http://www.frankthinking.com SMB Internet Marketing, SEO, Social Media Insights | Raleigh, NC | Frank Thinking Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:03:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en At the end of the day all of the ramblings and musings about Internet marketing are fun. That's really all they are. They are not truly important. If any life were to hang in the balance because of what I or any other Internet marketing pundit writes then there is ... http://www.frankthinking.com/happy-4th-of-july-and-thank-you/ If you are even a casual Frank Thinking visitor it is pretty obvious where I stand on business and the government. Less is more. Less government allows for more success. Well, we are not exactly in the day and age of government stepping aside on anything. Oooops, I just burped ... http://www.frankthinking.com/google-to-tangle-with-doj-on-book-settlement/ While it comes as no surprise that spam and porn are part of the Internet it is interesting to see just how much more obvious it is on everyone's darling Twitter. There are a ton of opinions and angles to this and they can be found over at Marketing Pilgrim in ... http://www.frankthinking.com/twitter-makes-the-big-time-spam-and-porn-more-prevalent/ Internet advertising's honeymoon may be ending sooner than anyone would have thought. First, the moronic governments of North Carolina and Hawaii take money out of their own citizen's pockets by picking a fight with Amazon. Smart move. Now not only do you not collect taxes from affiliate marketers' income made ... http://www.frankthinking.com/internet-advertisers-put-the-moves-on-government-meddling/ The earliest of the early results are in for June US search numbers. They are provided by a company out of Dublin, StatCounter, and have been covered by Reuters. To read the headline, one would think that Bing has made a dent in the Google empire. Here's my quick take. I ... http://www.frankthinking.com/microsoft-should-rename-bing/ Google never does anything that is privacy related without having a little push from some influential sources like, say, a government. As a result, the Google Street View service in Germany has provided the option for anyone who is included in Street View to have their raw footage, not the ... http://www.frankthinking.com/google-street-view-changes-policy-in-germany/ Social networking is huge. That's the easiest thing to say. It's what a company does with it that can make a lot of difference for their brand and for people in general. Staples is utilizing Facebook to get some of the stuff they sell (school supplies) in the hands of ... http://www.frankthinking.com/staples-uses-brand-to-help-kids-via-facebook/