E-Commerce is Dead
Let me rephrase this, e-commerce is dead for companies that don’t have a unique product. So if you’re not an Amazon or an Overstock, and you’re trying to sell a tangible product than anyone can sell, forget it. That game is over.
Roughly seven or eight years ago, you had a chance. Around the fall of 2003, a good friend of mine and I embarked on an effort to get into the e-commerce drop shipping market.
I’ve been involved with Search Engine Optimization for some time now. I was recently browsing the internet in search of a simple video outlining the basics of SEO.
I couldn’t find anything reasonable, so decided to produce one. I outsourced the voice over via Guru.com to a lady in Spain that specializes in such things. This worked out great, because my voice sucks.
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iPhone apps, simplicity is the key
Let me ask you something. How many applications do you have installed on your desktop that you actually use on a regular basis?
Let’s see. When I was using a Windows notebook, I had Microsoft Office, Pidgin (for all of my instant messaging), Adobe Photoshop, Skype, PSpad, FileZilla and iTunes.
If Google Docs worked better, I would eliminate Microsoft Office from my desktop and from my life. So, I had seven apps installed that I actually used in the prior three months. For most people, this list is probably even smaller. read more…
How to interview an “SEO expert”
I recently wrote this article for a potential customer of ours. He needed a list of simple questions he could use to interview so-called “search engine optimization (SEO) experts”. He needed this list for a couple of reasons.
First, most web design firms claim to be experts in SEO, which is typically not the case. They are experts in web design primarily, and rarely have the expertise in-house to keep up with the constant changes in search engine optimization techniques. Second, he needed to communicate with intelligence to upper management, his reasons for selecting an Internet marketing firm. Before acquiring this list of questions, he really didn’t know how to ask the proper questions to an SEO candidate and what answers to expect.
Why isn’t my iPhone my PC?
I’ve been thinking about this for a while. Why can’t my iPhone be my computer as well? Novel idea, right?
Here’s how it should work. Let’s say I arrive back at my office after a sales meeting downtown. I set my iPhone down on my desktop and plug in my monitor to the iPhone port. As soon as my fancy 24 inch monitor is plugged into the iPhone, the iPhone screen is replicated on my monitor. My bluetooth keyboard and mouse automatically connect to the iPhone and tada, I’m in business. read more…