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The FTC Wants to Read Your Blog

Saturday, October 10th, 2009

Oh boy. Just a heads up if you’re currently marketing your business online through the use of blogs, big brother is knocking.  Now, if you just have a blog tied to your site, or if a blog is your site, and you are sending out wonderful captivating content for the masses, no worries.  You’re golden.  [...]

Local Search and the 10-Box

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

I think that an even hotter button right now than “Social Media”, may be “Local Search“. If you don’t agree, stay tuned then. It’s my prediction and I put money on it by purchasing a couple of domain names this morning. So, what is “Local Search”?
Fact is, over 75% of searches for information on local [...]

LinkedIn – Ignore It At Your Peril

Friday, September 11th, 2009

LinkedIn was actually launched back in 2003, but had a slow following until the recent popularity of social media sites for business.  With more than 46 million users worldwide, LinkedIn is most frequently used as a way of networking with business colleagues and potential employers and employees.  In the past it was considered bad form [...]

Another Video Post – But this time I made it…

Thursday, September 3rd, 2009

Yes – While I’ve been called a hypocrite many times, I try very hard with the business stuff.  I can’t very well keep telling clients that they need to be on YouTube when I have no presence there whatsoever.  I actually started making some videos several months ago for some affiliate marketing campaigns but became [...]

Facebook Datacenters – Mindblowing Numbers…

Wednesday, August 26th, 2009

As I put more and more proposals and presentations together for businesses these days, I have an opportunity to delve a little bit deeper into the history, stats, and innerworkings of the social media system because that’s what everyone is really interested in right now. Not that I’m not interested in it too… I love social [...]

Funny – Kevin Spacey Explains Twitter to David Letterman

Monday, August 3rd, 2009

Social Media and Porn – We’re Not Discussing It…But Our Kids Are

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

Don’t worry.  This isn’t one of those screaming “SOMETHING MUST BE DONE ABOUT THIS FILTH!” posts.  If that’s your plight, fantastic.  I’m happy that there are people willing to fight those grueling battles.
So, my 11-year old son and I were discussing social media last week because: a) he gets it, and b) it’s something I [...]

CAPTCHA’s – Do You Want No SPAM or Sales?

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

I saw someone’s short study on this yesterday (here) and thought I’d look into it and write about it.   We are all intimately familiar with Captcha’s even if some didn’t know the actual term.  The idea, sometimes called a “Reverse Turing Test”, is that a machine gives a human a test… a test that presumably [...]

Is There SEO Value in Twitter?

Thursday, July 16th, 2009

Actually, Yes.   I didn’t brainstorm all of this myself though – I’m not that smart.  There’s a lot of discussion going around on this very subject and I’m just consolidating here. 
SEO in general is usually thought to involve a lot of link-building campaigns, which in turn moves a site up in the rankings with the [...]

How Companies Are Utilizing Twitter for Business

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009

Twitter, which allows you to transmit text messages up to 140 characters in length, is rapidly becoming the place where a lot of information is being shared online. It has actually turned out to be an outstanding reservoir of information by, about and for small businesses.
 
As a business-to-business marketing platform, Twitter has legs. About 56% [...]