Yesterday Facebook announced that they now have 500 million active users.  That’s pretty impressive for a company that started in 2004 as an exclusive network only open to certain schools. Facebook has come a long way though; it certainly isn’t the same Facebook I fell hard for in my freshman dorm at University of Arkansas. [...]

According to an IEG Report, corporate sponsorships for movies, sports arenas and live television events, from 1987 – 1997 increased 337%.

Over the past couple of months there has been quite a bit of banter on the web about whether or not search engine optimization (SEO) will finally fall on its face in 2010. This has been a perennial argument for at least the past ten years, maybe longer. After all, Google keeps updating its algorithm [...]

Red McCombs Media Ranks No. 1,388 on the 2009 Inc. 5000 with Three Year Sales Growth of 230.6%

So my former cynicism regarding the launch of Bing has been tempered by my initial experiences with the search engine. I still haven’t switched my default search tool to Bing, but I am intrigued that Microsoft will “buy” my loyalty with Bing Cashback. I discovered this when doing a side-by-side comparison of Google & Bing’s [...]

Yet another “new” search engine, Bing.com, was released yesterday this time by Microsoft. This is another in a string of new search engines that are supposed to revolutionize the way we search, so far, I have been underwhelmed. Upon their launch, AskJeeves.com, Ask.com and now Bing.com all promised to provide internet users with a superior [...]

Last month I wrote about a handful of social media successes. That post prompted some conversations around the water cooler, and a few people asked for something similar for search engine optimization. SEO is one of my favorite topics, so who am I to say no to this request? I’ve scoured the web, and here’s [...]

I recently spoke with Victor Lund of the WAV Group regarding the various techniques & strategies we have used to successfully grow small to medium sized business using local search. We have had great success with both paid search through Google pay-per-click and organic search through search engine optimization. The article is focused on the [...]