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  • LinksHog (Nate Figueroa) Thinks I?m a Plastic Surgeon
    A company who’s domain is linkshog.com has been spamming my clients. Here’s why I call it spam versus just unsolicited email (I’m not averse to well done unsolicited email). They clearly have no human review The search phrases they call out are inappropriate In a few instances they’ve been wrong (telling one of my “New Orleans Chiropractors” [...]

  • MSNBC Is On My ?Top 10 Best Headlines Ever? List
    The headline is “You Want A Prettier What?!”

  • Internet Marketing for Plastic Surgeons - Less Scary than You Think
    Internet marketing for plastic surgeons presents some interesting challenges. Surgical practices make a lot of money and are attractive targets. Unfortunately, more often than not, the results haven’t matched the promises. Right when it came out I pointed to a recent article in the NY Times. This post is intended to clarify my [...]

  • Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it annoys the pig.
    Robert Heinlein - http://thinkexist.com/…/218581.html Inspired to look this up based on a conversation with a client - she was talking about discussing marketing with her husband and that it was a frustrating experience for both of them.

  • Violet Marie Moran-Thompson - The Latest Influencer
    How apropriate that our first flickr photo is also a new baby. Please help us launch the career of another search marketer Violet Marie Moran-Thompson. Violet Marie is the latest addition to our team of influencers. She joined us on Tuesday April 22nd. Tuesday April 22nd is both Earth Day, and the closing day of [...]

  • Local SEO (Local Search) at Small Business Marketing Unleashed
    Sadly, I can’t tell you exactly what was said (I’d have to kill you apparently according to the organizers) but Matt McGee of SmallBusinessSEM.com gave a fantastically detailed presentation on all facets of local search. I strongly recommend this conference for small businesses interested in internet marketing and those who might help them (like us). Matt’s presentation [...]

  • leavefeedback.org Mention at Small Business Marketing Unleashed
    In this morning’s session at Small Business Marketing Unleashed Jennifer Laycock was talking about the value of ratings and reviews as a component of social media. For those of you who don’t know, Search Engine Guide is putting on a show this week focused on small businesses: Small Business Marketing Unleashed. I have been a huge fan [...]

  • Plastic Surgery Internet Marketing Hits the Big Time
    The New York times is out with and interesting piece on Plastic Surgery Internet Marketing and how effective it can be. Update: I’ve expanded on this post greatly in: Internet Marketing for Plastic Surgeons - Less Scary than You Think. You may also be interested in: Convert Offline - Everybody’s Doing It I’m sad to say we weren’t [...]

  • Convert Offline - Everybody?s Doing It
    Return on Investment Through Call Tracking Since I’m clearly not going to get to the proposals I had on tap for tonight I thought I’d go ahead and document a recent client experience I’ve been talking to a few folks about. I’ve told this story a few times recently in support of our use of call tracking [...]

  • Miriam Ellis Asks A Lot of Questions
    At the risk of repeating myself, Miriam of Solas Web Design in her SEO Igloo blog has been engaged for a few weeks in an investigation of Local SEO culminating with a series of interviews. Miriam was nice to include me and most recently asked me to respond to some questions from the comments [...]