Posts made in January, 2009

Relieving 1099 stress

Posted by on Jan 19, 2009 in SF Business Services | 0 comments

Relieving 1099 stress

Image via Wikipedia Are you in the midst of trying to collect vendor information so that you can complete your 1099s? I often find that vendors are reluctant to share their tax id information and if you have already paid them, they often have little or no incentive complete your paperwork request. So my advice to you is to take care of this on the front end, so you don’t get stressed out on the back end. Before you pay a new vendor, ask them to complete a W-9 form so that you can “set them up” as a vendor. You can get a W-9 form on the IRS website at www.irs.gov. It is easy to just send this as an email attachment. If you request that a...

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Social Networking – Marketing Magic or Time Sink?

Posted by on Jan 18, 2009 in Social Networking | 0 comments

Social Networking – Marketing Magic or Time Sink?

Image by .Andy Chang. via Flickr A long, long time ago – at least in Internet years – the way to drive traffic to your site was write a blog. Check. Then we sent you a newsletter – opt in of course. You read it once or twice and you stopped reading. Don’t you love us? We linked to our business contacts on LinkedIn. Seems you already knew us. Then we were supposed to join MySpace. Check – met lot of twenty somethings, but not a lot of marketing bang for the buck. Then it was Facebook. Check – now we spend unthinkable amount of time trying to make what we are doing now sound interesting – do you really care that I am staring at my computer? Now, the...

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God grant me the serenity

Posted by on Jan 14, 2009 in Business Tips | 0 comments

God grant me the serenity

Image by Lars Plougmann via Flickr I went to a business mixer last night. I was in a pretty good mood and I ran into a few folks I hadn’t seen in awhile. As is the norm – many asked, “How’s Business?” What used to be an ice breaker now carries a notable edge to it. Times are tough. One long time acquaintance launched into a doom and gloom discourse. I excused myself. I am not typically a head in the sand kinda guy, but I can’t spend a lot of energy on how bad can might possible get. Especially, since I have little or no power to affect the state of the economy over the next few months. But for my own personal sanity, I just can’t wallow in...

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Using Twitter

Posted by on Jan 14, 2009 in Social Networking | 0 comments

Using Twitter

Image via CrunchBase We do it so you don’t have to . . . OK, actually we do it so that we can pass along our experience to you - We tweet, there we said it. First step is acknowledgment, right? I like Twitter. It allows us to post links and messages when we update the blogs. New to Twitter – these Ten Top Twitter Tips should help you get started. It seems to be the “gadget” of the moment – MySpace is so 2007! Passing fad? Internet Revolution? We wanted to know what you thought and here is what you told us - I used twitter for a few months, but I ended up deleting my account. I don’t mind a bit of social networking, but...

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January Update

Posted by on Jan 14, 2009 in Business Tips | 0 comments

January Update

Image via CrunchBase Back in September, we promised to update you as to what we were doing to the site and its impact on our ranking. At the time (9/22), Dohertyassoc.com has a traffic rank of: 3,740,178. In October, it had a traffic rank of 1,969,422, and currently Doherty’s traffic rank is 1,183,946. In the last month or so, we went through and updated the look of the site. Doesn’t matter what the site ranking is, if the site itself is outdated or there is no new content. First and foremost, would you want to visit your site? Is the content fresh, relevant? We transferred our Business Articles out pdf formats into html files and optimized the new...

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