ONLY A FEW SEATS LEFT! You won’t want to miss out on this very informative gathering of experts discussing everything you ever wanted or needed to know about the cloud. Learn about how you can leverage the cloud to work for your business. Here are all the details: When: Wednesday, May 2, 2012, Noon to 2 PM, lunch will be provided. Where: Portsmouth Harbor Events & Conference Center, Portsmouth, NH How to Register: Go to: www.jenaly.com/cloud-seminar One lucky attendee will walk away with an Apple TV!...

Despite all the spam, e-mail is still the workhorse of online marketing. As a business owner, the lure of fast, cheap and easy communication to hundreds if not thousands of customers is too hard to resist. But e-mail is certainly not a “perfect” media. Response percentages are low to non-existent and you can quickly make a lot of people angry if you don’t use it properly. First and foremost, get your customers to give you their permission to e-mail them. Sounds obvious, but many salespeople are using LinkedIn or other sneaky ways to garner e-mails online for prospects they’ve never met or talked to. If you don’t mind making a handful of people REALLY angry with you, this might be an okay s...

Believe it or not, Batman has more than one lesson to teach entrepreneurs. One of those lessons is the how and why of a dedicated personal assistant—an Alfred. Do you have an “Alfred”? If so, do you utilize him or her properly? I have posted a brief video to help you learn the four steps you can take to determine whether or not you need an assistant, and how to set that person up to succeed through his or her assistant job description. Check out the video here: http://tinyurl.com/batmanandalfred After you watch the video, here are a few action steps: Decide if you really need a personal assistant vs. an employee Follow the order of offloading Document the position Follow the 75% rule ...

OK, so it’s getting Cloudy out there. I don’t know who came up with the word Cloud, but there could sure be a better term. It’s more like a ray of sunshine, but the industry is all abuzz about the Cloud. I think the term really came out of the most common image used to represent the Internet, a cloud. What is the Cloud? It’s all manner of things. Perhaps the best description is that of utility computing, a way to move from having to make significant investments in infrastructure on a capital budget cycle and move it over to the P&L as an operational expense. A great analogy is the power utility. Long ago, companies had to build their own power plants, at large capital expense, until the pow...

Here we are in April…how have you done with your New Year’s commitment to “get in shape” or “eat better and exercise more?”   Well, if you have fallen off the wagon, I have some good news for you. And even if you have stuck with it, this little tip can make your efforts even easier.   MyFitnessPal.com provides a FREE online tool for tracking your diet, exercise activity and fitness goals. This site makes it easy to set your weight loss goals and overall nutrition plan. Each day you can log in to track food you eat for a breakdown of calories, fat, carbs and protein of each item. Any exercise activity can be logged and will subtract from your daily calorie bank.   There is also a social...