How to Share Access on Google My Business
In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to share access with us to Google My Business (GMB) from either your desktop/laptop computer or your mobile phone. Onboarding can be one of the more challenging aspects of hiring a new company to help with your website or marketing. Most of the headache is logistical—we need to…
Read MorePositive Online Review Responses: Best Practices and Examples
Having an online presence gives your clients or customers the ability to write reviews for your business, but more importantly, it gives you the opportunity to respond. It’s just as essential to respond to your positive reviews as it is your negative ones. When written effectively, your responses act as a great, free marketing tool.…
Read MoreOrganizing a Mountain Town Meetup – Meetup Finances – Part 5
Background This post is part of our series on Organizing a Mountain Town Meetup. Here are the previous posts: Part 1 – Introduction please read this for the background you’ll need to fully enjoy this post. Part 2 – Meetup Basics Part 3 – Getting the Word Out Part 4 – At the Event Meetup Finances In…
Read MoreHow to Get Google My Business Phone Support
It is surprisingly easy to get Google My Business (GMB) phone support for your listing. Just be patience since you might be on hold when calling them. First, we’ll give you several options for getting in touch, including calling Google My Business, having them call you, or reaching them online through Facebook or Twitter.…
Read MoreOrganizing a Mountain Town Meetup – At the Event – Part 4
Background This post is part of our series on Organizing a Mountain Town Meetup. Here are the previous posts: Part 1 – Introduction please read this for the background you’ll need to fully enjoy this post. Part 2 – Meetup Basics Part 3- Getting the Word Out In this post, we’ll go over some of the basics…
Read MoreOrganizing A Mountain Town Meetup – Getting the Word Out – Part 3
Background This post is part of our series on Organizing a Mountain Town Meetup. Here are the previous posts: Part 1 – Introduction please read this for the background you’ll need to fully enjoy this post. Part 2 – Meetup Basics Throughout the series, we use the nonprofit, Tahoe Silicon Mountain (TSM), as an example. Garrett…
Read MoreOrganizing A Mountain Town Meetup – Meetup Basics – Part 2
Background This post is part of our series on Organizing a Mountain Town Meetup. See the full list of posts in the Organizing a Mountain Town Meetup series and please read Part 1 – Introduction for the basics you’ll need to fully enjoy this post. In this post, we’ll go over some of the basics you’ll want to consider at…
Read MoreOrganizing a Mountain Town Meetup – Series Introduction – Part 1
The Backstory Garrett and I have been organizing meetups for the Truckee nonprofit, Tahoe Silicon Mountain, for over 8 years. We’ve helped grow it from a small monthly meetup with a handful of attendees to a group of 1,200+ with 3 monthly events, including Mountain Minds Monday, which attracts 40-100+ people each month. Plus, we hold…
Read MoreFetching a File in NodeJS with Request and Parsing It with Readline
Recently, I was working on a project where I needed to fetch a file from the internet and parse it line by line. NodeJS has the readline module that can be used to split a data stream into lines and perform a function on each line, which was perfect for my needs. The problem is…
Read MoreAutomatically Creating Github Issues Using Webtask.io
I am the co-organizer of the BeerJS meetings for TahoeJS. BeerJS is a casual meetup for JavaScript developers that has chapters all over the world. Our meetup is largely organized using a Github repo. As co-organizer, one of my monthly tasks is to create a Github issue for the upcoming meeting. The issue announces the…
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