Two high school boys in RI stole a car this morning in order to… impress their friends? no. have a ride to the prom? no. get to school on time? YES. It is pretty easy to poke fun at a story like this, but how often do we do something wrong in the name of […]
If you are thinking about attending SMX West, you need to decide soon or pay 200 bucks more tomorrow after midnight. I have the honor of speaking this year at SMX West on the “tapping into image search” panel with Eric Enge of Stone Temple. There will also be two other speakers – one from […]
If you saw my last post about me suspecting Twitter was broken, than you’ll understand this post title. I think I got a personal confirmation that Twitter is broken for sure, or at least I’d like to think that it was a personal confirmation. I was trying to post a reply tweet and after clicking […]
I have been using Twitter pretty heavily for the past 90 days and have started to catch the vision of how me Tweeting can help me and DSM in the big picture. My partner Mat Siltala (@matt_siltala) has been on Twitter for about 2 years now and really has been encouraging me to use it […]
Tuesday morning I had the opportunity to meet with a company regarding providing search engine optimization services to them. This is a company that is on the verge of being an Inc. 500 company and I was meeting with the CEO, VP of Marketing, and VP of Development. About 45 min. into the meeting the […]
The Trend Micro blog writes that their are numerous fake celeb profiles on LinkedIn which contain links to malware. Bogus profiles of Beyonce Knowles, Kate Hudson, Salma Hayek, and others contain “tempting” links to see these stars naked. Once a user clicks on the link “he will end up on different malicious Web sites trying […]
begin rant I read something today that made me want to vomit. The idiot moguls behind the porn industry have a lot of balls (even if its publicity stunt) to say they need a Government bailout because their sales have been down 22%. They say people are not wanting to make whoopie, or purchase porn […]
A couple days ago I got some new business cards in the mail, and I am really pleased with how they turned out. Business cards have been a form of offline marketing for as long as any of you can probably remember, but as I was designing my new ones I really wanted to find […]
If you’re at all like me, nothing can be as frustrating as sitting through a meeting that should have only taken about 20 min., but is still going after an hour. I really find that meetings can be one of the easiest places to waste time so I thought I should rant about this for […]
Our own Matt Siltala was presented with two fairly prestigious awards this week: 1) Matt’s article entitled “Free Local Marketing Options that Bring Real Traffic” was recognized by Techipedia as one of the Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2008 2) Matt has been asked to speak on social media at SMX West 2009 (Feb. 10-12 […]