Archives for August 2013

“Daddy, Why Is That Man Eating Kittens?!” – The Future of TV Commercials and Advertising If All Goes According To Plan

After reading this comic, I am really wondering if this is the future of advertising. I already see some companies optimizing display ads to not get clicked, so they can get free impressions, and drive increases in search volume, brand mentions, etc… Crazy!!! by Zach Weiner from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

How Facebook Grew To Billions of Users, and What You Can To Do To Achieve Massive Growth

This brilliant video from Chamath Palihapitiya about his experiences scaling Facebook from 30 million users to 1 billion users. His main advice is focus on building a great product, and growth comes afterwards. His formula for Growth Hacking is… 1. How Do You Get People In The Front Door. 2. How Do You Get Them […]

12 Ways To Increase Your Personal Value and Break Free From Your Limiting Beliefs About Your Earning Potential

“People In Prison Do Time, Unless You Are Reading This From Behind Bars, You Don’t Want To Fall Into This Same Kind of Thinking.” – Dan Kennedy As a consultant, it is easy to fall into the trap of charging for your time. After all, your time is your main cost of goods, so why […]

The Funniest Product Reviews on Amazon and Is Your Content Going To Waste?

My favorite product review is for Tuscan Milk…   “Has anyone else tried pouring this stuff over dry cereal? A-W-E-S-O-M-E!”   Probably one of the biggest missed opportunities for businesses is great content being wasted away in the archives. Great content can be recycled into all sorts of media formats, and curated blog posts. Amazon […]

The SEO Formula That Never Fails and How To Make SEO Work For You

It’s not rocket science, it’s not voodoo or magic, it’s not technical and it’s not a list of best practices. It is simply a frame of mind, a simple rule of thumb that every thing you do MUST BE MEASURED AGAINST TO SURVIVE. This is something you have heard many times, and is probably not […]

The Big List of Ways To Get Traffic To Your Blog, Website and Content. [Interactive Graphic]

Infographics are nice, but interactive graphics rock! Here is what I am noticing when it comes to content creation. There is the easy way out and there is the content that really shines. The content that took months to put together and is packaged beautifully. I know its scary making a deep investment into an […]

How To Battle Shopping Cart Abandonment, An Excellent Infographic From Conversion Voodoo

One of my favorite blogs to read is Conversion Voodoo’s blog. It is filled with great actionable ideas and advice to improve your conversion rates. These folks are the real deal, and I highly recommend reading their blog. The great folks at Conversion Voodoo created this excellent infographic on shopping cart abandonment, and I have […]

The Only List of Free SEO Tools You’ll Ever Need – Over 100 of the Best Tools and Resources For SEO

Doing SEO today requires more than some know how of best practices and a website to work on. It requires amazing tools to help manage everything from technical analysis to project management. When you think about the fact that there are over 200 variables that affect search rankings, and thousands of pages competing with you […]