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Take a look at this post and tell me… how would you answer the salad question??? http://jobmob.co.il/blog/tricky-job-interview-questions-answers/

Job interviewers know about interview training and techniques and now they want to ask you something to catch you off guard. So how would YOU answer the salad question? I am still thinking on it ;) http://amplify.com/u/a1cfa0

Two shares from me today… One on clearing your desk from the lovely Yolanda Facio, the productivity expert over at Red Hot Momentum. Go take a look and embrace your pile. http://www.redhotmomentum.com/learn-to-tame-the-piles-on-your-desk/

And how do you hear your blog’s community now we have so many outposts? http://bestbloggingtipsonline.com/5-listening-tools-you-can-use-to-hear-your-blogs-heartbeat/ If you have a listening tool come and share with us :)
Sarah http://amplify.com/u/a18k4e

thoughts? Do you automate? How does that compare with your manual results?

A guest post here, and in it I talk about our experience as a service based offline business and how we use social media tools such as Twitter and Facebook.

Is there a business that could not benefit from some aspect of social media?

There must be one…. there always is!

Sarah

When people talk about social media, sites like Facebook and Twitter they often talk about return on investment and monetizing it. If I told you I invested 3 hours a week and got a significant return would you believe me? Would you believe me if I told you I was a brick and mortar business and not a social media business?

If you are a chatty helpful person then you can do well with social media too.

  • Set up your searches for your keywords, and talk back to people that need help.
  • Direct them to pages on your blog that can help and ask them to ReTweet if they found it useful.
  • If people are in other countries direct them to a Twitter user or blog in their own country for help. You make two new friends that way.

Nearly 20 billion searches a month are performed on Twitter so once a day Tweet out what you do and a link to your website so you are found in the searches. Mine goes out at around 4am in the morning so it can be found but not annoy my regular followers.

Read more at www.smallbusinessbranding.com

 

Our revenue from Birds on the Blog is quite low, too low to split between the contributers. So we put it to good use, we pay for the education of twin girls in Uganda.

A worthwhile cause.

If you visit our blog you can read more, if you subscribe to our newsletter you will get in just in time for our free Christmas gift to you.

Sarah

Amplify’d from www.birdsontheblog.co.uk

With that out of the way we headed to the school. The children put on a song and dance for the parents and it was heart warming to see. We had drinks and bites courtesy of Hastoe Housing Association staff who selected this community as their overseas project

I sneaked off and had a meeting with the Head Teacher to see how he was settling (only been with us for 3 weeks) and also met the Girls’ teacher. She gave me a sneak preview of their end of year class reports. Although they are only 5 they had to do exams, Perfect was 5th out of 80 and Princess was 12th, whilst their older sister Cycline was 5th out of 30. Their best subjects are English and Maths. I can’t tell you how proud that made me feel. I also learned that our contributions were enough to cover Cycline’s fees last year so we have have sponsoring all 3 girls!

See more at www.birdsontheblog.co.uk

 

Blogs and the snow

Gosh what a week in the UK. Yes this is my obligatory snow post :)

Earlier this year we had snow and I blogged and video’d a few snow posts. Driving in the snow is here

You can see Ken talking about his snow tyres here.

Jackie Walker shares the seduction of snow here and how she has prepared for it in Scotland.

Are you prepared for the snow?

Sarah

Sameday couriers

Interesting – are you using Google places?

Amplify’d from www.toprankblog.com
With the rise of smart phone use in the US, (Google Android and iPhone are currently reporting roughly 500,000 activations a day ) it’s more important than ever to have your Google places listing up to speed because when people use voice search on  Android phones, the first results they see are from Google local.
Local listings & Google Places

With the recent Google launch of Hotpot, Google is entering the local recommendation space.   Hotpot combines Google Places, the places you like and the places your friends like making it even easier for people to make decisions about which local businesses to patronize.

Read more at www.toprankblog.com

 

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