Why you need Social Media AND Search. With tight budgets, companies are trying to make decisions about where and how to allocate resources. The much-lauded options for social media are ever present in the press, which pushes many to shuffle resources from search...
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Testing Localization Settings
by Monique Sherrett | Jun 17, 2010 | News, Work
Today we are testing the localization settings for our website and server. There appears to be a disconnect between when we think posts are going to go live and when they actually go live. Rather annoying. So now we’re going to test our theories. Some days you...

Lead from Any Chair: The Lone Evangelist
by Monique Sherrett | May 6, 2010 | Harebrained Ideas
Leadership doesn’t always come from the top. You can show leadership no matter what chair you sit in for the organization. Below are some tips. If you’re the lone evangelist in your organization, the person who wants to experiment with social media, or...

Feedburner Feed: Invalid GET data
by Monique Sherrett | Apr 29, 2010 | Tech Support for Non-Techies
The Boxcar Marketing RSS feed is run through Feedburner.com, which allows readers to subscribe by RSS or email, which is super handy. For an unspecified period of time, those of you using Google Reader were unable to click on the blog post title without getting an...

How Digital Sales Changed the Publishing World
by Monique Sherrett | Apr 28, 2010 | Harebrained Ideas
How do digital sales affect how books are published and promoted? My day job here at Boxcar Marketing is about helping companies understand what they can do on the web to promote themselves, to build their customer base and to interact with their customers...
Clay Shirky on Media Models
by Monique Sherrett | Apr 27, 2010 | Harebrained Ideas
Clay Shirky fascinates me because he thinks about the world within the context of thinking that has gone before him. In his recent post, The Collapse of Complex Business Models he references Joseph Tainter’s 1988 book called The Collapse of Complex Societies....

iPad At the iOffice
by Monique Sherrett | Apr 16, 2010 | News, Work
Todd Sieling of Corvus Consulting is a Boxcar Marketing officemate with an iPad. We covet the iPad. Todd kindly let us play with it. Then he polished our mucky finger prints off the screen. Things I like about Apple’s iPad: Amazingly crisp screen I already know...
Sorry to Hear You’re Leaving
by Monique Sherrett | Apr 13, 2010 |
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Namaste Publishing Launches New Website
by Monique Sherrett | Mar 15, 2010 | Client Work, Work
Boxcar Marketing has been busy in the trenches lately as we worked to re-launch the Namaste Publishing website. Namaste Publishing is a small, financially successful Canadian publishing house with a worldwide presence. Known as the publisher for leading authors like...
Mail Deleted My Email and Accounts
by Monique Sherrett | Feb 22, 2010 | Tech Support for Non-Techies
Over the past 3 months, I have managed to unintentionally delete my entire inbox 3 times. The first two times, I was setting up Google Apps for Domains and made the mistake of editing the existing account instead of adding a new account. If you’re changing your...
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