Well we are doing our annual SEM Fantasy Yahoo Baseball league, so if there are any die hard baseball SEMers out there, join us. Shoot me an email and I will send you the details. It has been a lot of fun, plus you get some free press from me.

 

1. Canseco Link Juice  (Gib Olander)
2. Pilgrims (Tim Dineen)
3. Dial9 4LongDistance (Steven  Meyers)
4. Metropolitans (Larry Sullivan)
5. The Ripper’s (Todd Salerno)
6. Boston Hard Heads (Ben Saren)
7. Rankers (Matt Crouch)
8. Moustache Rides (Bobby Leland)

Good luck guys! How do you it every year Gib?

 

What is going on? In general the economy.  The economy is hitting different sectors, locations, etc differently. From what I have seen, here in Augusta GA, a small market, businesses are not very proactive when it comes to Internet Marketing. Despite my best efforts, folks are still very hesitant to venture online and if they were online, they are backing off.  I have lost a good number of clients simply because they are folding up their online efforts since they are not seeing results.  Now am I doing a bad job. No (imho). LOL

Seriously when money gets tight, the natural instinct is to pull things in closer. Also in a smaller marketing, local search has not reached its potential nor does it seem to have the same impact it does in the larger city. This does not mean it is a waste of resources; online marketing does involve some financial commitment.

So what have I been doing?  Working other jobs. I have a ton of material to talk about here and review but there are only so many hours in the day and one has to sleep. Well tonight I was going to getting moving on it. So I decided to update WordPress  but something went wrong and killed the site. I was able to restore the theme, posts, etc, but all my widgets were killed, as was my blogroll. I just spent the last 2 hours trying to fix it all back up. If you see any links missing, that I should have, let me know.

Just when I thought it was safe to blog again…looks like most everything is back the way it was or at least close. LOL I will be back.. thanks for your patience

 

For the past 3 seasons, I have run a fantasy baseball league for fellow web marketers. It has been a lot of fun and a neat way to follow our national past time.  Since we are starting tomorrow, I wanted to introduce this years managers:

Team Name, Manager, Twitter Name

Boston Hard Heads, Ben Saren, @bsaren
Canseco Link Juice, Gib Olander, @golander59
Dial9 4LongDistance, Steven  Meyers, @steviemeyers
Metropolitans, Larry Sullivan, @l_sullivan
Moustache Rides, Bobby Leland, @bleland
Pilgrims, Tim Dineen, @TimDineen
Rankers, Matt Crouch, @theMattCrouch
The Ripper’s, Todd Salerno, @tsalerno28079

Thanks guys and good luck!

 

As I have done the last few years, I am having a fantasy baseball league for my associates in the search engine marketing field. If you are interested in joining, we have few places left. It has been a lot of fun in the past and everyone gets some free plugs here on the site. Ping me if you are interested.

My first grader is learning about maps and the teacher is asking him to contact family and friends from “outside” of town to send post cards. Each time they get a post from a new place, they will find it on the map and look up some info about the place. There is no limit to how many cards to get.

So I am extending this invitation to my global audience. If you would like to help with this project, ping me and I will send you his school address.  Do not know anyone else in the class who is blogging for post cards. LOL

Thanks and have a great weekend.

 

Well if you remember, I set up a fantasy baseball league earlier in the year. Thankfully that league and the main baseball season is over. It was a terrible year for my NY Mets and my fantasy team I am now looking forward to the NY Giants and the NY Knicks seasons. My last team the Florida State Seminoles….well it appears their season is pretty much over at 2-4. There is always beer. LOL

Well here are the results to the SEM09 season:

1. Dial9 4LongDistance -Steve Meyer
2. Canseco’s Link Juice -Gib Olander
3. SEO’Brien- Paul O’Brien
4. New England Pilgrims- Tim Dineen
5. Moustache Rides – Bob Leland
6. Boston Hard Heads – Ben Saren
7. Baron’s Bombers – Michael LeBarron
8. Hounds- Tim Coleman
9. The Metros – yours truly
10. Disastros – Mike Belasco

Congrats to Steve and Gib you did pretty good for the 2nd year in a row!

 

1. Dial9 4LongDistance- Steve Meyer
2. Canseco’s Link Juice – Gib Olander
3. SEO’Brien – Paul O’Brien
4. New England Pilgrims – Tim Dineen
5. Moustache Rides – Bob Leland
6. Hounds – Tim Coleman
7. Baron’s Bombers- Michael LeBarron
8. The Metros – yours truly
9. Boston Hard Heads – Ben Saren
10. Disastros – Mike Belasco

Good luck to everyone in the second half.

P.S. Sorry for not writing as much these days. Just finishing up a vacation and I got a few posts already in the works.

 

I hope everyone has a great holiday.

I really like this article by Miriam Solas: The 3 Best Things You Can Do For America.