Local Services Marketing Simplified- so easy a thumb can tack it..

I ran across thumbtack while getting my daily dose of greatness from Chris Brogan and must admit that as first impressions go, thumbtack hit it out of the park with me.

It was interested immediately because buying local and using local services feels good.

It sounds great right?

Supporting the other shops in the local geographic area as well as their small business owners.  That feels good. Right? [Read more...]

Free RichWP Premium WordPress Themes

I am an affiliate of RichWP, (as well as a couple other WordPress Theme Developers) but in this instance that is largely unimportant since I am writing this post to spread the word, which I verified for myself, that Felix over at RichWP is giving away all of his current themes.

I downloaded my copies already and I would recommend that you do the same.  Figured I would share the wealth, read on for his reasons or
Click here to visit RichWP. [Read more...]

Why Your Small Business Should Know WordPress

As a small business owner, I quickly realized just how important my business tools are.  When I spend the money I need that tool to deliver on what it promised, consistently.  This post covers a big tool that is free, unless you want to get a theme or some premium plugins.

3 Points Explaining Why WordPress:

  1. FREE – Its free.  They give it away AND thousands of designers have created amazing ways to make the basic version even better and splurging on the best look involves between $50 and $100 for a really nice WordPress Theme. (Thesis Theme Affiliate Link)  The majority of the plugins, (think, applications for your iPhone) are free and offer impressive capabilities for your website with minimal effort on your part.
  2. EASY – I learned how to use it within a day and a half and while I am still learning each day that I use WordPress, the set up is so intuitive you will be breezing along with a couple quick pointers.  I wish the LLC Team was around to teach me the basics of WordPress when I picked it up.
  3. POWER – You too can be one of the big boys with minimal investment of your time and money.  With a little training from the LLC team you too can be adding to your website’s content AND visitors in no time!

If you like the theme we use for the LLC website, you can click here to get it for yourself, it’s built using the Thesis theme by Chris Pearson and DIY Themes (Affiliate Link)

Social Media | Organic & Amplified WOM

So you have a business and you give amazing service to one of your customers.

I mean, you shoot the moon AND it just so happens this is your biggest customer who just happens to be ready, willing, and connected technologically with thousands of consumers who want similar things from brands.  Too bad your business is not using Web 2.0, but I guess there is just no need for all that extravagance. [Read more...]

Facebook Study

This study was conducted during the months of October and November of 2009.  The goal was to satisfy the requirements of our group project for Consumer Behavior by gaining a clearer understanding of the interaction between consumers and the Facebook Social Networking site.  In order to gain a clearer understanding of this phenomenon, our group interviewed 10 Facebook users, received written feedback from twenty-five classmates and utilized an online survey to gain responses from an additional seventy consumers on top of consulting multiple secondary sources. [Read more...]

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