Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg said caught a bit of flack at a conference on June 16th when she said, "Email is probably going away". Before we all start abandoning our email accounts and taking them off out business cards- you might want to read on. While SMS texting and Social Media communication are on the rise, they're still in their infanc...

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I want to take the time to thank the Edmonton Construction Association and their members for welcoming me to their country... if only for 24 hours. The only issues were small ones -3 hours of sleep, clearing Customs, missing shirt button. However, the people who attended made it so worth it! You guys were great. For those of you who don't know- Th...

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Been wondering why all those people in your Facebook timeline are telling you where they currently are with a link to a map? All you can think of is how vain your friends have become. Kind of. If you didn’t read my post about Location Based Networking, I’ll bring you up to date and go a bit more in depth for how business owners can benefit. Quick...

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I wanted to take this time to acknowledge a great charity that we have located right here in Las Vegas. Tony and Nikki Berti run Goodie Two Shoes, which is a charity that provides disadvantaged children with brand new shoes. They's teamed up with companies like Zappos' 6pm.com, Las Vegas Review Journal and many more. It's inspired us at Vegas Young...

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I was talking to a friend and respected business partner Barb Helfman. She told me a great story about how much money UPS saved in gas just by adjusting their routes to make as many right turns as possible. See, their trucks didn't have to wait and idle at stop lights at right turns (except in New York) and they didn't have to wait and navigate thr...

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Thank you Golden State Builders Exchange for giving me a warm welcome at your May 13th 2010 Conference. I had such a great time, I wish I would have booked my flight a bit later so I could have spent more time with all of you. For those that don't know, the Golden State Builders Exchange (GSBE) serves over 22,000 California construction ...

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Facebook, in an effort to rule the Internet, once again does it at the expense of their users privacy. Not too long ago Facebook caused an uproar when they gave you the option to change their updated privacy settings. Unfortunately the default picks were set for public sharing of your information. So if you bypassed that screen, you were now expose...

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Happy 5 year takeover Google. 5 years ago today Google acquired the website analytics program Urchin How convenient that I spoke to a client today about their Google Analytics numbers. We went over the usual stuff- working on keeping people on the website longer, getting the bounce rate to drop, etc. Even though he was happy with those numbers, he...

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It seems as if every business is jumping into Social Media these days because they're seeing more "Connect with us on Facebook" and "Follow us on Twitter" links on business websites. To their credit, business owners see this and are jumping into waters they might not be used to. However, it's not as easy as they think. Social Media isn't "set ...

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