The Final Wrap Up to Jane & Robot at Yahoo! Santa Monica
It’s been about a week since we had the Jane & Robot meetup at Yahoo! Santa Monica and I finally have a chance to wrap up the event. I have to say, putting that whole event together with help from some very wonderful people was probably one of the funnest things I’ve done.
First and foremost, [...]
Recap of Startups Uncensored #5: Raising Angel Money from Investors
I want to start by saying that raising funding or Angel Capital is something I have ABSOLUTELY no experience with, so, it was absolutely great to hear a panel on something where I was thoroughly engaged. Not to mention the rock star line up of Los Angeles Technology entrepreneurs that were on the panel: Brett [...]
Read more →Twitter integrates search into main site
Well, there has been talk about Twitter integrating its Search functionality into their main site. It turns out the twitter team was testing this out and it has now integrated into the main site, with some pretty interesting functionality.
Trending in Main Navigation
On the home page, twitter has integrated the latest Trends as a menu item [...]
Skittles Aggregated Website, is this a Win or Fail?
Lots a brewing on the Skittles madness tonight because of they’re new “Social Media Aggregation” for their domain. The question I have is, was this a move of pure genius? Or, are they shooting themselves in the foot!
Age and Demographics to get Started:
To start with, before you start to interact with anything Skittles, they make [...]
Read more →DocStoc saved the day at Gravity Summit
(Yes, Jason, you can use me as a Case Study =P )
Normally, I never write posts telling you about how great a single company is, but, in this case, I feel it is absolutely necessary. Every presentation I give now, I quickly upload to DocStoc before I go up and tweet out the URL. (They [...]
Keys to building quality relationships and things to avoid
I could go on and on for hours about how people abuse relationships because I am sooo passionate about the topic. Within Internet Marketing, I have developed some solid relationships with and would work with them, partner with them, and/or hang out with them at the drop of a dime. The problem here is that [...]
Read more →Checking StumbleUpon Referrals and Reviews to specific URLs
I was listening in on Office Hours on WebmasterRadio.fm today and the question came up of how to find the referrer URL from StumbleUpon to your site. When you look at Google Analytics the referrer shows up as refer.php or toolbar. This won’t take you to the page that refers to your URL, similar to [...]
Read more →Measuring success in SEO and Social Media by determining ROI, Analytics, Metrics up front
When you are working at an organization that doesn’t have the right analytics, its painful. This also goes for working with clients that don’t have the money to buy an analytics package like Omniture or WebTrends. I’ve been through this on both sides of the organizational and the client side as well. (A couple times [...]
Read more →Startup Mistakes: “Just launched my site, now I need SEO”
I have been in SEO and Internet Marketing for some time now and I can’t tell you how many sites I have worked with or seen that have come to me after launch and said “I need SEO now!” Heck, I was even victim to that when I was tasked with my first major web [...]
Read more →4 Main Reasons you should be linking in Blogs
We create blogs with tons of great content and we base our content on Social Media that attracts a link or two. (Boy, isn’t that the understatement of the year!) We rely on this content to create user engagement and get people to keep coming back. But something that is also just as important as [...]
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