My new project is NorthSanDiego.org. It’s going to be a community site for North San Diego County full of local residents, local businesses, start ups, bloggers, entrepreneurs, and really anyone else in the area.  The past few years and currently my clients have been small businesses with a low budget.  I have spent, and still do, time listening to the problems that these local small businesses go through. Now I am using that knowledge to come up with a solution and resource to be utilized. I enjoy helping people compete against the big guys anyway I can. This is where NorthSanDiego.org came...

A few days ago I was talking to Kimberly Reynolds  (Savvy Media Marketing ) about a Facebook app posting without knowing it would. It had me thinking about how much information is out there for people to see and what information companies have of yours. I have thought about this in the past and accepted it a while ago. All of my information is out there on the internet and if someone really wants to find out about me they will be able to. The thought process for me was “Well if it’s out there I might as well control what people see” and that is where the social media profiles come...

Check Username Tips Check username? Claiming all of your usernames can help you in several ways. Whether you are branding yourself or your company going through this process can help you get found online. I would recommend doing both your business and your personal name. If you are looking for a job or are in any position in a company where people are going to search your name on Google you will want to make sure you own what is going to come up. LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, Quora, and even a bunch of other Social Media sites come up in the search results. Personally I have claimed as many...

Why Blog? I will go through the why and some blogging tips.  Most of the business owners I’ve sat down with haven’t taken my advice to get an active blog up and running.   Don’t forget the ones that do have do have one and write 1-10 posts and never write anymore. The responses usually vary from “I wouldn’t know what to write” to “I don’t have time to blog” to “All of this is way over my head.” If this is you then  hopefully this post can give you some blogging tips and help convince you. Being the business owner you don’t...

MediaCurb and Blogging Currently I am updating this site and will be trying to post one blog a week here. I’m keeping the blog on http://mediacurb.com updated frequently for social media news tips and other how to blog posts. If you are looking for social media training in the san diego area you can contact me through either site or call 760-517-6317.  We’ve spent the past month working on the main website. Now we are in the process of starting some other projects. In the near future we will be putting together northsandiego.org which will be a community site with resources of what to do...