Sure, there are a million opinions about the announcement this week of the Microsoft and Yahoo! becoming joined at the hip (in a very businesslike way). Fortunately, it is a…
Read MoreMonth: July 2009
How mad can you be when it’s free?
One of the odd things about getting so many services for free on the Internet is that we might feel obligated to be grateful even when something doesn’t work as…
Read MoreAmazon stumbles with Kindle 1984 flap
If your company is like most, you worry a lot about how you are coming across on the Internet. Most companies that weren’t born on the Web come off a…
Read MoreSocial media isn’t just for marketers
We often talk about social media marketing, and extol the virtues of YouTube videos, blogging, Twitter and many other ways to get the message out. And those things are all…
Read MoreGoogle’s YouTube Money Pit
Everywhere you look, you read more reports of just how much money Google is hemorrhaging from YouTube. The servers, the storage, the bandwidth, oh my! The speculations on Google’s sinkhole…
Read MoreDo You Hear What I Hear?
Readers of my posts know that I am a career sales professional. Aside from the occasional foray into other areas of work I have been in some form of selling…
Read MoreIs your head in the cloud?
You hear lots of talk about cloud computing, but is it really practical? It might sound cool and many cloud computing services are even free, but can you talk your…
Read MoreWhat about the Risk of Social Media?
A lot of clients pose this question for me, especially the corporate folks. Many of the folks that ask me about it don’t really need the answer for themselves, because…
Read MoreShould you do your search marketing in-house?
I don’t go many places without being hit with some variation of that question. And my answer is always the same, that it depends on the company what makes sense…
Read MoreUsing Google strategies for Facebook ads
Everyone has been watching Facebook to see if it can monetize its enormous traffic to become a going business. And the focal point of that monetization effort is advertising, just…
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