Big Ideas for Small Business

Sarah Worsham has written a nice article on using Flickr to create a social community through posting product pictures. If you’re a retailer with a website, give this article a read.

from Practical Ecommerce by Sarah Worsham

Flickr, a photo sharing site, can be a powerful tool for promoting your products. Not only can you upload images of your products, where they can be seen throughout the Flickr website, but you can encourage your customers to participate and socialize with your company and products by uploading and sharing their own images of your products.

Included in the article:

• The Action Shot
• Social Hour
• Tag, You’re It
• Kick Start
• Rewards
• Who Uses Flickr on Their Site?
• Related Articles

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Mark Forster, the author of three books about time management and personal organization, has developed a new system called AutoFocus. I’ve been using it for a few days and have to say…so far, so good. Getting more done with less stress. Beautiful.

Here’s what his system promises:

• A greatly increased volume of work
• A lack of stress
• Focus on what is important
• Very fast processing of routine actions
• Thorough processing of major tasks and projects (more…)

1 second? I think that’s an over-estimation.

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Pocket-sized has made interesting use of a Wacom Tablet making a pendulum out of the stylus and capturing the lines. Don’t know what a Wacom Tablet is? It’s a pressure sensitive tablet (input device) that allows the user to draw with a stylus and capture the marks. As a proud owner of a Wacom, I have to say that you just don’t realize how restrictive the standard mouse is until you lock and load one of these babies.

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from Lifehacker by The How-To Geek

Windows/Mac/Linux (Adobe Air or Flash): Font Picker is a simple application that previews your text using different typefaces to help select from the fonts installed on your own computer. (more…)