001 Introducing Web and BeyondCast

Episode 001 | Introducing Web and BeyondCast Welcome to Web and
BeyondCast, a weekly podcast show where we discuss and guide Small
Business on marketing and managing on the Web and beyond. This is
an introduction to your host, Ray Sidney-Smith and the premise of
Web and BeyondCast with some helpful notes about the show. Show
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(voiceover) Welcome to Web and Beyond Podcast, where Small Business
comes to learn about marketing and managing on the Web and
beyond...with your host, Ray Sidney-Smith. (Ray) Hello there, Small
Business! Welcome to Season 1, Episode 001, of Web and BeyondCast,
where Small Business comes to learn about marketing and managing on
the Local, Mobile, Social Web and beyond. We have an exciting show
in store for you, so I hope you enjoy the time we'll be spending
together. I know I will. Segment 1 - About Ray Sidney-Smith I
thought it might be a good idea to tell you a little bit about
myself since we'll be spending so much time together. I'm a small
business productivity technology and Management Consultant and the
owner of W3 Consulting training consultancy for small businesses
learning about marketing and managing on the web, and we also have
a number of smaller divisions that provide a wide variety of
services to those small businesses. For example, we have a managed
WordPress hosting and domain registration service, very creatively
called Web Services.  I'm sure I'll talk more about our work
with Web Services in the future. additionally I'm the author of
SoLoMo Success: Social, Local & Mobile Small Business Marketing
Strategy Explained, published in 2014 and  should have the 2nd
edition out in the very near future. Let's see what else would you
like to know about me?  I am the Google Small Business Advisor
for Productivity and what that means is that I I'm happy to explain
to small businesses the power and veracity of using Google products
to be able to run their entire business this includes G Suite
formerly known as Google apps for work which encompasses many many
products and extends to third-party partners and services that can
be used within the Google ecosystem. As well, I'm a Hootsuite
Global brand ambassador so if you have any questions about
HootSuite always feel free to send those along. And, last but not
least,  I'm in Evernote certified consultant and Evernote is a
powerful note-taking software which you will hear me talk about
quite a lot on this show. It's the backbone of my personal
productivity and holding together that which are the spoke personal
productivity Technologies like a task manager or project management
software or a calendar and cloud storage services like Google
drive, OneDrive or Dropbox...it does everything in the middle. As
you might be able to tell, I'm a huge productivity nerd. So if
you'd like to learn more about my productivity enthusiasm you can
always jump out to my personal website which I will link to in the
show notes. All Show Notes will be available with links to items
we’ll cover here in the podcast, along with a text transcript so
you can read and search the contents of the shows. Each episode is
numbered (so this episode is 001 as its the first episode) and you
can find it by going to webandbeyondcast.com forward-slash and the
number of the episode. Alright, I've told you about myself but what
I’d really like to hear is from you. Please visit
WebAndBeyondCast.com/001 which will take you to this episode if
you're not listening to it already on the website and feel free to
tell me about yourself in your small business there or you can
click on the contact page and let...