Discovery, Insights, and Wonderings On:
- Online Marketing - Letting the world know you exist, what you have to offer,and why they should buy it from you
- Search Engine Optimization, SEO - Getting higher ranks in Google, Yahoo, Bing
- Website Development - Making your website look and work the way you want it to
- Online Conversion - Turning visitors into customers
Online Marketing Minute: How Can Social Media Help My Business?
January 20, 2012
We are inherently social creatures. We work, live, talk, and play together. Social media is a blending of technology and talking to each other…anywhere, anytime, with anyone. Today we can reach our customers by earning people’s interest and talking with them when, where, and how they want! Social media marketing includes networks like Facebook and LinkedIn, blogging, podcasts, Twitter, and more.
Online Marketing Minute: Why do search engines matter to my business?
January 12, 2012
You may already think you know the answer to, “Why do search engines matter to my business?” But let me take a minute to show you why they don’t just matter, they really matter.
Online Marketing Minute: What is online marketing?
January 5, 2012
Online marketing uses the web to tell people who you are, what you offer, and how they can get it. Instead of offline options like newspaper, fliers, and radio, online marketing uses websites, email, social networks, and more to get and keep your customers.
Online Marketing Plan
December 15, 2011
What is An Online Marketing Plan? I believe that an online marketing plan is the way you intend to use the web, mobile, and other digital resources to support your business’s overall marketing plan. In that sense, it’s just one piece of the pie that may also include non-online slices like radio, print, television, and [...]
Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP) and Site Slowness
August 15, 2011
While a solid plugin, YARPP may cause severe site-wide slowdown and crashing for WordPress installations running on an average server with lots of posts and lots of tags.
Style Nth Word In a Phrase
August 12, 2011
Use PHP to style the first word, last word, or any (nth) word in a phrase.
Hawaii Picture of the Day
June 17, 2011
I just launched the Hawaii Picture of the Day website. I’m particularly pleased with the widget and iGoogle gadget I wrote so people can add it to their own sites. Here’s how the site widget looks in real time: The site concept is simple: post good pictures of Hawaii to help people discover, be inspired, [...]
Convert MS Access Date to Unix Timestamp to MySQL Timestamp
June 9, 2011
I came across a problem today where I needed to convert a date in an MS Access Database to a MySQL timestamp using PHP. The solution was pretty easy, but took some thinking through. Here is the answer to save you some time if you need it. Get the date from your MS Access database. [...]
Social Media: Keep It Simple
June 2, 2011
Clients often ask me how they can be successful in social media. With social media advice blaring from every corner of the marketing and product world, there are an unbelievable number of opinions on the right answer to this question.
There are also unbelievable amounts of complexity, nuance, and unadulterated bull. What’s a person to do?
Instead of all that, let me give it to you plainly.
Should I Still Use Yellow Pages?
May 3, 2011
Is it worth it for your business to pay to be listed in yellow pages?

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