Marketing Monday: Just Ask For It

I’ve been running another blog with some friends on mine for about two months now.  We started it on a whim, and didn’t really get into publishing consistently until about a month ago. Here’s where we stand now.  After two months of being up and running, we’re already getting ranked pretty well (1st page on specifics, 3rd-5th page for generals) for some of our...

Finance Fridays: Domain Names Again

Yes, there has been a bit of a theme this week, as I’m sure you see by now.  Today, though, depends more on what you can spend versus trying to save money. Buying domain names can be a business in itself (it’s called “domaining”) and frankly, it’s a business practice that drives me insane.  I personally believe that if you have a domain name you’re not using,...

Finance Friday: Ditch The Phone Book

When was the last time you went to a phonebook to look up a local business?  Seriously, think about it.  Even before the days of Internet magic and finding things at the click of a button, many people used 411 rather than look anything up in this tome. Today,  whenever a phone book shows up at my door it usually ends up in a recycling bin within five minutes (if that long.)  But, I did...

Dirty SEO

No this isn’t a post about how Black Hat’s are ruining the industry and making us all look bad.  (Especially that guy driving around downtown Tempe in the Mercedes with the license plate “BLK HAT.”)  No, instead this is about a comment made by a sales rep I heard pitching SEO to a website owner....

Tags, Tags, And More Tags

So I’ve never really tagged my posts in the past.  I started looking through my search history and the inlinks to other areas of my blog and really thinking about it....