3 Best Alternatives to Using PowerPoint for Presentations

April 26, 2013 by Leave a Comment

This week I've been preparing for a speaking engagement.   The host for the event asked if I'd be sending them a PowerPoint in advance and it got me thinking...does everyone still use that for their presentations? Well, I still use PowerPoint every now and then, but I have found some alternatives that I really like.  I thought I'd share them with you in this short 15 minute video. Here's the short list: Prezi.com HaikuDeck.com (iPad … [Read more...]

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Take Your Editorial Calendar to the Next Level With DivvyHQ

April 9, 2013 by Leave a Comment
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The guys over at DivvyHQ.com are pretty awesome. Anyone who takes a complex mess of work and simplifies it for me with a few clicks? Got to give them a thumbs up. DivvyHQ is a "spreadsheet-free editorial calendar" and it's a great way to map out what you're planning to post, design, distribute, or promote. I actually did a webinar on their tool awhile back. You can catch the whole thing here. So I met Brody Dorland from DivvyHQ the other … [Read more...]

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The Amazing iPad and Why It Makes Sense for Business

March 8, 2013 by 4 Comments
woman holding ipad

I'm a "gadget girl".  All my friends know this and it has always been that way.  When I was a kid we were the first to have an Atari in our neighborhood.  Instead of making mud pies, my brother and I would take my mom's old tape recorder and make radio skits out of the Mad Magazine cartoons. Even later on when I got married, my boyfriend-now-husband's first gift to me?  A VCR.  Next?  A PDA (personal digital assistant).  He knew I wasn't … [Read more...]

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How to Spot an Email Scam Online

March 1, 2013 by Leave a Comment
sleazy-man

Since I've been doing business online for quite awhile, I've learned to recognize signs of email scams related to my business pretty easily.  Every now and then I get one that almost has me though. This week,  I found one in my inbox that said someone through an Asia Domain Registration was planning to trademark my domain name and that I needed to contact them to confirm if I'd given permission.  It looked like this: Looks like a legitimate … [Read more...]

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Interview with Sanebox: The EMS for Email Overload

January 11, 2013 by
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Email overload is a disease.  Just about everyone has it.  If you own a business, work for someone else, manage a household, or have any responsibilities whatsoever - you probably get a mountain of email.  And either you spend all day sorting through it, or you get so overwhelmed it paralyzes you from taking any action at all. I must admit, I'm pretty hands-on with a lot in my business but I wish my emails would just sort themselves out.  I … [Read more...]

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10 Goal Setting Apps to Help You Get Ready for the New Year

December 28, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Goal setting

I'm such a New Year fanatic. I love this time of year because it signals new beginnings, a fresh start in just about everything we slacked off on getting done the prior year before. Seriously though, this is a great time to set new goals and put real tracking checkpoints in place to stay on track. I could not let the year end without a list of my favorite goal setting tools online, so here goes. This is a top 10 list and it's a mix of goal … [Read more...]

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