Jason Manning

How To Not Be the Laziest PPC Ad Copywriter Ever: Part One

By: Jason Manning - Posted March 22nd, 2010

Jason Manning’s first in an unknown (even to him) numbered series of tips for writing PPC ads.

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Kyle Obrien

Cut Down The Nets With Your Local Listing

By: Kyle Obrien - Posted March 16th, 2010

March Madness. That time of the year when people frantically jot down their last minute picks for the NCAA college basketball tournament. A time when David slays Goliath, or you get too caught up in David and he wrecks your bracket. It’s also a time that makes me think how some people go about selecting…

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Kyle Obrien

A Tiny, But All-Important Icon

By: Kyle Obrien - Posted March 9th, 2010

A couple of weeks ago I referenced David Mihm’s top 20 most important factors for making your local listing work. I talked about how proper category placement could boost your business listing’s presence, number of clicks to your website, product purchases and so forth. With the third most important factor out of the way, I…

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Kyle Obrien

Squid-Pro-Quo

By: Kyle Obrien - Posted March 2nd, 2010

Squidoo! Before you click off thinking you’ve been duped into a bogus sushi search, let me crazily rant for a bit about the wonders of having your small business marketing behind the reigns of a Squidoo page, or to be exact, a Lens. With Squidoo skyrocketing onto the social media scene, there are plenty of…

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Tom Jenkins

Why WordPress Is Right For You

By: Tom Jenkins - Posted February 25th, 2010

Welcome to the first installment of this WordPress How To series. So why would you choose WordPress as content management system? Because it’s one of the most versatile and supported open source content management systems available today. WordPress traces its history to 2003 as a replacement for a now defunct blogging platform know as b2….

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Kyle Obrien

Local Search: “The Dog Whisperer”?!

By: Kyle Obrien - Posted February 23rd, 2010

Still wondering why your local search page may be down on its luck? After reading a diagnostic chart surveying the successful factors for a page, there are plenty of ways to get back on your feet. Even though a few of them can seem straightforward, there’s a reason why they are at the top…some businesses…

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Kyle Obrien

Online Directory Made Simple. Sure About That?

By: Kyle Obrien - Posted February 17th, 2010

Forgive me. I ranted last week about Google not giving in to your business descriptions, character limits, blah, blah and more blah. And now I’m turning my ire to certain online directories who think mass confusion is the best way to add a business listing. Don’t get me wrong, there are some that hit it…

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Jason Manning

All I Wanted Was a Friggin' Tire

By: Jason Manning - Posted February 5th, 2010

I thought I’d share with you guys this week a recent shopping story (oooh, exciting!) that should allow me to highlight a few very basic things people, lots of people it turns out, seem to overlook when putting together a PPC campaign. So come with me, won’t you, on my adventure to buy a bicycle…

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Kyle Obrien

Peek-A-Google! I See You!

By: Kyle Obrien - Posted February 3rd, 2010

Everyone loves a kitten. There are calendars, coffee mug pics, greeting cards, and other devices spreading their love for kittens. There are millions of sites dedicated to just kittens. Want to know if your macho friend secretly loves kittens? Well, that’s now a possibility thanks to Google’s Social Search. After viewing the demo, I’ve drawn…

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Kyle Obrien

Twitter Spikes More Than Just Brazilian Caipirnhas

By: Kyle Obrien - Posted January 26th, 2010

How to make Twitter really engaging: 1 lime, 2 ounces of Cachaça, lots of ice cubes, copious amounts of sugar, a muddler, and your Caipirnha is ready to go. This Brazilian gem is good for just about any occasion. Tweet about it, tweet while drinking one, drink one out of a glass in the shape…

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