Raleigh Remodeling and Renovations with Blue Ribbon
The Raleigh construction market is extremely competitive. North Carolina is facing unprecedented growth that is driving commercial and residential development. This makes finding an experienced and trusted residential remodeling and construction company a challenge.
SCORE
I want to thank Jack Barto and the great group of folks at the local Raleigh Score chapter. I had a great opportunity to present at one of their well organized SCORE events this past weekend. SCORE develops educational programs for people starting or currently running a small business. My hour presentation was an overview of online marketing tools, focused on some of the pitfalls to avoid as well as best practices.
Kryptonite Blog Myth?
Here is an interesting Interview with Donna Tocci, the Manager of Public Relations for Kryponite during the Bic lock picking incident. Dave Taylor doesn’t throw her any hard balls and they may have been aware that the info on their locks was online – but their response certainly was not strong enough – regardless of whether blogs broke the story.
Overview of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Factors
There are three major search engines that use three distinct algorithms to provide searchers with the most relevant results available. MSN, Yahoo, and Google each place different values on factors in determining the relevance of a site and its keywords. The following is a brief list of the most important factors that each search engine takes into consideration when determining rankings.
User Generated Advertising and Marketing
The NY Times (with a new design that our Senior Designer David Millsaps describes as very Web 2.0) has been running some interesting articles about user generated advertising and marketing – including the use of mash ups.