Archive for April, 2008

Who are You Competing Against Online?

April 30th, 2008

seo competitive analysis pictureIn the online market space, it is important to know what your competitive landscape looks like. This is especially crucial for SEO. If you are going to target particular phrases and keywords that you want your site to show up for, you need to know who is already showing up for them and how good of a job they are doing. Let’s face it, if you are a new shoe store that only sells Nike shoes, you probably don’t have much of a shot at ranking well for the term “Nike.” That is where keyword research comes in, but that is a topic for another post. Ok, so how do we analyze your competitive landscape?

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Panel Discussion at Web 2.0, Everyone Agrees?!

April 28th, 2008

Don’t get me wrong I had a great time at the expo and met a lot of great people. However, one thing that really irked me was some of the panel discussions. Let’s take the facebook marketing best practices panel. I do not remember all 4 panelists and the companies they represented but I think one of them was Avenue A. Jeremiah Owyang (from Forrester) was the moderator and did a good job.

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Pictures from the Web 2.0 Expo and from the Parties!

April 25th, 2008

To check out the rest of the photos from the web 2.0 expo and from the after parties, please visit my flickr page! Thanks to everyone who helped put the event together, it was great seeing everyone!

Microblogging, Losing the Conversation and Watching it Explode!

April 24th, 2008

I attended the panel discussion with Stowe Boyd, Jeremiah Owyag, Gregarios, and Brian Solis, called “Short attention span theater: The birth of microblogging & micromedia.  What made this panel so exciting (apart from the great panelists) was that it included live audience participating via twitter. On the sides of the room giant screens displayed ‘tweets’ [...]

Branding, the Most Important Factor of

April 21st, 2008

What are the most important factors that go into successful brand building. Actually, let me rephrase that. What is the most important factor that goes into successful brand building. Do you think it is your tag line, offerings, image, reputation, etc? Fifty years ago building a brand was much different than it is today. Fifty [...]

Visual Search Engine for Iphone

April 19th, 2008

An impressive new visual search technology called ViPR is going to allow people with an iphone to take pictures of photos, movies, books, or cds. The photo will then be sent to a sever and information will be relayed to the user along with links to online videos and iTunes music store. Wow! All of [...]