Be Unique To Gain PR & Marketing For Free For Your Small Business

Logging on to Yahoo this morning I was caught by their feature article on "Texas Town For Sale".  It turns out that Albert, Texas is for sale and you could own it for $2.5 million or more.   Why is this making headlines at Yahoo?  Obviously because a town for sale is a unique product, but [...]

The Numbers Don’t Lie, The Importance of Web Analytics

Since you have the ability to understand how your website is being reached, used and performing, why wouldn’t you leverage that? Having just ended a meeting with my staff on our community guide website, we spent most of the meeting reviewing our reports from our host’s stat tool, Google Analytics and Crazy Egg (currently using free [...]

I’m Headed To San Francisco Hungry, Yelp Will Help.

I’m headed to San Fran and wine country for a few days to celebrate my anniversary of 5 years this week.  Our project manager Janna suggested a great little italian restaraunt to check out, but when we called they will be closed for 2 weeks when we are there. Even though we were totally bummed, [...]

Monday Link Menu: Learn To Speak SEO

If you’ve had the urge lately to throw around some SEO terms and know what your saying, here are a few posts to help you strut your stuff.  Of course all of your friends will be impressed.SEOmoz has featured a post from one of their users, Dr. Dave, read The Complete Glossary of SEO Jargon.Here [...]

Great iPhone Accessories

With the iPhone making it’s long anticipated debut, people have been going nuts trying to get their hands on one.  Frankly, if the coverage was a bit better in Minnesota I’d probably be out buying up the rest of my contract at Verizon so that I could get one too. Today, the New York Post reported [...]

Book Review: How to Win Sales & Influence Spiders

As a web director serving hundreds of businesses and organizations online, I’m always on the lookout for tools that can educate my clients, build value in the marketing strategies we preach and bring their marketing knowledge up a notch.I read How to Win Sales & Influence Spiders by Catherine Seda, her second book regarding Internet [...]