Sustainable/Open Business

🕑Apr 23, 2013 🖋John Locke 💬0

Put your blog on your main site!

I was talking with a new client the other day who spends a lot of money on Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Search Engine Marketing (SEM) to try to get people to visit his online store. And yet his blog -- what search engines value most -- was on wordpress.com.

🕑Jan 15, 2013 🖋John Locke 💬0

Get your customers to update your CRM for you

As we delve more and more into ways to make our customers' organizations run better, we keep an eye out for things we can do to make their jobs easier. One big problem lots of our customers have is out of date contact information for their customers, members, or audience.

lead generation, blogging, online business, target audience, content management
🕑Aug 08, 2012 🖋Peter McKinnon 💬1

Blog to your business success

I have been interested in setting up clients with blog sites for a few years now and I know they really help drive business to your website. Any way you can continue to let your potential clients know how knowledgeable you are on your profession is a bonus.

crowdfunding, community funding, open source, Kickstarter, GPL license, game development
🕑Jun 04, 2012 🖋John Locke 💬2

2 Crowd-Funding Opportunities

Crowd-funding is a pet favorite topic of mine. It's the opposite of taking control over a shared resource and turning it into profit -- it's building something that benefits everybody, enlisting a large number of people to make it happen.

🕑May 16, 2012 🖋John Locke 💬1

What is a sustainable startup?

Block and Tackle Businesses. That's what my father-in-law calls them, regular businesses that aren't going for sexy venture funding, but critical to a functioning economy. Businesses that perform a valuable function, and grow on their own revenue more than anything else.