Holiday Charitable Giving without Using Your Checkbook

giving to charity

The giving season is fast approaching and you may be wondering how you can give to charity your favorite charity this year. What you may not consider is how to give without spending a dime. Many charitable organizations will gladly accept anything and everything you’d be willing to give. Everything from your expertise to that [...]

Six Blogs You Can Always Count on to Find a Following

6 Blogs with Guaranteed Following

The blogsosphere contains millions of voices all struggling to be heard over one another. Getting your blog to a high level of readership will be one of the hardest things you do besides the writing itself. But the best blogs are the ones that accomplish that high level of readership through the writing itself. In [...]

The Digital Age is Changing the Way Sports are Played and Called

technology in sports

Professional athletes have been getting bigger, faster, and stronger with each new wave of superstars. There was a time when baseball players didn’t life weights and the only working out that golfers did was a few bouts of calisthenics in the morning. In this digital age, the game is now making players smarter and enhancing [...]

Child care: what is it worth to you?

childcare

I read something the other day that said that in the majority of US states 4 years of preschool actually costs more than 4 years at a public university. That is absurd, right? You’ve probably seen that commercial where all the parents are discussing saving for their children’s college fund even though they all have [...]

How Does Your Online Reputation Look?

reputation management

You’ve done all this wonderful work on building up your brand and then all of a sudden on a search result page for your company you see a posting from ripoffreport.com. It is an unflattering review but is completely false and it shows up near the top for searches surrounding your brand. Online Reputation Management [...]

My Favorite Free SEO Guides

Search Engine Optimization

Sometimes I wish I was a doctor, lawyer, or dentist simply because it is a lot easier to explain what it is that I do. After 8 years of working with online companies my parents still can’t discuss properly what it is that I do and that doesn’t bother me. I like their default answer [...]

Is it a Charter School or a Magnet School?

charter

In my neighborhood I have a couple of empty school buildings. Quite sad really but when your school system loses accreditation it gets kind of hard to keep a lot of these schools up and running. There was however good news for one of these empty buildings and that was that a magnet school finally [...]

Google+, not another Google Buzz

Google+

When Google released its latest attempt at social networking, Google+, I did what most of my colleagues and friends did and signed up for it. Invites were being posted on Twitter and Facebook and it just seemed like everyone I knew on Twitter and Facebook would be members of my Google+ network. So that got [...]

How I Choose to Save Money

saving-money

Like most of my friends these days, we are all trying to figure out ways to save for the lives we are going to be living in a few years but also maintaining the lifestyles we have grown accustomed to. When it comes to budgeting I have never really had to worry about it because [...]

Dabbling in Local SEO and Marketing for Small Businesses

local search for small business

Recently I have decided to take on a consulting job with my local gym in St. Louis. It is a small gym that just started this year and is steadily growing it’s membership. After an initial push with flyers left on mailboxes of the surrounding area they were able to sign up new members and [...]