There are only a few professions where adherents can disagree so much on the fundamentals of the profession and still succeed. SEO is one of them. Politics is an example of another profession where members practicing it have wide and disparate views regarding the profession itself and still manage a successful career. Acting is also…
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Stand Up, Get Funny, Break Loose
I think this is an interesting story. Funny man Louis CK built his reputation as a comic through traditional media. You know, TV, DVDs, nightclubs, etc. But now he’s going out on his own and delivering his own material through his website. He doesn’t need traditional media any more. I think there are two things…
What’s An SEO Ranking Factor?
An article on a popular SEO blog shows a visual chart depicting the most important ranking factors for a website. But what does that mean? In a word, a ranking factor is anything that a search engine considers when attempting to rank a web page for a specific search query. For instance, let’s say a…
A Typical Day At Taylor And Associates
I just came in from cutting fire wood and realized that I have a very unique business. While I reside in the most rural county in Pennsylvania (Adams County) and live as far away from any semblance of civilization within that county, I also run an international business from my home. My wife is my…
How Mobile Wi-Fi Saves My Business
Every now and then where I live in Adams County, Pa. (I live about a half mile past the boonies) we get an outage on our Internet service that effectively shuts down my business. Since I make my living writing online content, I have to have constant Internet service. But that’s not possible. Or is…
3 Things You Should Do Every Day
When it comes to Internet marketing, many small business owners think that they can just hire a marketing firm to handle all of their online marketing needs and then business will just take care of itself. That typically isn’t the case. Even if you hire the best Internet marketing firm on the planet, there are…
Take A Day Off – Or A Weekend
Every now and then, you have to take a day off. Even Internet marketers need a vacation. Well, that’s what the family and I did on Friday. Since school is starting back up this week and the daughter had Friday off, we decided to make a day trip of it and take the grandchildren to…
7 Online Marketing Principles To Live By
If you don’t know, Tim O’Reilly is a pioneer in Internet marketing. But he’s more than your run-of-the-mill Internet marketer. He’s really a high technology maven, a man who first made his mark on the impression of the Internet before he started using it as a marketing tool – before anyone really started using it…
Bad Economy? Try The Internet
Read the news and things seem rather bleak. It’s the worst economy since the Great Depression. And some people believe we’re doomed for another one. Maybe so. The economy runs in cycles – ups and downs, curve balls, sliders, dips and trips … they’re all a part of the game. The old adage, “It’s not…
Is Internet Marketing Replacing Traditional Marketing?
One would think by reading popular Internet marketing blogs, including this one, that we Internet marketers are all full of ourselves. That we somehow believe that we have the goods, the news, the all beef patty to beat all all beef patties. But in truth, we are a fairly humble bunch. You might get the…