Internet Marketing 101: How do I set up Google Analytics?

While I’m waiting for the answers from my friend, I hooked up Google Analytics to their site.
Setting up Google Analytics
1. You have to have a gmail account.  BTW, I love gmail.  I switch off Microsoft Outlook in Jan and I won’t be going back.  It’s like when I switched from skiing to snowboard.  With the [...]

Cool Election Map and my Black Friday

Found this through my Twitter friends.  Check it out.  http://maps.google.com/help/maps/elections/#2008_election
As for my Black Friday post.  It rocked the house like I thought it would.
Focusing on what Google and the blogosphere is talking about and writing about that will increase your visitors.  The Black Friday post more than doubled my average daily visits.

Top Ten Websites for Black Friday Discounts – How Do Hot Trends Work For You?

So here are the top ten sites to get the Black Friday Deals – I didn’t steal this from anyone.  Just did a little research and this is what I came up with.
TheBlackFriday.com
BFads.net
iBlackFriday.com
BlackFriday.net
BlackFriday.info
www.dealtaker.com/blackfriday
daddyodeals.com
blackfriday.gottadeal.com/
blackfriday.dealspl.us/
www.blackfday.com/
This is more of an article about the speed of Trend Marketing and the your company’s communications.
I love Black Friday; even though, [...]

Lost in a social media world – what should I be doing online?

Recently, I traveled to NY to visit a client and help them with one of their learning websites. The business I did there was fine if uneventful but what happened on the way back to the LaGuardia really opened my eyes to how lost people can get in an online world.
First thing I blew [...]

Basics in SEO – have you graded your website?

This is going to be a short post but I absolutely loved this tool, www.websitegrader.com.
Check it out, use it and then come back and we’ll go through all the cool stuff that is in it.
There’s also another free tool for ranking your website.
Being found on the net is getting harder and harder – you need [...]

Erasing an online consumer complaint from your search results – Part 2 of Power to the Consumer

So here’s the secret.  You can’t.
You knew that was coming, didn’t you?  But there are ways to push the complaint farther away from your site and out of your search results.
The first thing I would do.  Go after that customer, face to face, and see if you can correct what happened.  Now some people would [...]

Power to the Consumer – dealing with Social Media and Public Complaints

So they got you…one of your customers had a bad experience and now they are online telling the world about it.
In fact, they are so upset that they started a website or blog up and are actively denouncing your company. You went out and did a Google search and they are popping up on [...]

What the heck is Princeton Premier or how Social Media can make or break your company’s internet presence?

So I got this email…
Don Schindler It is my pleasure to inform you that you are being considered for inclusion into the 2008-2009 Princeton Premier Business Leaders and Professionals Honors Edition section of the registry. The 2008-2009 edition of the registry will include biographies of the world’s most accomplished individuals. Recognition of [...]

Clutter on the Web and my Desk – Siteless Web Presence

My desk is a mess.
Once, in first grade, my teacher – can’t remember the nun’s name – put my entire desk in a box and sent me along with the box to the principal’s office. Then he called my parents in so we could talk about how messy my desk was.
Obviously, the teacher’s plan [...]

Siteless Web Presence Part Two or why not be in all places at once?

So how do you get a siteless web presence?
Your website is one place on the web. One place that Google can direct traffic. When a person does a search for your site then you’ll hopefully pop up. If you have the right kind of URL, Title Tags, Meta Tags, and enough relevant [...]