I saw this post on Facebook from my friend David Bullock. I felt it was an interesting question that deserved more than a radio button click. The question is what is your primary method for acquiring customers? Social Media Referrals and Networking Speaking Offline Contacts Search Engines First we have to look at who this …
I heard your webmaster was hit by a bus last night. Your good old website is about to undergo a transformation and so are you. I just got the news that your webmaster was hit by a bus and is no longer with us. You know that sinking feeling when you “get the news” that …
Want to know how to write compelling content like a online professional? I found this document on CopyBlogger. One of the things I do for a living is help people with their SEO. This document says it as well as any document I have read in the recent past. Doing what Brian suggests will make …
I was at Whole Foods yesterday and I noticed that the posted very large window logos of Facebook and Twitter right on their entrance doors. I was like wow! This social media thing is really now a train that has left the station. In today’s news on TechCrunch they reported that Google is about to …
I’ve been thinking. I was born in 1958. I remember a time when insurance meant the following: Def. of insurance according to Merriam-Webster 1 a : the business of insuring persons or property b : coverage by contract whereby one party undertakes to indemnify or guarantee another against loss by a specified contingency or …
Think about this. Google, Sprint & Samsung combining efforts to create one super product the Google Android Sprint Samsung Moment. Wow that is a mouthful. I finally broke down and got a new cell phone, a Samsung Moment. I stuck with Sprint. I did so for several reasons. First they really do provide great customer …
I could not help but respond to this travel article about Marriott. As they acquire new independent hotel properties they feel that making them “appear” as independent but managed by Marriott headquarters is the route they have selected, are they not? I have a lot of respect for Marriott. As a matter of fact I …
How often are we reading or watching or linking to information that says that there is turmoil in the traditional media world? For example, the New York Times has a Billionaire investor, the Boston Globe was going to go out of Business, or Rupert Murdoch is going to do a deal with Bing and Microsoft …
When I saw this interview with Barack Obama I was very pleased to see our government finally recognizing the economic engine of our country, small businesses. As he says small businesses have created 65% of all new jobs in the past decade and a half. With numbers like these why hasn’t government been sending more …
I met Jim Ayer, a wooden jigsaw puzzle maker of J.C Ayer & Co. a few months ago through my son who wanted to stop by his Wooden Jigsaw Puzzle work shop here in Marblehead, Massachusetts. (He has a big wooden jigsaw puzzle piece outside his business as his sign and that attracted us to …
