Internet Marketing

5 Mega Trends for Web Based Businesses

In between consulting with companies on their marketing programs, I am focused on building web based businesses that can run themselves.  Because I set them up in cyber-space, they offer incredible freedom and can be accessed by me or my “virtual assistants” whenever and where ever we are at that time.  It’s truly amazing just [...]

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Search Engine Optimization

How Many Search Engine Marketing Blogs Are There?

When I did a Google search for “search engine marketing blog” I got 108,000,000 results.  Fortunately, TopRank Online Marketing has compiled a list of the top 400 that matter.
The Top 400?
I am all for inclusiveness, but are there really 400 blogs on the subject of search engine marketing that matter?

I guess the fact that they [...]

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Leadership

How To Get A Job In Marketing

Apparently, it’s hard to find good people out there.
I have recently had several CEO’s and CMO’s tell me that they are frustrated with the candidates they are interviewing for various marketing roles, ranging from “utility player” marketing mangers to Senior VP’s . They tell me of candidates yawning during interviews, looking at their watches, being [...]

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Personal Productivity

Deciding If My BlackBerry Storm Touch Phone Is Worth The Trouble

I am now on my third Blackberry Storm touch screen phone.  
Generally with technology products like this I like to be an early adopter of version 2.0.   I am not geeky enough to really want to be the early adopter guy who gladly puts up with buggy software, user interface issues, and other typical [...]

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Marketing Book Reviews

“Rich Is A Religion” by Mark Stevens, 2008

Do you believe in a “money mindset”? Is it true that some folks are just “wired” differently when it comes to money? If you don’t have a healthy attitude toward money, do you believe you could learn how to embrace an abundant and respectful attitude toward money and wealth creation?

Mark Stevens (author of [...]

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Direct Response Marketing

Marketing in the Era of Creative Destruction

Dave Newmark, CEO and Founder of the radio advertising inventory auction agency Bid4Spots, is our guest blogger today!  More about Dave at the end of the article….now on with the show….
In a recent article in Atlantic Magazine, author Richard Florida, talks about opportunities that can come about in the current recession. He says that these [...]

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Entrepreneurship

Harnessing the Web for Start Ups

In honor of “National Small Business Week“, I thought I would share a number of resources that are helpful to me with my businesses, and some that I think are doing a nice job of harnessing the power of community and sharing on the web.  If you have some to share, please add them to [...]

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Random Notes

“Starbucks Instant”? File Under “Really Bad Idea”

You can also file this under “Stupid”, “Jumped the Shark”, “Dumb” and probably a few others.
Starbucks instant coffee to be revealed next week
http://www.walletpop.com/blog/2009/02/13/starbucks-instant-coffee-to-be-revealed-next-week/
I thought Starbucks was all about the experience and building friendships? Maybe they took their mission statement the wrong way.

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