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Social media basics for a small business

Many businesses, especially small businesses, are wary of social media and for a variety of reasons. The reasons are legitimate given that owners are wrapped up in the business of actually running their business, so they are often in uncharted … Continue reading

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Quotes are signage

The internet is full of epigrams, aphorisms and quotes. I used a few in my post yesterday. You see them every day in tweets and status updates. They’re all over the place. Why is that? What are they for? They’re … Continue reading

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Web sites and vertical vs. horizontal

I came across a discussion on LinkedIn where the question was asked, “Why do we still design web sites that are vertical?” In the responses, I saw some examples of pages that were horizontal — you scrolled left to right. … Continue reading

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When do you post and why?

This is a quick little post that is primarily questions. For instance, if you schedule your blog posts, when do you schedule them for? I ask this because I’m in the Atlantic time zone. Many people are in the Eastern … Continue reading

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Repetition is good so it’s good to repeat ourselves

It’s good to repeat yourself. By default I think we believe to repeat ourselves is a bad thing. However, if we’re trying to communicate it’s through repetition that it gets across. The trick is to do this without becoming redundant  … Continue reading

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