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Word 2007 Trick to Removing a Paragraph Style

Published in September 30th, 2009
Posted by Michael in Technology
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It has been driving me crazy how to remove a style that I had applied to a paragraph. Originally I had set it up to be an “emphasis” style but when I pressed “normal” nothing happened for some reason. It remained emphasized! Very annoying. After quite a bit of research I figured out one way [...]

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Duct Tape Marketing Coaching Program Starts this Thursday! (webinar series)

Published in September 29th, 2009
Posted by Michael in Events, Marketing Strategy
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As many of you know, I have been running a group marketing coaching program called the Catalyst over the summer. It went really well and I have decided to run it again this fall (or autumn if you speak English as I do!). It is designed to help business owners put in to action tried [...]

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Editing a Creative Vado HD File

Published in September 28th, 2009
Posted by Michael in Technology
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This is not really a marketing topic but I know some of you are using some of the new mini-HD camcorders like the Flip and the Creative Vado in your business so I thought I would share my experiences. I have a Creative Vado HD minicam and the quality is really quite good. Unfortunately most [...]

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The Difference Between Facebook Pages and Groups

Published in September 23rd, 2009
Posted by Michael in Social media
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There is a lot of confusion over the difference between “Pages” and “Groups” on Facebook. The difference is actually quite simple: Pages are used by celebrities, brands and companies. Only the legal owner/representative can create a page. A group however can be created by people who have an interest in something without being the legal [...]

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What’s In a Brand?

Published in September 22nd, 2009
Posted by Michael in Social media
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Came across an interesting site called www.brandtags.net. They call themselves a a “collective experiment in brand perception”. When you go to their site you can look at the most common words and phrases that people attach to specific brands. Most of what they show are the larger companies so as to have enough data to [...]

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Flip Video Fix

Published in September 21st, 2009
Posted by Michael in Technology
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I have one of the original Flip Video camcorders. For the most part it does pretty good but recently when I turned it on, it went “bing” and froze at the logo screen. Nothing I did helped. I took the batteries out, put them back in, deleted files (it would connect to the PC fine). [...]

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Twitter Business Owners in Portland Mostly Women?

Published in September 21st, 2009
Posted by Michael in Social media
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I have been playing with TweepSearch recently thanks to my colleague Dan Berne. It is a simple tool that lets you search Twitter through keywords in the owner’s Twitter profile. I am interested in what small business owners in Portland Oregon are saying so I did a search based on “business owner portland”. There were [...]

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Times When Social Media Doesn’t Work for B2B

Published in September 20th, 2009
Posted by Michael in Social media
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Casey Boggs pointed to me to this interesting post the other day. I thought much of it was pretty accurate. Social media is not the be-all-and-end-all. It has a role but it can’t do everything. Here are the main points of when social media doesn’t work for B2B from the post on the blog Social [...]

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Grow Your Business with My 10 Session Group Marketing Program

Published in September 7th, 2009
Posted by Michael in Business tools, Events
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The economic news seems to be improving and even though we don’t see the effects on a day to day basis, the indicators are moving in the right direction. What does that mean for your business? One thing it means is that gradually prospects who have previously canceled or postponed projects will start to reconsider. [...]

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Does Bally’s Customer Service Help or Hurt?

Published in September 3rd, 2009
Posted by Michael in Customer service
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For quite a few years now we have had a membership at Bally Total Fitness Health Clubs here in Vancouver WA. I guess the club has not been thriving and just recently they decided to close down. It was a bit disappointing for us as the club is just around the corner and they have [...]

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