The following is a review of Shoeboxed.com, a receipt scanning and business card scanning service. receipt scanning service and business card scanning service … organized online … and it’s completely painless … To be honest keeping receipts, accounting, or any book keeping work is pretty much something I hate. I can’t tell you how many [...]

It’s 2012 and social media and social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook are constantly mentioned on mainstream media news and entertainment websites and broadcast programs. Print ads for everything from movies to toothpaste have those ubiquitous little Facebook and Twitter logos, hashtags, and often special social media vanity URLs. The question is does your [...]

I recently wrote a story How Brick and Mortar Stores Can Use eCommerce to Drive Sales about tips that eCommerce stores can use to drive traffic to their brick and mortar locations. However, what really needs to happen is offline stores and small businesses need to grow up and  stop hiding in the corner from [...]

A lot has been said and written about Pinterest in the past few weeks and months, from how marketers can use use it to drive traffic to how affiliate spammers are using it to generate income. However, I’m going to take a slightly “bigger picture” view of Pinterest. How Should Web Publishers Use Pinterest …if [...]

Recently I’ve been talking with some friends who don’t fit into the traditional SEO, publisher, or writer-with-delusional-dreams-of-becoming-a-famous-blogging-rock-star categories. They want to build and run websites in their spare time about subjects they are interested in. But they don’t want them to be  hobby websites; they want to use them to supplement their income. One of [...]

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Whenever I go to conference, or at least a dozen times a week by email, I get asked what are some “SEO secrets” or hey what keywords do you rank for, and can you show me some of your websites. Until you have earned my trust I’m really not going to show you anything, I [...]

One of the questions I get asked by clients who are developing a social media strategy is should I cross post my Facebook posts to Twitter and vice versa, or does everything need to be unique? IMHO you need to look at social media like Moneyball and you need to look at your actions in [...]

Starting March 30th, all Facebook brand pages and profile pages will be switching to the new timeline format. Some brands have already made the change, but, if you haven’t, here’s a handy checklist of items you need to be aware of and fix before the change takes place. New Guidelines With the new time line [...]

Online reputation management (ORM) is a huge, and growing market. For others it means they have a huge public relations problem. I have worked with a few companies and individuals with just such a problem. I’ll tell you the story and outcome of one such client, who will remain nameless. ORM Problem: My client fired [...]