Jun

9

My self-medication

June 9, 2008 | 3 Comments

Whew! It has sure been a while hasn’t it? My day job has kept me so swamped with exceptional growth and new opportunity that I haven’t even had time to take a moment for myself, let alone my blog. Until now!
On the eve of a trip to Cabo San Lucas I stumbled upon […]

Popularity: 12% [?]

Apr

11

Who’s at Ad:tech next week?

April 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment

ad:tech San Francisco, the interactive advertising and technology conference and exhibition, starts next week at the Moscone Center. The show blends keynote speakers, topic driven panels and workshops to provide us with the tools and techniques needed to keep up and compete. It has, perhaps, the best show floor in the industry making it […]

Popularity: 67% [?]

Mar

13

Why You Need A Blog

March 13, 2008 | 2 Comments

I’ve had a dozen folks ask me about blogs since only the first of the year so here’s an episode from CommonCraft Productions, allowing me to, once again, cop out on a real post (I promise I won’t make it a habit)

The CommonCraft Show has found a niche with these unique videos providing brief […]

Popularity: 29% [?]

Mar

5

Online Marketing Heroes

March 5, 2008 | 8 Comments

Certainly, one has to have a degree of ego involved with starting one’s own blog, after all, these are my thoughts; thoughts I presume are of interest to someone. Sure, perhaps it isn’t really “ego” but, needless to say, I wouldn’t be doing this if I didn’t hope someone cared and derived a modicum […]

Popularity: 100% [?]

Oct

23

eCommerce Optimization

October 23, 2007 | 5 Comments

Feel free to hang me from the rafters. I am a great example of a “fair weather blogger” who shifts the theme of my posts to favor the predominant theme in my life. My oldest readers are most likely in retail and online commerce, the roots of SEO’Brien founded in my eCommerce experience. […]

Popularity: 56% [?]

Sep

27

Sphinnaanites Unite! Welcome to the Sphinn Revolution

September 27, 2007 | 1 Comment

Yes, it is my new best friend. A digg-like news and resource aggregator that filters based on the popularity of content. At its peak, I had over 100 search and marketing related blogs on my reader before turning to Yahoo Pipes to mash them up in hopes of finding the gems among so […]

Popularity: 57% [?]

Sep

14

Social Marketing beats SEO?

September 14, 2007 | 1 Comment

It is an important question these days. My own article “The Algorithm Apparently Killed Jeeves” reached the homepage of digg, bringing down my servers with thousands of hits a minute. While such traffic growth is rarely sustained beyond a day, the buzz, links created to your site, and broad reach awareness generated are […]

Popularity: 54% [?]

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