Last Friday at my local Rochester Professional Consultants Network meeting, our speaker discussed networking approaches - the how and why of connecting to others to help drive business or referrals. He was affable enough, funny enough, and knew his stuff. But, he said only one thing that I hadn't heard... Read more →
At last, I'm back on track with the Smart Woman Online and Smart Man Online series of interviews. Today's interview will blow you away! How can I say that? Like this, "Today's interview will blow you away!" Is that better? I'm feeling frisky...because Scott, my interviewee, is one dynamite guy... Read more →
As expected, there are piles of magazines, emails, and phone messages threatening to strangle me if I don't get to them. At times like this, upon returning from a trip where I didn't bother to check email or answer my phone (what was I thinking?), I think back to a... Read more →
For what it's worth - I will be posting a great deal on the Word of Mouth Marketing Conference I just returned from. The official title, for those who haven't been following, was WOMBAT: Word of Mouth Basic Training. You can read the comments and postings of a whole lot... Read more →
Here we are at the Fortune Innovation Forum ... with a Press Pass, no less. (Although we had to put on our best "persuasion" face to get the complimentary thumb drive out of the woman at the Pitney-Bowes booth, who seemed to question whether a member of the press really... Read more →
Here are the Top 5 Things Jane hopes to accomplish at the Fortune Innovation Forum Conference. We hope, dear readers, that you will bear with us. It's our desire to represent small businesses, women-owned businesses, and the blogosphere. This trip is not designed to create attention for Lip-sticking, though we... Read more →
Monday is winding down already, dear readers. Jane and company is preparing for our trip to NYC, tomorrow night. We're so delighted that the weather is holding up so well. At this location (Rochester, NY) we have 64 degrees and sunny. Tomorrow is predicted to be just as warm but... Read more →
Dear readers - Jane has news, and a request. Let us start at the beginning - if you will bear with us - once upon a time, when the world was young... no, perhaps that's too far back. We'll jump ahead to present day. Today, in this gigantic world of... Read more →
We have tons, yes TONS, of information on Ad:tech to share, but -- time is of the essence and we think there are other topics equally important to you, dear readers. Ad:tech can wait for further reporting. We especially want to talk about Word of Mouth marketing. Andy Sernovitz, the... Read more →
We have a moment...only a moment, dear readers. But, enough time to bring you more news from the showroom floor at Ad:Tech NY. Albeit, a POST-show report. We will save the story of our not-so-acceptable room for a later time. In truth, the room wasn't 'un'-acceptable, but -- it could... Read more →