Tweet Wonder Bread, Ding Dongs, Ho Hos, Honey Buns and of course the all famous Twinkie. These aren’t just snacks but a tasty piece of American History. They are a part of childhood memories. The quick snack in a bag embedded itself into our pop culture for decades and satisfied our sweet tooth. But now, Hostess, the company responsible for providing us these sugary snacks is no more. Because of struggling sales and labor disputes, [...]

Tweet I know from personal experience that good computer virus protection is vital. Lurking in the darkness of the internet and emails are deadly viruses that could wipe out your computer’s hard drive with no remorse. It is no laughing matter to see months of work disappear to a land of no return. With all the other expenses entrepreneurs have to endure it is good when you can find a reliable product to protect your [...]

Tweet With today being election day, how the votes are collected and counted is as important as the vote itself. We all want the most efficient, reliable and stable process possible which will hopefully produce the most accurate results. In order to achieve that, innovations in the equipment used to vote is very important. From the paper ballots to the electronic voting machines, we have come a long way in America when choosing our political [...]

Tweet The way people do business is becoming more and more mobile. With that in mind it was only an obvious solution for PayPal® to get in on the game. Just like the Square, the PayPal Here™ card reader allows any iPhone or Android phone to handle mobile credit card transactions. The only difference is that the payment is able to go directly into you PayPal account. What is PayPal Here™? PayPal Here™ is the [...]

Tweet While the term crowdsourcing may seem a bit foreign outside of the Visual Communications industry it is something very popular and widely used by certain business circles. Before I get into how a company may use crowdsourcing let me give a simple and short definition of what crowdsourcing is. According to Wikepedia “Crowdsourcing is a process that involves outsourcing tasks to a distributed group of people. This process can occur both online and offline. [...]

Tweet So this was the year I decided I would take my business paperless. While streamlining my business I figured I would also be reducing my carbon footprint. My system for keeping up with passwords and taking notes had gotten a bit messy. It was a notebook of scribble on hundreds of pages. Whenever I needed to refer to a particular note I would turn through months (sometimes years) of notes to find that bit [...]

Tweet I had the pleasure of spending my lunch time with LaKesha Womack for her appropriately named blog talk radio show, “Lunch with LaKesha“. We discussed some key points in building a successful brand. The points we covered were: Consistency Positioning Professionalism Image Communicating the right message Click below to get the details of everything we talked about during lunch. Listen to internet radio with LaKesha Womack on Blog Talk Radio

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Tweet As a small business becomes more conscience of the importance of a solid web presence they look for a long-term solution that will successfully provide this. One of the challenges small businesses have is the inability to hire a team of developers within their infrastructure to constantly maintain changing web content. In many cases, once they contract an outside web developer to construct their web site they are faced with the issue of how [...]

Tweet Even in today’s world of advanced technology, the business card is still king. It is the first impression someone has of your business. A cheap business card design usually translates to a cheap business in the mind of the person receiving the card. A quality card will take you far in face-to-face networking. Yellow Dogg Designs is offering visitors to The Dogg Blogg the opportunity to win free business card design. Giveaway Details 1 [...]