• Apple Visionary Steve Jobs Dead at 56

    Apple just announced the passing of  Co-Founder Steve Jobs. As I write this post on one of my many Mac computers and dismiss a call on my iPhone – I draw breath at the sheer impact he has had on millions of lives. We are a wired society thanks in large part to his vision, [...]

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  • Social and Mobile are Connected, and Local is Where all Transactions Happen

    The Web and mobile have gone local. One out of every five searches has local intent. One out of every three mobile searches has local intent. So, if you are a local business and you aren’t engaging your connections via mobile, you maybe missing a vital component of your interactive marketing. Here at the SMX [...]

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  • Online “Influence” Scores Are Irrelevant. It’s about the People.

    How do you manage your online experience? Are you more concerned with getting the highest scores you can on the social influence sites… or are you in social media to connect with people?  Do you can check in on Foursquare, check TwitterGrader, buy Groupons, try to raise your Klout score or sell your “social stock” on [...]

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  • The Science of Social Influence | Klout, Empire Avenue & Triberr

    As social media evolves, it appears that tribes are being created online. Small groups of influential people are congregating in various social media sites and helping each other create more influence. This appears to be a relatively new phenomenon. There are several sites out there that gauge our social influence. They take our actions on [...]

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  • The History of Google Local

    If you don’t know Mike Blumenthal, you don’t know local search. He is one of the brightest minds in the local seo game. He has a direct connection to Carter Maslan, product management director of local search over at Google and therefore, Mike gets the low-down before the rest of us plebes. Anyway, Mike put [...]

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Buzz from SMX Advanced:  Mobile, Local, Social Marketing Leads to Sales

Buzz from SMX Advanced: Mobile, Local, Social Marketing Leads to Sales

Yesterday at SMX Advanced Seattle, industry experts offered case studies on how mobile local social marketing are helping brands reach audiences at the point of
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Groupon Daily Deal Revenue Statistics of $480 Million Worth of Daily Deals

Groupon Daily Deal Revenue Statistics of $480 Million Worth of Daily Deals

The daily deal space has always interested me. Back in April 2007, I went out to San Francisco and went to the Web 2.0 conference.
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How to Design the Perfect Landing Page

How to Design the Perfect Landing Page

There is a science to creating the perfect landing page the generates lots of conversions. Look at this infographic to give you some valuable insights
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Apple & Sprint Websites Both Fail After iPhone 4S Announcement

Apple & Sprint Websites Both Fail After iPhone 4S Announcement

During today’s announcement by Apple for the iPhone 4S, their website totally crashed. And I mean “Crashed”. It was down for a little over an hour. And after Apple announced that the iPhone 4S was going to be available on the Sprint Network. Boom, Sprints Phone page crashes… and it’s been crashed for about 2 [...]

Yelp / Apple iPhone 4S Siri SEO Now Important Local Search Ranking Factor for Small Business

Yelp / Apple iPhone 4S Siri SEO Now Important Local Search Ranking Factor for Small Business

Today at Cupertino, Apple had it’s first post-Jobs era product launch. Apple announced 2 things really. The iPhone 4S and the Siri, Assistant Search. This is a much better phone than the Samsung Charge that I have, but it’s not the “iPhone 5″ that was buzzing around the interwebs. Siri Search, makes use of Yelp’s [...]

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#OccupyWallStreet : The Whole World is Watching

[EDIT Oct. 3, 2011] – Thanks to @FakhriZina and @OperationLeakS for sharing this humdinger of a video :: Day Trader tells truth live on UK BBCNews 9/26/11 This morning I began my day reading over the messages from those who are showing their support for the #OccupyWallStreet movement by posting pictures of notes that tell [...]

Why SEO Bridges the Gap Between Marketing and I.T.

Why SEO Bridges the Gap Between Marketing and I.T.

It’s an age old discussion. Does SEO go under the Marketing umbrella? Or does it fit under the Information Technology umbrella? Quite simply, it fits under both. It’s the bridge over troubled waters. It’s the mojo that gets your website workin’. But where does SEO fit in your organization optimally? First of all, what is [...]

#markdavidson : A Ghostwriter’s Revolt

#markdavidson : A Ghostwriter’s Revolt

Edit 9:10am Sept. 30 : Regardless of being played the fool (along with a lot of other people) I stick by my last edit – that it opened up a larger discussion on authenticity and social media. There have been many interesting conversations regarding authenticity in social media, ghost writers, automated posts, personal branding and [...]

