Hey, we live in uncertain times for certain (wink, wink, nod, nod). In the past several weeks that horse has been beaten and tortured to a gruesome death that would make PETA want to throw something on someone.
Hats off to the SMB’s I am talking to, though. In a pleasant ‘turn of events’ I [...]

It’s shakeout time folks. It’s game on, so to speak. As I hear the news of another local search marketing provider closing their doors today I suspect there will be much more fallout. So I can be completely transparent here, I too have gone through some adjustments with regard to my company. I am excited [...]

Well, it’s upon us. It’s obviously the end of the line for our economy. I suspect that when we all board up our shop windows and pack in our businesses we will just have to see what happens on the other side, if there even will be an other side of this mess. Hopefully there [...]

It’s another week of uncertainty and the wide variety of prognostications about the financial “meltdown” or “crisis” or “Armageddon” or whatever it is you want to call it. Is it the end of the world as we know it? I don’t know and in all honesty I don’t really care. I know that comes off [...]

Hearing a search marketer like myself talk about internet marketing for SMB’s has some benefit or else I wouldn’t do this. I do sincerely believe, however, that the most important voices for anyone to hear, whether you are a search marketing service provider or an SMB that is using or thinking about using internet marketing [...]

Well, it’s pretty hard to ignore what’s been taking place in the economy as of late. I am usually the person who talks about how the SMB market (particularly those that are toward the smaller end of the spectrum) can almost take a “business as usual” approach regardless of the larger macroeconomic concerns. The reality [...]

While this is not a story about intentional deception it is an incredible story about people being misled by the system of internet information gathering that led to some significant pain for investors of one airline. Now admittedly I may look like I live under a rock because I did not see this story until [...]

I know I have to be careful here because I am not someone “in the know”. I do, however, know a few things. One of those things is that if your company has not been profitable for 9 years then maybe there is a flaw somewhere. Call me crazy but doesn’t it seem to make [...]

Recently I have had the pleasure of getting to know Chuck Hester, director of corporate communications with iContact. Many of you may already know him or may even be LinkedIn to him via the popular professional networking site LinkedIn. Chuck has become a LinkedIn “guru” of sorts. His use of the site and its capabilities [...]

Sounds awful trite, doesn’t it? Commitment defines success in most areas of life. Why then do SMB owners commit so little time, energy, focus, resources, money etc. etc to search marketing. Why is it that when they work with a partner they often don’t implement the work in a timely fashion which serves to sabotage [...]