Rants & Ravings, From Me to You.

I found this resource in a magazine a few months back. I can’t vouch for each website, but give them a shot. Here are a number of tools that can help you follow and manage mentions of you or your company online.

www.backtype.com – Sends you alerts when a comment is made that included your company name or brand.

www.blogpulse.com – Searches blogs for mentions of your company.

www.boardreader.com – Searches message boards, forums, videos and twitter.

www.google.com/alerts – Sends you alerts when your company or brand appears on the web, blogs, news, video, or discussion groups.

www.icerocket.com – Searches bolgs, news, web, Myspace, twitter, images.

www.search.twitter.com – Searches for mentions of your brand or company on twitter

www.tweetdeck.com – Monitors mentions on twitter

www.technorati.com – Searches blogs, photos, and videos.

leave me a comment if you have any other items that may helpful to others.

Check out this link from Jason Fried from 37signals. Every wonder why you don’t get much done at work. He pretty much hits it on the head. Very interesting stuff and great concepts for productivity.

http://bigthink.com/ideas/18522

Shoot me a comment if you liked it as much as me.

Small business owners need to wear many hats. As you know I am all about efficiency and the internet gives you access to hundreds of companies and ways that can help you with this.  The problem is the time it takes to find those resources.

Sarah Leah Gootnick put together this wonderful free e-book titled “The Ultimate Small Business Owners Resource Guide”. Inside of it contains vast amount of information that will undoubtedly help you in some way. Sarah was kind enough to give me permission to share this e-book with the readers of this blog.

Please check out Sarah’s company at http://www.secretaryinisrael.com/ I know that she can help you in some way, and feel free to download the e-book below, share it with your friends and family. Let’s spread the word on this important free small business resource!

The Ultimate Small Business Owners Resource Guide

I must admit, I’m a little bit of a App Junkie. I love finding new ones for my i-phone. Scouring through the pages of apps, I came upon this gem. The “Hottest App” lets you find free and paid apps as they climb the charts in the US Apple Store.

Features

HOTNESS RATING shows how quickly an app has moved up the charts in the last 24 hours

GET NOTIFIED when apps go “nuclear” in any of 40 categories (OS 3.0 only)

PREDICT THE NEXT BIG HIT before it tops the charts using our secret formula

Includes full descriptions, screenshots, reviews and rankings *Hottest Free App only scans the US app store so some apps may not be available in your store.

Head over to the I tunes and download this baby today.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hottest-free-app

I find that it is hard to keep track of all my tasks on a daily basis. Unless you commit to writing something that you want to accomplish, it will take you longer than anticipated. With that in mind, I created a simple one page form to keep me going towards my short and long term goals. Feel free to use if for yourself. Please note that you may need to download the latest Adobe reader to view this file.

Goal-Task-Worksheet