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Get Your GOOGLE Place Page In Order
Tuesday November 9, 2010
Reading Time: 7 minutes
Have you claimed your GOOGLE Place Page yet? Remember when I talked about GOOGLE Local becoming GOOGLE Places? In September I wrote about how GOOGLE Places was upgraded to a TWO-WAY STREET. Webconsuls subscribes to a number of SEO/SMO on-line newsletters and also makes SMO and SEO News Feeds available for our site users. One…
Go Right at 501 Mission Place
Thursday November 4, 2010
Reading Time: 4 minutes
Today marks a milestone for Webconsuls’ blog. Yes, today when I hit the “publish post” button you will be able to read our 501st blog post! Ironically today I want to introduce you to a new on-line community 501 Mission Place. Over the past year I have written a lot about my on-line friend Chris…
My Friend
Thursday October 28, 2010
Reading Time: 6 minutes
My Friend I have a friend from college whose name is not important but I think his life story is. I graduated in 1966 and he in 1967. His father was an exec at a large corporation and while his upbringing included private prep school, year abroad, and a private college he was an unpretentious…
THE Can Be a Powerful Word
Monday October 25, 2010
Reading Time: 6 minutes
Did the title of this post, “THE Can Be a Powerful Word”, get your attention? Think about it for a minute. Now if I say: “It’s THE Real Thing” or “When you care enough to send THE very best”, I’ll bet you can name what brand each statement refers to without blinking an eye. Am…
BWE10 Chief Listening Officers Wanted
Wednesday October 20, 2010
Reading Time: 11 minutes
This past weekend, October 14-16, I learned a little of how to be Webconsuls’ Chief Listening Officer (CLO). Yes, the C-Suite at many companies does now include a CLO and happily I attended Blog World Expo 2010 to learn how to listen, engage, and as @lizstrauss says “manage the present and create the future.” This…
New Twitter Home to Cuckoo Birds
Saturday September 25, 2010
Reading Time: 4 minutes
Twitter announced NewTwitter on September 14, 2010. They referred to it as a Better Twitter and they said it would be “rolled out” or coming soon to a nest near you. Yesterday, ten days into the roll out I received a message on my Twitter page: “Welcome to #NewTwitter!” I was shocked because after all,…
Rose Knows What to Do When Novelty Wears Off!
Thursday September 16, 2010
Reading Time: 9 minutes
How old are you? Do you imagine that you will still be productive when you are 82? Or do you hope to retire before you reach 50 or 60 or 70? I want you to meet my friend Rose. Rose works for The Seaward Inn located in Rockport, MA.You might remember hearing of Rose when…
Vacation in Paradise
Thursday September 9, 2010
Reading Time: 10 minutes
Take a Trip to Paradise The summer is over so vacation travel should slow down. If you can, this may be a perfect time to visit paradise – the beautiful island of Kauai. Kauai is both remote and accessible, American and laid-back, modern and rustic. As described on GoHawaii.com From the soaring cliffs of the…
Google Places Finally a Two-Way Street
Friday September 3, 2010
Reading Time: 4 minutes
Image via Wikipedia Don’t you hate one-way streets? Up until a month ago Google Places’ review feature was a one-way street. Clients/customers/guests/patients/vendors could find a business’ listing in Google Places and write a review; however, the business owner had no way to effectively respond to the review. That all changed on August 4, 2010.…
Backing Up Isn’t Hard to Do!
Wednesday August 25, 2010
Reading Time: 6 minutes
Image via Wikipedia Do you ever fall asleep at night with the TV on? I think we all do this on occasion, some more often than not. The falling asleep part is not so bad; it is the waking up in the early morning hours to a strange infomercial. Have you noticed how these infomercials…
Blog Comments are a Virtual Traffic Circle
Thursday August 5, 2010
Reading Time: 6 minutes
I remember the first time I encountered a “traffic circle”. It was 1988; I was 39 years old and living in New Hampshire. A business associate told me to meet him at a car dealership near the “rotary” in Portsmouth (or thereabout). But there was one problem with his directions. By “rotary” I thought he…
Lose It Update and Southwest Airlines App
Tuesday August 3, 2010
Reading Time: 3 minutes
I have just returned from a trip to visit my son and his family in Denver. It was a trip that ran havoc on my weight loss and exercise routine. I have restarted my program with the iPhone app lose it. My son regularly bikes in mountain terrain, is several inches taller than me and…