Google Reader USE IT

In this day and age all of us blog. We keep blogs, we read blogs, we check blogs. But all this blogging can start taking over our time and efforts. Blog Readers work to solve this problem. My biggest beef with most blog readers is their inability to be portable. I want to check my blog reader whenever I have time. Be that at work, at home, at the store, in a coffee shop, etc.

Google Reader to the rescue. The great thing about Google Reader is it being online. This means you can keep tabs on all the blogs you want to watch. It also keeps track whenever you read a blog and marks that off for you. You can also star and share blog postings. I find the starring feature great to go to great postings quickly without having to manually sift thru blog after blog and post after post.

Another really neat feature is the add subscribe link to your bookmark toolbar in your web browser. This means that if you find a blog you want to keep tabs on in Google Reader all you need to do is click that button. It automagically adds it to your list to keep track of. No knowledge of RSS, atom, etc needed. No looking for the blog feed and copying and pasting.

So, check it out, add it to your existing Google account, http://www.google.com/reader

Studio Plus Software

I am thrilled to introduce you all to our latest sponsor, Studio Plus Software. They just joined with us and we have some really exciting things coming up with them including a chat hosted by Studio Plus to talk about marketing tipcs for budget minded studios.

Welcome!

Business Policies Focus Week

For all you current members who are may just be starting your business, we are having some awesome activities this week for setting up your studio and business practice policies.

Tonight at 9pm Central time in the chat room we have our weekly business and marketing chat and we will be focusing on business policies, how to write them, how to deal with customer objections, etc. Don't miss it!

And this week we will have various topics and threads focusing on policies as well. Join in if you haven't already!