WORD - Creative Google+ Business Pages

Have you jumped on the bandwagon and created a Google+ account yet?  The business pages are a completely new feature on Google+.  The sooner you start experimenting with them, the soon you’ll know how to make Google+ business pages work for your company.  Check out how a few companies are already getting creative with Google+ Business pages.

WORD - Affiliate Marketing

Have you ever heard of affiliate marketing? Did you know that you can make money on the web by helping sell products that you never have to own, stock, or ship? Read up on how affiliate marketing can help you generate some cash! You’ll definitely need to have a website with all sorts of traffic coming to it for you to make some money, but why not try it out? Check out the following two links to learn more about this lucrative opportunity:


http://www.affiliatetips.com/
http://www.cj.com/

WORD - Fancy Drop Down CSS3 Menus

Have you been learning web design and CSS lately?  Do you constantly go online to see what’s new and what’s changed with the coding languages?  If not, you should!  Web languages are always evolving.  Do your best to keep up with the rapid changes of the web.  Check out this cool link to fancy drop down CSS3 menus.  There are many awesome resources out on the web that can help you learn and stay ahead of the curve.

WORD - Survey Your Audience

How often do you survey your target audience when working on a project? You should always keep your audience in mind when working on anything that’s for a specific market. Use tools like Survey Monkey or Poll Daddy to help you get some valuable data that can help drive the effectiveness of your projects/designs.


Check out this poll: http://mikerosik.polldaddy.com/s/w-o-r-d-survey

WORD - Flash Preloader Museum

When working on a Flash project, you should always consider adding preloaders to your files so that your project’s content will load completely before your audience starts clicking around through your creation.  People often add a visual progress bar with a percentage before displaying the entire project.  Try to go above and beyond and create a preloader that has more of an aesthetic appeal that works with your project’s overall theme.  Check out http://prettyloaded.com!  It’s a website that serves as a preloader museum curated by Big Spaceship (Ad Agency).  It will give you lots of inspirational ideas for creating custom preloaders.

WORD - Social Media Saftey Infographic

Social media has grown exponentially over the past few years.  Many people are jumping on the bandwagon while not realizing the security risk that they’re facing when they publicly post information.  Make sure that you don’t publicly post information that can be harmful to yourselves.  Check out this infographic, Does Social Media Use Compromise the Security of Your Home?

WORD - What I Learned From Four Days With the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs

Do you consider yourself an entrepreneur?  Intensity plays a huge role, but many say that kindness and empathy are fundamental to entrepreneurship.  Check out this great article titled, What I Learned From Four Days With the World’s Greatest Entrepreneurs.