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Dealing with Negative Reviews

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

Following up on last month’s column, The Omniscient Jerk, which examined the basics associated with businesses being listed in local listing and results, I now want to take a look at the logical next consideration:
How can businesses respond when they receive less-than-favorable reviews?
Being listed is one thing, but once your business gets noticed, there will […]

Weekly Wrapup - 22 February 2008

Friday, February 22nd, 2008

LocalPoint News:
Where are the restaurants at?
MapQuest Still Owns 50% of Traffic to Maps
Why Do Birds Suddenly Appear?
Industry News:
Searches Jump 9% in January, Only Yahoo Loses Share
ad:tech Survey: Best and Worst Online Tactics, Budget Plans for 2008
GoFish Corporation Launches First Online Advertising Network Focused Exclusively on Youth Entertainment
Starting Conversations with Contact Pages

Where are the restaurants at?

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

Let me preface this by saying that I travel a lot, for work. As I make my way through this amazingly eclectic country I’ve come across a monotonous obstacle: where is a good local place to eat? I have what you might call a routine. If I’m up for getting back in the rental car […]

Local Web sites for Non-Technical Towns?

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

I frequently go to a cabin that is far removed from the tech-hub of Seattle. It’s in a remote area of Washington where the best access to the Internet is either via Satellite or 45 minutes west in the nearest city. Recently, I realized that one of the MyZip sites was the zip code […]

Weekly Wrapup - 8 February 2008

Friday, February 8th, 2008

For the week ending: 8 February 2008
LocalPoint News:
Always Look on the Right Side
Solving pain = opportunity…
Y.M.C.A
Industry News:
What If Print Yellow Pages Become ‘Opt-in’?
CoPilot Taps Microsoft for Local Search
(Mobile Phone GPS System Builds in Search Results)
Mobile search: What are 600m Chinese mobile users searching for?

Solving pain = opportunity…

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008

A good friend of mine in Littleton, Colorado, Mike Huddleston, runs the best, local tennis shop in town, Tennis Plus. For the last couple years Mike has helped my wife, Leslie, and I put on a tennis-themed fundraiser called Play for a Heart to raise money to fight congenital heart disease (CHD). (My daughter was born […]

Y.M.C.A.

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

Or maybe it should have been CMAY - Can Microsoft Acquire Yahoo? Obviously the big news this week is around the Microsoft bid to buy Yahoo. It’s hard to really read about anything else right now. So why am I writing about it? Well, I personally think it’s particularly interesting from a local perspective, both […]

Guilt in the SEM Age

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

I admit to feelings of guilt. Sometimes I don’t do what I should. Not about recycling though. I recycle. I can’t see a reason not to recycle. I am helping keep trash out of our landfills and saving trees, and the City of Seattle comes to my house every other week to take my recycling […]

The Comprehensive Myth

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

One of the things that is truly amazing about the Internet is the wealth of information available through one simple interface. Your Internet Browser coupled with a powerful Search engine can bring you content in many different forms, from millions of different sources. This amazing power has brought along with it very challenging […]

The Omniscient Jerk

Monday, January 28th, 2008

“The new phone book’s here! The new phone book’s here!” Steve Martin’s character in the movie The Jerk is ecstatic. He rifles through the pages and finds his name. “I’m somebody now! Millions of people look at this book everyday!” He knows the importance of being listed. “This is the kind […]

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