A new blog post by Miriam over at SEO Igloo (which was actually sparked by a post from Matt McGee) really got me a bit riled up tonight. As the former owner of a "main street" bicycle store, and more recently, an online shopping mall for hundreds of "unique mom and pop merchants" as we… Continue

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In February of this year I attended Rich Schefren's New Beginnings event at the Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, where one of the guest speakers was Wine Library TV’s Gary Vaynerchuk Gary was the last speaker of the entire conference and I had no idea who he was before this. I had a shuttle bus I needed to catch to the airport in order to make a 7:30 flight so I only planned on watching the first 15 mins of his presentation. Well I ended up missing… Continue

Wow. I just got back from the Van Halen show at the RBC Center in Raleigh, NC tonight and I must say, that had to be one of the top 5 shows I've ever seen - and I've seen over 300 easily... It's truly amazing and inspiring when a band can last the test of time and still continue to thrill it's fans 30 years later. Eddie was on fire, Diamond Dave is still one of the top front men ever and Alex can give Neil Peart a good running. Adding Wolfgang to the lineup was not only poetic and perfectly fit… Continue

Last night, after one of our weekly mastermind calls, my girlfriend and I had a pretty heated debate about the importance of marketing materials and copy being as perfect as possible before being released vs. the price of not taking action. I've been a web designer for the past 10 years and in that line of work, it's fairly important that everything lines up correctly down to the pixel. I understand her point that if you put something out there with a bunch of typo's and bad grammar that a lot… Continue