My intent is to let you know that blogging can be done even with as little as a few hours per week. Just don't stop if it means well for you to start expressing yourself in writing; and blogging is the easiest way to publish yourself for free. What I wrote is based on my experience, not someone else’s. There are thousands of more tips and suggestions on the web on how best to maintain your blog and make it successful. Google it and you'll be overwhelmed by it. I’m sure others will have many more to add to my list.

Social Media is a great tool to market yourself to the global community. From LinkedIn to Facebook and Twitter, to name a few, it’s easy to use but not so easy to master. “Mastering” social media isn’t about the keystrokes, clicks and web pages you need to know to use; it’s knowing how to use it, sort of a “rules of engagement” kind of dos and don’ts in the social media realm. Examples would be the limit of Tweets or messages you post periodically (daily and weekly), the type of status messages and links you share, and so on goes the list. Before you embark on your social media spree, ask yourself this question: who do I want to be in the social media sphere?

When you use social media platforms like Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, you're not just marketing the company or brand that you are part of, you're also marketing yourself. There is no distinction or dividing line between the two - you are who you are and what you represent in the online social media world, and people will always put two-and-two together.

Haven’t you noticed that it takes an effort to find a job using LinkedIn.com? Lucky for those whose credentials almost match the requirements of companies and headhunters looking for a qualified applicant. Besides really fixing-up your LinkedIn profile, you’ve got to be awesome in copywriting, corporate correspondence and carefully marketing yourself to attract the best employer or headhunter. But what if we turned the tables around and had someone else job hunt for you?

From the various informal Q&A sessions I've conducted over the past years, I decided to write down some of questions asked on the subject of setting up and operating a small business call center. Here are 8 short snippets of questions and answers as my young and agile mind could recall.

Online social networks are about conversations, besides being free, fast and (always available) forever. There are opportunities to use online social networks to market yourself, your organization, products and services. However, each one is distinct from one another and “overkill” will also drive your results downwards. This essay is based solely on my experience.