Why Google Eats the Yellow Pages for Lunch
The yellow pages are dead. We all know that. It’s like the elephant in the room…it like that gigantic unspoken fact that everyone knows but no one says. Yellow pages, uhhhh, sure, I guess I’ll take a copy. The fact of the matter is that we live in a digital world, with digital things. Digital things work faster than print things. In today’s fast paced world, you need a fast paced solution. And the yellow pages it seems, is prey for the behemoth we call [...]
How Brand Recognition Burned my Face
So it was a normal day, just me working on my book, talking to a few clients when all of a sudden I noticed I had a bit of free time. This doesn’t happen often because I plan out my days, but this particular day I had an open slot, and I decided to use it. Just so you know, I rarely go “shopping” at all. In fact, I think it’s more accurate to say I never go shopping. On this particular day though, it [...]
Stopping the SOPA Bill and the #BlackOutSOPA Protest
As some of you may have noticed, Web Vitals went completely dark yesterday in an organized protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act, or SOPA and PIPA for short. If these bills pass, intellectual property holders can literally take down your domain name or any social media accounts that you have and control them. To be honest, it’s ridiculous that something like this would even be considered. It’s such a blatant violation of freedom of expression disguised as something that [...]
Happy Thanksgiving!
It’s that time of year again. It seems like every single time the holidays sneak up on us ever so quietly until and the last possible second the jump out from nowhere and pounce on us. The holidays are here people, and they bring with them a great deal of hardworking individuals in a recovering economy. As a business, you should be looking at this time of year as an opportunity. Consumers spend small fortunes in the last 2 months of the year, and if [...]
Netflix CEO – Idiotic? Or Pure Genius?
Reed Hastings – the hot shot CEO that put us all in awe just a few short years ago. The man that single handedly destroyed the blockbuster empire and road his metaphorical horse into our living rooms with instant streaming capability. Because of Reed Hastings, we now enjoy unlimited streaming content to all of our devices: the computer, Xbox, ps3, Wii, iPad, iPod, iPhone, Android Phone, pretty much anything that can connect to the internet.
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