Ask Darlene Davis

Building Your Twitter List 101

While there are many ways to burrow into your niche on Twitter, I’ve found a free tool that I highly recommend.  Listorious offers some of the following advantages: • Finding like-minded people • Steps for creating more interesting tweets • Lists you have either joined or created • Advertising your profile and your key tags [...]

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Success With A Potato Gun?

“The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.”  Peter F. Drucker He was a college kid who needed to make some money, so Russell and another buddy developed a simple video on how to construct a potato gun that would shoot [...]

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RoboForm Password Manager

Do you want to save some of your valuable time?  Are you tired of looking up User and Password information when you visit a site you don’t frequent very often? For years I have maintained an Excel spreadsheet with my log in and password information.  When I’d forget something the spreadsheet would be my handy [...]

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Shorthand From Baby Boomers to Generation X

In a dinner conversation a Generation X friend casually stated that she was thinking of taking a course in Shorthand.  “Shorthand,” I shot back?  “I took that in high school a thousand years ago.” Shorthand uses the phonetic sound of the speaker, meaning that you are recording the sounds of the speaker, not the English.  [...]

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Notes From A Kindle Junkie – Part I

How about being able to read anything on the go—book, newspaper, blog!  You’re standing in a long grocery store line during rush hour, twiddling your thumbs.  You’re stuck in a boring lecture and the guy beside you is snoring.  You’re traveling with only a carry-on bag.  You”re going on an ice fishing trip in Minnesota! [...]

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Should I Invest In A Kindle?

Warning:  This is NOT an unbiased report ! Are you an avid reader?  Is your suitcase or back pack often loaded with cumbersome books or magazines?  Do you trek outside each morning for the newspaper? Amazon has created an electronic book that has revolutionized the way we read.  For around the same price as a [...]

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