Have an hour to watch a really helpful video on how to use the internet and your website to drive business to your store? If you do brew a cup of tea, make yourself comfortable, and watch this.

The video is aimed at brick and mortar jewelry stores, but I think the information is quite relevant and helpful to anyone with a local business and even small online merchants. It covers several ways to build your online presence to improve what I call your “google juice” and make your business more visible to a local audience.

I just found out about this project fifteen minutes ago.  What an idea – decentralizing the internet and creating our own little networks without the need for large hubs… making our social networks more private.

Check it out.

Diaspora: Personally Controlled, Do-It-All, Distributed Open-Source Social Network from daniel grippi on Vimeo.