Well, it is that time of the year, and I am not talking about Christmas. It is the time of the year I receive lots of useless paper colored yellow and filled with local business ads. Although I know there are still many people that use the legacy yellow pages people are rapidly moving away from using the yellow pages and have moved...
read moreAlthough our LocalTek team has spent much time taking a look at various ways our local business customers could use Facebook Places and Deals it was not until today that we decided what promotion we would offer once we claimed our Facebook Places page. If you are a local business owner Facebook now makes it easier to claim your...
read moreOne of the things I see come up over and over (and over) again when people are discussing various domains and developments is that websiteA.com does not rank for the keyword websiteA. This typically shows me that someone is not familiar with the targeted marketing that is possible with SEO, and specifically how important that targeting is now that local search is growing faster than ever and will continue to become more important with the growth of smartphones and location based services.
read moreI have been using Foursquare for sometime now and have recently started to see quite a few more people start to join the fast growing social/location based game/app/service. With most of my attention being focused on local search for local businesses and local online advertising on Missouri.me, apps like Foursquare pique my interest and I like to watch their evolution and the way people use them and they evolve. It is important to not necessarily watch how the early adopters use them since they tend to be power users and their day to day usage will be much different than the mass of users that come in later and are less techie. When I my wife using Foursquare everyday I start to see how people will really use the service and the power that small businesses will have if they use the service to help draw people into their doors.
read moreI have to admit, I have an addiction. No it is nothing that will cause me to drive drunk or have to go to rehab. But instead it is a game that ties together two of my favorite things that fit right into my businesses forte’, social networking and location based services. The game is Foursquare. I first have to say I am not...
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My time is spent evangelizing Unified Communications and WebRTC to companies looking to lead the way in enhancing the way their employees and customers communicate through making app enablement more efficient.
Along with that small task I also drive online marketing efforts with SEO and Social Media for small businesses through our efforts at LocalTek where I am Founder but just a small part of a larger team these days.
But most importantly I am a husband, Father and Step-Father of 4 GREAT kids and a wannabe hack triathlete.
