Earlier this week I visited Chicago and met up with our Google agency reps.  Our reps are actually based out of California, but were in town at the same time for other matters, so it afforded us the opportunity to sit down face to face to discuss some new campaigns for a couple clients. Because Google [...]

President-elect Barack Obama to have his Blackberry-induced smile wiped off his face? The world is made up of two types of people – those who think Barack Obama is the Messiah, and those who think he’s a very naughty boy. In amongst that lot are a curious group of Web 2.0 evangelists who think the election [...]

No second life for Circuit City? “It’s like a jungle, sometimes it makes me wonder how I keep from going under.” Grandmaster Flash – “The Message” Oh Circuit City – we’ll surely miss you. Well, we might not miss your insistence on trying to sell hdtvs by splitting the signal 423 ways and displaying SD content on [...]

We try to stick on topic on our internet marketing blog, but this Veteran’s Day marks an exception. Bob Coffield wrote a great post on his health care law blog today honoring his family that served in the military and all our veterans.  I was so moved I wanted to share my appreciation here and allow [...]

I don’t know whether you’ve been following the Yahoo! soap opera of late, but I bet you’ve seen the latest installment of the on-off-on again bizarre love triangle played out between Microsoft, Yahoo! and Google. (Well, in this particular instance between Yahoo! and Google.) Yesterday saw Google and Yahoo! break up again over their Internet advertising [...]

Don’t know if you’re aware, but there’s some sort of election thing going on today.  Apparently one of the things you can vote on is President of the United States of America, which sounds like an important post. With that, let’s take a fairly extensive look into what the candidates are doing today in their paid [...]

On Halloween, we cited some Harris Interactive research regarding how consumers like to find answers to their healthcare questions.  We also asked you “What are the most used online resources to gather information on a health question / concern?”  Probably a bit of a misleading question since some people answered what they used while others [...]

One of my favorite sitcom lines was from Roseanne, circa 1992.  Darlene’s uncle brings a vcr and she says with incredibly dry delivery, “Alright, the Connor Conner family leaps into the 80’s.”  That’s kind of how I feel today about the newest feature for the Direct Online Maketing: polls. Recently, we came across some really interesting [...]

One of the great things about blogs is that there appears to be as many different interpretations and definitions as to what they are as there are bloggers producing them. We could all sit down and throw out a few ideas as to what a blog contains or standards it must adhere to in order [...]

A spoonful of search helps the brain cells go round… As we all know, it takes all sorts. I’m a fan of exploring our differences and what makes us tick. But, there’s one thing I really don’t have any time for, and that’s intellectual atrophy. The lazy brain that accepts nonsense as fact without an ability [...]