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Posted by P.S. Jones on May 16, 2012

To Be a Curator, You Have to Say No

These days, it seems that everybody is a curator. Between your blog, your Twitter feed, and all the other ways you connect with the world, you are constantly finding and sharing interesting things with your audience. The difference between someone who randomly regurgitates information and someone who is providing thoughtful bits of knowledge is curation. Like the head of a museum, you choose to showcase...

Posted by P.S. Jones on May 14, 2012

Nobody Cares About Your Mission Statement

Recently, I was working with a client on her website and she asked me to include her mission statement on one of her sales pages. I put it off hoping she would forget but she reminded me just as I was finishing the final revision of her website copy. So I added it. This had been a client who basically wanted a carbon copy of her old website on her new WordPress site. She didn’t want any guidance in...

Posted by P.S. Jones on May 9, 2012

Why You Should Hate That Blogger B as Much as I Do and What to Do About It

Last year, when Netflix was having that PR nightmare brought on by raising their prices a ridiculous percent without changing the service, it took to its blog to explain what was going on. Like many others who read the post, I was appalled not by the changes (I still think less $10 a month for a service I use almost everyday is a good deal) but by the fact that their company blog was actually hosted on the...

Posted by Jennifer Dunn on Apr 30, 2012

What To Do If You Made a Tax Mistake

This guest post is brought to you by Outright.com, the easiest way to manage your business finances online. You’re watching the news and laughing at all the poor fools who waited until the last minute to file when you get a sinking feeling in your stomach. Suddenly it seems like there was something you were supposed to do. . . some form or something you were going to deal with but forgot until this very...

Posted by P.S. Jones on Apr 20, 2012

How to Set Your Google Voice Number to Your Office Hours

Google Voice has changed the nature of my business. When I first went out on my own, I used my cell phone as my business number. Big mistake. I was juggling personal and business calls at all times. I had clients calling me at 5am thinking I would be awake and ready to discuss their project. I was sending text messages meant for clients to friends. And I couldn’t shut off my phone if my boyfriend and I...

Posted by P.S. Jones on Apr 18, 2012

5 Ways to Make Your Mobile Phone Earn Its Keep As an Employee

If you’re like most people, you have a cell phone. And if you’re like a lot of people, you pay a not so insignificant amount of money to a company each month to keep your cell phone in airtime, data, and Internet access. A long time ago I realized that I would pay more or less the same amount for my cell phone usage whether I used it only for texting my mother and posting pictures on social media...

Posted by Eileen Schlesier on Apr 16, 2012

Don’t Let Your Smart Phone Make You Look Stupid

I still remember my first cellular phone. I was in college and purchased it because I started a job that required me to be driving home late at night. I felt a sense of security to have it with me in case of an emergency. I never did have a case to use it- and when the plan came up for renewal I didn’t re-up. A lot has changed since 1997. Now we’re not more than 2 feet away from our phones (yes,...