Great Expectations Without The Basics Equals Failure

December 6, 2010

We have to be very careful in the industry that we have chosen to call home. Internet marketing, social media and all the variations and themes it can conjure up are some of the least predictable in the already unpredictable world of marketing. As a result, the “Internet marketing cures all woes for the SMB” [...]

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Google’s Idea of Support Is a Link: Gee, Thanks

November 30, 2010

Recently I was at the Internet Summit in Raleigh and I was introduced to a Google employee in developer relations. I figured I would go to him on a flyer and see if he could point me to a place in Google to get real help with Google Place Page questions. He gave me his [...]

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Happy Thanksgiving

November 24, 2010

I hope you all have a refreshing and blessed Thanksgiving for those in the states. I’m thankful for a lot. Won’t bore you with the details. I just hope you can step back and count your blessings regardless of present circumstances. Remember that circumstances are temporary.

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Maybe Google Doesn’t Need All the SMB’s After All

November 23, 2010

I have been thinking a lot lately about how it seems that Google just doesn’t get how to speak to the SMB’s of the world. I wondered in my own little mind why they wouldn’t want to reach out and speak the language of the SMB so they could tap into the great elusive market [...]

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Not Handing the Internet Crown to Facebook Yet

November 22, 2010

UPDATE: I want to let my readers know that I have removed part of this post because it was done with incredibly poor judgment and the lack of good taste on my part. I let my usual sarcasm and cynicism turn into something that I am ashamed to admit I even thought let alone wrote. [...]

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Google’s ORM Problem?

November 18, 2010

As a joke today while writing over at Marketing Pilgrim I wrote: Google CEO Eric Schmidt has talked about being able to help people decide what to do next or to even know what is best to do next (just Google “creepy CEO ideas” and you’ll see his full library, no kidding). I wrote it [...]

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Mr. Mrs. SMB: What Would You Like to See In An Internet Marketing Conference?

November 16, 2010

I am not sure what I want to accomplish with this post. I say that because the deeper I get into the local Internet marketing side of the SMB world the more I realize that there is a tremendous chasm separating the industry (including service providers like Google, SMB marketing agencies and consultants) and the [...]

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Bing Local Search Stinks

November 10, 2010

I feel like I work for Google these days. Why? It’s because there is no denying that from a search perspective that is focused on local SMB’s Google is the only option if you are concerned about accuracy. I want someone to give Google a run for their money. I really do. Competition would be [...]

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Google Is Funny In a Clueless Marketer Kinda Way

November 4, 2010

Google really is an engineering company with no, as in zero, marketing chops. I have been studying the whole Place Page deal lately so I went back to the original blog post on the Official Google Blog announcing these great things. They featured a bakery in San Francisco called the Tartine Bakery. if you actually [...]

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Why Google Place Pages Are Critical for Business Success

November 3, 2010

A study was performed by Adobe to see just what people do with their mobile devices. Number 1 result is that they use social media channels. That’s fine but since most social media activities are time wasters and not real good indicators of whether someone is looking to buy, we all need to take notice [...]

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