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Wish you all A Merry Christmas May the Joys of the season fill your heart with goodwill & cheer May the chimes of Christmas glory add up more shine and spread. New Year is the time to unfold new horizons & realize new dreams. To rediscover the strength & faith within you. To rejoice in [...]

SO-HO owner why and how to create a blog

Last night I tried to take count of how many blog directories are out there; my head is still spinning and did not get  an answer. (according to Technorati there are over 15 million blogs as of today) There are thousands of sites, categories, personal, business, media, social, technical, environmental, political. You name it, there [...]

General and Hispanic Market Research

Please welcome Rose Marie with her new web presence in the general and Hispanic Market Research field. Specialties Ethnographies with consumers, medical-related qualitative research, education, public policy, entertainment industry, consumer products for women. Fluently bilingual, a native speaker of Spanish, and over 16 years of experience conducting qualitative market and social policy research. Specialized in [...]

Virtual Support Services for individuals

Please extend a warm welcome to Lilian Robertson with the new web presence at: http://www.virtual-office-assist.com Lilian Robertson opens her virtual office assistant services to individuals or small business and helps them organize their busy days. She has background in Office administration, support and sales. Services that you can outsource with Lilian are: Desktop Publishing Word [...]

Season Greetings!

Wish you all A Merry Christmas

May the Joys of the season fill your heart with goodwill & cheer

May the chimes of Christmas glory add up more shine and spread.

New Year is the time to unfold new horizons & realize new dreams.

To rediscover the strength & faith within you.

To rejoice in simple pleasures and gear up for new challenges.

Wishing you all a truly fulfilling 2012.

Happy holidays to you all.

 

SO-HO owner why and how to create a blog

Last night I tried to take count of how many blog directories are out there; my head is still spinning and did not get  an answer. (according to Technorati there are over 15 million blogs as of today)

There are thousands of sites, categories, personal, business, media, social, technical, environmental, political. You name it, there is one that you are looking for. The number is overwhelming and intimidating.

Everyone is online, connecting, chatting, asking, selling, training and words are flying.

The basic blog types: social, political, business and media.

Why, where and how would the small business owner fit and deal with this task, more importantly, why bother to have a web site, social media or blog presence.

WHY

Considering that the Internet today is the best and cheapest advertisement tool available, just like having your own sales person working 24/7 around the globe without having to pay a dime. No salary, no benefits, no commissions.
Having a presence on the Internet means that your business gets exposure, your service and products are displayed to anyone and everyone that comes by. Depending on how well you planned out your presence is how fast and how many visitors/ customers you will acquire.

WHERE

There are plenty of free services available and perhaps already have or familiar with. Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Photo bucket, Google, available with just a simple creation of ID and password and you have a tool to blog and connect online. More so, some of these services allow you to create a blog, but also a profile, pages with info you can upload about you, your company, hobbies and anything you would like to share with the entire world, becoming a big and happy family.

HOW

Some services have comprehensive video and learning tools to take you through first creation process. As a member you will also receive tools to optimize your blog with keywords, links to feeds, news and community information.
If you know your way around the Internet, it is a pretty simple process to start a blog and available tools to create mostly any content, via quick links and resources.

My favorite blogging site is Word Press. Wonderful themes and a variety of layouts. Great community and helpful people.

Get started  

Click on the icon to take you to the site for training videos and support to help start your blog site.

If you are ready to start link to http://wordpress.com to create a log in ID ( this will be your blog name, so careful what name you choose, since once the blog site is created, you cannot change the name) enter a password. Voila, you are the owner of a new public blog site.

You will receive a confirmation link to the e-mail address you created your account. When received, confirm the link and now you are ready to proceed to the dashboard where you will be able to choose your settings for your blog account.

In the dashboard you can choose the theme, the way your pages will show to visitors, keyword tags, color schemes and more. Also you can get tutorials here

Once you have decided what look, how many pages, what content, pictures to upload, you are ready to blog and share your thoughts.

To answer the question regarding how though it is to create a blog, as you can see, if you have Internet connection, you know how to follow directions from a tutorial and have any information to share, it is a fairly simple process.

You can also check out www.blogspot.com and check out features and available video tutorials, for yet another great blogging place.

Have fun with your new blog!

Copyright ©2011 Ramona Szilagyi, places4us.com. Article material is copyright. Reproduction in whole or in part without advance written permission is prohibited.

General and Hispanic Market Research

Please welcome Rose Marie with her new web presence in the general and Hispanic Market Research field.

Specialties

Ethnographies with consumers, medical-related qualitative research, education, public policy, entertainment industry, consumer products for women.

Fluently bilingual, a native speaker of Spanish, and over 16 years of experience conducting qualitative market and social policy research. Specialized in ethnographies and research with women and children.

Her goal is to continue to work in this field, on a wide variety of projects, which will inform clients and improve the lives of her respondents.

http://www.garciafontana-research.com

Virtual Support Services for individuals

Please extend a warm welcome to Lilian Robertson with the new web presence at:
http://www.virtual-office-assist.com

Lilian Robertson opens her virtual office assistant services to individuals or small business and helps them organize their busy days.

She has background in Office administration, support and sales.
Services that you can outsource with Lilian are:

Desktop Publishing
Word Processing
Presentations
Administrative Help


      A personalized one-on -one service for your small business needs.

Virtual online support to SO-HO owner

Ramona Szilagyi freelance SO-HO Virtual consultant at www.places4us.com online to help small business owners and entrepreneurs with start up, set up, and support for the daily busy tasks.

“Places4us” a place for entrepreneurs was created with the small business owner in mind.
“We all know running a small business is hard on the owner due to myriad tasks and different hats the owner is wearing during each business day. Here at “Places4us” I try to help solve the problem by offering solutions on time management, choice of business tools, experience and resources packaged at affordable prices,” states Ramona Szilagyi owner of www.places4us.com.

With background in starting a business, running a Sales and Marketing department and degree in Business Management and Administration over 25 years of knowledge and expertise is available to you the SO-HO owner.

Services vary from consulting, to continuous support in a virtual environment and provide packaged solutions at affordable pricing.

Visit www.places4us.com to find out how these services can contribute to your success!