Benjamin Franklin on Living It
"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of." Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist and writer
Categories: All about sales Tags: american statesman, Time
Win a Free Pass to MN Blogger Conference
TopRank Online Marketing is proud to be a founding sponsor of the first Minnesota Blogger Conference. Tickets for this event “sold out” within a few hours and there are over 100 people on the waiting list. Thanks to conference founders Melissa Berggren, Arik Hanson, Suzi Magill and Katie Schutrop, it’s already one hot event. The date [...]
Categories: Online Marketing Tags: Blogger, toprank online marketing
Everything I Know About Marketing I Learned from Google
Aaron Goldman is an accomplished digital marketer that I know through MediaPost’s Search Insider Summit conference. He reached out to me while writing his new book, “Everything I Know About Marketing I Learned from Google”, and asked if I’d like to contribute. Such a request is a great honor to me but unfortunately, I never did [...]
Categories: Online Marketing Tags: digital marketer, Marketing
We Are What We Do in Sales and in Life
Noted Nobel prize recipient, Albert Camus, is quoted as saying “We are what we do. ” What this means is our actions are very much integrated into who are are. What a potentially frightening thought and one that might make “The Thinker” quiver. Take selling or sales for example. What type of salesperson are you? [...]
Categories: Sales Blogger Tags: relationship builder
The Real Cost of Buying Links for SEO: $4 Million
I was reading a copy of the Inc. 500 issue on my flight back from Dallas this weekend and came across an article about a seasonal online retailer that was “penalized” right before the Holidays for paid links. He estimated the revenue loss due to plummeting organic search visibility at $4 million in sales. Now [...]
Categories: Online Marketing Tags: search, seo company
Delacroix on Mediocrity
"Mediocre people have an answer for everything and are astonished at nothing." Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863) French artist
Categories: All about sales Tags: information, louis ck
Introducing the Jump Start series: The Power of Digital and Social Media
Over the past few years, I’ve had many conversations with colleagues and clients about social media and digital media. Their most popular questions seem to be: How can I use social media in my business? How do I integrate my...
Categories: Trafcom News Tags: communication challenges, Start
Social Media SEO Success with Blogging
My presentation on how to leverage Social Media SEO to improve the reach and effectiveness of blog content for marketing at OpenCa.mp DFW this weekend ended up being a lot of information in a very short period of time. The use of a video interview I did with Brian Clark as the segue into my [...]
Categories: Online Marketing Tags: content, lt colonel
Take charge of your career: PIC meeting September 21
Are you happy and successful? Do you want to step up your game and take charge of your career? Then come to the first PIC meeting of the 2010-2011 season, designed for both freelancers and employees. (What’s PIC? Professional Independent...
Categories: Trafcom News Tags: charge, international association of business communicators
Brian Clark Interview: Copyblogger on Content Marketing with Blogs
OpenCamp’s Sunday schedule included presentations on blogging that included Chris Pirillo, Brian Clark and myself. I caught up with Brian before he gave his presentation to give us a little preview. John P. ended up using the video as the segue between Brian and I as we changed microphones. Watch as Brian talks about the [...]
Categories: Online Marketing Tags: chris pirillo, presentation