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Must Read Blogs – One of Our Favorites

Like most of you, I subscribe to a handful of blogs that I review as part of my morning rituals.  From IT gurus, entertaiment mogals and marketing leaders, each delivers something I find (or at one time found) worth my time. Without out a doubt, Jeremy Epstien and his Never Stop Marketing daily updates deliver something worth reading.  It’s more than just every now and then, it’s every single day. Sometimes he shares very personal stories and other times they are chunks of wisdom retold. Here’s a great example.

If you are serious about your business and have the desire to set in motion a few of the principals and knowledge Jeremy shares, it can make a difference in the level of success you and your organization will achieve.

Chris Brogan & Julien Smith – Co-Authors “Trust Agents”

Chris Brogan and Julien Smith gave some great advice during their lunchtime keynote at the recent Microsoft/Seattle Chamber Conference, including: Everything you do online stays on Google forever. Watch your online reputation. Establish a good relationship with your clients/viewers/readers. Use cause marketing to benefit causes and gain more customer connections. Take all the tools available to you and use them to your benefit like video, digital photos, and blogging to drive traffic to your site.

Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce – Emmy Jordan

Aaron Booker from Varvid has a chat with Emmy Jordan, the Senior Vice President of Membership and Business Development at the Seattle Chamber of Commerce. She works with small business members that are about 82% of their membership by setting up meetings like The Smart and Simple Solutions Conference for Small Business. They partnered with Microsoft to present to conference. She talks about the various panels on financing, branding, solutions and more that are presented at the event.


The Adventure School – Cori Ready



Cori Ready from The Adventure School talks with Varvid’s Aaron Booker at the Smart and Simple Solutions Conference in Redmond,WA. The Adventure School is a company producing events in the tech industry, arts, and social areas. They discusses how social media tools are arriving to the mainstream and how exciting it is that more people are beginning to use them. She also talks about how technology innovation is enabling business owners to get their work done in the field.

Grant Thomson from MG Technology Group talks Social Media

Varvid’s Aaron Booker talks to Grant Thomson who works with MG Technology Group. They are a hosting solutions provider that partners with IT Solution Partners. He’s been trying to figure out the value of Social Media in the business world. Will it lead to better relationships for small business by establishing trust?