Ventura Executive Suites, 701 E Santa Clara by the downtown post office, invites you to network and meet future clients tonight, Thursday July 22 from 5-7pm–and tape a commercial!
“As a way to express our appreciation to all the businesses that attend this special event, KADYTV.com will be filming 60 second commercials that promote your business,” organizers say. They will then post the commercials for all to see. (more…)
Head Coach Gwendolyn Alley aka Art Predator aka Wine Predator was interviewed about wine writing for a documentary while attending the Wine Blogger’s Conference in Walla Walla Washington in June 2010. Here’s a blog post about it and link to see a teaser.
via Wine Predator
As a small business owner, it is unlikely you have a budget to hire someone to do your research for you.
But guess what? If you join a local library, or even better a local college library, the librarian or reference librarian will help you and teach you how to do your research. This is what they went to college to learn how to do and they love to help you find the obscure information that you need. According to Ventura College Associate Librarian Peter Sezzi, helping students find what they’re looking for is the most important task he has.
Getting a library card provides you with access to a HUGE number of databases that ARE NOT available to you using a typical search engine like google. At Ventura College, a library card is free but only students and faculty can access the databases from home; people in the community have to search in the library. This is true for most public universities and colleges and less true for private schools or very expensive databases.
When you’re doing research, you want to look at a combination factors. (more…)
The other day I realized that The Write Alley facebook fan page had well over 25 fans which meant it was time to get our own URL!
Here it is: http://www.facebook.com/The.Write.Alley
How did I do it? How can you do it? It’s easy: once you set up your business page and get at least 25 fans, go to http://facebook.com/username
Want to know more about how to use facebook for your business? Learn more here soon!
Last month I posted about networking–the art of personal interactions with people. In this post on networking opportunities locally, nationally, and internationally, I wrote:
Meeting other people and talking with them can strengthen your business in many ways from increasing your clients and customers to keeping you up-to-date on the needs of your community to making connections business to business and more.
So I’m writing today to remind you: have you fed your network recently? (more…)
Click the image above of Gwendolyn Alley and son to join us on Facebook!
Art Predator
Gwendolyn Alley aka Art Predator
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