http://www.frankthinking.com Internet Marketing for the Rest of Us Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:12:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en On July 1 Adobe issued a press release announcing their work with the search engines regarding advances in recognizing dynamic web content and RIAs (rich Internet applications). According to the release, Adobe is providing optimized Adobe® Flash® Player technology to Google and Yahoo! to enhance search engine indexing of the Flash ... http://www.frankthinking.com/flash-and-the-search-engines-cant-we-all-just-get-along/ Talk, communicate, talk, write, talk. Let’s have lunch and talk. Excuse me while I take this important call….I’m so sorry. Let’s write about our thoughts and experiences and feelings. Let’s let everyone know everything. Let’s IM, tweet, text and discuss our way through another day. Phew….wasn’t that enlightening? Wasn’t that ... http://www.frankthinking.com/small-business-to-do-stop-talking-and-start-doing/ In an excellent article at Business Week (yes, that can still happen) Sarah Lacy writes about the trail that all of our social media habits leaves. Of course, it seems logical and makes great sense when you step back but when you are in it a lot of folks forget ... http://www.frankthinking.com/social-marketing-media-networking-or-whatever-you-call-it-let-the-writer-beware/ Does a small business have a need for tracking their online reputation? Since many small business people are completely unaware that they even have an “online reputation” then I would have to say yes. Here’s an example that literally just happened to me this week. I had transmission work done on ... http://www.frankthinking.com/small-biz-online-reputation-monitoring-orm-are-you-aware-of-what-is-being-said-about-you-today/ The days of firing off a letter to the VP of Whatever at XYZ Company because of their bad service are most definitely over. You have to suspect that all those letters got “black-holed” anyway, right? Oh sure, you might get a coupon every now and then and a form ... http://www.frankthinking.com/do-i-actually-have-an-online-reputation/ It’s time to blog. Just get over it and start doing it. Things to consider……… 1.    You’re an expert and no one knows it You are in business or in your job because of some kind of expertise. Own it and then share it. You’re really not doing much good keeping it to ... http://www.frankthinking.com/just-blog-already/ Welcome to “Shameless Self Promotion Time” here at Frank Thinking. I know that most of my posts are relatively “neutral” and are simply about ideas / experiences / concepts etc but today is going to be a bit different. Since my company does internet marketing (with a concentration in search marketing ... http://www.frankthinking.com/semcheck-provides-seo-audits-for-next-to-nothing/ Communication. What’s there to say that hasn’t already been said? Plenty actually. The reason that everyone keeps writing about it is because it’s still a major issue in business and life in general. I realize that I am about to write something that might make me sound 1) old 2) whiney ... http://www.frankthinking.com/why-cant-we-ka-muhn-i-kate/ A funny thing happened on the way to my blog. I got so busy that I completely neglected it and thus have lost whatever momentum I had (which admittedly was kinda minimal). So here I am again realizing that the whole blog thing is really a commitment that I have ... http://www.frankthinking.com/blog-what-blog/ Hype, spin or just pure nonsense; they have all been around forever (think about the bill of goods that the devil sold Eve). Since we live in a day and age where information is king we all need to keep our radar wide open for what is real and what ... http://www.frankthinking.com/link-baiting-it-could-be-for-you/