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Marketing Books
Am I an A**hole?
Am I an a**hole? Readers of my blog typically stick up for me and speak to the respect, passion, and compassion I try to provide through my blog. It’s definitely a persona that I project and one that I try to work to perfect each day. Blog posts have the advantage of pre-planning (although in the past, I have been…
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Reputation is Authority’s Dark Shadow
The news is full of some incredible stories of humanity recently: Alex Rodriguez admits to steroids (strangely omitted from MLB.com’s AROD news page) Michael Phelps photographed smoking pot. He’s subsequently lost a huge endorsement deal with Kellogg’s. Even Barack Obama has had a couple tough weeks, trying to find cabinet members and pushing through a stimulus package that has sinking…
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Content Marketing
The Fastest and Easiest Means of Speeding Up Your Site
Through our hosting provider, I was introduced to CloudFlare. I was absolutely astonished at the service… especially the starting price (free). When I worked for a major SaaS provider, we configured geocaching services and it cost us tens of thousands of dollars a month. CloudFlare isn’t built for a SaaS provider, but it’s perfect for your website or blog. CloudFlare…
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Content Marketing
The Huff with Huffington
In case you hadn’t heard, there’s a $105 million class action lawsuit against Arianna Huffington for selling to AOL but not providing any pay to the bloggers who helped develop the Huffington Post into such a powerhouse blogging community. I’ll skip the irony of a wealthy lefty making a quarter of a billion dollars off the backs of others (ouch!)……
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Marketing Infographics
Do You Text from the Bathroom?
Chances are pretty good that you do text from the bathroom… in fact 2 out of 3 people admit doing it. It sort of grosses me out thinking about borrowing anyone’s mobile phone now! We appreciate it when our clients use our text messaging services… but thank goodness they’re typically outside of a home for sale! As for the 2/3rds…
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
SEO: 10 Backlinking Temptations To Avoid
Google’s gold standard of whether or not a website should be ranked well continues to change over time, but for quite a while the best method has gone unchanged… relevant backlinks from legitimate, authoritative sites. On-page SEO and lots of great content may get your site indexed for specific keywords, but quality backlinks will drive up its rank. Since backlinks…
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Content Marketing
Small Business Owners and Social Media
These days everyone is on the internet; reading, writing, researching, chatting with friends, stalking ex-lovers, but is it productive for business? Since much of my business is focused on building websites, and helping small business owners use social media as part of their PR/Marketing stategy I am always interested in studies on this topic. Chuck Gose’s shared a great video…
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The Winning Combo of Product, Choice, and Emotion
The Jellyvision Lab has put out an amazing little eBook on How to Present Product Choices. The ebook compares the behaviors of shoppers in supermarkets to those online and provides evidence that behaviors are similar. You might think that a supermarket is enormous, but Jellyvision reminds us that there’s an infinite amount of space on the web, and how you…
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Content Marketing
Where Is Your Loyalty?
Loyalty is defined as the quality of being loyal to someone or something. Have you ever noticed how loyalty is discussed, though? We talk about how customers are loyal, how employees are loyal, how clients are loyal, how voters are loyal… Employers talk about employee loyalty, but then they hire external, don’t develop their own talent internal, or worse –…
