You know, I am no longer amazed at the number of off line businesses going under these days, IMO, I think some probably deserve to be going under and here’s my rant why. They would like to blame it on the bad economy, but in some cases I think they need to take a look […]
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For the first time ever – The Arizona Cardinals are going to the Superbowl! I am so proud of this team for not giving up, and for the fans NEVER losing faith that they would make it! I just had a feeling that they would do it after the Seattle game. It was like they […]
Phoenix Suns fan My close friends know that I have always been a big Phoenix Suns fan. It is hard not to like an organization that consistently puts a winning team on the floor and has always had some of the most likable guys in the league: Kevin Johnson, “Thunder” Dan Majerle, Jeff “Horny” Hornacek, […]
Last night, DSM had the unfortunate experience of learning that an independent contractor we were using for content creation was allegedly pirating other writers work. This incident has caused me to spend some time training the DSM staff as to what they can do to both prevent copyright violations and to police intellectual property use […]
I had an unfortunate experience yesterday when I had to take my 2 year old to the Urgent care to get his head stitched up from splitting it open because of a desk. He is ok now, but he didn’t appreciate us all poking and prodding at him. He’s a boy and things like this […]
Why would an Internet marketer want to know how to conduct a trademark search? 1) So that Internet marketer does not register a domain name featuring someone else’s trademark, which domain may later be usurped by the trademark owner. ( A trademark owners will have substantive rights over a domain name owner in a domain […]
Free shipping has been the most popular promotional offer among online shoppers. According to 2007 Forrester Research, 61% of online shoppers preferred to shop with a retailer that offered free shipping than one that didn’t. High demand encouraged most online retailers to win customers’ hearts by offering free shipping – either on minimum purchase or […]
For those of you who are still thinking about maybe going to SMX West 2009, it’s not to late. You can still save $200 if you are planning on attending SMX West 2009 Feb. 10 – 12. The deadline for saving is midnight tonight, 1/9 (just a couple hours away so hurry). In addition to […]
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 […]