What is Personal Marketing and why is it important? Before we define Personal Marketing, we need to define a marketing term called the Marketing Mix. Main Entry: marketing mix Part of Speech: n Definition: the elements of marketing that can be used by a company to influence consumers to purchase goods or services “Marketing Mix.” Dictionary.com’s 21st Century Lexicon. Dictionary.com, LLC. 31 Aug. 2009. <Dictionary.com http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Marketing Mix>. In other words, the Marketing Mix is a mix of 4 factors (Product, Place, Price,...

I’ve known about Fog Creek Copilot for some time now, but I never really tried it before.  I knew there was an offer to use Copilot for free on the weekends, so I decided to try out Copilot today. The method for setting up a Copilot help session is as follows: Step 1 – Helper initiates help session Visits Copilot.com Clicks on Help Someone tab Enters name Clicks Go button Enters the email of the person being helped Downloads and runs Copilot Helper program When Copilot Helper runs, it establishes a session with a remote server that will connect the two computers...

Last week I wrote a blog titled “Technical support using Remote Assistance“  In this article I described the reason why you would need Remote Assistance and how to get it started.  However, there was one little thing I neglected to mention.  Your computer settings must permit Remote Assistance.  Otherwise you will get a message that “Remote Assitance is not permitted”         Here’s how to grant Remote Assistance: Control Panel method Click Windows Start Button Select Control Panel Menu Select System Control Panel Click Remote Tab Enable Remote...

Farm Town is habit forming.  One might event say Farm Town is even addicting.  Anyone who has played it before would agree that once you start being successful at expanding your farm, you really enjoy the game.  The question is how does one advance so quickly.  My friends have asked me the same question.  They’re struggling along and see slow progress on their farms but they look at mine and have farm envy.  I’m not the best, but I’m advancing pretty quickly.  I didn’t learn some of these secrets until someone shared with me, so I’m going to tell you a...

This the last of three blogs in the Opt-Out series.  The first blog was on “tips to avoid and fix unwanted changes“, the second was “restoring my Home page” and the last one is “removing unwanted software artifacts”. The primary focus of this blog is undoing changes made to your computer because you didn’t Opt-Out or uncheck the suggested default actions. In this blog, we cover: Removing unwanted desktop shortcuts Removing that unwanted software/ IE browser toolbar Removing unwanted desktop shortcuts This is one of the easiest annoyances to...