It’s Not Just the CMO, How Digital Impacts All Marketers

The poor CMO is always under fire to “get more digital”, “get more data driven”, it seems like all the pressure is only on the CMO.  You know what?  It’s time for that to change. Every marketer no matter your role should now be thinking digital first, needs to be thinking about KPIs, and data. […]

Ghosts of Digital Past, Present and Future

If you were to be visited by the ghosts of Digital Past, Present and Future, what would that look like?  How would those ghosts have influenced the present and the future?  If I were to be visited here’s the things I’d see from these three Ghosts. The Ghosts of Digital Past Everything with the web […]

The End Of Marketing Based on Price and Discounts

With the biggest season of sales occurring right now, where door crashers and deep discounts are used to get customers through the door. To the website. To buy and fill shopping carts. It’s also the first and most commonly used marketing tactic.  Winning on discount and price, an effective and needle moving tactic that has […]

From Good to Great Content

If you’ve been around the search space for any period of time you’ll have heard one of these sayings at some point or another: “Content is King”, “Write for people not search engines”, “Create good content”.    AJ Kohn points to a recent Matt Cutts video where Matt talks about content and whether Google will penalize […]

Writting for SEO

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I read two interesting articles today, one on using jargon and the other on some new features in the WordPress SEO plugin.  What jumped out at me on both of these is a focus on language and complexity.  One of the new features of the WordPress SEO plugin is to rate your text on the […]

The Future of Digital Marketing

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In April several big brands shared how they have split their marketing spend from traditional (Print, Broadcast and Radio) and Digital (online) . The ranges are anywhere from 50% to 90% of that spend going to digital. I don’t think that this is very surprising. More people are spending time online, be it on a PC or mobile Device. Interestingly TV declines as Internet increases and Mobile Reading Increases while print reading decreases. Meaning the money is moving to where the eyeballs are going […]

Why Being Number 1 Isn’t Easy

Pride I often find limits good websites from becoming great websites. I’ve been involved in the web space now for over 10 years, and in that time I’ve come across two types of people when it comes to putting together websites, “do’ers” and “can’ts” others may classify these people as either “put up, or shut-up” what amazes me however is that I’ve often run across more people who are from the “cannot” camp than the “do it” camp.

Why Organic Search Has a Better ROI

I’ve recently been hearing that organic search (SEO)  has a lower ROI than paid search (SEM).  I have a very hard time believing this.  I can see SEM having a better conversion rate than SEO, but not a better ROI.  Free organic search will ALWAYS have a better ROI than anything you pay for.  The […]

How Much Does it Cost to be a Freelance Web Designer?

I wanted to touch very quickly on something maybe a lot of people don’t know how to calculate when they say they want to be free lance web designers with the idea to make it a full time job.  It’s a difficult thing to do, and it can get surprisingly costly very quickly.  this is […]

Face of the Company

As companies move into the social realm, into blogs, into giving voices of the individual of the company there runs an interesting issue that will have to be dealt with by companies at some point who are giving voices to the many. The issue is investing in individuals to speak on behalf of the company […]