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Gmail Signature Setup

By Judy Kane, on March 27th, 2010

Setting up a Signature on Gmail

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 Gmail.

In Gmail:
• Select Settings.
• Under General, the first item on the Settings menu.
• Scroll down the page until you find Signature.
• No signature is checked by default, choose the . . . → Read More: Gmail Signature Setup

GoDaddy Email “Forwarding”

By Judy Kane, on March 26th, 2010

One of the best ways to promote your own domain name is through your email address. People are much more inclined to remember the name if they use it when they email you.

If your domain is with GoDaddy, creating this email address and having it forward directly into existing email box is easy.

Although . . . → Read More: GoDaddy Email “Forwarding”

Adding an Email address to Yahoo! Mail

By Judy Kane, on March 24th, 2010

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 Yahoo! Mail using that address.

Here’s how to add email accounts to use to send emails in Yahoo! Mail.

In Yahoo! Mail:
Select Options then Mail Options (near the top right . . . → Read More: Adding an Email address to Yahoo! Mail

Adding an Email address to Gmail

By Judy Kane, on March 24th, 2010

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

By Judy Kane, on March 11th, 2010

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

By Judy Kane, on March 9th, 2010

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

By Judy Kane, on February 23rd, 2010

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

By Judy Kane, on November 17th, 2009

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

By Judy Kane, on November 2nd, 2009

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

By Judy Kane, on September 18th, 2009

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