Category Archives: Small Business Tips

{MOBILE, STATS} Smartphone User Study Shows Mobile Movement Under Way

For consultants and local businesses owners, take note of this stat: “88% of those who look for local information on their smartphones take action within a day.” Question is, are they taking action patronizing from your business because of how you’ve positioned your USP/guarantee/promotions/products/services with your mobile-friendly website, OR are they going to your competitors?…

You’re Fired!

Here’s one BIG reason to fire a client before you even get started. Do you measure your prospective business against your (business) values? Is there a mutual basis for doing business? Do you, can you, meet their Conditions Of Satisfaction, and vice versa? What incident do you recall passing on because of a disconnect that…

How To Publish To Your Blog Via Email

2 scenarios: (1) If you want to setup a website without any cost for design and hosting (excluding your own domain name), this could potentially be an answer to prayer for you. (2) If you are the owner of a WordPress blog and want to update it easily via email, this is a simple solution…

On Trust and Buy-In.

Who do people buy from? What do people buy-into before they buy-into your offerings? This 3 minute video shares a concept clients learn from our consultations fairly early on in our sessions. Perhaps this concept on trust and buy-in will be of value to you as a person and business-person? Thoughts? Feedback?

Clone & Deploy Blog (Same Domain) From One Host To Another

Have you attempted to clone your blog onto another host? Have you tried backing up and transferring your WordPress blog to another host, let alone ensuring all your categories, posts, comments, permalink structure, themes, customizations and plugins are intact and activated? Was it easy and painless? <insert laugh track> Exactly! It’s painful, isn’t it? Wil…

25 Tools That Save Me Time And Money

Here are some online/offline tools that make my life easier: // Hardware // >> Macbook Pro (http://apple.com/macbookpro/): Convenient plug and play. Lifestyle, media and business applications are all very intuitive. Saves me time, frustration and agony not worrying about the typical annoyances on a Windows machine. Generated thousands in revenue from leveraging audio and video…

Tilt Shift Generator App Demo For Easy Image Editing

Takayuki Fukatsu (@takayukifukatsu, ArtAndMobile.com), a brilliant Japanese iPhone and Flash designer and developer, created Tilt Shift Generator to help us easily create ‘toy camera’ images. Tilt Shift Generator is available as an iPhone, web-based and Adobe Air desktop app. Take your pick. In this 2:38 min video demo below, I modify a colorful royalty-free stock…