It’s a sign of the times when, as counselors at the Nevada Small Business Development Center, we either remind our clients of the importance of a strong online presence or are approached as to how to tackle this challenge. While businesses seem to understand the need for a website and social media profiles, they don’t [...]

Today the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) and Google announced a new partnership and unveiled “Tools for Online Success,” an array of online resources and training designed to help small business owners harness technology to grow their businesses. The “Tools for Online Success” site (http://www.google.com/help/sba) features tutorials, video testimonials, and tips from savvy small business [...]

The reason everybody is talking about Twitter is because it can be so freekin’ effective! Just imagine: While working at your cash register, you can instantly tell your loyal customers that the  new shipment has just arrived. While having a coffee, you can let all your fans know the Tickets are on Sale! You can [...]

Should I Blog? An Essential Question for Businesses Today. The answer may very well be, “no.” Certainly for many, the answer is, “What’s a blog?” Fair enough. It’s quite normal for most business owners (especially these days) to be so busy working to keep their businesses running, they don’t have the time to keep up [...]

We have just added Josh Kenzer’s QuickPost plugin to the WordPress interface that powers our Blog, It’s cool and will make it much easier for our authors to create their posts on our blog. I’m creating this post to take it for a spin the first time. Josh works over at Twelve Horses, the folks [...]

The days of putting up a website then waiting for it to show up on the first page of any search engine are long gone. Today it takes time and effort to see your site in the first couple pages of results. However, most site owners and webmasters do not know where to begin. By [...]