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Cuckoo for Cacoo, Free Flow Charting for Entrepreneurs
It is always tricky envisioning how the various pieces of a startup business will fit together and interact. Cacoo (https://cacoo.com/) is a cool cloud-based application that can be used for project envisioning, flow charts and mockups. Cacoo offers free and reasonably priced product tiers that will fit into those very tight budgets. For entrepreneurs that…
Read MoreHoward Schultz’ Conversation With America -An Update
Social Energizer’s blogging goal is to bring attention to trends and issues that matter to small and medium-sized business owners. Although our intent is to be non-political, matters of national interest affect small and medium-sized businesses far more often than we’d like. That is why last month, in “The Coffee Party Anyone? Howard Schultz of…
Read More20 Entrepreneurial Insights for Success
Running a small business can be a lonely thing and getting good advice is key. Sometimes just knowing what’s worth pursuing or not is all you need. Sometimes it’s just getting started. Here’s a list of short and simple advice for entrepreneurs given by entrepreneurs. Establish a strong network –whether it’s friends or people you…
Read MoreWord-Of-Mouth Marketing Online –Equals Healthy Sales
Small and medium-sized business owners, you know how vital it is to the health of your business that you make a great impression with all of your customers, who then, of course, tell their friends. Plain and simple that’s word-of-mouth advertising. Undeniably, it’s the best way of introducing your business to potential new customers and…
Read MoreWisconsin’s Herb Kohl on Monopoly-Busting Google
This just in… Herb Kohl’s office released this press release yesterday. Below are excerpts from his Opening Statement Of U.S. Senator Herb Kohl For The Of Hearing, “The Power Of Google: Serving Consumers Or Threatening Competition?” “The basic premise of Google at its founding was that it would build an unbiased search engine — that…
Read MoreI Plus-one’d That Story, The New Verb
I’m predicting ‘plus one’ will become 2011’s new noun-to-verb crossover. A few years ago, it was ‘I googled it’. Today, it’s +1 –as a verb. Pretty soon you’ll be hearing, “I read that and ‘plus one’d’ it.” What is the new Google +1? It is sort of like the Facebook ‘Like’ button, but with a…
Read MoreIt’s Self-Evaluation Time for your Website
As you know, your website is your online basecamp. It conveys the essence of your brand to your community and is the heavy-lifter for all of your online communications. If it lacks appeal, is unorganized, or just doesn’t work properly, it can lead to lost business opportunities, perhaps even business failure. So what have you got…
Read MorePart Four – How do I know I’m not ‘spamming’? I’m just trying to promote my blog
Hopefully last week’s post didn’t make you stay awake at night wondering if you, too, were a spammer. When you leave comments on someone else’s blog how do you know it’s not spam? You can rest easy if you are leaving thoughtful comments on blogs that match or at least have something to do with…
Read MorePart Three – Sorting Out Spam Comments in your Blog
What a thrill it is to get people commenting on your blog. That’s how it works, right? People from all over the world will discover your writing talents, appreciate your knowledge on a certain subject and leave comments. That is what all of us engaging in the social media world have all been promised, right?…
Read MorePart Two – Spam on Social Networks
Recently I got scam-spammed on Facebook by reposting an entry on Amy Winehouse’s death stating that it was getting more media attention than several soldiers who were killed in action. I should know better, right? Maybe you saw it, too? Oops. Sorry! How did I find out? Shortly after I posted, I received an email…
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