I received the below email today from my friends at Bing (by friends I mean nameless beings that send me automatic emails)  I love the feel of the email and the tone of the Bing email.  It’s great to see that paying customers to use your search engine equals more searches and higher converting...

Getting Started Free Guidebook One of my favorite emails of any day is from Practical eCommerce.  They have consistently done a great job and staying true to what they do and sharing valuable information with eCommerce business owners.  Today was no exception.  I recommend reading Getting Started...

You’ve probably heard that Zappos was “acquired” by Amazon in the announcements all over the web yesterday and today but did you take the time to read the letter that Tony Hsieh wrote to Zappos employees about the announcement.  You can read it here and get a feeling for why Zappos...

Blogs influence women purchase decisions - Blogher Over the last few weeks numerous reports of emerged talking about the most influential group of online users, Women.  If you are married or no anyone that’s married then you’ve already witnessed or experienced the influence of women. ...

If you ever find yourself getting too involved with the internet, too focused on search results, links, rankings and keyword data then you should probably add GoogleFight to your list of relief sites.  GoogleFight answered a few burning questions for me by allowing me to put two search terms to battle...

So a friend of mine introduced me to this amazing tool/product today.  You can learn more at their website but talk about a business owners dream come true.  Brainstorming sessions, business cards, notes, ideas all searchable from everywhere and in every format to be brought together with a simple...

One thing I love to do is read about and listen to successful business people.  I love online marketing but I love learning from people in any business sector.  One of my favorites is Sir Richard Branson.  Did you know he still doesn’t write his own emails.  I’ll never be the type of...

Nothing frustrates me more than trying to buy something from a “cash only” establishment.  I’m confident that most people have a credit card and it’s ok to recommend cash but please, if I only have a credit card, wouldn’t you rather have plastic money than no money?  That’s...

With all the searches being performed every day and the fact that we now use search engines for everything I thought to myself, what do the search engines recommend when searching for a search engine.  Google’s search term “Extraction” tool says that the term “search engine”...

I have two favorite books about online marketing.  Actually they are both about websites and probably fall more under the web design and workflow categories of online marketing than anything else, but I call them my favorite online marketing books.  They are: Steve Krug’s Don’t Make Me...