1000 Locksmiths in New York City

My friend Matt McGee sent an email last night in which he discovered a new feature of Google Maps.

This makes for some very interesting results:

Restaurants New Orleans

New Orleans Restaurants

David Mihm The Lazarus Project psp ‘s favorite:

Locksmiths in New York City

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Locksmiths New York City

Must be a lot of locks in all those tall buildings to need so many locksmiths.

This is an interesting development which makes me wonder about the statistical likelihood of one moving from the main search engine results to the maps view.

NOMMUG Learns The Dark Secrets of SEO Voodoo

I have been meeting a bunch of great local people thanks to my association with our local Net Squared group Net2NO . (update: in town? come out tomorrow night: http://netsquared.meetup.com/27/)

And one of them, David Robinson , who heads the local Adobe Multimedia Users Group asked me to speak to his group all about website promotion . It was a lot of fun, and I met even more great local folks and got to work on a much longer talk than I’m accustomed to.

Is Your Competition Winning in The Customer Engagement Cycle?

Holy cow it’s taken me a long time to write this! But that’s good news because I’ve been adding to my own understanding in the meantime.

I have been intending to post on this since before my friend Chris Schultz wrote his “10 Tips for Launching Your Startup” in which he brushed on the core concept, the Customer Engagement Cycle: A C I P R (Awareness, Consideration, Inquiry, Purchase and Retention (Referral)).

Take for instance the “Referral” above, I’ve come to realize that this is as valuable as “Retention” in the model. And sometimes is more effectively leveraged toward referral than repurchase.