Is Your Website Patiently Awaiting Customers?

I couldn’t miss this sign on a local hotel chain (name obscured to protect the innocent) – “WELCOME: WE PATIENTLY AWAIT YOUR ARRIVAL.” While I can kind of see what the manager responsible for this message was going for, all it did for me was conjure an image of dozens of happy, smiling employees sitting…

H&R Block Embraces Social Media, Uncle Sam’s Everywhere Cringe

Earlier this year, around tax season, you may have noticed an influx of half shaven, chronically unemployed fellows dressed up as Uncle Sam or George Bush holding signs outside a certain tax preparation company. I’d link to them here..but obviously, they aren’t really interested in web promotion if they are paying some guy to harass…

What’s a Yahoo PPC Webinar Worth to You?

When you’re managing 30+ Yahoo Sponsored Search accounts, you tend to get a lot of administrative and marketing mail from them. Though I do my best to keep apprised of the latest changes in their service, there’s just too much information to care about all of the time. For example, they’ve been running a webinar…