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Who doesn’t love a great story? Especially one about an young entrepreneur. The story of Derek Johnson and SMS marketing Tantango is becoming my favorite young entrepreneur story to tell. I am delighted to share with your Derek’s own insights into the world of being an entrepreneur, bringing an idea to life and creating a successful business. Being in Bellingham means as a normal Seattle[...]

Brotherton Cadillac creates a Twitter focused campaign, Race for a Ride to raise awareness, and up to $140k for a Seattle non-profit. The idea takes donating through social media to non-profits to a whole new level, by offering one lucky tweeter a brand new car (2010 CTS).  I personally was very impressed with Brotherton Cadillac for taking the pludge into the deep end of social[...]

One of my favorite startup company stories to tell is about the stress reliving and smile inducing family of websites created, maintained and made successful by Cheezburger Networks. ­­­ The home of ICanHasCheezburger, Failblog and many more sites stares right at the infamous Seattle Space Needle. Seattle is full of exciting startup companies, yet what runs this successful empire of smiles and brings in around[...]

Problem solving intense jobs that demand creativity, sales, business development a ten to fifteen other hats are often stressful. Watching, and learning from entrepreneurs, marketing and cubicle dwelling folks here are some of the ideas I came up with that seemed to be common habits. Understanding that not every day is full of sunshine I came up with 21 habits that seem to keep the[...]

Back in the day when foursquare was a recess game played in elementary school, I remember there would be times where I didn’t want to play anymore. The kids were merciless. A few times I left the game after having the wind knocked out of me. Sad face enables and a pieces of my pride scattered across the ground, I would scan the recess field[...]

Everyone enjoys a good love story and this one begins during the time I found out that even I could be a technology girl. Sophomore year in high school and desperately looking for a class to fill a credit requirement, the school advisor gave me the mysterious option of taking HTML programming. The class was in a dark computer lab; bright monitors illuminated the faces[...]

Imagine managing fifteen twitter accounts, eight Facebook pages, two Facebook profiles, one Linkedin account, one Foursquare account, and keep an eye on tweets streaming in from conferences, events and your favorite people. Sound crazy? It is. The way I and thousands of users have stayed sane is by using Hootsuite. Impressive Features Speaking in car talk, if Hootsuite was an engine this would be the[...]

Check-in! You are now the Mayor! You have been Ousted as Mayor! You have achieved a Badge! What does that have to do with your business? Should you as a small business owner pay attention to geo-location tools like Foursquare? Whether you own a chain of coffee restaurants in Seattle or a small bakery in Issaquah you are going to find a lot of your[...]

There is something natural about peanut butter and jelly that everyone from the age of 3 to 99+ understands is scrumptious way to enjoy an afternoon. There is a natural chemistry between startup companies and social media. There are brands launching through social media even before they have websites. Social media is a conductive tool that in many ways levels the playing field between big[...]

Introducing you one of my favorite characters in Seattle. Dave wins many awards in my book for being a great community organizer, supporter of startups, sharing words of wisdom all while sharing a pint at his weekly Thursday group called #Hopsandchops. My first appreciation of Dave came from how accessible he is as a leader in the Seattle entrepreneurial scene I believe he is one[...]