Adding an Email address to Gmail

So you’ve found the perfect domain name, and you’ve setup an email address using that domain name.  Now you want to be able to send emails from Gmail using that address.

Here’s how to add email accounts to use to send emails in Gmail.

In Gmail:
•    At the top right of your screen, choose Settings. This opens a . . . → Read More: Adding an Email address to Gmail

Creating a Facebook Fan Page

The easiest way to create a Fan Page is from outside of Facebook.  In your web browser, use this link to open the Create New Facebook Page. http://www.facebook.com/pages/create.php

To create a Fan Page, you have three choices of Categories:
Local
Brand, Product or Organization
Artist, Band or Public Figure

Each comes with its own template for a specific set of . . . → Read More: Creating a Facebook Fan Page

Setting Up a Signature on Yahoo! Mail

Your signature is an important part of who you are and gives you a great opportunity to promote your business.

Here’s how to setup your signature in Yahoo! Mail.

In Yahoo! Mail:

Select Options then Mail Options in Yahoo! Mail (near the top right corner on your Yahoo! Mail screen)
On the menu on the Left, Choose Signature.
Click Show a . . . → Read More: Setting Up a Signature on Yahoo! Mail

Making the Best of It

I’ve been hearing a lot of people expressing what I’m feeling.  “This isn’t the way it’s supposed to be now. I’ve worked hard all my life, and I shouldn’t be having to deal with this.” “This” being job loss, reduced income, and financial uncertainty.

In other words, it isn’t fair. My mother always said . . . → Read More: Making the Best of It

Large Publishers want in on the POD Business

The industry response to self-publishing is changing. In the beginning, agents and publishing companies were opposed to the self publishing. The agents still don’t like it, but now publishing houses are starting to jump on the Publish-It-Yourself bandwagon by starting their own self-publishing divisions.
One of the most recent is called Harlequin Horizons. . . . → Read More: Large Publishers want in on the POD Business

The Financial Shift

In the novel I’m writing, my heroine enters a restroom where she finds a dead body. She feels as though the world has tipped on its axis, plummeting her into a nightmare where her life will never be the same. Of course, that’s a novel, but in many ways, what we’re experiencing feels the same way.

The . . . → Read More: The Financial Shift

Stamps

I got out a stamp this morning and realize how much I hate having to deal with mailing snail mail.  I know the Post Office is considering the idea of reducing mail delivery to only weekdays, and I wonder how I’ll feel about that.

I like getting mail. It comes everyday at about 2:30, and the dogs . . . → Read More: Stamps

The Curse of The Typos

As we get further and further into the world of self-publishing and small publishers, more and more typos are going to be showing up in books. These aren’t missed typed words, but rather a missing letter or word that screws up the sentence. I’m sure you all know what I mean: . . . → Read More: The Curse of The Typos

Who’s Influencing Your Next Read?

How do you know what book to read? There are so many books out there these days, many coming from small, independent publishing companies, that readers are being overwhelmed with options. But readers aren’t aware of how their book buying dollars are being influenced.

A new trend for many new books is to . . . → Read More: Who’s Influencing Your Next Read?

Barnes & Noble’s eBookstore

In the book world, concern that Amazon will control the e-book market with the Kindle is waning. Barnes & Noble and Apple are both fighting back.

Barnes &Noble launched their eBookstore (www.bn.com/ebooks) which now offers books that can be read on a variety of platform including Windows and Mac computers, the iPhone, . . . → Read More: Barnes & Noble’s eBookstore