Yes, it’s that time of year again… (the most wonderful time of the year?) Halloween is over, time to get this season kicked off right! [pro-player width='530' height='70' autostart='true' type='sound']http://www.3iblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/01_Its-the-Most-Wonderful-Time-of-the-Year.mp3[/pro-player] Read More >>

We’re doing it again – Saturday, Oct. 16, Rich Mayo and I are teaching our Social Media Marketing class. You can reserve your seat here. Learn about the 6 major social media platforms, what they are and how they work.  (Twitter, Facebook, Linked In, Flickr, YouTube, Blogging) Learn what is unique when using them for business. Get the 3-Step Process for developing your own Social Media plan Walk step-by-step through developing your own Business Social Media Plan Mark Your Calendar: Saturday, October 16, 2010 Time: 8:30am – 4:00pm – coffee, Read More >>

I just got an email last week from the “Market Samurai” guys with an intriguing subject line: “The Irrefutable Truth About Google’s Biggest Bias” Wow!  I follow Search Engine Optimization quite a bit, it’s my business, so needless to say I was ready to hear the latest evidence… irrefutable no less… (sigh)  I should have known better.  There are VERY few sources on the interweb that provide actual proven, apples to apples tested information.  After reading their post, the Market Samurai guys are either purposefully lying or clearly Read More >>

I have a tendency to leap-frog with my technology.  I may be a nerd at heart, but over the years I’ve find I’m much more a pragmatist now.  I just want things that work, I don’t care how “cool” or uncool something is, just work doggonit! I don’t talk on my cell phone much, so have been using a disposable pre-paid phone for the last 2 years and it’s been great.  Cheap (averaging < $10/month), easy, it worked.  But, as time has passed and my business has grown, I really could use a phone device that can handle email. The Apple iPhone and Read More >>

Here’s a small handful of characters I find myself using a lot.  It makes for a cleaner HTML if you use the code vs. pasting in some version of it from another document (like MS Word) which may actually be  using a non-standard character and not appear correctly on everyone’s computer.  So, when possible, I use the following HTML codes: & &amp; “ &quot; < &lt; > &gt; » &raquo; « &laquo; Registered TM ® &reg; Copyright © &copy; Non-Breaking Read More >>

There is many, may times I’ve wanted to display the current year – the most obvious spot is in the footer like with copyrights.  Having to “hand edit” your website every time the year changes is time-consuming — and frankly a bit silly. So, you have a few options available. 1) An easy one it to just not use a year.  Frankly, it’s not needed and I’d much rather see no year than to have something that says “2003″. Example: © My Company Name (FYI - the html code for the copyright (c) symbol is &copy; ) 2) You can Read More >>