Facebook’s Shot Heard Round the World
Image via CrunchBase The recent uprising in Egypt came from a single Facebook post. There is another battle. The fight between Google, Bing, Yahoo, and Facebook. Yahoo has kind of succumbed to Bing. As Bing provides data to Yahoo. Bing is also in bed with Facebook and has access to all those like...
Did SEO Just Die?
Image via Wikipedia A War Has erupted online between the major three engines and Facebook. Interestingly Google fires CEO Eric Schmidt and then founder Larry Page (of Page Rank fame) takes over the helm. And immediately the search giant took a massive shot at Bing's (Microsoft's search engine)...
How Sarah Palin Sells More Cell Phones For Liberals
The above graphic is from an insert that came with a sales letter to join Credo Mobil.They are obviously going after one side of the political aisle. Which means they are not going after the other side. In fact they are pushing that side away from them. This is actually part of a letter I received...
A Content Distribution Model
I am currently working with a few clients on getting their Fan Pages over at Facebook going. And as I have mentioned in my last few posts. I think to make a post, article a singular event is simply not worth it. I do not care how big Facebook is. To post a blog. To write an article and leave it...
Is Your Crackphone Running Your Business?
A longtime subscriber wrote in and asked me, "Tim what are you doing writing about business planning, vision, philosophy and football? I thought you do that SEO and traffic thing?" My answer sort of went like this:Simply put...do you wish to serve your business or is your business going to serve...
The Fuel to Triple Your Business
I learned long ago that do what great people do, and that you can achieve that same success. Model their actions to get what they got. Unfortunately, most successful people cannot tell you why they are successful. Some simply lack that ability. Some are too secretive for fear of loss of...
10 THINGS TO TRY IN 2011 For Your Brand
Image via Wikipedia NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS FOR YOUR BRAND: 10 THINGS TO TRY IN 2011guest post 1. BE COURAGEOUS, OFTENTake bold steps to stand out from the crowd. Reflect on 2010 and look at what you did well, and what you could have been different. Take courageous steps to help your brand stand...
How to Get More Facebook Likes and Comments
How to get more likes: Write more status updates about social processes, other people, positive emotions, and religious words. How to get more comments: Friends tend to comment more on posts featuring I pronouns, first-person pronouns, cognitive processes, and present-tense verbs. Post that fit...
The Number One Rule in Social Media
Manifesting your own social influence The number one rule in social media is that there are no rules in social media. Ever since we heard the word Twitter and the legend of Gary V. We have been fed a steady diet of words to indicate a vendors specialty. They are all quite creative and of course...
Free Backlinks
Image via Wikipedia Find Three free places for you to get backlinks. Search in Google for Add URL Submit URL which will often give you directories to submit your site to for nothing. Also you can find comment sites that fit your needs for you offer commentary for a link by typing into Google Blogs...
Get EDU Links
Image via Wikipedia EDU links and Gov Links are believed to provide authority link juice. Wondeirng how to get it? Type into Google the following: site:.edu "post a comment" site:.gov "post a comment" You will get back several sites that offer an opportunity for you to comment on their EDU or GOV...
Do You Have a Leads Problem?
Image via CrunchBase I was recently asked by a long time client about a looming leads issue. Without getting into the identity of this client or some of the specifics. I do wish to reveal the problem which this client does not seem to be alone. The name has been changed to protect our fiduciary...
WikiLeak Your Website All Over the Web
Image by DonkeyHotey This guy wikileaked your website business. What does Wiki Leaks Adrianne Assange and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg have in common? Zuckerberg is Time Man of the year. Him and Assange have owned the news of late. They are everywhere. Mark is on Time Magazine, while Assange is...
Why Local Google Places Matter to Your Business
Image by abraham.williams via Flickr 73% of all online activity is related to local content (Google) 82% of local searchers follow up with a phone call or show up on your doorstep (TMP/comScore) 66% of Americans use local search to find local businesses (comScore)
Real Estate Leads Seminar
Why Isn't Your Real Estate Website Getting Leads Anymore? Getting traffic is great, but worthless if you don't get leads. So I offer you 4 reasons why you are not getting the leads you are used to getting. Economic-The economy has made viewers picky and less apt to commit to a registration....
Why Blog?
Image by aphrodite-in-nyc via Flickr Why blog is the wrong question. It is why publish? The internet is about publishing content. Some you can pull in and scale with api's (api is a way to pull in feeds of data like IDX or other information) and such. Some you cannot. If you can pull it in, so can...
Google Ends the Yellow Pages
Is Halloween time and many website owners found what might be a trick or a treat. A few years back I predicted that Google would morph into the Yellow Pages and in affect end the Yellow Pages. Google Maps or Local recently became Google Places. This was the typical seven box we were used to...
5 Ways to Find Your Blogging Voice
Image by wallyg via Flickr Publishing a blog for market share is more akin to an opinionated editorial than a news piece. Here are 5 ways to find your voice in your blog: Write Your Passion - If you care about something it is much easier to write with more emotion and that will come through in...
Sticky Content
A terrific and fast way to add photos and do research when blogging or creating articles.
SEO and the Shiny Object Syndrome
The webs history has evolved by hype and misinformation. Sold by hope and the mantra of "build it and they will come", budding webmasters have been met by disappointment as each new new platform was met with frustration and complexity. If this sounds like you do not fret. Chasing Shiny Object...