Ok I am going to date myself…I remember when MTV started. Does anyone know what the first video that was shown (without looking it up)? Can you name any of the VJs? Well I bring up MTV today because my good friend Paul O’Brien at Zvents has shared with me …

I saw this line as part of an ad on a billboard yesterday and I thought it tied in nicely to what I was going to comment on today. Why do we do what we do?  Why create web site(s) and market them? After seeing that billboard it got me …

Today I am speaking with George Oji, Founder of Jippidy.com, small business video yellow pages. Q. What is Jippidy? A. We believe that the results produced from local searches should be user-generated results. Meaning in our view, the business owner is best positioned entity to sell a product to the …

Hope everyone had a good weekend. This was one of those “cleaning” weekend- in the yard and on the computer. I decided to tackle cleaning out some of electronic clutter.  I had to chuckle. I found a ton of emails and articles I had saved from a few years back, …

Today I am talking to Michelle Tukachinsky of Palm Beach Local, a new (it is only a couple of weeks old) local business directory in Palm Beach Florida. Q. Hey Michelle, thanks for taking some time today, can you tell us a little about yourself? A. I am a piano …

Local Advertising. It is critical for your small business. The Internet does provide a huge potential for new customers.  Below are some quotes that I thought were worth repeating. I think they speak for themselves… The Local Advertiser of Today and Tomorrow by Gregg Stewart “Local search is a vertical …

I have just got back from vacation where there was no Internet available to me. This was good and bad. Good because I was able to read up on a lot of articles that I have been saving and actually worked on a number of posts. Bad because there was …

Below is a nice chart from Palore, representing over 6,000 businesses found on leading online directories. Categories selected were beauty & fitness, photographers, landscapers and limousine services, for the LA and San Francisco area. Small businesses are spending very little on-line, too little on-line. It takes money to make money …