Category: Marketing

Starting a business and operating a business are profoundly difficult activities with no government regulations, but with them it becomes nearly impossible to do everything correctly.  I have firsthand experience with the difficult & confusing government regulations on entrepreneurs.

Entrenched bureaucracies like the Washington State Department of Revenue and the Washington State Secretary of State’s office do not have to answer to anyone and extremely tough to figure out what forms to file, when to file them and even how to submit them. … read more “Government Regulations Crushing Entrepreneurs”

Who wants to work with morons? What about even just average people?

Not me.

I have been thinking about hiring a full-time graphic & web developer lately, as I need someone to help me out. I don’t want a average schmuck working with me, I want a superstar with a great eye for design who is self motivated and can understand my goals.… read more “How to Hire Great People”

The car dealer in the video below has a genius marketing sense… he hasn’t spent any money and got enormous web traffic & foot traffic to his car dealership. The YouTube video has 800,000+ views already. Not only that, but he is supporting the 2nd Amendment!

I love it! Also, this guy destroys the retarded reporter.… read more “Genius Marketing: Give Away AK-47 with Car Purchase”

Guest blogging is an enormously powerful tool for both the guest blogger and for the blog host.  I strongly recommend that all bloggers look for opportunities to write guest posts on other people’s blogs and invite other people to write guest posts for their own blogs.

Top 3 Benefits of Being a Guest Blogger:

1. Exposure to a new audience.

… read more “Guest Blogging”

Meta descriptions are a forlorn and all too often forgotten part of web design.  Originally developed for the first search engines to tell what the webpage was supposed to be about, meta descriptions were heavily abused by spammers and now are a much smaller factor in search engine rankings.  However, meta descriptions still do serve an important purpose: they are your advertisement in search results to tell searchers what your page is about and get them to click on your link.  … read more “Winning Visitors With Meta Descriptions”

In my journey to the top of the blogging world, I have occasionally found myself stuck on plateaus.  If you are in a similar position follow these 5 tips and your blog will be kickstarted up the ladder of success!  (Sorry about all the climbing metaphors, I’m going to be attempting Mt. Rainier this weekend lol)

1. Comment on other people’s blogs and link back to your own.  

… read more “5 Tips To Make Your Blog Unstoppable”

Title tags are frequently overlooked by web designers and other people who are unfamiliar with search engine optimization.  A title tag is the text that appears at the top left of the blue bar on your browser and it is easy to ignore.  If you do a search on Google using the query “site:yoursite.com”, you will quickly see how important title tags are.  … read more “Writing Better Title Tags”

Unfortunately, the marketing industry is full of BS.  One example is this “study” undertaken by the Arnell Group for Pepsi.  Pepsi purportedly spent an enormous amount of money on this project that is eminently cheesy. Quote: “Breathtaking is a strategy based on the evolution of 5000+ years of shared ideas in design philosophy”.  Arnell goes on to compare his new design for Pepsi to Leonardo Da Vinci, the Parthenon and other historical works of art.  … read more “The Joy of Marketing BS”