North San Diego Business At Large
Show Notes: October 7, 2011

Are you a Mac aficionado? Do you have an iPad, iPhone or iMac? Have you ever thought about developing an iPad app for your business?

In this episode I’ll be talking with Joshua Ballard, a Web, Graphic, and Mobile Designer out of Seattle, Wa. He is the owner and lead designer of Helium Design Co.

We’ll be talking about iPad application development and what that could mean to your business.

Make sure to visit North San Diego Business and sign up for your FREE 6 Lesson Social Media Ecourse!

Show Notes

GeekSpeak To English, 101 introduces tips for finding different types of content to use on your blog. Discussed were the sites listed below, as well as strategies for participating in your niche market’s blogosphere.

Part Three, Tagging and Search Engine Optimization (SEO) For Your Blog, will take place Wednesday, September 12th, 6pm PT/9pm ET.

Links to Sites Discussed
My Yahoo
Google Reader
You Tube
Bloglines
Google Blog Search
FireFox Browser
Stumble Upon
WordPress Free Site
Google News Alerts

Show Notes

GeekSpeak To English, 101 introduces blogs and blogging to the North San Diego Business Community. This is part one of a four part blogging webinar series.

Part Two, Finding Content For Your Blog, will take place Wednesday, August 22nd, 6pm PT/9pm ET.

Some of the attendees tonight were:

Myrna, Myrna’s List
Andrea Glass, Writer’s Way and Writer’s Way Blog
Lee Sterling, Money Maker Video and Lee Sterling
Cris, Hospitality Ink
Li Hertzi, Art Doll Adventures and Wild Spirit Arts
Renae, Peer Inspiration
Pam, Natural & Healthy and The Healthy Clean
Becky Cortino, Becky Cortino

Wednesday, August 8, 2007 6pm PT/9pm ET
Blogs, An Intro

If you can’t change the content regularly on your website, you are, in effect, dead in the water. You need the changing content to “feed the spiders”, search engine spiders that is! The time is past for plain old html sites. Today there are more options and one of the most viable options for an online business is a blog.

This webinar series will introduce you to what a blog is, give you a look at many different sites that are blogs and share why blogging is an important tool for you to use in your online marketing strategy.

Discover what the Internet has to offer you and your business through GeekSpeak to English, 101 Podcast.

This is your chance to “pick my brain”!

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Show Notes

GeekSpeak To English, 101 discussion on emerging web 2.0 technologies and how solopreneurs and small business owners can utilize them in their marketing strategies. Discussed were social networking sites, blogging strategies, monetizing strategies and much more.

The following are the websites/resources discussed:

• Wikipedia
• My Space
• Linkedin
• Ryze
• Squidoo
• Magic In Words’ Squidoo Page
• North San Diego Business’ Squidoo Page
• Carlsbad’s Squidoo Page
• Google News Alerts
• Flickr
• You Tube
• Tibetan Singing Bowl Viral Video on You Tube
• Stumble Upon
• Myrna’s List
• Semiologic
• Amazon

Join me Wednesday, July 25th at 6pm PT for GeekSpeak To English, 101 where we’ll be discussing different ways to use your blog to create passive income for your business.

GeekSpeak to English, 101 invited Cindy Turrietta, of Affordable Search Engine Ranking to share tips on raising your website’s search engine ranking.

Some of the tips Cindy shared were how to find the right keywords, what link juice is, the construction of a search engine friendly sitemap, among other strategies.

Some of the Resources Cindy shared:

• Word Tracker
• Keyword Discovery
• Keyword Workshop
• Keyword Density Tool

Some of the business owners in attendance were:

• Elaine Masters, Drive Time Yoga
• Hank Jordan, Hank Jordan Associates
• Kathy Juhl, Juhl Graphics
• Stephen Evans, The Freelance Editor

Join me Tuesday, April 24th, for the next GeekSpeak to English, 101 – I Have A Blog, Now What?!? I’ll answer your questions about what to do with you blog and some ways to monetize your blog. Sign up to join me today!