Archive for Resources
Positioning Presentation Nov 2011
I had the chance to present some thoughts on positioning yourself, your products and your business in the marketplace recently. If you are interested, I’ve attached a pdf of my presentation notes here. The notes are half pages, so when you print them out, there are 2 per page for a total of 4 pages. [...]
Guide for Boomerang Parents Receives Review
The slow to no-growth economy and high unemployment rates have kids of all ages returning to their parents’ homes as they transition from college to work or from lost job to new job. Co-authors Joyce Richman and Barbara Demarest have been getting some attention for their guidebook, Getting Your Kid Out of the House and [...]
12 Reasons Your Small Business Needs Twitter
Twitter is a powerful tool for small businesses, consultants, nonprofits, and individuals. This post by guest author Jessica Swanson is a helpful checklist if you are looking for some reasons to try out Twitter. My only caveat is that social media is labor intensive and can therefore cost you time even if it doesn’t cost [...]
Feb. 2010 Job Postings
Job Postings – New Category of Blog Posts on BarbaraDemarest.com When I hear about job postings, I will put them up on this site and you can search the Blog Postings under the Resources category for the sub-category called “Job Postings” to see anything I have found. I will title them with the month so [...]
MIT World™ – A World of Learning for Free
MIT World™ is a fantastic, free, and informative website sponsored and maintained by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It is a database of more than 600 videos of from significant public events at MIT. This is a free and open site with on demand videos that a coaching friend of mine pointed out to me [...]
Changes to LinkedIn Layout
I wanted to mention that I was working with a client on his LinkedIn profile today and noticed that my page was looking different! And especially different than his. So, I wanted to warn some of you who heard me talk about LinkedIn’s 3 column layout that they are changing to a two column layout [...]
LinkedIn Lab Coming Soon
I’ve had some requests to do a LinkedIn(R) Lab similar to the one-hour practical overview that I ran a couple of weeks ago about Twitter. Right now I am planning to run the LinkedIn Lab on Monday, November 16, 2009 at 5 pm and run it again with the same content on Thursday, November 19, [...]
Job Search & Unemployment Resource for Winston-Salem
Special thanks to Sarah Glover for sharing a first-rate resource from the folks in Winston-Salem, NC. While the resources listed might not be relevant for all the readers of the blog since we have a national (and even a few outside the U.S.) readership, I still thought I would share the link because there are [...]
The New Rules of PR
I just enjoyed reading through 22 screen shots of great material on PR from David Meerman Scott. For those of you who are following me on my blog, you know I am always looking for people who are good “meaning-makers” to pass along to you. David Meerman Scott has a book from Wiley out with [...]
The Words of Peter Drucker
My nephew has been home from Vanderbilt for the summer and he has been working as my marketing intern. I’ve had a lot of fun getting to know Matt better, but I also wanted to make sure he was learning some things that would last beyond the summer. Recently after he had fixed a Twitter [...]
