Bill Slawski’s SEO by the SEA web site was quickly identified by Lee Odden of Online Marketing Blog in the first round of our Guess the Internet Marketing Site game. I wasn’t sure how tough to make this first image or how easy people would it. I figured revealing a good portion of seobythesea.com’s starfish […]

Hi gang. For a little Friday fun in the internet marketing realm I have a new game for you to play called Guess the Internet Marketing Site. The game works like this:

i snap a capture of a search marketing site home page and cover it up
i then expose little cutouts of the site and post […]

It was great to receive an email a couple days back from Graeme Thickins introducing himself. Graeme is a local Twin Cities marketing strategist, tech marketing blogger and former MIMA member that still attends MIMA events on occasion. Currently he is evangelizing GetGoMN, the new social networking site for Minnesota business folks. You can read […]

The gang over at MIMA has invited me to blog on the main MIMA blog and post the MIMA member interviews there. I gladly accepted the invitation and my first two posts were today with one of those being an interview with Nina Hale of Nina Hale Consulting, Inc.
I hope you swing on by and […]

Hey gang, I’ve added a new “MIMA Friends” link list on the main sidebar menu. If you are a MIMA member with an active internet marketing related blog give me a shout out and I will get you added to it. What search marketing guru can pass up a link offer like that?!?!?

For my first interview with other Minnesota Interactive Marketing Association (MIMA) members I am honored to chat with Paul Jahn of Localmn.com. Paul is a great local talent with expertise in search marketing.
Hi Paul, please give us a capsule of your background and how you have come to focus on local internet marketing and your […]

I joined the Minnesota Interactive Marketing Association (MIMA) about 8 months ago with the goals of learning more about internet marketing and meeting more people involved in online marketing. In the short 8 months I’ve been a member I’m happy to report I am achieving both of these goals and I am sure it will […]

Most of us know about and have our own ideas of March Madness with all the sporting events taking place. The NCAA Men’s basketball tournament gets most of the attention (I’ll take the Minnesota State High School Hockey tournament), but this year for Minnesotans  intent upon getting an edge in the internet marketing race have […]

Barack Obama’s www.barackobama.com website has hopped into the early lead in our tracking of backlinks for the 2008 Presidential Candidates. Close behind in 2nd is the Dennis Kucinich website kucinich.com and 3rd, Hillary Clinton’s www.hillaryclinton.com.
Notable moves since our first measurement on January 26th is Sam Brownback’s www.brownback.com jumping over 34 times the January total, Mitt […]

The first thing most candidates do to create a presence on the internet is register a domain name and establish a web site for their campaign. So what domain name do they choose? The domain name of choice seems to logically be firstnamelastname.com. Other logical choices are lastname.com, firstnamelastnameYYYY.com, lastnameYYYY.
The simple process of registering your […]