One of my favorite services that Google offers is google reader. This service basically organizes all your feeds in one place. So you can follow the blog at Crains Chicago Business and Search engine land for example. Blogs are a great way to select the content that you want to read and google uses this [...]
Google Analytics is the tracking software used to discover who is visiting your website. Google Analytics can tell you where the hits are coming from, how long they are on your site, what pages they visited and i think most important- how they got to your site. I can see who is linking to me [...]
Stop paying the phone companies 1.50 a call and call 1-800-466-4411. aka (800) GOOG-411. This free 411 service is voice activated and actually works very well. You can connect to the business for free and even get the listing texted to you.
So I thought since I was taking the week off I would put the focus on google. We all know that google will eventually take over the free world but many people are not aware of some of the free services that they offer, because they have so many! So I will take some time [...]
I am pretty sure everyone says that they will go to the gym and lose weight for the new year. I am pretty sure I have used this one several times and I am still waiting to hit my goal…lol. A few weeks ago I heard a speech from Ryan the creator of iContact. He [...]
When I was out shopping for the holidays, I came across one of those mall kiosks and they were selling Vonage. I had seen the commercials and had done some research on VOIP (voice over internet protocol). I checked it out and they sold me on the Vphone. Basically a usb jump drive that you [...]
I told a long time friend this story last night and with all the chuckles and smiles I thought I would put it up on the blog.
The setting was a bright sunny day in the burbs and I was about 8 years old. My mother was watching me as she worked with the flowers in [...]
The first book that I have been wanting to read for months is 4 hour work week. I downloaded it from audible (see previous post) and have already listened to 2/3 of the book since downloading it yesterday. It is extremely intriguing as he describes the process of outsourcing his life. I am going to [...]