Kick Ass iPad 2 Case – Kangaroo Leather iPad 2 Case from @Aranez

Kick Ass iPad 2 Case – Kangaroo Leather iPad 2 Case from @Aranez

When LG Mobile asked me to be one of their esteemed bloggers and tweeps at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, I had the privilege of meeting Arnold Aranez, “Mr. Gadget” from down under in Australia. He has since moved to Hong Kong and has created one of the most amazing iPad cases [...]

2 Steps to Being a Successful Startup.  Step One: Kick Ass.  Step Two: Kick More Ass.

2 Steps to Being a Successful Startup. Step One: Kick Ass. Step Two: Kick More Ass.

If you want to win, you must have the attitude that your product kicks ass. Does your idea kick ass? Does it makes people bow down to the badassness that you are creating? Does it excite you? Can it excite other people? Does it excite your team to work overtime and stay late… and desire [...]

Social Media and Certain Destruction : How Natural Disasters Impact our Social Networks

From the Virginia Earthquake to Hurricane Irene – this past week we all have seen a flurry of activity on our own social networks . . . whether it’s Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Quora or even Linkedin, inevitably someone you know has shared a photo of what was happening around them. It’s citizen journalism at it’s [...]

How to Quit Facebook Without Quitting Facebook – My 30 Days without a Facebook Wall

How to Quit Facebook Without Quitting Facebook – My 30 Days without a Facebook Wall

Have you ever wanted to take a Facebook Fast? And just delete your account? Well, I just finished a 30 day Facebook Fast from my Facebook Wall. I went into my privacy settings and shut down the wall. I always have to quantify the value of something to my life. And it seems to me [...]

San Francisco's BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) cut cell phone service due to Protestors planning a rally on August 11, 2011 to bring attention to a number of recent BART transit police officer shootings.

Censorship on the Subway : How BART Cut Off Cell Phone Signals

UPDATE :: FCC Looks into BART Mobile Phone Shutdown — San Francisco’s BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) cut cell phone service due to Protestors planning a rally on August 11, 2011 to bring attention to a number of recent BART transit police officer shootings. In the wake of the havoc in London, where Prime Minister [...]

The Staying Power of Google+ over Twitter and Facebook?  G+ is a Connection Engine.

The Staying Power of Google+ over Twitter and Facebook? G+ is a Connection Engine.

Google+ is transforming our social experience. No longer does the internet have to be columns of RSS feeds full of endless, faceless articles… it now can be “RSS feeds” of journalists, authors, writers, entrepreneurs and other thought leaders that you can interact with. This is why Google+ is a game changer. Now, that I’ve been [...]

ESPN: When Your Brand Representatives Become a Liability

ESPN: When Your Brand Representatives Become a Liability

Early this morning I was poking around Facebook like many millions of people do each day, when I saw a post by my friend Deirdre Reid aka @deirdrereid. She commented on how @MrMichael_Smith of @ESPN had posted tweets on how funny he thought the accident of Dutch cyclist Johnny Hoogerland was on twitter. Yep you [...]

Top SEO Professionals to Follow on Google+

Top SEO Professionals to Follow on Google+

By now, we all know the latest and greatest social media craze is Google+. What we don’t know is how this new tool is going to affect the SEO industry. Personally, I’ve been doing SEO since the late 90′s and many iterations of what’s good practice and bad practice have changed as the industry has [...]

Google+ Short Vanity URL

Google+ Short Vanity URL

Google+ profile URLs are long, cumbersome things. Mine is https://plus.google.com/u/0/107496519574681170790/posts. How in the hell is anyone going to remember that? Zero percent chance of remembering that. Ok? Sure, Google+ is still in beta, but a vanity URL would be quite handy. Et voilà! Here is the remedy for what ails you. Gplus.to, the unofficial short [...]

Myspace Founder Tom Anderson Weighs in on Google+

Myspace Founder Tom Anderson Weighs in on Google+

Google+ soft launched in a limited beta, last week, and thus far, many tech pundits are giving it glowing reviews. It is interesting to see the points of view from some of social media pioneer entrepreneurs perspective on Google’s latest foray into social. Google Wave and Google Buzz were Google minus. Google+ is getting lots [...]

