How To Find Interesting People To Follow On Twitter Using Klout

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Klout is a great new online tool that shows you your combined social media score and can help you find influential people to follow. The main interface screen looks like the picture below. It contains your cumulative Klout score (bigger is better), your Twitter picture, the social networks you’re active on, people that you influence, [...]

Adding Keynote to Your Video Presentation

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In my first experiment creating a motivational video presentation, I decided to start with the basics. I stood in front of a white wall and shot a video of myself. In my first attempt, I stood next to a flat screen TV with a Powerpoint (Keynote) presentation on it. As I spoke, I advanced the [...]

Weekly Wrap Up: Marketing Resources

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This was our sixth theme based week on Success Begins Today. The theme was marketing resources and featured quick response business cards. Due to some additional resources we spent two weeks on this topic. Theme: Marketing Resources Post 1: Low Cost Marketing Materials in Just Minutes Business Cards, Promotional Cards, and Nameplates are discussed Post [...]

Quick Response Business Card Template

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Yesterday we talked about creating Quick Response Business Cards. (Be sure to watch the accompanying video on that post to see how they work). Here is a template in Photoshop and a short tutorial. This template requires a basic working knowledge of Photoshop. We also have a fun template in Microsoft Publisher format if you [...]

Create Marketing Cards With MS Publisher

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In our last post we talked about creating a mini-one-sheet with Photoshop. This is a great program, but it is expensive and has a relatively large learning curve. As an alternative you may want to look at other programs that will output a high quality photo file. Many versions of the popular Microsoft Office suite [...]

Creating a Mini One-Sheet

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A few weeks ago, a friend of mine from Toastmasters invited me to a local small business group mixer. The meeting was to be held at a small wine bar in town, and would be a great way to meet fellow entrepreneurs and business people. She said in passing, be sure to bring lots of [...]