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How Will Millennials Change Your Business?

May 6th, 2008 No Comments

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What is the Internet?

A series of tubes? - Sen. Ted Steven
For porn? - Avenue Q
Widely misused?
Where I found my last job

Whatever you answer is ok with me. Whether you see it as an informational resource, a way to pirate content, a source to make money, or a hurtling dump truck — it […]

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Site Review: The Onion

May 1st, 2008 No Comments

URL: http://www.theonion.com/content/magazine/a_statement_followed_by_a
Title: A Statement Followed By A Question Separated By A Colon | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source
Meta: The Onion, America’s Finest News Source, is an award-winning publication covering world, national, and * local issues. It is updated daily online and distributed weekly in select American cities.

The Onion warms my heart by forcing […]

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How Not To Write A Quality Post

April 30th, 2008 2 Comments

Some days it is difficult to come up with a quality topic, especially when you have been away for a few days. What can I say as I am trying to switch gears from vacation to work. I know that I need to produce content, at least to get my brain back on subject.
I should […]

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Marketing Through Craigslist

April 22nd, 2008 No Comments

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Craigslist is both a bane and a boon to your work. It is popular, easy, highly effective, and frequently abused.
Here are some tips for getting better results from Craigslist:

Get a Craigslist account – This will make posting and reposting quicker and easier.
Write like you are advertising – You are given plenty […]

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Are You Losing Focus?

April 14th, 2008 No Comments

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Over the last week I have seen a surprising rush of people in my life “getting” Twitter. It seems that every few weeks there is a little spike in the number of tweets that come in to me. I have a pocket of friends that sign up for everything, and don’t […]

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Search Standards Protect Site Owners

April 7th, 2008 3 Comments

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Today there is a lot of coverage of SEO Standards. If you want a list of some recent articles visit this post at SEOmoz and Slightly Shady. I think that most of the people talking about standards are coming from the wrong position. They are largely talking about it from […]

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More on Understanding Customers

March 25th, 2008 No Comments

Continuing from the understanding customers post, today I am tackling a more complicated explanation of buying decisions.
The temperament description is a common introduction to the concept of how people engage information. However, companies like Future Now internally use a more complicated system — like the Meyers Briggs Type Indicator. MBTI splits each of the temperaments […]

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Advancing SEO: Change the way you think

March 12th, 2008 No Comments

Michael Martinez paints an admittedly arrogant picture of Advanced SEO tactics. Certainly he has gotten his hands dirty in the search optimization business, but his advice is more like Zen gardening than in the trenches warfare.
Mr. Martinez’s guide to Advanced SEO:

Advanced SEO plans for a minimum of 12 months (or 4 seasons)
No problem there […]

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What Kind of Dog is YOUR Site?

March 6th, 2008 5 Comments

I want to give you a visual representation of how people build websites. There are some trends that you see when you start playing with people’s sites, they resemble a dog in some fashion. Here are some of  the dogs out there and how to improve them.
Corgis - Plenty of content, spotty design.
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