The Secret of Building Successful Business Relationships

Every business owner can tell you the importance of differentiating your business. In social media circles, we talk about “building relationships” and “building trust.” We know doing those things will rock our business but we get stuck on the “how.” And execution is what really matters. The one way sure way to do all of the…

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Evernote Power Tip – Dynamic ToDo Lists

If you really want to get the most out of Evernote check out the recently updated version of Brett Kelly’s “Evernote Essentials,” you get a ton of useful knowledge and I’ll get beer money. I’ve been an Evernote user and big fan of the application for some time now but one thing I’ve struggled with in the application…

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Why Your Client Doesn’t Trust You, And What You Can Do About It

When Julius Cesar was murdered by a group of Roman Senators he looked to one Senator, and good friend, Marcus Brutus and uttered the ever famous words “Et tu Brute?” (“Even you, Brutus?”). Those words have since become synonymous with trust defied and ultimate betrayal. Trust takes time to build and only a single instance…

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Fix Dropdown Menus That Fall Behind Embeded Video

Update 12/2011: YouTube is now embedding with iframes so you’ll need to add ?wmode=opaque to the end of the video url in the iframe. For example: https://youtube.com/watch?v=2TmfGoJEgwg%3Fwmode%3Dopaque Original Post Starts Here…… Javascript menus which drop down from the main navigation menu (mouse over “About” on this site to see a single item dropdown as an example)…

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6 Simple Ways To Better Google Search Results

There a number of simple techniques that can help you get better, more accurate search results when using Google. Most of the time we just type in the search phrase we think most accurately represents what we are looking for and the results are pretty good. But sometimes we don’t quite get to what we…

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Easily Resize Images for the Web and Email

Multimedia is all over the web now and video in particular is catching on but for most of us, images will are the most common form of media we’ll add to our websites.  Despite how frequently they are used one thing a lot of people don’t do is appropriately re-size images for their site or…

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