Real estate is one of the most competitive industries in the search engines. Maybe it’s time for a different approach? When people are shopping for real estate, they’re not just looking for a house, they are looking for a lifestyle – and that requires a...
In my previous post, I talked about how sociability was likely to be one of the reasons that the online ecommerce shoe store Zappos was a success. This got me thinking about ecommerce sites that have been popular among search engines and visitors by implementing...
Social media is the big buzzword on the internet today. Not just because it’s the latest “fad,” but because it taps into the one of the core purpose of the internet itself, connecting with other people. Social networking sites have seen a 47% growth over...
Word broke on Tuesday that Google had purchased Tonic Systems, a software company with an online web app similar in functionality to PowerPoint. Google execs say that the new spreadsheet application will join the Google Docs & Spreadsheets suite this summer. Google’s...
Salesforce.com is very proud of the fact that it is NOT software. In fact, the word “Software,” encircled by the red Ghostbusters circle and slash is its logo. But isn’t software a “good” thing? This leaves many people wondering… if it’s not...
Salesforce.com recently launched CampaignForce, a new type of CRM app designed specifically for politicians to manage their campaigns. The new app gives campaign managers a slew of benefits including, a web based single point of access to campaign-related and a view of important info such...
If you really stop and think about it, there may be a lot of things that you’re “settling” for each day when running your business. There are probably countless little irritations and problems that cause your business not to have the swiftness and dexterity it...
Salesforce.com recently announced that it will be moving into the content management space. Gartner.com says that this move is “evidence of the growing interest in basic content management delivered through the software-as-a-service model.” So far, SalesForce has had succeeded either because of or despite its “software-as-a-service”...
I knew a freelance software engineer once that just blew me away—but not for positive reasons. The guy was smart and could produce masterful code, but watching him run his business was like watching a train wreck. There was no way to stop the destruction...
Though it’s a term that many SEO’s and internet marketers say they don’t like, “link bait” is a smart way to gain the important backlinks necessary for moving your website higher on the search engine rankings. But what is ‘link bait’ and how can you...