Category Archives: Industry News

Just Say When, Not If. Making It Happen When Selling.

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 […]

LinkedIn called out for “turning a blind eye” to fake celeb profiles

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 […]

Matt Siltala is a Super Star

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 […]

5 Ways To Keep Your Business Poor

I have had this post written for a while now, but was waiting for the best opportunity to share it.  It seems with all that has gone on the last several months with the economy, I have not felt right about posting.  With that said, I don’t think there is ever a right time.  However; […]

I hate cybersquatters and you should too!

Cybersquatting (don’t you just love that word?) is defined by Wikipedia as: Cybersquatting (also known as domain squatting), according to the United States federal law known as the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, is registering, trafficking in, or using a domain name with bad faith intent to profit from the goodwill of a trademark belonging to […]

Be more than just a “me too” – Be like Mike. Michael Andrew that is.

Who is Michael Andrew you ask? The self proclaimed “maven” has a passion for passing his expertise on to others, and Michael has a lot of areas of expertise. Michael’s resume snapshot looks something like this: College football player MBA A discertation short from a PhD in Genetics Renowned wedding photographer Video professor The reason […]

What Making Users Click 9 Times To Find Pricing Will Do For You

I had an interesting chat with a family member about something the company they works for had recently done with a website redesign.  First of all – I was blown away when I was told what they paid for the site (over 100k).  My designers could have build a much better site for 1/3 of […]

Final Word On The 2008 Holiday Shopping Online Sales

I had a chance to interview Jason Skinrood (Plastic Rewards) on his thoughts of the 2008 shopping season.  Jason has some pretty amazing insight because its his business to keep an eye on it.  He is heavily involved in the credit card industry, an avid credit card industry blogger and has a passion for helping […]

Every restaurant needs a powerful Twitter and Facebook account

How many of you eat out for lunch at least twice a week? How do you choose the location? Do you base your choice off of the daily special, how much money you have in your pocket, or what? Wouldn’t it be sooo much easier if you could just log into Twitter 10 minutes before […]