Web Sites, E-mail & Consistency - Oh My!
Monday, May 26th, 2008I was reading a magazine today and in many ads, service providers were listing both web sites and e-mail addresses for contacts. Great, huh? Small local landscape architecture firms, promoting themselves and doing the right thing!
Actually, there was one small hitch: A lot of these places/people would have their fancy business URL, then be listing [...]
Submissions: Snake Oil
Wednesday, July 25th, 2007People persist in believing submissions are necessary for the top 4 search engines.
Poetical Spam Subject Lines
Thursday, July 19th, 2007Spam subject lines are poetic.
Oh, Spam, How I Love Thee
Tuesday, June 12th, 2007Attached to an image touting the standard array of designer pharmeceuticals, I give you today’s assortment of weird text snippets, suitable for reading at a poetry slam or even your next SEO pitch:
I think highly focused ads are the answer.
The benefits of local search are clear: it allows you to find customers in your area [...]
Things that are true:
Tuesday, May 15th, 20071. I went a full 10 days without omnipresent wireless Internet.
2. I went a full 8 days without checking any of my e-mail.
3. I went 10 days without checking my work e-mail. (ha ha ha!)
4. I haven’t read any of my RSS feeds in 10 days. So if anything has happened in the world, I [...]
E-mail Subject Lines: Who Converts on This Stuff, Anyway?
Wednesday, April 11th, 2007Sometimes, I like to go into webmail, which doesn’t have a spam filter, prior to doing a POP download. The subject lines that are coming through are increasingly surreal, like things we would have written in Very Serious Navelgazing Poetry back in college.
Here are some doozies from today’s batch. Note that none of them will [...]





