Media Creations Group

Hiring someone to do your website

MCGroup — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 10:46:02 +0000

I have been plagued with disgust by the number of web site developers who are robbing people who have no inkling of what it takes to get a website done. If you get some devastating news from one doctor, don’t you normally want a second opinion from a second doctor? The same with your car. [...]

You Have to Coordinate!

MCGroup — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:43:44 +0000

Planning a trip? What about a wedding? Or How about a big event like a business conference or party? All of those things take planning and coordination. A lot of thought has to go into all the details. Will you use a travel agent or event planner? Who will you invite – who is your [...]

New: Twitter for Businesses

MCGroup — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 20:17:15 +0000

As I was reading my Twitter page, I saw an interesting HASHTAG (#ForSmallBiz) so I clicked it. Twitter has a new program called Twitter with American Express. The are inviting American Express Cardmembers and merchants to try our their advertising solution for small businesses. American Express will give $100 in free Twitter advertising to the [...]

Free Online Shopping Cart/eCommerce Software

MCGroup — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:15:18 +0000

Ecwid.com markets itself as the “new breed of shopping cart software.” The company has made e-commerce software since 2001. Their main focus is on commercial open source PHP shopping cart software. Their mission is to make the web both convenient and effective business environment, for them, their clients and the clients of their clients. Product [...]

Build Your Website With WordPress to Be More Visible

MCGroup — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:28:21 +0000

Media Creations Group has teamed up with Visibility Marketing to present “Build Your Website to Be More Visible. In this workshop, you will learn “step-by-step” how to set up and maintain a website using WordPress, how to use social media such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn with your new website, learn about search engine optimization [...]

Newsletters – Are they obsolete? Nope, not at all!

MCGroup — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:57:58 +0000

There’s so much more to the internet these days. So many new businesses, websites, bloggers, news, etc., not to mention social networking like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. There is a lot to absorb and many people are not reading every thing they receive in their email and they aren’t visiting all the great websites and [...]

Wufoo.com HTML Form Builders

MCGroup — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:16:25 +0000

What is Wufoo? Well, they provide a cool HTML form builder that helps you to easily create contact forms, online surveys, invitations, registration forms, and a lot of other forms you may need for your website. You can collect data, registration information and online payments – all without having to write a single bit of [...]

Who’s your email provider?

MCGroup — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 20:20:58 +0000

It’s Tipsy Tuesday! and… here’s your tip for today. What email system to you use? Yahoo, Hotmail, MSN, Google, some other? Well, I have tried all of those. But, I like Google’s Gmail the best. Why? You’d think my top reason would be less spamming, but it isn’t. It’s their security features. Gmail has several [...]

Learn to be better customers

MCGroup — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 09:37:53 +0000

I decided to do a second Tipsy Tuesday for today. People need to stop complaining about companies and establishments regarding how they conduct business…. people need to learn how to be BETTER CUSTOMERS! For example, you go into a restaurant and you receive a menu. You decide to order or request something that is NOT [...]

Entrepreneur Magazine is one of my favorites

MCGroup — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 09:17:01 +0000

It’s Tipsy Tuesday! And here’s your tip. One of my favorite magazines that I’ve been buying for years and years is “Entrepreneur Magazine’s Annual Franchise 500″. Once you get it, you won’t put it down for a while. It has a ton of good, useful information – enough to jump start just about anyone, and [...]