Cobra and Brass Monkey.  Those two items may not mean much to most of you. In just the last 2 weeks, the world has lost a couple great people (in my eyes, anyway). I have never driven a Cobra, but I still admire Carroll Shelby for creating something...

We have been busy the past couple months working with a wonderful non-profit organization. Men Stopping Violence works locally, nationally, and internationally to dismantle belief systems, social structures, and institutional practices that oppress women and children...

Promoting your small business on the internet is crucial in today's world. The entrepreneur who ignores this gold mine of potential opportunity does so at his or her own peril. There is too much to be gained through marketing on the internet, and little to be lost. If...

Fact: Your website needs search engine optimization (SEO) to help your website achieve more. Many try and go it alone in the search engine optimization process and, in the majority of cases, they never see the results they would have achieved if they had enlisted the...

Have you ever wondered how companies like McDonalds, Coca-cola, Microsoft, Apple, Intel, Motorola, Sony and UPS came up with their names? Just think, if these companies have some lame or forgettable brand name, would they be as big as they are now? Every company...

Remember the days of beige PCs, Netscape, Geocities and Tripod? The mid-late 1990s were the playful childhood of the worldwide web, a time of great expectations for the future and pretty low standards for the present. Those were the days when doing a web search meant...

cli·ché klēˈSHā kli-,kli-,ˈklēˌSHā/ noun a phrase or opinion that is overused and betrays a lack of original thought. "the old cliché “one man's meat is another man's poison." synonyms: platitude, hackneyed phrase, commonplace, banality, old saying, maxim, truism,...

English poet and author, Rudyard Kipling, suggested the use of six questions – as a model for better thinking. Here is Kipling’s witty poem called, Six Honest Men: I have six honest serving men They taught me all I knew Their names are What, and Where and When; and...

Google has been working hard on the launch of their new product, Google My Business, designed for small business owners in order to increase their visibility within Google Search, Google Maps, and Google+. Google provides services to two important groups, paid...

What Not To Do – Courtesy of Target In November, 70 million Target customers were violated when tech criminals stole trusted personal information when they hacked into Target’s computers. Many feel Target blew an opportunity to build trust with their customers....

Not too long ago, small mom and pop stores couldn’t compete with the big guys through traditional offline marketing. People went to the big name stores advertised in magazines, television commercials, billboards, and flyers. We thought big name brands meant quality,...

Recent news on Penquin 2.0 shows that most of the sites that were affected were porn and gaming sites.  A few big brand sites were hit as well, which further proves that no one is immune; sites like salvationarmy.org, dish.com, and REEDs jewelers. The official release...

With the latest news about Penguin 2.0 coming out soon, many are hypothesizing and trying to plan ahead for their websites. What will this update include?  Is my business safe?   Every website owner should be asking themselves these very important questions.  The best...

Meta descriptions have evolved over the years and there has been many debates as to whether or not they are important. I can tell you unequivocally that they are VERY IMPORTANT!   In the past the rules for meta descriptions were to include your keywords (and in some...