Author Archives: stevekennedy

When does it make sense to trade ownership for services?

Trading an ownership stake for services that you need for your small business just might make sense. Most entrepreneurs would bristle at the thought of losing any control in the company that they started and built. But it may just make sense if you are up against ...

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Easy SEO for WordPress

We've all heard the mantra the "Content is King". Now...how do you get your great content seen by the most eyes? There are several Search Engine Optimization (SEO) plugins available for your WordPress blog.  1. All in One SEO Pack - this is the industry standard with over five million downloads. It's the first plugin that you ...

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Google Caffeine – Much faster Index updates

Have you noticed any different search result pages lately? Google is using a new Web indexing system called Caffeine that is indexing pages on a continual basis instead of what used to be every few weeks. The impact on how you will ...

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Use Twitter to Find a Job

Social networking sites are a superb tool to connect with old friends, stay in touch with extended family, and to share news good and bad with everybody. Because a whole lot of personal information is available through some profiles, most sites recommend that we stay in touch with those we knew already. Twitter has supercharged ...

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Social Media Giants

The most popular social media sites that can be used to further your career or advertise your business are Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter. All three sites constantly add users, and have wide followings in the USA and internationally. Facebook is widely seen as mainly used by families and groups of friends to stay connected over long ...

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The Influence of Social Media on Consumers

The most popular social media sites are just half a decade old, yet they have already revolutionized the way at least three generations communicate, and, as an extension of that, consume. The typical FaceBook user stays in touch with peers of their own age, their parents, and exchanges news about the kids. The lines between friends ...

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URL Shortening Services

Url shortening is a technique in the web when a web page is made available by a provider under an extremely short url in addition to the address it had originally. There are many reasons to use url shortening. One reason is to avoid lengthy, hard to remember url’s for easy remembering. Copying an extremely ...

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Short and Simple: How to Make the Most Out of Your 140 Characters

What can you do with 140 characters? Obviously, not much, but using Twitter for the past few months has somehow given you the “talent” to think of the best 140-character phrases-- that is, if you want to broadcast your ideas to the world and yet, be understandable. If Twitter allowed more than 140 characters for ...

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Learn Why Marketing is not the Solution

By Invitation Only: Free! The Brain Alchemy Masterclass (Worth $2500) Wow! I got an invitation to join this program this morning from Michael Martine of Remarkablogger. He wrote a blog post at 2 am to get this invitation our to his list of subscribers because he feels that this is such a great ...

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