How Will Co-Founders @biz @ev & @goldman Leaving Affect Twitter?

How Will Co-Founders @biz @ev & @goldman Leaving Affect Twitter?

Silicon Valley is all about creating the next big thing. The trio that helped turn Twitter into an Internet sensation has joined forces for another go-around at internet glory. But, how this affect Twitter? Biz Stone said Tuesday he’s leaving his full-time gig at Twitter to resurrect the Internet incubator Obvious Corp. with Evan Williams [...]

A Foot in All Platforms: iPad + Android Phone + Windows PC.

A Foot in All Platforms: iPad + Android Phone + Windows PC.

As an awesome 38 year old dude, who specializes in local marketing, I thought I would share with you my personal tech “get-up” and my rationale for my choices of technical gadgetry and the operating systems of choice. I help businesses be found online. I need to know what in the hell Google is doing [...]

What Rep. Anthony Weiner’s Weiner Taught Us About Social Media.

What Rep. Anthony Weiner’s Weiner Taught Us About Social Media.

If you haven’t heard by now… first of all, where the hell have you been? So, on May 27, 2011, Rep. Anthony Weiner “accidentally” sent a link via Twitter of his weiner. He couldn’t have imagined the backlash that would ensure. By not sending this message as a DM, direct message, this became an embarrassing [...]

Facebook’s Design is about to get REALLY Kick Ass.  Facebook Acquires Dutch Design Firm, Sofa.

Facebook’s Design is about to get REALLY Kick Ass. Facebook Acquires Dutch Design Firm, Sofa.

Facebook is about to evolve it’s look with some of the coolest software designs on the planet, as they’ve acquired Sofa, a Dutch design firm. When we started Sofa in 2006, we set out to make friendly, useful and enjoyable products that matter to people. Over the years, we built an awesome team of designers [...]

Mobile Local News comes to Google with New Hyperlocal Feature,  “News Near You”

Mobile Local News comes to Google with New Hyperlocal Feature, “News Near You”

Google is taking mobile localization to the next level. They are now leveraging their location based services feature on smart phones w/ Near Me News.

New Facebook Feature Allows Brands & Products to be Tagged in Photos

New Facebook Feature Allows Brands & Products to be Tagged in Photos

Today, Facebook launched a feature that will certainly help all social media managers managing large brands, the ability to tag the pages of great and companies in your photos. Now the Facebook, the brand/page photos, partly based off of their users privacy settings and will only appear on a brands tab, if that visibility is [...]

Microsoft to Buy Skype?

Microsoft to Buy Skype?

According to the Wall Street Journal report, Microsoft is close to a deal to purchase Skype, the Internet’s site with the most members. Think Facebook has the most members? Nope. Skype does, and Microsoft is thinking about buying it for $7 billion to $8.5 billion dollars. Why would Microsoft want Skype? Actually my estimation, it [...]

Local Search for Non-Local Searches?

Local Search for Non-Local Searches?

I’ll get straight to the point here. Is it just me, or are there local results showing up for not-so-local searches? At SMX West last week, someone asked Carter Maslan, Director of Product Management for Google Local, about what to do if their business doesn’t have a physical location. Carter sayssss: Don’t create a Places [...]

Google vs. Bing in the Ring

I know this isn’t necessarily a search blog, which is why I deemed it necessary to post about the Google vs Bing so maybe those who are out of the loop can join in on the discussion! Let’s start with why I’m writing a post on how Google and Bing got beef, because you’re probable [...]

Facebook Drops Another Privacy Bomb on its 600 Million Users.

Facebook Drops Another Privacy Bomb on its 600 Million Users.

Late Friday night, Facebook announced a new round of privacy settings for third-party applications via the company’s developers blog.  They no doubt hoped to minimize the repercussions from its latest privacy change by announcing it late on Friday evening, but there could be a larger repercussions from its new privacy move than Facebook initially anticipated.  Essentially, Facebook [...]

Apple Building a Mobile Social Network?

Apple Building a Mobile Social Network?

The latest, greatest version of Apple’s iOS mobile operating system, iOS 4.3, apparently has a hidden easter egg, a new “find my friends” feature, MacRumors has discovered. It seems most likely that Apple is building a geo location-based social network to compete with Foursquare, GoWalla, Google’s Latitude, Facebook Places and the million other startups in the mobile, local, [...]

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