David Melamed

If you aren’t thinking about how to find and engage customers on mobile devices and tablets yet, time is running out. This morning I saw a discussion about a Microsoft Memo from 1993 predicting… “The power of having the worlds information – and people – on line at any time is too compelling to resist.” […]

Every once in a while we come up with a simple solution to an aggravating annoyance in our lives, and than wonder if it’s a good enough idea to make money from it. There is an interesting discussing on Hacker News about a “Thing” a blogger built for himself and was wondering how to market […]

A friend of mine was launching a new product and thought he had the perfect name possible. It was short, memorable, had a funky spelling, and seemed to imply exactly what his company does. Seemed like a perfect name to him, so much so that he fell in love with it. When he tried to […]

SEO and PPC are hardly glamorous careers. In fact, outside of the white hat SEO community, it’s quite lonely. Few people understand what you do, many have been taken advantage of snake oil salesmen selling services pretending it is SEO or PPC, or just plain jane taken you and your money for a ride. Talking […]

During Hurricane Sandy, Reddit sent my blog over 1000 visitors. The few who posted comments on Reddit were aggressively critical, and vulgar. The main point was that it was cruel and selfish of me to “make” a guy deliver sushi to me during Hurricane Sandy. My post was actually more about praising this delivery guy, […]

Home and Personal Property Loans If you are in a declared disaster area and are the victim of a disaster, you may be eligible for financial assistance from the U.S. Small Business Administration – even if you don’t own a business. As a homeowner, renter and/or personal-property owner, you may apply to the SBA for […]

Thousands of businesses have been and will be destroyed over the course of this record breaking hurricane known as nasty sandy. While your business being destroyed hardly makes you lucky, there are government assistance programs available for your to take advantage of if needed. The first thing to do is call your local chamber of […]