Sense of Urgency – Do it Now!

Lately I’ve been thinking about the speed at which I get things done.  Ever since I can remember I’ve always finished my tests, dinner, homework, projects faster than most of my peers.  My two sons were commenting to me that they also finish earlier than their peers in class.  Which got me thinking, why [...]

Facebook’s Social Network Big Bang

So most of us have heard of the Big Bang theory that the universe keeps expanding, well I think Facebook just created a Big Bang and will expand social networking throughout the web universe not just on Facebook.  With Facebook’s announcement of  social plug-ins for 3rd party sites, the power of 400 million connected [...]

Email Campaign Musts

Email seems so easy.  You have a list, a  marketing message and a good email program to send all of your beautiful emails off into the ether to make a nice push in your weekly sales.  Arrgh, not much happened, you ask yourself?  Email is the best social networking tool you have to use [...]

IR says Search Engine Optimization going up in 2010

Flushing PPC $'s

Internet Retailer writes that search engine optimization is increasing by 43% in 2010.  I was very surprised to learn that 9% of companies spent nothing on SEO last year.  Unbelievable!  Half of the eConsultancy.com report respondents will spend more on paid search marketing.  Even more unbelievable since SEO is an [...]

BlueFly – Social eCommerce

I’ve always loved BlueFly.com.  I have bought several dresses for my wife at BlueFly and she looks great in them.  The one in the pic is from BlueFly.  It was her Easter dress several years ago.  Anyway, they have come up with a very cool social networking site, Closet Confessions.  I love the [...]

Retailers Using Twitter – Social Networking

Ok, so I keep talking about Twitter use to my colleagues. I recently cam across this site, Retailer Twitter Aggregation, that aggregates some of the larger retailers’ tweets.  This looks interesting.

I keep wondering how Twitter is making money and how it will survive beyond a Google [...]

Top 3 SEO Tactics

I wrote an article back in 2004, maybe earlier, about SEO strategies.  You can still find it out on the web doing a Google search.  I still find it relevant today.  Some things never change.  If you already know what keywords you want to focus on to optimize your site, I would immediately do [...]

Social Selling through distributed eCommerce

In my last post I spoke about distributed ecommerce, and coincidentally Internet Retailer’s April 2010 magazine issue has an article by Zak Stambor, Social Selling, that summarizes a few forerunner companies testing  Social Selling on Facebook.  Personally, I’ve always thought that Facebook needed an eCommerce revenue model to make legitimate profits outside of advertising.  [...]