Posts Tagged ‘food industry’
StringHub –Where Educators, Students and Startups Meet
Article first published as StringHub –Where Educators, Students and Startups Meet on Technorati. As a guest writer, Technorati published my first article last week, which is shown below. I found it a great compliment to be asked to write for Tehnorati. After all, Technorati, the very first search engine for blogs, is considered the gold standard,…
Read MoreDo Accountants Really Save You Time and Money?
Can you really save your company money with an accountant? Quite simply the answer is yes, if you take the time to find the accountant that best suits your company’s needs. When you find the best accountant for your business you will be saving your company not only money but also time. The ideal accountant…
Read MoreCuckoo 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 MoreSocial Networks in Turmoil Check Out Your Options!
Did Facebook make you angry this week? Are you afraid of Google becoming the Walmart of the Internet? How dare they change things on what seems like a whim, right? Like Netflix, I think they forgot about the Number One Rule in Social Media. What is that rule, Mr. Zuckerberg? It’s about them, not you!…
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 MoreThe World Media Awards: Why YOU Must Enroll
I was recently asked by Murray Newlands to support the World Media Awards coming up February 25, 2012 in San Francisco. I am often quite a skeptic and I try to look things over carefully (maybe it’s my german heritage upbringing and living in conservative Appleton, WI. And getting spam-scammed online recently). So I took…
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