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Small Business Interview: Shannon Noack

March 23, 2010

Today, I interviewed Shannon Noack, who is the Creative Director of Snoack Studios, Maricopa based designer, successful blogger and small business owner. Shannon has great passion for designing, and I was fortunate enough to pick her brain on this topic. Shannon’s ability to network with other business owners generate referrals and repeat businesses, let’s hear what she must [...]

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You Are a Great Writer

February 22, 2010

I enjoy writing even though I am not the best one at it. But to make up for the lack of insight, I try reading more than others.
Then there are many who are already brilliant, insightful, courageous, empowering, and inspiring people who think about writing and never do. My guess is they’re telling themselves nobody [...]

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Mesa Wants You to Be Remarkable

November 5, 2009

One of the most frequently asked questions I receive being online is how to rank highly in search engines. People believe there has to be some way to beat the competitor, and if you can figure it out, Google will bless them with more customers, right?
My belief in SEO or search engine optimization is unconventional. [...]

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Tweeting Your Mesa AZ Business Like a NFL Player

October 6, 2009

Recently, Mashable listed top 20 “Must Follow” NFL tweets. There are players like Reggie Bush and Larry Fitzgerald mentioned. As you probably know, Twitter is also popular among NBA athletes.
What does this mean to the public?
It means… instead of hearing what Larry Fitzgerald says about the recent loss against Indianapolis Colts through the radio wave of ESPN, you get to hear directly from Larry.

It [...]

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Adding Images to Your Blog

September 9, 2009

Every now and then, I get asked where people should go to look for images they can use for blogging. I’d like to share these resources with you today. Some will be paid, some are free.
If you Google “stock images” you’ll find plenty of resources.  Among many of them, my favorites are as follows;
Flickr.com – [...]

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Mesa AZ Blogs and News I Read Daily

September 3, 2009

Let’s connect locally, here is a list of blogs and RSS feeds that I subscribe daily to know what’s going on around the town.

What’s the deal – Every post contains discount information, like restaurants, parks offering a deal.
Twitter RSS Feed for Mesa, AZ – I check this when I want to, just see who is [...]

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Positioning Your Mesa Business As the Center of Industry

August 10, 2009

Brian Clark (aka Copyblogger) published a new report last week, Authority Rules (you can just download the report).  This is a serious stuff.  Brian goes on to tell us how to build authority on the web. 
Let’s say you have a business in Mesa and want to dominate the market.  But there are three competitors in [...]

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From Idea Generation to Innovation

July 28, 2009

Daren Rowse at Problogger asked a question, What is compelling content to you?
To me, a “Compelling content” doesn’t need to be anything new.  Rather, I’d like to gain a different perspective on existing ideas.
Once I wrote a post New Ideas Aren’t Necessary, and in that post, I talked about how we don’t have shortages of [...]

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Decluttering All the Noise in Digital Age

July 4, 2009

 
It’s No Longer 1993
When I first arrived to America in 1993, the country was prosperous.  The economy was growing and there were no worries of terrorism.
On Forth of July, friends took me to Idaho Falls, Idaho to watch fireworks, and I can still recall the smell of smoke from the fireworks (and of BBQ) today.
At [...]

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How Do You Handle Negative Feedback?

June 30, 2009

I was reading YouTube blog and came across the following post.  How to Handle Influx of Feedback.  
It basically said to…

Don’t over-react
Moderate comments
Ignore (anyone who’s rude)

I couldn’t agree with it any better.
I’ll be the first one to admit that if someone tells me that he enjoyed my post or gave her a new perspective, I’d be [...]

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