First Website – Who and How?

A friend of mine that works from Microsoft the other day asked me about developing a website for him.  I was surprised that he asked me but also flattered.  He is very sharp and and very technical, but I guess building websites is still an art form.   To be honest, I get asked the [...]

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 [...]

Tactics for Social Marketing

Crab some Readers

I just read an article from Click Z, What’s wrong with Social Marketing, by Heidi Cohen.  You can find it here http://www.clickz.com/3640096 Heidi outlines 12 tactics to integrate your overall marketing efforts into your social marketing efforts.  In summary, one should view social marketing channels as just another marketing channel [...]

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 [...]

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.  [...]

CartFly Distributed eCommerce Engine

I’ve been interested in distributed ecommerce and lately came across CartFly.  This is an entry level ecommerce cart engine but has some interesting possibilities.

This is one of their client stores, FabShoes.

I just posted some embed code in my Blog to see below.

Yes its simple, but if you can post this [...]

About Steve Parker and BrainScouts

Ya, I’ve been called “The Web Guy”, “SEO Guru”, “The Internet Dude” and more.  I have been working in Information Technology since 1988.  In 1992, an EDS co-worker was their lead Web developer, and Andy turned me on to the World Wide Web.  In 1993 I began using an ISP out of Seattle called [...]

Hello Fort Worth, Texas

In July 2009, My wife and I moved back home to Fort Worth, Texas from the Denver, Colorado area.  I grew up in Arlington and Houston TX.  We are both happy to be back home near family.

I am looking for contract consulting work in the Internet industry, more specifically ecommerce – retail.  I’ve [...]