copyright issues. At this point, any number would do.
Finally connected with someone who theoretically could help, she told me she was sorry for the inconvenience and I would just have to wait until my email was back up.
Huh??
So I called back. This woman was much more helpful and explained that there was a bug in the Yahoo system and it had been there since Sunday. The engineers were aware of it and were working on it (remember, this was Tuesday). Evidently it is a roaming bug and hit different accounts at different times. Relieved that this was not an issue with my particular account, I prepared to be patient and work around my yahoo account as much as I could yesterday.
My fabulous assistant Sandy, who is more of a night owl than me, IM’d at 4 this morning and said “Yaaa Hooo! Yahoo is back up!”
And it was - for a few hours. Now I have that bright red message on my screen again:
Unusual Activity Detected
To protect you, your account has been suspended from sending, saving, and receiving mail for up to 48 hours
Anyone else having trouble?
I am offering a 4-week training course on 1 Shopping Cart. We’ll cover the basic shopping cart set up, autoresponders, broadcasts and product setup.
No fancy sales letter - I’ve been working with 1SC for 6 years. I regularly charge $125/ hour for one-on-one training and want to move to a group structure. This is a beta training.
Class starts Thursday, Sept. 27, 2007 at 4 PM Eastern.
You must know HTML well enough to place code into your files.
If you’re interested, please email me at peggy_murrah [[ at ]] yahoo.com
I only have room for one more participant
No financial charge for the training, however I will greatly appreciate your feedback. 
My husband recently attended a conference on Substance Abuse (he’s a therapist) and told me this story about a drug and alcohol treatment center…
Eric Clapton founded the Crossroads Centre on the Caribbean Island of Antigua back in 1997.
He sponsors a Guitar Festival to help fund the Centre. The Festival just about breaks even on the actual event, but Eric creates CDs and sells those. They tend to go platinum - and that’s the money he uses to fund his treatment center.
There’s a lesson to be learned for all of us - how many times do we tend to scrap an idea because it won’t make money right away? I met with a business strategist this past week and as I shared a couple of ideas with him, he reminded me to look at the bigger picture. It’s not always the most financially advantageous to collect the bucks on the front end - sometimes it makes more sense to introduce a new prospect to your services at a lower price point and then keep them around long term.
I’ll be at the ICF (International Coach Federation) Conference this year in Long Beach, helping speaker Suzanne Falter Barns with her booth. And I can’t wait!
The last ICF conference I went to was in Chicago in 2001 - and I met some really incredible people. I am definitely looking forward to this one. If you’ll be there, be sure to stop by and say hello!
My son is going with me for a couple of days as well. His plans are to hang out on the beach, but that’s okay. I’m happy that my 19 year old still likes to be with his mom. Too bad for him, he has to be back home that Friday for a zoology exam.
I’ve got a great team and would like to expand a little.
I need someone with specific skills…
Dreamweaver
1ShoppingCart
WordPress
Knowledge of these systems is a plus:
Aweber
Constant Contact
MemberGate
AMember
InfusionSoft
Interested? Please fill out the basic questionnaire here
Cheers!
