New years often come with resolutions. I have a number of resolutions for myself this year but for the business we don’t do no stinking resolutions. Instead I have put […]
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Lessons From The Apprentice (6.1 – Los Angeles)
The Candidates: Kinetic: Muna, Kristine, Derek, Marisa, Angela, Surya, Jenn, Heidi, Aimee Arrow: Nicole, Frank, Michelle, James, Carey, Tim, Martin, Aaron, Stefani Prelude: For the first time The Apprentice leaves […]
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Top 4 Causes of a Dissatifying Web Experience
So why are people dissatisfied with their experience at your site? Jason Green has brought to the forefront some research conducted by Standford Persuasive Technology Lab that indicates the top […]
Are You an SEO Expert?
Stoney and I had a humorous exchange concerning an individual who had been dubbed an “SEO Expert”. A visit to the website of the search guru is what made the […]
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Book Review: Net Words by Nick Usborne
Net Words Creating High-Impact Online Copy Author: Nick Usborne Paperback: 224 pages, $12.03 Published: November, 2001 After reading a string of very poor SEO books I’ve been lucky to hit […]
The Time Management Nazi
So lately I’ve been hearing the faint murmurings of distaste among the staff. It’s the hissing under their breath when they think I’m out of earshot, the sudden silence that […]
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Google-Mining
Google’s databases are estimated to contain over 20 billion objects. This includes everything from web pages to text files, pdf’s, spreadsheets, etc. Everything that has been found by Googlebot, while […]
The Lazy Week
The week between Christmas and New Years is probably the laziest week of the year. Most of my employees are taking time off or working shortened hours. I pretty much […]
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Just Added MyBlogLog to EMP
So this MyBlogLog thing has been going around and I thought I’d give it a try. Be sure to add EMP to your MyBlogLog community, etc. etc.!
Why We Sometimes Do Better With Other Peoples Stuff Than Our Own
In our personal lives we learn to take care of ourselves. Sometimes we spend a bit too much time being self-focused and neglect those in need around us. In business, […]
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Have a Joyous Christmas
Just want to wish everybody a Merry Christmas. I hope this is a joyous weekend and a time of reflecting on the true meaning of Christmas. God bless! Courtesy Photo […]
Site Search: If it Don't Work, then Don't Use it!
As part of my job involves analyzing sites, I have come across many e commerce sites that have some serious issues that could significantly inhibit sales. One unfortunate common trend […]
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Jason’s SEO Wish List
While it is tradition to address one’s Holiday wish list to the Big Elf, I’m going to, take a more direct and practical approach; attempting to appeal to the Search […]
10 Not-So-Quick-But-Still-Important Ways to Increase Conversions
Yesterday I posted 10 Quick Ways to Increase Conversions. As I stated in that post, there are literally thousands of signals that can be changed to improve one’s conversion. That […]
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10 Quick Ways to Increase Conversions
My SEO firm has been spending a good deal of time analyzing conversion and usability aspects for our clients over the past year. While there are literally hundreds, if not […]