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Often the hardest thing about blogging is thinking up content. Obviously, if you are launching a new product or service - there's plenty to blog about. But, what if you are just working away - what can you possibly write about?Events and happenings in your industry or consider creating a calendar for your industry.Use Google Alerts to stay on top of relevant keywords and comment on mediaGetting creative
When times get tough, entrepreneurs need to get creative.Industry conferences and seminar can be expensive, but they are also great ways to network and stay abreast of what's the newest trends. In tough economic times, our marketing budgets can't always support the ticket price. However, many conferences will let you attend if you volunteer some hours to the conference.For the cost of a coupleBlogging matters
For those of you following our little traffic ranking exercise - When we started this exercise (9/22), Dohertyassoc.com has a Alexa traffic rank of: 3,740,178. In October, it had a traffic rank of 1,969,422, January 2009 was 1,183,946, April we had gotten to 869,376. Currently Doherty's traffic rank is 1,696,815So what happened? We got busy, and let the website slide and lo and behold - no newApril Update
Like every small business - when we get busy we tend to market less - bad, bad bad! We know, it has been crazy!! Here is a quick update on just a few of our projects:SF Business Services is updated weekly with the latest SF Business News and Events.FitBizTools has been busy with a large eCommerce project providing the customer an opportunity to market to numerous channels from a single databaseInternet Strategies
It’s not about building websites - it’s about building online businesses . . . How many of you have a website? Uh huh. How many of you have updated it in the last month? Exactly. What is your page rank?, your Alexa ranking? or even your link building strategy? Not sure, call us we can help!Internet StrategiesBlog Posts
Reality Check
Reality Check
Business Book Club
This month we will be reading Guy Kawasaki's "Reality Check"
In Silicon Valley slang, a “bozo explosion” is what causes a lean, mean, fighting machine of a company to slide into mediocrity. As Guy Kawasaki puts it, “If the two most popular words in your company are partner and strategic, and partner has become a verb, and strategic is used to describe decisions and activities that don’t make sense” . . . it’s time for a reality check.
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Business Book Club
This month we will be reading Guy Kawasaki's "Reality Check"
In Silicon Valley slang, a “bozo explosion” is what causes a lean, mean, fighting machine of a company to slide into mediocrity. As Guy Kawasaki puts it, “If the two most popular words in your company are partner and strategic, and partner has become a verb, and strategic is used to describe decisions and activities that don’t make sense” . . . it’s time for a reality check.
For near… Continue
Posted by M. Patrick Doherty on November 6, 2008 at 3:52pm
Welcome to our "little" experiment in social networking
As online social networking continues to evolve beyond the MySpace teenage crowd - we will continue to explore Web 2.0 solutions that help small businesses work smarter, not harder.
We'd love your input.
Melinda & Mike
We'd love your input.
Melinda & Mike
Posted by M. Patrick Doherty on April 9, 2008 at 11:01am
FITbiz
Wasting time versus investing time
As small business owners, we can get completely sucked into researching various tools, plans, programs, packages etc. And typically time is the most precious resource that we have. I, for example, am currently on a Twitter kick. I am spending a whole bunch of time trying to figure out how this works [...]Pricing - in THIS economy?
As I look at my projections for 2009 I am trying to figure out how to maintain profitability in this challenging economy. And while I haven’t raised my prices in a while now, this sure doesn’t feel like the climate to raise prices . . . so how do I navigate this and make [...]FITbiz Tools - working smarter, not harder
In tough times, you have to work smarter, not harder . . . It means doing more with less. It means leveraging your time wisely. FITbiz provides you the tools to work smarter - We integrate a variety of tools in your business to make you work better - like linking QuickBooks so that it [...]Budget for Fitness
FIT businesses budget. Now is the perfect time to look back on what happened in your business in 2008, and put together your best estimates about what will happen in 2009. Budgeting forces you to focus on what might happen, what might change in your business, and how all of that will impact [...]2009 Small Business California Survey
Please find the link to the Small Business California (SB-Cal) Survey of California small businesses. Last year it received 630 responses from every county in the state. Please take a moment to complete and forward to other small business owners you know. The results will form the SB-Cal agenda for 2009. Survey [...]Photos
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