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Martyr vs. Murderer: What will you die for?
Terrorism and crime provokes Mind to the serious consideration of unexpected, externally imposed termination of self. This personality of yours -- can it endure torture? Kidnapping? Etc.?What horrible...
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King of Blogocombat Declaration 2015
I coined the term "blogocombat" in my previous role of usability curmudgeon known as Vaspers the Grate (grate as in abrasive, not terrific). I owned the term by using it myriads upon myriads of times,...
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Win with Customer Oriented Content
Wall Street executives call it "getting dirty," but marketing people call it "getting smart" -- contact with customers.You can gain incredible competitive advantage by learning more about your...
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Directory listings for SEO? Be careful.
Google-compliant SEO is not easy. The rules keep changing and so does how people search online.Directory listings for SEO are no longer recommended, except for a few local and niche directories....
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Bad Website Content Can Be Funny
Your website content must be intelligently written, with a customer-centric and conversational tone, and must adequately answer customer questions in an FAQ or similar format.Website content can be...
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News page: your secret marketing weapon
Use your website News page to deliver fresh content to search engines and customers. News page content updating helps your branding -- and search engine results page (SERP) ranking. Google is...
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Controlled Bleeding does Pink Floyd and King Crimson
I always liked Controlled Bleeding, ever since I discovered the band when I lived in NYC. One of their best albums is "Trudge."Controlled Bleeding: "Another Brick in the Wall" (Pink Floyd cover)...
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Alternatives to Watermarking Photos for Copyright Protection
Watermarks for photo copyright protection? Upload crappy resolutions if you fear people may steal your photos. Or don't post the photos online. Watermarks are easy to hack or crop out.Are we afraid...
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Large Hadron Collider: Searching for Unexpected Subatomic Phenomena
Large Hadron Collider is getting ready to go where no particle physics has ever gone before.The CERN physicists want to push the energy so hard, elevate the heat and luminosity of the plasma soup so...
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Dangers of free, low cost, automated, and DIY websites
Don't be tricked by the ads that make you think you can get a website at no cost or very cheap.Here are 15 things that can go terribly wrong with free, low cost, automated, and do-it-yourself...
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SEO makes your website more productive
A web designer builds you a website. It looks okay to you. You feel good about it. You shouldn't.A website without SEO (search engine optimization) is a website that has very little traffic coming to...
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Cell Phone Dementia - test yourself
Cell Phone Dementia, a new and debilitating mental illness. These kids are NOT "looking at the mobile tour app," I am quite sure of that. Unless their teacher demanded that they do so.They're on...
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Key to Modern Marketing is Content
The key to modern marketing is Content. Content will make Google decide your website is authoritative and up to date. Frequent original content will make your website climb higher in search results...
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Str8 Sounds at Gracie's Grill - Saturday, April 25, 2015
https://soundcloud.com/str8sounds/str8-sounds-live-at-gracies-grilleIf you can believe your eyes and ears,it's Str8 Sounds live, on stage,in performance -- electronic musicwith techno floppings...
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Google Your Personal or Company Name
Have you Googled your personal name or company lately? What comes up on the first page of search results? Those are the platforms you need to consider putting more content on and updating more...
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Robert Scoble tips on using Facebook
Facebook tips presented by Robert Scoble on Facebook.1. SHARE three posts from someone else about stuff you are interested in. If it's your friend's kids, you'll see more kid photos. If it's...
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8 Things a Business Should Do on Facebook
One of the worst things I see companies do on Facebook business pages is using Facebook as a one-way broadcast medium. Like we're living in the 1950s.Huge mistake! How much do you enjoy all that...
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Unproductive Websites Need SEO
A website may be all dressed up, but going nowhere.It's increasingly how customers find your business and buy products.If your website is not performing well, you've got yourself a major business...
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Biggest Mistakes Small Businesses Make
"Biggest Mistakes Small Businesses Make" -- my latest Vaspers SEO & Advanced Technology Show podcast episode on BlogTalkRadio. (26:20) I explain 10 or 12 things that are killing small businesses,...
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Unproductive Websites are a Waste of Money
You spent from $5,000 to $50,000 on a website. A simple marketing site or a complex, data base driven, multi-functional ecommerce site. Did you get ripped off?If your website is not generating sales...
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Vaspers SEO and Advanced Technology Show 2015
I have revived my Vaspers SEO and Advanced Technology Show on BlogTalkRadio. http://www.blogtalkradio.com/vaspersHere's a list of links to, and descriptions of, the currently available episodes."Basic...
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Stop Saying Kill the Competition
Pin It"Kill" the Competition? Is homicide the best mindset for business rivalry?My friend Shel Israel is writing a new book. He and Robert Scoble's book "Naked Conversations" was going to be titled...
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Hardcore Bloggers Don't Quit Due to Haters
Christianity Today has an article "Why Bloggers Are Calling It Quits", about how "Even some of the Internet's most popular writers have decided to step away from the pressures and haters of the...
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Normal People Are Not Charming or Charismatic
"Normal people are not charismatic," I heard a forensic psychiatrist say yesterday. He was referring to how the escaped convicts exploited the prison tailor lady who helped them escape.Prisoners are...
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How To Spot an NSA Troll
Leaked NSA documents verify that there are government trolls among us. Luckily for citizens, bloated bureaucracies tend to be loaded with inept fools, so these trolls are easy to spot and discourage...
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