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Well…when you are at a hotel for a week and you need to pay for Internet access.  I was in St Louis this week and if I wanted to use the Internet in my room, I had to pay for it. Now I could get free Internet in the lobby.  I am not a world traveler but I thought having free wi-fi was pretty common. Also the major airports I was in also had wi-fi but you had to pay for it, but in the smaller airports, wi-fi access was free.

I know the reason is money but I think hotels could set up their own local portal and then get local merchants to advertise on it (thus covering the cost).  Same would go for the airports. This would seem to be like a win-win. Travelers are natural local searchers!

Well it is nice to be home again and once I get caught up, I will begin posting again!

Today begins LocalBizBits second year!  Man time flies. As I look over the first year, I must say blogging has been a  lot of fun (and a lot of work).  I have meet a lot of neat folks and learned quite a bit myself about local search marketing.  So today, I just want to take a minute to thank everyone and let you know that I look forward to this coming year.

“Baseball been bery, bery good to me!”

Well pitchers and catchers are reporting, the rest of the team will be in camp soon…it is time for baseball once again! All is well in the universe.

I thought it would be fun to run a fantasy baseball league this year. No, I have never done one before but hey, there is always a first time!  I am putting the league together for my fellow search engine marketers who love baseball.  I already have some good friends on board but I need a few more.  I plan to keep the league and rules simple because I know how valuable your time is. If you are interested, shoot me an email or leave a reply here. It will be on a first come first serve basis.  Don’t make me beg you guys, it will be fun! 

There will be regular league updates throughtout the season here at LocalBizBits too.

Play Ball!

I am still numb!  The New York Giants are Super Bowl XLII champions! AMAZING.  What an incredible game, what an incredible season and post season! Eli and company came and beat up Tom and the Patriots. As a football fan, I know how incredible a perfect season would have been but as a New York fan, it was great to see the Patriots get their butts kicked.  Oh how the mighty have fallen!

Super Bowl championships do not happen very often so I am simply going to sit back and enjoy this one!

Back to work tomorrow…..

Need to take a break from business and root on my New Yorks Giants this weekend!  I have to congratulate the Patriots on going undefeated this season, which is very impressive but I have to pat my Giants on the back too. Who would have thought they would have made it to the SuperBowl? I surely did not but they are here–this is why I think they have a chance. No one thought they would go anywhere but they proved folks wrong at every step!

Now I am not going to be like Plaxico Burgess and make a prediction but I have set up a friendly wager with Ben Saren of CitySquares on the outcome of the game. Ben, here is my selection for SuperBowl XLII:

Just found out that LocalBizBits has a post (Local Search on Facebook) nominated for the SEMMYs Local Search category. You can see all those nominated here. Once the finalists are chosen, public voting will begin.  Keep your fingers crossed.

I am not one to make predictions but I do set up resolutions or goals each year.  The “professionals” say not to go overboard and create too many goals simply because you can only get so much done. I decided to create four for right now and will add more as needed.  My goals are simple.

1. Build my business more. (I know this is everyone’s goal….but if you know of anyone looking for local search marketing or SEM help, think of me)

2. Continue networking. If you are on LinkedIn, Facebook, MyBlogLog, etc, lets connect!
 
3. Continue to build LocalBizBits readership and advertising revenue. I love blogging  and I am always looking for ways to support it.

4. Attend at least one of the big local search conferences. If anyone wants to sponsor me..I will be more than happy to plug you here.

May 2008 be a great year for everyone!