I’ve seen an interesting trend lately with our customer SEO results. Those customers who have an onsite blog are getting traffic AND conversions from their blogging efforts. In some cases up to 25% of their non-paid traffic is coming from this blog content. This is nothing unusual. Google loves content and the more you post solid content, the better off you'll be. It's just nice to see the "proof". The first step in tracking this behaivior is to track which keywords are driving traffic to your site. This can be done using Google Analytics and setting up goals. You can get information on how to do this by going here http://www.google.com/support/googleanalytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=55515 The Read more [...]

As 2010 comes to an end, I like to look back on the year and reflect on some lessons learned. I think this is a valuable exercise. Taking a look back on what I’ve learned allows me to improve my performance going forward. Here are a few take-away from 2010: Make sure your team meets on a regular basis, the faster you’re company is growing, the more important meeting rhythm becomes Doing things right the first time is much better than doing it wrong, then having to do it over again Things are not as easy as they seem Measuring key metrics in your business allows you to make better decisions and have more confidence Taking more time to plan can never really hurt you If you come in Read more [...]

If you’re new to digital marketing or internet marketing, getting started can be a bit overwhelming. The fact is, you don’t have a choice regarding how you need to market your business going forward. Your new customer acquisition strategy must take into account the habits of the customers you’re trying to acquire. Almost everyone uses Google to find what they are looking for AND spend a lot of time on Facebook. So, given these two FACTS, I thought I’d write about some immutable internet marketing laws. You STILL Get what you pay for – Google makes it really easy to set up a Google Adwords (paid search accounts), but they don’t guarantee success. As a matter Read more [...]

I was recently a featured my alma mater’s alumni news. You can check out the article here – http://www.gordon.edu/article.cfm?iArticleID=1058&iReferrerPageID=1676&iPrevCatID=134&bLive=1

I loved attending Gordon College. It’s a small Christian liberal arts college in Wenham, MA. I was a chemistry major and the class sizes were small enough to have full access to the professors and really learn. It was a perfect fit for me.

If you have high school aged kids I would definitely check it out…