How the Internet Failed to Change Our Lives
Wrapping up this year and having spent some incredible time with an amazingly diverse set of innovations (and innovators), I starting wondering if and how the internet has really failed to deliver on its promise. One of the sobering realities of a capitalistic economy is that the almighty dollar, indeed, causes tremendous innovations, services, and
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Does your Internet Service Provider Suck?
Not long ago, a friend in the community where I lived posted a question in our online community. How good is AT&T U-Verse because Time Warner sticks? I was moved to put pen to paper and thought I’d share the thoughts more publicly: Since I work on the internet, the fact that internet service stinks
- Published in Insights / Research
The Future of the Internet
Having pointed out my complete ignorance of the cheerleading world yesterday (“Can I Get an S?”??), I feel I need to steer the laughs, jeers, and finger pointing as far away from me as possible in hopes of staving off the cheer hate mail no doubt being written to me even as we speak. Obviously,
- Published in Fun, Google, Insights / Research
The Definitive Online Marketing Conferences List
One of the advantages of working for a local search engine that uses event listings to promote the business listings, is that I have, at my finger tips, a rich index of seminars, summits, and conferences all rank ordered by demand (popularity), based on the search query volume for each. It is amazing what a
- Published in Affiliate Marketing, Analytics, Blogs & Blogging, Brand Marketing, Comparison Shopping, Conferences / Events, Display Advertising, Insights / Research, Local, Natural Search / SEO, Paid Search, Search, Social Media, Vendors / Agencies, Vertical Search, Web 2.0
Getting your events and promotions online
I’ve had the distinguished honor of having an article featured in this month’s edition of Event Solutions Magazine bringing to their audience some of the most basic online marketing tenants that we so easily forget as still being foreign to most marketers. What are the basics? How does one get started? Here’s an excerpt: Most
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Who’s at Ad:tech next week?
ad:tech San Francisco, the interactive advertising and technology conference and exhibition, starts next week at the Moscone Center. The show blends keynote speakers, topic driven panels and workshops to provide us with the tools and techniques needed to keep up and compete. It has, perhaps, the best show floor in the industry making it one
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Online Marketing Heroes
Certainly, one has to have a degree of ego involved with starting one’s own blog, after all, these are my thoughts; thoughts I presume are of interest to someone. Sure, perhaps it isn’t really “ego” but, needless to say, I wouldn’t be doing this if I didn’t hope someone cared and derived a modicum of
