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I don’t consider myself a grammar expert by any stretch of the imagination; however, I am consistently shocked at how often some words get misused or misspelled. Many of the gems below came from Tweets over the past few weeks. I get that a tweet is 140 characters long and is basically a stream of consciousness. However, for most of you, your tweets are public. That means a potential client or employer could be reading what you are writing and it never hurts to sound intelligent. Some of the biggest offenders are:

• Lose vs. Loose – you are … Continue Reading
  

Many years ago I worked for the Ritz Carlton Hotel chain in Atlanta, Georgia (The one off Peachtree Street if you know the area). Anyway, there were several wonderful things about working for a large hotel chain, and a few not so wonderful. One of the great aspects was being able to travel the globe and stay at some of the greatest hotels in the world for next to nothing, more on that in another article.

One of the “opportunities” of … Continue Reading

According to a recent Whitepaper on “Six Mistakes Companies Are Making Today…” produced by SAP, businesses react by retrenching and cutting costs but they believe you should invest in business intelligence, preferably in software sold by them. The following 6 business mistakes were culled from this whitepaper and some of my own comments have been introduced as I see them applying or not to most small companies.

Mistake 1: Taking Existing Customers for Granted.
Staying in tune … Continue Reading

My dad (Bob Reynolds, CEO of Net Solutions) and I have shared an office since August of 2009. Not a big office, probably 12′ x 12′. At first this annoyed the crap out of me. He eavesdrops on my phone calls, he types loudly and we definitely operate with two different internal thermostats. After I got over the initial minor annoyances of sharing an office, I started to realize that there could be some real benefits to this new situation.

Bob has been in business forever. As far back as I can remember he and my mom have owned … Continue Reading

we were developing a site for a client and were 99% done when they called and said their current site was down. Rather than attempting to contact their current host and/or web developer to get the old site back up, we opted just to take the new site live. When I logged in to their current hosts control panel, I saw this message.

This client is an average small business owner and the message on the screen meant absolutely nothing to him. He didn’t know how to pull a … Continue Reading

Soliciting a testimonial from a client can be kind of awkward. We recently went through the process of updating the case studies in our portfolio on our website. Our case studies are laid out so that we tell the reader the situation, the solution, the products used and the success. The success usually consists of a testimonial from a client telling the world how their new and improved website has made their life easier or better.

One client that I wanted to profile was Beau Coats, Attorney At Law. I have never actually met Beau before. I … Continue Reading

Do you ever find yourself using Instant Messenger (IM) to communicate with another person; the conversation has drawn on for so long your fingers are getting tired? Or you have typed so long trying to relay an issue that you find yourself back where you started? Usually, these IM conversations are done in an effort to avoid having to call the person you are IM’ing with. Sometimes this is faster and easier, allowing you to have three and four instant message conversations at one time. In today’s day and age this is amazingly efficient. IM … Continue Reading

If you’re new to email marketing, or not using it at all, you’re probably wondering, “Why use a professional email marketing tool such as ProFusion Mailer? I can just CC all of my customers or contacts using Outlook.” It’s easy to run into issues when you try and send out big blocks of emails like that.

Here is a list of 6 reasons why an email marketing program like ProFusion Mailer works better than Outlook every time.

1. Each email you send has the possibility of not reaching your intended recipient. Instead, it could get trapped in the … Continue Reading

A reseller of ours at Print & Copy Factory sent us this link. It really gets the wheels spinning…