A close friend and mentor met me for lunch last week. A successful business owner, he wanted me to help him design a website to leverage the other marketing channels like radio and print that he currently uses. We discussed various online marketing channels like email,websites, blogs, keywords, Linkedin, and Twitter. He was incredibly engaged [...]
Entries from January 2009
January 24, 2009
How to Outrank the Biker, Cowboy, Bear Stearns, and Bernard Madoff in Your Life on Google
Google yourself. What comes up in the search? Are you the top listing?
Today I searched for myself and discovered 1. this blog is the top search result and 2. that “Josh Colter – Orlando” outranks me on Facebook (#2 in the listing). Orlando Josh has a picture of him racing on a [...]
January 21, 2009
How I Violated My Own Pet Peeve
Let me be blunt: Websites that have music, video, or any other form of sound automatically play when you visit the site annoy me. I work in an office. There are many people around me. And I find it disconcerting to type in a web url for an online toy retail prospect, [...]
January 19, 2009
Buying New Technology in a Recession
Thinking about buying new technology for your business? Forbes recently published an article on their website about getting stronger in a recession.
Those with the strongest positions get stronger because they’re considered a safe haven…This is like the old adage to information technology managers that you can’t get fired for buying IBM. Well, you [...]
January 6, 2009
Did You Know Video
Props to Jayson Manship for this one.
more about “Did You Know Video“, posted with vodpod
January 6, 2009
Do you have an Internal Scorecard or an External Scorecard?
Currently I am reading “The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life.” It is a fantastic read so far (I’m only 33 pages in though). A quote from Buffett made me think today:
The big question about how people behave is whether they’ve go an Inner Scorecard or an Outer Scorecard. It helps if you [...]
