Tonight is our (me & Nathan Hangen) first ever Virtual Happy Hour and we’re celebrating in style with a special drink, “The Bootstrap”, (find the recipe here), an entertaining (yet educational) conference call, and a Twitter hashtag (#vhh) of our very own. The night is being moderated by Erica Swanson. Are you coming? It’s at [...]
I’ve been talking the last three weeks about geosocial/geotagging tools that are the most widely used. Today I want to talk about a consolidator tool called check in (which I found out about through the great Katy Tafoya) and also about how you might use these tools as an entrepreneur or solopreneur. Check in is [...]
In keeping with the geosocial theme from last week – I would like to make you aware of another geosocial tool, Gowalla. It works pretty much the same way as Foursquare which we talked about last week…the only major difference is that instead of gaining “mayorships” you gain “leaderboard” status… Why know about two of [...]
How many of you out there are using Foursquare? I recently started using it and its a lot of fun. I keep hearing that geotagging and geosocial tools are the next wave of social media/networking. I resisted it for a long time, but now that I am using it its a lot of fun! The [...]
OK, so you’ve got your marketing strategy and like everyone on the planet including your Aunt Sue insists you’ve added Twitter to that strategy. You might know how it works, you might not. You might not really want to know, but you should. In any event, Twitter can be overwhelming. When to tweet? When not [...]
Now, if you’ve given some thought to what type of blogger you might be, the second step will be to: #1 Figure out what you will blog about: Know what you want your blog to do. Is it just for information purposes? Or will it contain regular calls to action? Depending on what type of [...]
I hope you will listen in this month to my very special guest Nathan Hangen, I first met Nathan several months ago appropriately enough through Twitter and I’ve followed his blog and story ever since. Nathan’s story is one of the most inspirational I have ever heard for many reasons, not the least of which [...]
Please listen in as Erick takes us on his unique entrepreneurial journey sharing his “words to live by”, his 3 “top tips” and his various ventures. Erick also explains what the “Inner Worm” is, why causes should use social media and the importance of brands telling their stories. I hope you enjoy.
Another way to network and perhaps the most efficient for some people is on line networking. I’m not just speaking generally about creating profiles on facebook, linked in, twitter, etc. – I’m talking about taking it a step (or actually a giant leap forward), joining groups on facebook, linked in and other sites. Using Linked [...]
One of the major things solopreneurs suffer from is overwhelm. You wear every hat in your business and you’re trying hard to stay up with the demands of starting a business. Keeping current with the Social Media trend alone can be all consuming and can easily take up entire chunks of your day if you [...]
Susan M. Baker - aka The Escape Hatcher is a Creative Career Consultant who helps people figure out what they really want to be doing, how to make money doing it and then how to get started... she's helping her clients change their lives one dream at a time.