Note: This was written a few months ago while I was a DFWSEM board member after a discussion we had about replacing a keynote speaker that dropped. I am no longer on the board or affiliated with the group. In this article I use State of Search as...
This comes from Local SEO and PPC marketer Jason Channell. It seems the website directory Texas-BusinessDirectory.com is emailing people who submit their business afterwards to click on ads a few times to “improve the quality” of the directory. It’s likely the site is good for local SEO for...
I loved BattleBots over a decade ago when it was on Comedy Central, but I never understood why it was on a comedy cable channel. It always felt like it should be on the now defunct G4TV or SyFy (SyFy did air the Robot Combat League in 2013)....
The problem with Brainstorming Brainstorming sounds like a great idea. Get your smartest people together, put them in a room, and have them work together to come up with ideas. First developed and used by famed advertising executive Alex Osborne who discussed it in his 1942 book “How...
BGR.com recently ran a fear mongering article about Windows 10 claiming it was spying on you. When the article reached the front page of Reddit’s /r/Technology sub-reddit users began pointing out just how inaccurate the article was. “I feel like most of these features were mentioned when I...
I love The Profit, along with Shark Tank it’s one of my favorite shows. Maybe it’s Marcus Lemonis’ attitude of leading from the front, maybe it’s some of the outright hilarious ways people run businesses, maybe it’s because I like seeing the underdog get a helping hand and...
2015 might be the year that blackhats flee SEO in mass and flock to Facebook to take advantage of how easily hundreds of thousands of people can be manipulated into liking a page and then into viewing advertising sponsored content. Why do I say this? Let’s examine 2...
I recently upgraded a MOZ account that I administer and when the upgrade was done I was presented with what appeared to be a CRO’d page asking me to upgrade. I was initially confused and thought maybe I had to click one more time to complete the upgrade,...
Elon Musk is enjoying a lot of press lately. The South-African born inventor made his fortune as the cofounder of Paypal and in recent years has used that fortune to push humankind forward into the unforgiving forest of the future, ready or not. Musk simply uttering an idea...
It’s been a little over 2 years since one of my business idols replied to a question of mine during their Reddit AMA and I recoiled in horror to what I read. Mark Cuban, internet mogul, NBA team owner, and all-around maverick – wanted to do away with...
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