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Do Wine And Technology Mix?

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I’m fascinated with technology. Especially when technology helps small businesses compete on nearly the same level as their larger competitors and peers. The goal with this series is to promote all the goodness of using free / low-cost technology pieces to help support and promote small businesses.

 

Jennifer Jenkin - Pamo Valley WineryJennifer J. Jenkin is one of those people who you meet once and never forget. Her love for wine and community-building is as infectious as her charm. Jennifer has been invested in the wine business for a very long time and is using technology to help expand her company’s message.

I’ve known Jenn my entire life – she’s my sister. While I am certainly biased, there aren’t many people in this world that can match her drive, devotion, passion, and love for her family – which all come shining through when you walk into the Pamo Valley Tasting Room.

You can find Jenn blogging on her website and on Facebook.

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Do You Want This Guy On Your Team?

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There’s this guy who is looking for work. Actually, he’s being pushed out of his current organization. He’s basically been isolated from the rest of his team but they won’t fire him. The whole thing is really odd.

He made some comment or did something benign, but his boss thought her authority was being challenged. So now he’s kind of stuck. Looking for work.

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My Experience With Occupy Wall Street

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This past weekend, I ventured down to Zuccotti Park in New York to check out the Occupy Wall Street movement first-hand. I’ve seen it on TV and have certainly read about it via different channels on the Internet, but it’s always good to see things first-hand before building an opinion or making any kind of statement.

After spending an hour or so down at Zuccotti Park, I can firmly state the following:

I have no idea what the heck is going on down there.

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Your Online Presence Is Stale

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Ok, you’ve taken the big leap. You have a presence on the Internet! Woo! Now what?

You’ll want to tell everyone that you have arrived. You have this great, terrific story and you want people to hear about it. They need to hear about it. Easy enough. You go out and sign up on:

  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Tumblr
  • LinkedIn
  • Meetup
  • Foursquare
  • Others1

Great! Now you start posting great content. About your products, your services, your ideas, your expertise. You might use some integration pieces to ensure this information flows out from your site to Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, LinkedIn, Meetup, FourSquare, Others. Bang. The word is out. You are here. Come get some.

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Using Outreach to Build Better Relationships

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Ever have a conversation with someone that starts out with a self-asking question? It goes something like this:

“How are you?”
“Good. How are you?”
“Well, since you asked…”

It’s almost as if the initially-posed question was asked to get you to ask the same question to them. Like they are looking for a way to share some story that is super important, and you need to know about it.

The only reason to initiate the conversation was so they can launch into their own diatribe. Sound familiar?

I think of this as I’m doing two things this morning:

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