How to Use LinkedIn - Importing Contacts from your Desktop Email Program
December 18, 2009 by Karen Marree
Filed under Marketing, Web 2.0
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!At LinkedIn your Linkedin Profile can be developed by importing your existing email contacts lists. Mailing lists can be saved onto your desktop and uploaded to your LinkedIn Profile, increase your networking capabilities dramatically!
This tutorial is intended to show [...]
LinkedIn Profile Connections
December 10, 2009 by Karen Marree
Filed under Marketing, Web 2.0
Once your LinkedIn Profile is set up, the next step in How to Use LinkedIn is to add connections (LinkedIn’s terminology for contacts).
Why add connections to your LinkedIn profile? LinkedIn is an easy and free way to build your network. For business people, word of mouth promotion from past colleagues and customers can lead to [...]
Free Website Graphics Using Wordle
December 1, 2009 by Karen Marree
Filed under Small Business Website, Web 2.0
Visually depicting your site’s content to visitors with free graphics for websites makes the content easier to read, and keeps people interested in what you are writing about. One of the many free blog graphics toy is the “word cloud” generator Wordle. A word cloud builds an attractive graphic based on text you copy in [...]
Online Project Tracking New Feature - Get a Daily Summary of Activity by Email
June 29, 2009 by Karen Marree
Filed under Web 2.0, website setup
The Online Project Tracking system which Cairns Business Help uses for website development and other large, multi-step projects has been upgraded so that it now sends out daily email updates.
If you are not using your favourite RSS Reader (Click here for some info about What is RSS?) to keep track of your project activities, you [...]
Basecamp Introduction - Online Project Collaboration
May 20, 2009 by Karen Marree
Filed under Web 2.0
Basecamp is an online project management, collaboration and task software. In the simplest terms this allows you to keep a task list, and track the progress of your tasks online. All information regarding a project can be stored in one secure location, simpler and more conveniently than emails.
For larger projects with a few different people [...]
Choosing a Website Name for your Small Business Website
May 13, 2009 by Karen Marree
Filed under Marketing, Small Business Website
Your website name, otherwise known as domain name or URL is the address people use on the internet to access information about your business, and its’ products and/or services. It should in line with considerations on branding for your business including:
Business Name
Product name
Service name
Trademarks
It should be memorable and easily identifiable with [...]
Twitter for Small Business
March 27, 2009 by Karen Marree
Filed under Marketing, Web 2.0
Twitter is another great & free tool for connecting to people for small business and personal use whether it be for business promotion or to stay in touch with friends & family. Although only recently getting covering in the main stream media such as recent coverage in the Sydney Morning Herald, Twitter has just celebrated [...]