internet marketing FOR BUSINESSES BOTH LARGE & SMALL

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…

Online Marketing is like Monopoly.

In the game of Monopoly you roll the dice, land on property, buy un-owned property, pay rent, develop property, collect rent and pass go. The problem many people have with this game is that they leave…

On the Senate floor in California is a bill to make the white pages opt-in only, reversing a 1995 bill that mandated distribution of these books as part of universal service.  What’s ironic about this bill is that the process…

Gather some interesting statistics and then make a chart out of it– and you’ve got yourself an Infographic.  Examples are showing a map of the world and income for each country displayed by green bars.  Or perhaps it’s the price…

Here is an article from TechCrunch showing Sully’s crash-landed plane in the Hudson.  Above it is an ad for United Airlines, which shares a miles program with US Air.  Is that good ad targeting or perhaps not?

I stopped in at a Jack in the Box today and noticed no employees at the register.  Customers were ordering through a kiosk.  This beautiful touch-screen marvel spoke in English and Spanish and upsold you at every turn– would you like…

Want to know what’s one of the hottest areas in local?  Medical marijuana dispensaries.  I read in today’s Denver Post that dispensaries are popping up everywhere. The license fee is only $3,000 and there is no cap on the number of…

If local advertising companies aren’t already quaking in their boots with Google’s recent blitz of new enhancements in local– Place Pages, Favorite Places, Caffeine, ad extensions, sitelinks, Fixed Fee Listings (yes, the beta was over due to poor performance), and…

Let’s talk about one of our clients that owns a chain of pizza restaurants, but for the sake of privacy, we’ll call it “Sun Pizza”, or SP for short. They’re a small chain of specialty restaurants that use wholesome ingredients…

Let’s first address the size of the local online advertising market, then show why these masses will have a good shot at finding success in 2010, but haven’t before. If you don’t like stats, skip down to the red text…