Selling Storms, Hurricane Sandy and The Commercialization of Natural Disasters…

Have you ever wondered why hurricanes are given names? What about nicknames? We have hurricane Sandy threatening the entire eastern seaboard, and terrifying news media promoting it as Frankenstorm or Monster Mash, the combination of a northern cold front, full moon high tide, and a storm that claimed 43 lives already. I was in Costco […]

Fiverr Experiments Paying Off. Tenfold Traffic Logo Speed Colored

So, I know this video probably only took a few minutes to make, but i think its pretty cool. As you know, Fiverr is an excellent marketplace for buying services for 5 bucks. I have been playing around with it to promote my clients with some pretty solid results. Of course it helps to know […]

The Most Powerful Word In Marketing

Three Simple Letters are responsible for many of THE greatest marketing campaigns of all time. Just thinking about how powerful these words are makes me wonder if it is THE secret to success in all marketing, and literally THE magic pill that drives enormous sales and massive crowds of starving customers knocking on business doors. […]

“My Doctor Said Drink More Fluids, So I Drink Five Cans of Cherry Coke A Day.” -Warren Buffet

Warren Buffet responded, while discussing Michael Bloombergs’ soda tax on CNBC, when asked what his thoughts were about Bloombergs opposition to sugar drinks and such… considering Warren’s  large holdings in companies like Coke and Darry Queen … “I’m 82 years old, and I eat ice cream for breakfast some days and drink 5 cans of […]

What Is The Best Way To Advertise Your Business or How To Build The Best Marketing Plan?

I get this question all the time from clients ,friends and colleagues, ” I have very limited budgets, what is the best way to advertise my business?” People asking this question of course know deep down inside that there is not perfect fit solution to market their business, and there is not best way or place […]

Under The Hood of The Google Machine: Look What It Takes To Run A Search Engine

CBS went inside a North Carolina Google Data Center with Cameras, and it’s truly fascinating what goes on under the hood when you search in google. As a Search Engine Marketer, i am constantly fascinated by the hundreds of variables that affect search rankings, and blown away by the amount of data google must not […]

Exterminator Marketing Done Right and How to Drive Referrals

My Wife hired an exterminator today to get rid of some scary bugs hanging around our garage. She found him by calling a neighborhood friend to ask for a recommendation. She could have just as easily called Terminix, or one of the other big brands, or simply ran a local search in google to find […]

Do Presidential Debates Really Matter? Or Do Your Customers Really Know What They Want?

After watching the presidential debate last night, while watching one of the commentators discuss post debate polling and if it really matters, he mentioned that when you ask the people during election season whether they like or dislike negative ads, almost all say they hate them. Yet, after voting, when they are asked why they […]

Has Anyone Every Tested if Testing is Really The Best Way to Figure Out What Works?

Test, Test, Test… That’s all every marketer ever says and hears. Test Everything. The thing is, aside from the simple reality that most people don’t run true scientific tests, and most use the little data they gather as anecdotal evidence to support whatever position they are trying to back up. The Real Truth is that […]

What Your SEO Clients Really Want to Hear…

I’ve been doing SEO for around 7 years now and probably the single biggest disconnect between my clients and myself revolves around using Rankings versus Traffic/Conversions/Sales/Revenue as a metric to measure my success. Here’s the thing, When I look at a Search Query Report in Google Webmaster tools, Google Actually reports to me how many […]