I’m not much of a musician, but I’ve been known to plink around on the piano or my dad’s acoustic guitar. Every now and then I want to try a new piece of music, but I’ve discovered that music stores that sell sheet music or going the way of the dodo bird. That’s why I [...]
Tags: download music, sheet music
Since I’ve been gone so much the last few months, the junk mail has really piled up in the basket next to my desk. We toss the miscellaneous stuff in there with the expectation we’ll look through it on the weekends in case there’s something of interest in the myriad advertisements. Yesterday, I skimmed the [...]
Tags: consumerism, eyeglasses, fashion glasses
Private number plates in the UK are so popular that auctions are held each year where excited bidders can find the combo of numbers they want. In the past year, an auction for the coveted 1000 number plate saw the winning bidder pay 80,000 pounds for that number plate.
Private number plates or personalized plates, as [...]
Tags: business, consumerism, personal license plates
Since we’re in the first month of the new quarter, and the new year, it’s a good time to review your business goals. If you’ve thought about starting a website or making changes to an existing website, now is the perfect time to research web hosting.
Review Your Service
If you already have a website, has your [...]
Tags: Internet Dynamics, web host, web hosting
Promotion. Publicity. Public Relations. Those three are sometimes used interchangeably, but promotion is really the building built on the foundation of the other two.Do you know the difference between publicity and public relations? If you have an Internet business, then you darn well need to know the difference because then you’ll know how to drive [...]
Tags: business, internet presence, online marketing, promotion, public relations, publicity
A few weeks ago I was reading the financial advice column in the business section of my local newspaper. The subject was Annuities. I realized I didn’t know very much about this. Like most people, I think of annuities as some kind of retirement investment.
Unlike most people, I immediately started researching the subject and found [...]
Tags: annuities, investment, Retirement
Posted by Joan Reeves on Jan 7, 2010 in
Consumer Smarts,
My Literary License,
Technology
Here’s some advice for small business owners: think big. If you adopt the habits of big business, you improve your chance of success. Big businesses do a lot of online marketing. So you should you, and small business internet marketing is probably easier than you think.
Learn From The Pros
If you’re scratching your head and wondering [...]
Tags: online marketing, small business
Posted by Joan Reeves on Jan 3, 2010 in
Consumer Smarts,
My Literary License,
Travel
American humorist Will Rogers once said: “The trip across Arizona is just one oasis after another. You can just throw anything out and it will grow there, I like Arizona.” Apparently, so do a lot of other people if the growth of the Grand Canyon state is any indication. If you’re looking for a [...]
Tags: arizona, arizona real estate, business, real estate investment
As a writer, I’m well aware of the fact that authors hope for good reviews in order for their book to report good sales numbers, and most authors with new releases, scour the review sites, hoping to see positive buzz about their books. Reviews affect not just authors but all kinds of businesses as is [...]
Tags: business, reviews, seo
Now that the holidays are over, we can all take a deep breath and relax. Or not. Let’s face it. Some people just don’t know how to relax. They live in a constant state of anxiety and negative energy. Do you know someone like that? Oh, dear. Maybe that person is you.
There’s someone in my [...]
Tags: stress management