Many of you use Google Maps on your website. You may receive a scary sounding email about the new Google Maps Platform and fees.
Are You Addicted to Your Smart Phone?
Smartphone addiction is a real thing and while this article talks more about the younger generation, its not limited to them as I have seen some of my clients and friends with the same addiction. You know who you are! I encourage you to use this suggested method to break your addiction!
I completely believe we check email too often and put pressure on ourselves to respond instantly. What moments are we missing by putting this pressure on ourselves?
An excellent book on better email processes is “The Hamster Revolution” by Mike Song. Good, practical processes to spend less time on email and more time on the important things.
Social Media or SEO?
This is seems to be a popular question for all of our small businesses. When you can’t have both which will you choose? Let’s take a look!
Social Media Benefits: Helps improve brand awareness, builds trust and loyalty, great for driving more engagement, and managing customer service.
SEO Benefits: Builds audience, easy to measure and quantify, targeted-high quality website traffic, and less competition.
Want to learn more about your SEO and social media options? Message Your Computer Lady today to get started!
Where Is My Email Stored?
Here’s the scenario. You write an email in Outlook and send it to your best friend. Your friend then opens the email in her Gmail account.
Where is the email stored? In 4 places.
- Your Outlook (email management software) saves a copy in Sent Items.
- Your server (Cox, CenturyLink, Verizon, etc.) saves a copy in webmail Sent Items.
- Your friend’s server saves a copy in her webmail Inbox.
- Your friend’s Gmail (email management software) saves a copy in Inbox.
You can delete both of your copies if you want to. Delete from Outlook. Log into webmail and delete from webmail.
You can not delete your friend’s copies.
That’s why you always want to THINK before you hit SEND!
Programming human beings to build a hate-free Internet
Book Review: Your Brain At Work by David Rock
Just finished this excellent book this morning. I highly recommend it for anyone who has stressful days, difficult situations in their life or who wants to make a change in the world.
There is so much new information coming out now with improved technology about the brain and how it works. Mr. Rock takes the studies and theories and applies them to real life situations.
First he gives us a scenario. Then he discusses the new knowledge. Lastly, he re-writes the scenario using the knowledge so you can see it in action.
So it is easy to understand. Practical advice and application. And he’s funny at times.
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Failure is a good thing!
Why I Hire People Who Fail
by Jeff Stibel
Jeffrey Stibel is Chairman and CEO of Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp. and author of Wired for Thought.
12 Days Of Christmas: Cost Of Song’s Many Gifts Tops $100,000
The price of partridges, pear trees and turtle doves has spiked, pushing the cost of every item mentioned in the carol “The Twelve Days of Christmas” above $100,000 for the first time.
Click here to read the full article.
Harvard Researcher Links Happiness to Success
Ha! I knew it. Being happy is better than being blue, cranky, negative or cyncial. Those of you who know me well know I’m a big proponent of “tending your joy.” Here is an article validating not only that happiness is a better choice than the alternatives but it also makes you more successful and better able to handle stress. Who doesn’t have plenty of that on their plates today?!
Read the article! And just do it!