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Not a lot of time before the next session but thought I would throw out a few notes and thoughts after the first two sessions, Morgan Linton and I have had a great morning and some very interesting conversations with several companies but Clickbank.com and InsuranceLeads.com really stick out at this point.
One of the first things that should be po...
Well, I have had the pleasure of spending the afternoon and evening with Morgan Linton, after some great sushi and drinks and figuring out how to solve the problems of the world we have settled back in his office/TV studio, kicked back listening to Radiohead and I thought I would let you know 5 crazy things you did not know about Morgan Linton:
Q...
I am sitting in seat 21F (exit row and nobody in middle seat YES!!!! next best thing to first class) on American Airlines flight 1727 somewhere between St. Louis and Los Angeles and on one hand loving it and the other thinking CRAP there goes any disconnect time I ever had.
I remember being jealous when I heard how there were so many flights in Eu...
Recently we acquired a medium sized town city .COM on drop, I think it slipped through since some people call the city one thing yet the official name is another. I chose to pick the name up because after doing some research (one of my employees used to live in an adjoining area) I determined the official city site plus other governmental sites all...
I have spent the past couple days going hard trying to get loose ends tied up before I head out to LA in the morning for the Affiliate Convention. Looks to be some great sessions at the event even if they did let me on the agenda (although they made up for that error in judgement by putting Victor Pitts on, good save on their part).
I look to be s...
All SEO companies targeting small businesses are selling snake oil!
OK not really but there are many out there you need to watch for which I believe has given the industry a bad name. Search Engine Optimization is something every company with a website or developing a website should take into consideration as they develop their plan for implementa...
Today I was working with a customer who had purchased a pretty extensive custom web development package and part of the kick off process was domain name selection and discussing branding, call to action and related topics.
It became a very interesting conversation based on the experience of the customer I was working with, his currently primary bu...
Sunday afternoon I was spending a lazy day around the house (we all deserve one) when I realized I was holding the devil in my hands, I was actually reading a print media magazine. One of those old school things that we had before this Internet thingy.
Obviously there is a major shift happening in the news and print media world that everybody coul...
I thought I would try to get some quick Christmas shopping done tonight/morning and as I headed over to Dell I realized the clock had ticked or to Monday which means Cyber Monday deals at Dell. Good timing I guess, I really do not think this puts me in the same camp as the people that camp out for Black Friday deals though but hey, I thought by acc...
OK, so The Reason Newspapers Are Going On The Web has been something landing people on my blog lately, several times actually, but the post they were landing on did not really outline the reasons so I thought I would do a quick 5 bullet point list of why. By no means is this the full list but here are several, feel free to add more in the comments ...
Now, as you read this next post I want you to try to take off your domainer hat for just a minute and then at the end if you want to put it back on and tell me I am crazy go ahead. The question I have for you the reader is should we never of started?
Recently we at Localtek decided it was time to build a niche destination site for one of the state...
Now that Thanksgiving is behind us and Black Friday is leading to Cyber Monday I thought I would layout my 2009 Christmas list - Domainer edition:
1) That Halvarez no longer bids against me on Snapnames.
Oh wait, that was a carry over from last year, looks like Santa came early.
2) Domainer Peace - Starting small here but how about we have peac...
As we move through the first phase of the holiday season planning on projects for 2010 starts going even harder, I thought I would just throw out a few things I am working on outside of my main business right now(Localtek/Missouri.me/Oklahoma.me all have a much more detailed plan), here is a bit of a brain dump from my little domainer and developer...
On a post of mine the other day Adam asked an interesting question, basically what is a domainer?
I think there are many people that even buy and sell domains that would have a hard time defining it. And I think even outside of that many people start to confuse domaining with development because in many cases people like to do both, like myself.
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A real quick note just to say Happy Thanksgiving to all my domaining friends. I truly appreciate you taking the time out of your days to read what I have to say.
I am still shocked that people read what I put out here and due to that I am very thankful that you do.
But most importantly as much as I appreciate my readers I am thankful for my famil...
Getting ready to get away from the laptop as much as possible the next couple days but thought I would put a quick note out on something we are testing.
The other day I did the post about sometimes just doing things for fun to see where they end up and that is what we are doing with Backlink.us.
In the end it will be a much larger resource than i...
