Nicolas Cage may be able to steal six figure valued cars in less than 60 seconds, but here is how failing to keep up on your presence in social media, Google, and the press could cost you say, $50,000 every .06 seconds. A recent experience in my hunt for housing last month reminded me of…
The first stop on the Salty Waffle tour of the ‘other networks’, as were calling them is LinkedIn. LinkedIn is the fourth largest social network in the United States after Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter. Compared to most social networks, LinkedIn has a very business oriented feel and the profiles are simplistic and styled more like…
Written by Cameron Madill of Synotac Web Design Writing for the web is maybe the single most important factor in generating results from your website, and yet it is often one of the most overlooked elements of design. What results you say? Good web copy can raise your website’s conversion rate as much as 100%. In…
As you may know if you have seen my Facebook page lately, I am off with a few friends on a long-anticipated journey we vowed to make this summer. Technically I am not working this week, but this is one of those jobs where it doesn’t really feel like work and the inspiration to write…
We always advise people to post video because it will help with your organic search ranking. So, here I am with Vlog #1. A Vlog is a video blog. What you do with your vlog is up to you but there are plenty of good and bad examples up on YouTube. At very least it’ll…
Salvador Dali was a master of Activating Emotion. His work might make you sick to your stomach, feel lonely, or cry. When I was in Barcelona last fall I took a day trip to visit Dali’s home in the Catalan resort of Cadaqués after visiting his museum in Figueres. In the taxi ride back I couldn’t…
Last week the largest gathering of Bloggers in the world happened in NYC. 99% of attendees are women! Ladies tend to travel in groups and that is why they have such a major impact in the world of purchasing and press online. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyhyz-zOpac[/youtube] Bloggers were named the new “Media”. We are the journalists of our…
When I feel the need for some good ol’ fashioned manual labor, I often head to the Hotwire Ranch. It is a place of beauty that always has ample work to be done. Up until I went to college, I had my own lawn mowing service that I ran in my neighborhood and for a…