Category Archives: smartie pants

Funnel Your Soup: Navigating Lead-Gen Marketing & B2B Sales

Most of you know that I’m a recovering sales rep turned marketer, but the more I learn about good marketing, the more I find myself thinking: I wish I knew this stuff when I was selling. Since I wish I knew more about marketing when I was selling, and I think marketers can learn a lot [...]

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No But Seriously, What is SEO?

Ok…yesterday was ridiculous. Derek stirred the pot, and more people seemed to give him high-fives, than question what he was saying. This means (not that it’s a huge surprise) that there are a lot of people out there with a really bad taste in their about SEO. Why? What happened? What did you experience? I [...]

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Being Great at Something…

You know those jobs where you think to yourself I could do that? After all DJs on the radio just talk. Copywriters just “write words.” And photographers just “take pictures.” My friends Alan and Naomi are wedding photographers, and last week I had the privilege of being an usher in a wedding that they photographed. [...]

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Lifestyle Keywords Vs. Product & Brand Keywords

No, I’m not starting a shoe business. I was lucky enough to get the chance to share my thoughts on the MN AMA blog this week. Give the article a read (click on the image) and let me know what you think!

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What advice would I give to a brand new e-commerce small business?

My friend sent me a message today through facebook, announcing that her new site was up and running. To be honest – often times when a “check out my new website” message comes out (not that I would ever do that) I’m unimpressed with what’s on the other side of the link. But much to [...]

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Do you own your name’s search results?

Note: I first posted this over at Social Media Breakfast – Twin Cities. You can see that post for further discussion. Hey friends, in light of Mykl’s “Supercharged Personal Branding” post, and the awesome presentation that Greg and Christopher gave on Reputation Management, I’ve been thinking about one little narcissistic thing lately: do you rank [...]

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Social Media & SEO – my talk from last night’s #deepspace

space150 threw another Deepspace event last night!  This one was all about SEO, so i got to share some of my thoughts on the subject.  I will probably write more later (let’s be honest, I probably won’t), but here is my deck of slides for the talk.  My topic was “Social Media and SEO” – [...]

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Art is the Search for God.

Since I haven’t written anything in a LONG while…I thought I would open up a little mini-discussion around my Senior Thesis: “Let The Painter Preach.”  This was written almost 5 years ago, before I entered the–ehem “real world,” but for the most part, I think this is still quite in line with my views and [...]

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Social Media Movement 1-2-3 (just add water)

Friday was a fun and interesting day for me.  Julio Ojeda-Zapata (tech writer for the St. Paul Pioneer Press) summed up the day’s events nicely.  For the sake of this post, I’ll just say that a movement was started centering around the idea of Chipotle opening their doors a little earlier, and serving Breakfast Burritos [...]

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Vote for the independent! Dean Barkley for Senate #votefordean

Politics Suck I’m really sick of politics.  Why is that every election season we seem forced to choose the lesser evil?  I swear,  between ads from McCain / Obama, Madia / Paulson, and Coleman /Franken, I really want to shoot my TV.  I am actually happy when an ad comes on TV that is for [...]

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