Your Website is Ugly and Your SEO Sucks
Three of the most hated letters in marketing might just be: S-E-O. Search rose again in 2009, meaning we are not searched out and yes, Google will be self aware in a few years.
Yesterday Peter
Emergency Apple iPad Post (DAMNIT!)
Okay, this is probably only a code Yellow, maybe a nice Sunset but not a full-on Orange Alert. (Yes I am going to make you read my last blog post to get the “joke.”)
Apple announced its “poorly” named iPad today and low and behold, the earth kept on rotating on its… Continue reading
Blog or Rant: What’s the Difference, Damnit?!
I loves me a good rant. Scott Stratten at Unmarketing, Bad Pitch Blog, Danny Brown and many others have written great rants on social media and public relations.
Going through several unpublished blog drafts, I moved more than a half dozen posts into a Rants Not Good folder… Continue reading
Public Relations, Social Media, Marketing: Get the Picture
A picture is worth a thousand words, right? As part of a digital pressroom or website or simple brochure, copy and message are important, but often what gets noticed and remembered most are the images.
Corporate Photography, Haigwood Studios, Atlanta
Bringing the Funny to Follow Friday
“The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it,” – Bill Nye, the Science Guy
To help be creative or recharge, sometimes it’s necessary to tickle the old funny bone.  Here are a few of the tweeters and bloggers I follow on… Continue reading
Personal Service: Marketing and Public Relations Secret Weapon
For all the chatter about branding, reaching out, building relationships and making connections, I wonder how much of it really cuts through and matters to the paying customer.
Service and the X Factor
If two businesses are selling the same thing for comparable prices, what’s the difference… Continue reading
Like a Bad Neighbor: When Direct Marketing Fails
Last weekend I posted one of my first #FAILS on Twitter. Not quick to call folks out or slam someone with a #FAIL, but this one was too easy.
Saturday afternoon, I got a telemarketing call and nice work Do Not Call list! Yes I should have ignored it, let the… Continue reading