Small Business Online Operations Plan

Kin Lane — Thu, 08 May 2008 11:13:09 -0400

I have been working with my brother-in-law to really escalate the operations of his small business Thinwrench, which offers custom wrench and tool manufacturing. He has had the business since the 1990's and has had the site since I believe 2001.

Participate in Question and Answer Sites to Market Yourself

Kin Lane — Thu, 08 May 2008 11:10:59 -0400

I go through spurts where I monitor and participate on Question and
Answer web sites. Usually I monitor Yahoo Answers & LinkedIn
Answers via RSS feeds.

I gather a lot of information and knowledge this way and keep organized using tags in Google Reader and Google Notebook.

I also participate and give my answer or feedback on questions from time to time.

I haven't been doing this for a couple months now, but I did actively participate for months at a time.

I recently got the following email off LinkedIn:

Google Adds Maps to Google Chart API

Kin Lane — Thu, 08 May 2008 11:05:53 -0400

Google released a new update for the Google Chart API. It allows you to create maps with specific data areas based upon what you pass.

You can highlight states, countries and other elements and display summary or other data regarding those elements.

A nice feature added to the API. The have a lot of features hitting the pavement lately across their web applications / API.