Business Helping Business: PeopleFood4Dogs

PeopleFood4Dogs.com offers people food for dogs, a delicious all-natural frozen snack food for the most finicky eaters. "Won't you order some home made food for me today?" says the little dalmation puppy in the picture.


Business Helping Business http://www.businesshelpingbusiness.com/ is a site where you can subscribe to an email that summarizes needs of small businesses and pro-bono services that people have to offer.



I once posted that I would give an hour consultation on internet publicity to the first five businesses who responded. I ended up talking with 6 and met, by phone, a very interesting wide assortment of people from as far away as England, and California, and as close by as Virginia.



One of the business owners is the owner of PeopleFood 4 Dogs, a home based business that makes high quality home made food for dogs as snacks and for a food supplement, especially helpful for dogs who aren't feeling well or are finicky. The owner has been a dog rescuer for years and wanted to create a healthy dog food that is also affordable. Her business has been very successful locally and is expanding out of state as the frozen food ships very well. Several veterinarians carry her food, as well as other stores.



Check out PeopleFood4Dogs.com and see what you think. If you know of a vet or pet store that might be interested in this product, pass the word along. Let's give PeopleFood4Dogs a hand.


This blog can answer the following kinds of questions:



My dog is sick, what should I feed it?


Where can I get home made dog food for my dog?


Does anyone make people food for dogs?


Healthy dog food for dogs?

Who makes health food for dogs?

Social Media Directory focused on the Triangle area of North Carolina

LinkedIn networking wizard, Martin Brossman, has, in his inimitable style, taken an inspiration and delivered on it with a strong collaboration of local social media savy business people in the Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, (RTP, Morrisville, Wake Forest, Cary, Apex!!) area of North Carolina.

Brossman's Social Media and Online Resources for Business Directory is a Social Media Directory, an Online Resources Directory, a Business Resources Directory and a Directory of Triangle Resources for Social Media, and it's VERY HANDY and VERY USEFUL.

At least a dozen Triangle based social media (and online business resource) practitioners and experts worked on the directory, writing introductory articles and contributing their most valuable social media sites and resources.

The book launch is Thursday August 20th in Raleigh at New World Coffee House in Raleigh on 4112 Pleasant Valley Road. Directions.

If you're an inSide919'er, RSVP here. If you're not yet a member of inSide919, check it out and maybe you'll chose to participate. If you're on Facebook, you can RSVP here!

We're also listing it in EventBrite which does a great job of getting word out about events!

Press:
Social Media Guide Book Launches in Raleigh

Yahoo Reports that the Number of Chinese Web Users Exceeds US Population

What news we here today! And what does it mean?

Yahoo reported today that the number of Chinese Web users is greater than the whole US population.

As if to emphasize the significance of this news, Google keeps switching my Blogger pages into Chinese. As it turns out, I do read some Chinese having majored in Chinese at University, but still, it's not the way I prefer to interact with Blogger.

So what is the significance of this? First of all, unless more of us start reading summaries of what the Chinese are writing and thinking about, a powerful world force will be outside of our knowledge. We need to pay attention.

Second, that the US is greatly outnumbered, and we can never forget that as we make our way into our future.

Third, Mandarin and Cantonese Chinese language skills should now be as important in the 21st century as French was in the 19th century.

Fourth, time to research the English language sites that report what is happening on the Chinese Web.

Fifth, if this is happening in China, what else is rising on the internet in other nations - both English speaking and not.

The ongoing surge of information about us and our world on the Web is going to sustain ongoing need to report and aggregate information about what other peoples are doing.

See the article for interesting statistics on web usage, broadband usage, Chinese control of access to social media sites like Twitter, Facebook and You Tube and more.

What's New?

Internet Explorer 8 has a lot of the features I've come to love in Firefox.

Google Chrome is a browser that I've yet to take on.

I've been discovering more new sites, and haven't yet taken the time to document them. The productivity on the internet is astonishing - the equivalent of the Renaissance in Europe, only this is global.

Social Media and the President

President Barack Obama is known for his innovative use of social media in connecting with America.

Here are the different social media sites he is connected with, some of them I was not familiar with:

Facebook
Black Planet
MySpace
Faithbase
YouTube
Eons
Flickr
Glee
Digg
MiGente
Twitter
MyBatanga
Eventful
Asian Ave
LinkedIn
DNC PartyBuilder

Which ones of these don't you know yet?

Companies that combine signing in with registering

I just filled out a survey in a new service, Qwidget, it's fun to answer surveys.
It popped me into a signin form. The fields were there big enough to call my attention. The little word "register" although in red, was in the text, and I didn't notice it.

Not planning to register, it wasn't my plan before I filled out the survey, I decided I could take a second and do it...

So I put in my email address and a password...
It didn't recognize me

And instead of adding the fields needed to complete a registration, then and there, without deleting what I typed in, it closed out that window and started me from scratch.

I didn't need Qwidget - hardly know what it is - so that was one customer lost. I didn't have the reason/motivation to rekey what I had already typed...

One potential customer's response, and you could say, suggestion

Researching Reputation Monitoring Tools

Began a reputation audit project for an international company and found it a natural complement to the internet research I did with the national campaign to launch Sierra Club Socks, scouring the web with google (and other) searches to see every nook and cranny that had any mention of the product.

Now exploring the automated reputation monitoring tools:

Trackur, Andy Beall's service, which is affordable
Radian6, a Canadian service with an incredible dashboard, but at least 3x more expensive a month, and some limitations in what information it reads on the internet
PressArmy, like Radian6 has multilingual capabilities.

There's always more to research!