March 18, 2011
BY John Paul Narowski IN Sales and Marketing
The finely tuned human brain has a keen ability to recognize a multitude of colors, but this basic ability may be robbing you of productivity. Somewhere in our developmental past, we probably had to be able to tell good fruits, nuts and other food sources from bad ones and our ability to distinguish color played a big role in that. But now that the whole “hunter-gatherer” thing isn’t so hip, colors may be working against us. Colors and Psychology Different colors have varied effects on us emotionally. People way smarter than me figured out a long time ago they could … Continue reading Distracted by Color? →
March 16, 2011
BY John Paul Narowski IN Customer Service
If you want to make your customers fanatic in their devotion to you, you just can’t offer a “better mouse trap.” You have to bring more to the table then a killer product or service.
March 14, 2011
BY John Paul Narowski IN Karma
The Japanese need our help more than ever after this devastating event. This event will change their lives for many, many years, and by helping even a little bit can make a significant difference. Here are a few ways that you can use the web to help these victims: Text to Donate: The American Red Cross created a texting campagin to raise money for relief efforts. If you would to donate just text REDCROSS to 90999. Each text will provide $10 towards the Red Cross’s humanitarian efforts. Donate via Facebook: The Red Cross also has a campaign on Facebook to … Continue reading How To Help The Tsunami Victims Using The Web →
March 3, 2011
BY John Paul Narowski IN karmaCRM News and Updates
We’ve been a bit quite the past few weeks but we can assure you it’s been for good reason. The karmaCRM team has been hard at work preparing for public beta launch. We’ve got some interface revisions, added the ability for you to select a color scheme/logo and added group and private chat!
February 25, 2011
BY John Paul Narowski IN Productivity
If you’re looking to improve your productivity, it’s time to bust out that old egg timer. Unless you hang around with your grandma a lot, chances are you don’t get to see an old fashion timer a lot these days. If you need to time something in the kitchen, the built in microwave or oven timer usually does the trick. And of course what smart phone owner doesn’t bust out their favorite timer app when they need to count the seconds down? But if you’re interested in getting a serious productivity boost, then you need to go analog. Why Use … Continue reading Using a Timer to Increase Productivity →
February 22, 2011
BY John Paul Narowski IN Sales and Marketing
RSS (Real Simple Syndication) is a handy way for people to get updates from their favorite sites, but it’s also a powerful tool for increasing your search engine rankings. What is RSS? RSS has been around since 1999 but didn’t really get popular until 2005. The RSS feed for your site is a XML formatted summary or full text of your posts plus key data the search engines need (title, description, keywords, date published, etc). This allows many different programs to read the feed so it can be easily distributed, too. The most common way people come into contact with … Continue reading Simple SEO: Using RSS for Backlinks →
February 18, 2011
BY John Paul Narowski IN Sales and Marketing
A February 12th article in the NY Times, exposed that the giant retail outlet, J.C. Penny, was using low quality paid links to game Google’s organic search engine results. This will have serious implications for anyone doing business online.
February 16, 2011
BY John Paul Narowski IN Small Business
Being customer centric seems to have become the in thing to talk about amongst CEOs, PR professionals and just about everyone else. But just because you have the right buzz words in your mission statement doesn’t mean you’re walking the walk.
February 15, 2011
BY John Paul Narowski IN Sales and Marketing
When it comes down to your website Google ranks relies on two different areas of criteria. The first part is your search results, and the second is your sites page rank or pr.
February 7, 2011
BY John Paul Narowski IN Sales and Marketing
I just got done reading a fascinating article on Mashable in regards to the top 10 Facebook privacy settings that everyone should know about. They went over some very important information and how messy these privacy settings get because Facebook does change their layout often.