Through the Local Search-Looking iPad Glass
More useful: iPad or eyepad? Apple has performed a great service for those of us who have ruined our eyesight using their iPhone and iPod Touch late at night under the bed covers with the iPad. It’s like the large print hard back novel you get in libraries for senior [...]
Happy (and Safe) New Year
A quick note of thanks to all our clients, employees, partners, and friends who contributed to making 2009 our company’s finest year. We’ve made huge gains as a company that would not have been possible without everyone’s support. We look to even bigger things in 2010, including some new offerings [...]
Understanding Local Search from Pittsburgh PA to Pittsbug KS
Many of our clients (and readers) are concerned with getting traffic and buyers from throughout the United States or from all over the world. An increasing number of small businesses, larger locally-based organizations, and huge conglomerates with multiple brick-and-mortar locations are starting to realize just how powerful search engine marketing [...]
Blogs are Crap – More Fallout from the WVU eMBA Scandal
Rarely do I literally stop everything I’m doing to read an article. Or post a comment. Or write a blog. I hit the trifecta today. Just when I thought I had said all I could say about the WVU eMBA scandal from an online reputation management perspective, I was sent [...]
Extreme Online Reputation Management: WVU, Mylan, & Governor's Office Edition
In getting ready for the Next Generation Marketing series across West Virginia this spring, I began thinking about my presentation on Engagement and Dialogue. In it, I will go over the premise and some recommendations for online reputation management. The last time I spoke about that publicly was at the [...]
Yellow-Bellied Pages
I woke up late this morning. You see, I not only like to live life on the edge – of a sofa that is – but I also enjoy the derring-do associated with not utilizing an alarm clock in my daily routine. I’ve trained myself like some sleeping ninja to [...]
A Local Search for Local People
One of the many bonuses of having my mother over this past two weeks is that she’s done all the touristy searching for things to do locally. I probably haven’t had as much time as I’d like to go full tilt at finding out everything there is to do round [...]
How Come I Never Saw Elvis Leaving the Building?
This weekend I literally went to the dogs as opposed to metaphorically which probably happened over a decade ago if truth be told. My father-in-law and his girlfriend (why does that always sound peculiar when applied to anyone over the age of 40? Still, I refuse to use the term [...]
Online Marketing: Innovations That Work Conference
We’re currently in the process of organizing the Online Marketing: Innovations That Work Conference that’s taking place on August 16, Paul WoodhousePaul looks after the SEO side of things here at Direct Online Marketing as well as trying to work out the best social media strategies for our clients.More Posts
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