internet marketing FOR BUSINESSES BOTH LARGE & SMALL

Ranking in Google News is easy– even for competitive terms

What’s the secret?  Just submit to about 20 free press release sites.  If you want to pay for PR Wire or PR Web, that’s fine.  Might save you some time. While it’s great to be able to rank for Facebook…

Why We Don’t Sell SEO Anymore

Last week, I was on a panel discussing SEO with Seth of Conductor, Chris of Bruce Clay, and Kevin Lee of DidIt. The audience was startups, and here were are, 4 of the top agencies in SEO, telling them about…

Giving Your Business A Reality Check

This is a guest post from David Kenward, the Mental Coach.  I’ve chatted with him a few times and see how his services can add amazing value to help folks perform under pressure, whether sports or business.  Watch the videos…

10 Commandments of Running an Ad Network

If you run an ad network, see how many of these 10 Commandments you actually deliver upon versus just say you do:

1.  Thou shalt deliver publishers better eCPM’s: Not the highest payouts, but just better than the competition. That means…

Five Magic Words to Grow Your Online Marketing Agency

You don’t want or need to have every potential deal that’s out there. Be choosy. Would you rather have 40 clients that each pay you $1k a month in fees or 4 clients that each pay you $10k a month?

Amazon shuts down Colorado Affiliates

I got this note below, which shut down the BlitzLocal affiliate account on Amazon as of March 8th because of the new Colorado Affiliate Tax (HB 10-1193).  Read it below:

Dear Colorado-based Amazon Associate:

We are writing from the Amazon Associates Program…

Facebook and Omniture ink analytics and ad serving deal– problems lie ahead

Read the MediaPost article, hot off the presses.  Omniture (now owned by Adobe) will have the ability to buy ads via SearchCenter, their PPC management tool, by the end of 2010.  That’s over 3 years behind BlitzLocal– an eternity in…

How to use Google Conversion Optimizer in just 3 minutes

New to Conversion Optimizer or perhaps puzzled on how to use it properly?  Give me 3 minutes right now I’ll tell you what you need to know– this should save you a ton of time with bid optimization and, more…

Compete or Die!

One of our new clients was held hostage by a programmer that built a custom CMS, when WordPress would have done just fine.  This programmer also did his own hosting, which failed quite often, allowing him to bill the client…

Google Enters the Ad Serving Game Today

Today, Google announced their integration of Google Ad Manager and DART. Users of Google Ad Manager are “upgraded” to DFP for Small Business.  It’s free, as are most all of Google’s products, provided you have less than 90 million impressions a…