I was asked an interesting question: how does my business help other people/businesses. I like the question! It made me really think about what we do and why and I want to articulate it here. Earnest Enterprises provides 3 key tools for businesses to use: websites,...
Customers these days aren’t just looking for your business with their mobile devices. They’re also looking for relationship. For those of us in the over-40 age range, this is a newer concept. It’s true though: people want to feel like they know you and your business...
At the Social-Loco Conference in San Francisco this month, Google VP Marissa Mayer gave a keynote speech outlining the company’s vision for the social and local markets. You can read an article in Mashable about the event. The key phrase for me in that article was...
Cities propose outlawing telephone books It started in 2010 when the City of Seattle proposed charging telephone companies a per book fee, an annual licensing fee, and large fines for delivering unwanted phone books (specifically the yellow pages) to residents. Then...
Conventional wisdom has been that e-commerce sales conducted via mobile telephone don’t affect brick and mortar businesses. Now a report from PayPal shows that wisdom may be wrong. Instead of money that would have been spent via e-commerce anyway, mobile sales appear...