SearchMash Mashes Wikipedia
While I was guest blogging over at search engine guide I write up about Google’s SearchMash engine. Today I noticed that they added a couple of new features: Image results […]
Yearly Archives: 2006
Spend My Money Dang It!: Expanding Your PPC Ad Distribution
So you’ve got a great PPC campaign going with a stellar cost per conversion that’s very profitable. There’s just one problem, you’re only spending 25% of your allotted budget because […]
Time is Not Your Enemy: Things I do to Save Time
Many people live their life believing time is their enemy. After all, there is only so much time in a day and we are often pressed for time to get […]
Book Review: Search Engine Optimization Buyer's Guide 2007
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Firms Buyer’s Guide 2007 Authors: Marketing Sherpa Hardcover: 348 pages, $199 Published: September, 2006 Last year I bought the 2005/06 Sherpa SEO guide but I never […]
Google Adds Blog Alerts to News Alerts
I’m a big fan of Google Alerts. This is a great way to keep track of things that are important to you, such as news on a particular topic, articles […]
Outback Needs to be Taken Out Back
You know, I have already found the Outback radio commercials (and shorter TV versions) to be quite annoying, but this latest randition is VERY annoying! Has anybody else heard this […]
Do You Google? Well, Knock It Off!
Seriously folks, Google is going all out to protect their brand name. A recent post over on the official Google blog gives us the rundown on how and when to […]
Great Ad, Poor Customer Targeting
I love a good ad. I got one the other day in the mail. Not only was it an ad with a coupon, but it came with useful information. I […]
Truth and Error in the Blogosphere
One of the things the blogosphere is most known for is getting it wrong. At least that’s what we are told by the mainstream media. Its a fair criticism in […]
More Logo Madness
While the debate on the Grand Sierra Resort logo has been raging, one commenter was kind enough to point out that this blog might have its own logo issues. I […]
Limiting Your Exit Opportunities, A Lesson in Poor Usability
Since Christmas is coming mighty fast I spent some time last week doing some Christmas window shopping. I have an idea of what I’m looking for so I’m trying to […]
Anti-Anti-Customer Service
At the risk of turning this into the “customer service blog” I’ve got two more customer service related stories for you. While the first is yet another bad customer service […]
Book Review: Winning Results with Google AdWords
Winning Results with Google Adwords Author: Andrew Goodman Paperback: 352 pages, $16.49 Published: 2005 Anybody that is involved in PPC, whether it be for clients or for your own website, […]
GSR Retraction
It appears that my last post about the Grand Sierra Resort was based on information that I didn’t fully verify. I made a serious rookie mistake and want to extend […]
Waiting for Cat to Bark? Book Review
Waiting for Your Cat to Bark? Persuading Customers When They Ignore Marketing Authors: Bryan & Jeffrey Eisenberg Hardcover: 240 pages, $13.59 Published: June, 2006 When I first heard that the […]