Blog Posts by Tammy Miller

A domain name is a unique website address that businesses have for their clients to view the latest articles, products, services, or other information on their website. According to Verisign, there are over 183 million domain names registered globally. If you are interested in registering your own domain name whether you are beginning your business or working on an additional business website, you might want to purchase that domain name before someone else decides to register it. If you have registered your domain name, what do you do with that domain name if you are not ready to launch the website? Why not park it!

If you use Facebook like I do to connect with your friends, family, or for business opportunities; there are a lot of applications that Facebook offers that are broken down into categories. When I interact with Facebook, here are my top five favorite Facebook Applications that I like to use for business and personal.

Google Pocket Guide

By Tara Calishain, Rael Dornfest, and DJ Adams
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Pages: 129
Price: $9.95 at Amazon.com or O'Reilly


Beyond just going to Google website and performing a search like I normally do, the book itself delves a lot deeper into what Google has to offer and what types tips and tricks can be used to make an effective search on the Internet. The book itself was divided into four parts. Part One, "What Can You Do with Google?" This section explains what Google isn't (Google index is not a snapshot of everything online) and what Google is (Google is a searchable index).

Part Two, "Asking For What You Want". This section shows you how to use phrase searches by surrounding a phrase (roses are red) with quotes to generate results. There were a lot of search features in this section that one can used which included: using the AND or the OR, using the date range, using the minus sign in order not to include that word as

Even though we might use a desktop or a laptop for our business, we have another computer as an alternate that might be useful for our business; which is the Netbook. The Netbook itself is a small, lightweight, reasonable priced (cost under $500 most of the time) that has the operating system of either Windows XP or Linux. With all that said, how can a Netbook be used as part of your business? What are some of the disadvantages to using a Netbook?

A Netbook can be useful for your business for the sole purpose for web browsing, checking email, and do a little word processing (Netbooks can hold some applications) while on the go or traveling. They are portable, easy to carry in a backpack or a bag as I have experienced.

Netbooks also has its disadvantages. The disadvantage of owning and using a Netbook is the Netbook has a small keyboard which makes it difficult to type at times, difficulty in installing programs such as games that require lots of space, and of course the

Whether we have a small business or if we are a solopreneur; we might want to keep track of the revenue that we received from the products or services sold as well as keep track of the expenses that were incurred. Managing our revenue, our expenses, or our invoices can help us take control of our business finances. There are four free money management sites that a small business or solopreneur can use to manage their business finances. Let's examine these four free money management tool sites.

Geezeo. Geezeo provides money management tools to help track and manage your business finances. Some of the features that Geezeo offers are the following:

• Creating goals. For example, as a business, one can create a goal of paying off a credit card bill in the amount of 5,000 within six months by using the create a goal section.
• Creating a budget can be used to track your daily expenses of your business.
• Adding your bank accounts if you want to.
• Having the ability to set up

If you ever wanted to demonstrate your company's products and services to your clients; one can use a good screencast. A screencast is a screen capture that records certain actions from your computer screen accompanied by audio (most of time requiring a microphone) that explains certain steps or procedures. A screencast can be an appealing way to introduce information about your company's website, blog, or social networking sites. Some examples of creating a screencasts can be an "Overview of Tammy Barbee website" or "Tammy Barbee Team B Demo".

There are several benefits to using a screencast. The following are:

• Free to low cost software to use when creating a screencast
• A way to promote and market your products and services in several areas such as your website, blog, or social networking sites.
• A way to plan or outline your own actions to demonstrate your products or services to your clients.
• A way to record tutorials, demos, or tips and tricks and

A microblog, such as Twitter, typically allows you to post photos, videos, audio clips, and even short text updates of 140 characters or less. The purpose of using a microblog for your company can be beneficial to promote your business that can be viewed publicly or privately to a target audience to discuss business topics that relates to your products and services. Besides Twitter, the most notably microblog, let's take a look at four microblogs that can expand your social network and promote your business.


Tumblr
Tumblr lets you post photos, quotes, links, videos, text, and music. Tumblr offers features that include customizing your own theme or even choosing your own colors for your tumblelog. The cool thing about Tumblr is that it lets you reblog by allowing you to repost content from another tumblelog onto your own tumblelog.

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Co-op
If you have people that work for you, this is a microblog that allows you to stay in touch with your

When I am working on projects for my clients; most of time I write my ideas or concepts on my small white board and/or draw them out on a piece of paper. For me, it might be a better idea to map or draw my ideas through a software application that can demonstrate my ideas in a presentable way.

What is Mind Mapping?

Mind Mapping is a way to demonstrate your ideas, concepts, structure or analyze your information, and generate ideas for your business.

Benefits to Mind Mapping

Mind mapping offers several benefits for your business. These benefits include the following:
1. Planning your projects
2. Creating an organization chart
3. Illustrate or create a work flow process
4. Sharing your ideas/concepts on your website

Mind Mapping Software

There are so many different types of mind mapping software to use for your business but I have pointed out at four types of mind mapping software application you can use for free for your business ideas,