Hope everyone had a great weekend. My beloved Mets lost 2 out of 3 from the Braves (URGH)! I found this video a while back. Since we are covering social search/marketing, I thought it fit in well. I would not recommend becoming this guy…LOL

I love to talk. Anyone who knows me, knows I am rarely at a loss for words.  Despite this, I have been rather slow getting onto the on-line social bandwagon. Social is one of the new phrases on-line.  Social networking, search, bookmarking, sharing videos and photos and so on, is …

When I first saw the title of the article “Small Businesses Should Know Their Place Online” by Stoney deGeyter at Search Engine Guide, I raised an eyebrow. But then I sat down and read a very good article. If you are a mom and pop business, I recommend you read …

The one thing you will find is that there are no shortage of opinions, ideas, and theories on-line, regarding the search engines and on-line marketing.  One reason, there really is not any industry standard or “manual” on how to do things. One of the things I do is web design …

A while back, I read a series of very interesting interviews with Internet professionals about local search.  One of the questions asked was, “how do you use local search”.  Well they did not ask me (that’s ok) so I thought I would answer here. My whole family uses local search …

Having a science background has given me a love for numbers,  charts, and graphs when explaining trends.  One of the first things I wanted to do on my blog was provide some key statistics related to local search. When I speak to clients, I try to provide some statistics, not …

There. I have started my first posting. The first of anything is always the hardest. I am glad it is out of the way. The vision I have for this blog is to post ideas, information,  random thoughts, links, etc.  regarding on-line marketing as it pertains to small businesses. Specifically …