I'm a web entrepreneur, social media marketer, search engine optimization specialist, web developer, and interface designer. I know, it's a lot. All it really means is I use my knowledge of how this stuff works under-the-hood to help my clients build their online presence or leverage the internet to grow their business. You can checkout my projects page to see some of what I am up to, in the meantime I hope you enjoy my blog! Read more...
I am a little late getting this out (sorry guys!), as the Brazen Careerist team launcher their site this past monday, but better I’ve been out and about almost this whole week. Still, they deserve a post because they rock. If you’re a young professional or a business owner and haven’t seen the new Brazen [...]
At least that’s what all the signs seem to be indicating. I’ve been trying to watch the evolution of online social network payments fairly closely as eCommerce is something near and dear to my heart. Being an entrepreneur, the next cutting edge area of eCommerce is of particular interest, and social networks is definitely one [...]
After writing my post earlier this week on better utilizing your business model, my friend Reid who runs Quintify, a database solution company that helps small businesses, followed up with me via e-mail and recommended the book, The Art of Profitability. After taking a look at it, I’ll definitely be giving it a read and [...]
One thing I pray for daily is that the Lord will continue to rise up in me a further love and joy for my bride-to-be that will amaze her daily. That He will teach me to both create and look forward to instances that allow me to demonstrate the depths of my love and the [...]
I must admit, I am an addict of business models. I dissect companies on a daily basis as if they were a science project from junior school, but one I actually enjoyed. Reason being is that understanding the business model of your company is an integral part of your company’s success. As I have been [...]
For those who don’t know, Google is working on keeping up with the real time web, and as such, is aiming to innovate their system so it updates their indexes faster (allowing it to serve up fresher content more quickly). You can actually test their innovation, which they call Google Caffeine. What I am wondering, [...]
I don’t mean to be quite so social media oriented this week (whether through ideas or just tips), but I am a bit disgruntled. After reading recent news about Facebook working on a “lite” interface design it appears that my Facebook Newsfeed has had a little updating as well, namely, the removal of my Highlights. [...]
Last week I wrote about marketing on facebook in the real-time web. The obvious question after that is, of course, what about marketing on other real-time sites like Twitter, Delicious, and what will be an otherwise growing list of sites that begin to adopt real-time or piggy back off the popularity. Sadly, there is no [...]
When National Speed used to have an eCommerce store, I began to develop a particular theory about Sponsored/Pay Per Click ads versus natural, organic search results. My theory was that when a user searches for a term whether it be via Google or Yahoo!/Bing, their is a barrier of purchase between a naturally placed, organic [...]
The more I think about Twitter and how it’s continuing to grow in popularity in local areas (like Wilmington, NC for example) the more I realize how Twitter made the “location” part of their profile fairly worthless. The challenge If you’ve created a profile on Twitter, you may have noticed that the “location” part of [...]