Is Your Company Social? Let’s step away from technology for a minute and refine the question: Do you communicate with your staff about the things your business is working on? (New products offerings, new market segments, new hires) Do you have company events like town halls, summer picnics, movie or bowling outings, volunteering or any […]

We are asked to speak about social media, specifically LinkedIn, at least two or three times every month.  Some of our speaking is fee based and some we do for no cost as a way to give back.  I specifically have a heart for helping students.  I have spoken at Rockhurst University, the Bloch School […]

A year ago I wrote an an article called “10 Reasons Why Your Business Should Not Be On LinkedIn“. The inspiration for that article came from the fact that I was amazed that part of my day-to-day job involved convincing business owners, especially those in the B2B space, that LinkedIn was a viable tool to […]

“With Blue Gurus help, we were able to switch to a WordPress web site quickly and affordably. We have worked with Jason Terry for a long time and trust him for guidance in technical situations.  We were telling him about some of the issues we were having with our old web site.  Specifically, our inability […]

Time for another video blog update from Blue Gurus!  The topic this week is our recent switch to Google Apps.  We did this for many reasons ranging from features to price.  Watch the video for more on why, and below the video I have included some important links that I mentioned.  I would love to […]

This morning as I was starting to work on my blog post for the week, I got an email from a great friend of mine who I’ve known for 26 years. He told me a couple of weeks ago that he was picked to be a part of an internal group at his company to […]

I’ve heard from more than one person that has called to learn about Blue Gurus and what we do that their CEO/Owner/Manager/Fill In The Blank Leadership Person has told them “We need to be all over social media!” It always makes me chuckle a bit because I wonder what prompted him or her to make […]

Part of what Jason and I do every day in our roles as Social Media Coaches is consuming information. Not only do we like to, but we HAVE to because the world of social media changes at an unbelievably fast pace. New social media platforms are popping up every day (Google+, Pinterest, etc.) and it’s […]

      “I Love Your LinkedIn Profile…It’s So….YOU!” That’s what Mary Hutchison, my Realtor and long-time friend, told me after she looked at my LinkedIn profile for the first time. Little did Mary or I realize it at the time, but I would go on to share that story in every LinkedIn 1×1 Profile Training […]