When it comes to internet marketing and building strategies that work, so people are so good at it, that they actually become part of the marketing and branding in itself. For example, if you wanted to learn about the skyscraper method for creating content and backlinks, you would likely already know of Brian Dean and look up his information when …
The entrepreneurial world has been a boys club for a long time. Recently that trend has been changing. The number of woman-owned businesses increased by 45% from 2007 to 2016. They represent over $1.6 trillion dollars in revenue. Are you looking to start your own business? These women will inspire you to push forward and kick ass. Let’s get inspired. …
Imagine it’s the year 2000. You’re a freelance writer and you work for every major corporation on the block. A time machine (a TARDIS for you nerds out there), appears in your home office and out steps me. Before you grab your Louisville Slugger, I hand you a special device that both acts as a cell phone and a high-powered …
It’s easy to get deep into a project and not step back to look at the whole picture. You think what you’re making is excellent. The people standing behind you are laughing their asses off. It’s all about perspective. If you’re going to create something that appeals to everybody, you need to look at your project from multiple perspectives. Before …
For an insane moment, I thought maybe I’d crossed over into a weird alternate reality. Maybe these people weren’t actually marketers but a sadistic club of psychopaths leading us to the slaughter. Ironically, it would have been a financial slaughter for my wife and me if we’d been a little more naive. I considered it a win for my pocketbook …
People intend to find something when they search. That seems like common sense, but for some reason, we don’t always use common sense when creating SEO strategies. Novice marketers tend to think more about their brand and its features than how it will solve someone’s problems. But that’s exactly what a product is there for. If it couldn’t solve a …
“In a properly automated and educated world, then, machines may prove to be the true humanizing influence. It may be that machines will do the work that makes life possible and that human beings will do all the other things that make life pleasant and worthwhile ” -Issac Asimov I’m obsessed with the idea of AI world domination. And not …
Before 2007, cloud servers for businesses and consumers just didn’t exist. Yeah, we had accessible servers all over the world, but the way we do cloud computing wasn’t a thing. In just three years, the number of cloud providers went from nothing to 550,000. We entered the age of cloud computing full tilt. But now that cloud computing is ubiquitous …
We’re in a dark and dank dungeon. It smells of sweat, drying milk, and ozone. A server ticks and hums one room over — did you hear something rustling in there? You get a call from “upstairs.” Before they have a chance to tell you what’s going on, you say, “have you tried turning it off and on again?” This …
