Archive for May, 2008

From the Agurban Institute
According to Telecommunications Industry News, broadband penetration in the U.S. has grown by more than 300% in the past six years. This is according to a recent report by Scarborough Research.
Approximately 49% of American adults now have a high-speed internet connection in their households, up from just 12% in 2002. DSL represents […]

Google is really trying to bring Blogger into the world of modern blogging… they are now letting all their users SCHEDULE posts. In other words you can WRITE it now, and post it in the future.

Despite this good news, I’ve got to say I can’t figure them out at all. I have a personal blog […]

Here’s an online marketing foul up I hope you don’t make.
It’s an easy one to make and it stood out as I was reading the website. Maybe because of the tone of the ad copy, something about “Welcome, my friends, to the underground world of Sandbag training!” started to make me wonder if I’d found […]

A while back I posted something to help a friend who’s a Licensed Massage Therapist. Here’s the unsolicited email it provoked from someone selling their “Search Engine Optimization” services and my snide comments…
I was looking at websites under the keyword Spring House Massage Therapist and came across your site http://work-at-home.business-opportunities.biz . I see that you’re […]

Making your website look “Googley” probably won’t help it rank higher all by itself, but I wonder if it would make our customers/readers seem more comfortable and therefore more likely to trust, buy, request more information, etc.?
Here’s the post that made me start thinking about that…What makes a design “Googley”?
Here’s what Google themselves came up […]

You might be interested in this… so I’m passing it along.
Free online presentation: Monitoring Online Chatter Web 2.0 technologies and platforms have changed the game for online marketers. Thanks to blogs, podcasts, and the democratization of media, ordinary people are talking publicly about you, your market, and your competitors. Missing out on that dialog is […]