At the Boston Podcamp this past weekend I found one slide to be better than all of them. It was by Matt Peters of Pandemic Labs. With the recent news of how Facebook is updating their platform with Timeline the data is starting to shake out and is by no means complete. The best information …
According to Wikipedia 115.8 million (August 2011) Linked In members have a posted their business profiles on the site. This can be a huge potential asset to your network. What if there were a really short and sweet way to use Linked In and get the most out of it without having to read a …
When I was mailing millions of direct mail pieces every month back in the 1980’s it was kind of like the equivalent of the web in the late 1990’s, hot! Now it has been almost a couple of decades and the USPS is taking their lumps. They too have a business to run. They do …
Often when we search the web we want to go back and find the same result only to find that it has disappeared. I read somewhere that 80% of our purchases are local within a 20 mile radius of our homes. I’m working on a few Local Search Optimization projects and I often “consult” or …
One of the best ways to rank for results is to add high quality relevant content to our websites. It is often we are writing blog posts like this and adding articles with keywords associated with the things we want to rank for. But one of my favorite ways to rank for key terms is …
Chris Brogan just posted this on Google + and the good news it is driving more traffic to his site and all of our sites. However, keep in mind he is probably working Google + a lot more than Twitter or Facebook right now. If you want an invitation to Google + just send me …
Being a website consultant and building a lot of different websites we want to do a couple of things so that we can add value to the user experience. We want to add compelling content and we want to be able to attract enough incoming links so that our content will rank in the SERP’s …
We shall soon find out. We are trying to push the envelope a little more than the norm. We recently completed a video for a resort in St. Martin. We think it is tastefully done but we will let you be the judge of that. SpeechRep Media provides end to end onsite, on location, video …
Here is some data I pulled from a Perry Marshall website. While it might not be 100% accurate the numbers are probably within some of the Facebook ballpark estimates. If these assumptions are remotely true then they are extremely impressive for Facebook. Facebook now has close to 700 million users 50% visiting each day 365 …
SEO is for businesses that want a long term solution for visibility and website traffic on their website. The key phrase in the previous sentence is “long term.” SEO is like visiting your Dad’s investment advisor who says that investing in the stock market benefits the investor in the long term, not the short term. …