For you to fully appreciate my viewpoints in this post, simply imagine that domain parking did not exist, and the only way to make money is to buy and sell domains (domain aftermarket) and develop domains into profitable ebusinesses (web and brand development).
All domain investors go through phases before they see the light of day. Quite a few wi...
Sorry for not posting yesterday, but I had the pleasure of spending what was one of the more enjoyable nights of conversation about the history of the commercial Internet and life in general tonight. I am starting to think their is a technology mafia in Southeast Missouri as more and more I run into people or stories that surprise me to be in my ow...
As anyone who follows me on Twitter knows, I really was having a hard time coming up with a blog topic today after the attention my post yesterday got. I must say when I wrote the post yesterday I knew it would cause a stir but really had no idea how much. I received so many emails and phone calls today it was crazy.
Since I actually took on domai...
I read a post at DomainingTips.com tonight and I am sure my comments here will frustrate some but for those that can start to think about where domain names fit in the world to the typical small business owner and the level of education that has happened at the small business level about domain names then maybe instead of frustration people can qui...
OK, so after cracking up at the DomainGang.com story about why not to make fun of me I thought I would help things along and give you 5 reasons you can make fun of Bruce Marler:) It's a Sunday so a lighter note today is appropriate.
1) I just spoke about myself in third person in both the title and the opening sentence. You have every right to mak...
I tend to try to spend most of my behind the keyboard time focused either on growing Localtek or my blog and most any other time is spent with the family, as anyone who has ever started a business can tell you, free time is not something you get much of. Even if you are a good time manager and are able to delegate there is always much to do. But at...
I just wanted to give a big thanks to the paying advertisers here on BruceMarler.com. When I offered up paid advertising spots on the site I was curious to see how that would go. Although I did proactively reach out to a couple people I thought it would be more interesting to see what reaction I would get from the post itself. Well, to say the leas...
With more people using Facebook Fan Pages lately I also have heard people talking about Facebook Groups and how they relate to Facebook Fan Pages. For the most part people are looking for the difference between the two and when they should use one versus the other. This is a quick post just to outline some of the key points to be aware of when thin...
Stephen Douglas over at SuccessClick.com has written a post asking for readers to comment or email him with their thoughts on what the biggest domain scandals have. Knowing Stephen I really think what he puts together around this could be very interesting.
We have had our fair share of scandal lately with the Snapnames/Halvarez/Nelson Brady fiasco...
Today while in our sales meeting I heard on of the frequent comments I hear from people that have spoke to small businesses about online marketing, websites, etc. That comment is "I do not get any business from my website" or "I do not remember ever getting a call from my website" or something similar.
To me this basically means I am walking out ...
As I prepare for our sales meeting today I was thinking about the one piece of the agenda that seems to be on every sales meeting agenda I have ever attended and it will be part of ours as well. That section is overcoming objections, or Challenge/Response.
No matter where I have been one of the ways I can tell the people who are going to have the ...
As we work with small business owners daily to develop their plan for their online presence we hear a lot of the same questions and at the end of the day the customer is always right but there are things we try to help people keep away from or things that we find that maybe they did not do the first time they built their site that they should do th...
First off, before I even start this post I want to lay some things out, this post by no means is a knock of the old guard, as anyone that knows me can tell you I have major respect for the people that have been leading the domain industry for years, but as of late I have noticed a few things happening and it caused me to think a bit about the shift...
I have had people tell me I am a bit of a goof ball because I approach things a little different. I do not post the same thing all the other domain bloggers post or people say that I am nuts for saying invest in .COMs, .NETs, and .ORGs but then I go and build a business on .MEs.
Well, it is all about thinking different, most of the very successful...
As I work with customers more and more everyday I get asked more and more, can you set my site up to work with Twitter, can you have my new content or products automatically go to Twitter and so on.
Usually if more than one person asks me the same question it turns into a blog post, below I outline several of the top Twitter plugins for Wordpress ...
After seeing all the downloads of my original free E-book on how to create a Wordpress news aggregator in 15 minutes I realized that it was probably time for an update. In this version I will show a more streamlined approach to creating the news aggregator, once again it is not my place to judge the value of Wordpress news aggregators, people love ...
As the holidays fast approach we have been getting several content requests from customers who are wanting to optimize some of their new site content around Black Friday, Thanksgiving, Christmas 2009, and the New Year.
