I was telling a friend how you can embed Youtube links into your own blog, so when you are writing in other venue's (bulletin boards, FB, twitter etc...) and you want to share something humorous, valuable, interesting or otherwise worth sharing, you can be linking people to your blog, so they may stay awhile & look around...
this may also encourage others to post links for their friends to check it out so, it's one way that having a blog, & using social networking can help raise awareness of who you are & what you are doing.
The above discussion came from the sharing of a funny video....
This job was a while ago, but I wrote about it at the time, because I thought it was an interesting example of the way things work sometimes, regarding customers asking for one thing, & my efforts to discover if something else entirely would better serve them.
The call came in Thursday afternoon...
"Do you make those magnet signs?"
..yeah, I do those
"do you sell the blank material?"
...well, sometimes, but not as a rule.. what do you need them for?
"well I'm having my car transported across the country & I thought I should put signs on it to advertise my internet company before I ship...
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