Positive Online Review Responses: Best Practices and Examples
Last updated: 10/12/19 Having a presence on the major review sites gives your clients or customers the ability to write reviews for your business, but more importantly, it gives you the opportunity to respond. Why you should respond to your positive reviews While most people know how crucial it is to respond to negative reviews,…
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
Last updated: 11/13/19 DISCLAIMER: We are not Google. Google My Business’ website is here: https://www.google.com/business/ ***Calls to our main number or inquiries through our contact form about Google My Business from anyone who is not a current client WILL NOT BE RETURNED. ***We have been overwhelmed with hundreds of confused callers/emailers…
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…
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…
Read MorePros and Cons of Using Medium as a Blogging Platform
I published my first blog post on Medium. It is called, Updating Your React Native App. It’s been interesting comparing and contrasting the experience of writing on Medium vs. writing on my own WordPress blog at McCullough Web Services. Here’s what I liked about writing on Medium:
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