As the first year that I have had a company that created content for other people it has been interesting to see the types of requ...
It still amazes me (ok, probably not actually) that people ask me why I took the time to start a business on a dot me domain name. Why waste the time???
Well, as I have mentioned in past posts, the first thing domain investors need to do when they start to think about building a business is step outside of the inward focused thinking we all do sin...
As I sit here everyday and listen to my wife and daughter talk? about Twilight New Moon and about Edward and Bella and how they cannot wait until the release of Twilight New Moon (if you have not heard of The Twilight book series and New Moon turn on the TV or talk to a
One of the things I have been taking the time to do lately is watching to see which one of my posts from the past receive traffic from highly searched terms and then optimizing the affiliate links and other info on the site to get the most out of the current traffic.
This is something I had really never done before but a few months back I remember...
After my post earlier today I had a couple questions asking for more detail about SEO for Google Image Search. I Thought I would do a quick post with some quick and easy steps, by no means will I ever claim to be an SEO expert but I do think there are many basic rules you can live by to give yourself a solid chance at success.
Here are the things ...
If you are not taking the time to optimize your image titles for SEO reasons then you are not taking advantage of the love that Google gives back for that little bit of work.
We recently did a spot check on some of our customers websites looking at traffic, keyword rankings, and other things. One of the things we noticed was that a couple of our c...
Been along week, but wanted to do a quick random news post before the weekend hits. Here are a couple stories that caught my eye this week related to search and social networking:
News Corp Wants To Block Google - Rupert Murdoch continues to threaten to use such viscous tools as robots.txt to stop Google from indexing the content of its site sayin...
Received a tidbit from a friend of mine citing a Merchant Circle survey showing some amazing numbers and something I have hit on with a few posts lately. More and more businesses are starting to understand the use of social media for use in directly connecting with their customers, here are a couple direct quotes from the survey results:
The o...
Thanks to the small business owners from Bonne Terre, MO and surrounding communities for taking the time to come to our local search and online marketing seminar held at Mario's Italian Grill. I know that you are all extremely busy and taking 2 hours of your time after hours is asking a lot, especially when it is concerning a topic that is new to m...
The following blog post is a guest post by Rob Ratliff who I hired on to help with the development and operations side of LocalTek. He has taken the time to write a little about what he has learned working for us and his recent experience trying to sell a website to and end user. Rob had a bit of experience in SEO and domaining before he started ...
Today as I checked the Domaining.com news list for the 800th time (ok slight exaggeration) I realized that when it comes to domaining news I pretty much only check the top couple aggregators and then move on. That is the beauty of a well put together news aggregator, you do not have to go to each and every sight to see if they have posted something...
As mentioned a few weeks ago we are working through beta testing of EzDevelop.com which as many know will provide free minisite creation tools that allow for modification of key components of the site in a very easy to use manner.
So far the feedback has been great, as always in beta there were a few
I am sure the Yellowpages has been doing this for years but I wanted to warn small business owners as they open their mail in the next few days as I had two other people mention this to me today unsolicited.
I have no idea if this is being done because they are desparate to sell paper print ads or if it is something they have always done or if it ...
After my blog redesign I had several people ask me about who did it (Tia Wood) and what plug-ins I use. Rather than reply to all the emails with the same answer over and over again I thought I would put the list out here.
Akismet - This plug-in is a must, it is an automated spam comment catcher. Enable it and paste in your Wordpress API key and it...
One of the major frustrations I had early in my technology sales career is that I was in a position where when selling to a customer I only had one product to position, in other words I lived or died with that one item. The only way to sell more was to hope they grew enough to want more and if they did not want that product you were done, there was...
One of the posts was An Open Letter To Small Business Owners which focused on the various things that businesses needed to think about as the Internet changes the way they promote their business, I was not targeting the big multimillion dollar corporations but more the rural or even large city small businesses that are trying to determine what to d...
This past year I met a person who had been around domain investment enough to understand the value of it but had not really got to the level of understanding that makes it a profitable enterprise for someone. He is one of the people I referred to in an earlier post about people new to domain investment.
After registering some names and asking for...
A laid back Saturday for me but thought I would quickly relate a story from this past week that led to a larger post here than I planned. Several weeks back when I did the seminar in Cape Girardeau, MO discussing topics such as local search, social media, domain names, and other online business topics I had met a gentleman who had a business that h...
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