http://www.ritawilhelm.com Musings of an entrepreneur about business, green brands, and social media Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:15:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en With a struggling US economy, many entrepreneurs and sales people are finding that they need to change the way they market their business. You yourself might be asking the question on how best to use the marketing dollars that you have in your budget. Where can you get the ... http://www.ritawilhelm.com/2008/10/07/marketing-in-a-down-economy/ Watch Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton talk specifics on women's issues:   http://www.ritawilhelm.com/2008/09/18/hillary-clinton-joe-biden-webcast-on-womens-issues/ This election year is crucially important.   I just compiled a list of links that you are welcome to pass along to other people who are still undecided voters.   Here's the results of a BBC poll on how most countries want Obama in office: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/09/09/2360240.htm?section=world Here's an excellent post about how other countries are ... http://www.ritawilhelm.com/2008/09/10/palin-mccain-political-research/ I'm all for equal rights for women, but this pick by John McCain is an insult! As a woman entrepreneur, a mom of a 3rd grader, a board member of our school's PTA, and of someone who loves our country and the opportunities it presents, you would think that I could ... http://www.ritawilhelm.com/2008/08/30/as-a-woman-im-insulted-by-the-sarah-palin-pick/ I will be attending the CEO Space Forum  ( formerly know as the IBI Forum) this week in Los Angeles.  It's an intensive week long learning and networking event, that is designed to help entrepreneurs take their business to the next level.    They have 5 meetings a year. In the last 5 ... http://www.ritawilhelm.com/2008/07/19/the-ceo-space-forum-formerly-known-as-ibi/ You may be wondering why SnapMonkey is down, and why your SnapMonkey website is not working.  There is a citywide power outage due to an underground explosion just a block from the building where our servers are located in VanCouver Canada.  The fire is impacting one of the main internet hubs on ... http://www.ritawilhelm.com/2008/07/14/snapmonkey-servers-down-due-to-citywide-power-outage/ My cousin's 16 year old daughter is visiting us from Holland.  This is her first trip to the United States.   I thought I would take her, my 8 year old son, and a few other teens from the neighborhood on an afternoon rafting trip, for that "Colorado Experience".  Here's a couple ... http://www.ritawilhelm.com/2008/07/08/colorado_rafting/ Green car grants 'could be made earlier' The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia ... said the green car fund was designed to be accessible to car makers across the board and not to support any particular technology or any particular brand. Harder and harder to be green Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia The environment has ... http://www.ritawilhelm.com/2008/06/11/green-news-from-around-the-world/ Remember the famous 1970's public service announcement about the crying indian? I was just thinking about it, and the impact it had on people with regards to littering and pollution. I just did a search, and found it on YouTube. Thought I'd post it here. Social Bookmarking http://www.ritawilhelm.com/2008/06/01/1971-flashback-the-crying-indian-commercial/ Many of our clients use StatCounter.com to analyze their website traffic. StatCounter has a free analytics program, which is very good. They also have an upgraded program. Some of our clients use Paypal to pay for this service. Statcounter just sent out an email to their customers who pay for the ... http://www.ritawilhelm.com/2008/05/29/paypal-service-problems/