Photo by scottwills I can’t think of too many other topics that generate the same level of confusion, controversy and frustration as Search Engine Optimization or SEO. “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”                         – Arthur C. Clarke From a business owner’s perspective, you really don’t want to mess with something like SEO.  You’re […]

I just got back from vacation a couple of weeks ago – we stayed in Grand Lake, Colorado, which is on the west side of Rocky Mountain National Park.  We had a great time, I got some fantastic pictures and I left thinking about Taxidermy (more on that in a minute). It’s a beautiful area, […]

Do you ever feel like your business or service is lined up with all of your competition and all of you look the same?  Wouldn’t it be great if you could stand out from the crowd?  You could go with an original business idea to stand out, however I’m convinced that there are very few […]

Photo by Kyknoord  At this point it’s pretty much a cliche that Change is hard.  What’s new is the scientific understanding of why it’s hard to change – and how that understanding can help make change occur. Unfortunately for a small business owner, especially in today’s economic climate, change isn’t  just likely, it’s a near […]

photo by BGLewandowski  A friend of mine – we’ll call him Dave to protect the innocent, recently met with a local Online Marketing company to learn more about how to get started with online marketing – specifically email marketing (sending online newsletters to contacts that you know). It turned out to be a scary encounter… […]

You may have heard of TED – no, not the weird guy down the street, but the annual conference on Technology, Entertainment and Design. It’s been going on since 1984 and every year it’s expanded to become bigger and better. The focus of TED is to bring together interesting people and challenge them to give […]