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Thank you for visiting the Flip Cat Blog.  You will see posts on best practices for marketing-related work, business social media, and for law marketing.  You may occasionally see comments regarding politics, sports, nutrition, and humor.  Your feedback is welcomed.

It’s Not Your Granddad’s Twitter Anymore

22 Mar 2012 – Twitter celebrated its sixth birthday yesterday, but when it started, I was not on board. In fact, back then I had a marginal LinkedIn account with no photo associated and had not yet created a FaceBook account.  I let the train pass me by.  A few years later, I had improved my [...]

Hungry for Productivity? Eat a Frog.

1 Feb 2012 – We are one month into 2012 – how are those New Year’s Resolutions coming?  If you are having a little trouble staying on-task at work, you might want to eat the frog. In 2001, Brian Tracy, author, speaker and consultant, came out with his book Eat That Frog! subtitled “21 Great [...]

Should You Add a QR Code to Your Business Card?

11 Jan 2012 – Last week, a client asked me, “Should I add a QR code to my business card.”  My answer?  That depends.  The very next day, I saw a tweet leading to this article, “The Uncertain Future of the QR code.” A QR code lets you direct the location to which you send [...]

Business Social Media – Getting Started

12 December 2011

19 Dec 11  -  The 1990s movie Big Chill featured Tom Berrenger’s character as a television show actor. During the friends’ reunion weekend, his TV show comes on and Berrenger’s character slides across a pool table toward the camera while holding a gun in one hand. One of the friends quips, “I want a margarita and [...]

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What IS Flip Cat?

12 December 2011

12 Dec 11  -  So often, while networking for my business, one of the first questions someone asks is, “What’s the story behind the name ‘Flip Cat?’” Here’s a little background to answer that question. In 2008, I was comfortably employed, yet some of my friends had been recently laid off or were not in an [...]

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Welcome to the Flip Cat Blog

12 December 2011

12 Dec 2011 -  THE FLIP CAT BLOG – INTRODUCTION Flip Cat Consulting LLC started in January 2011 as a business to provide marketing services to a range of clients. Over the past year, I have added to my 20-plus years of marketing experience by further developing my Business Social Media savvy. But…it’s taken the whole [...]

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