Vol. MMXXVI — Personal Edition
Los Angeles · Est. 1982 Builder. Marketer. Operator. Investor. Friday, May 22, 2026
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Why being a strategic marketer is so important

I’ve spent the last week at my parents house in a little town in Los Angeles called LaCrescenta. It’s been the first time I haven’t been in an office for over 1 week in 10 years (side note: this is the first time I’ve been at my parents for this long for almost 5 years). […]

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Social Media Marketing for your Business at SXSWi

About two months ago, I reached out to Chris Winfield, Brent Csutoras, and Todd Malicoat about putting together a Social Media Marketing for your Business Panel at SXSW Interactive. We all thought it would be a great idea and I put it together. All of us particpates in some sort of Social Media Marketing, Optimization, […]

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Building Traction with Search and Social Media Visibility

Over the last few months I’ve seen an interesting cross section of startups to large brands and marketers to developers that are all running businesses. There has been one thing that ties all of these people together, and that is gaining traction and visibility to your website or business online. If you are a large […]

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Skittles Aggregated Website, is this a Win or Fail?

Lots a brewing on the Skittles madness tonight because of they’re new “Social Media Aggregation” for their domain. The question I have is, was this a move of pure genius? Or, are they shooting themselves in the foot! Age and Demographics to get Started: To start with, before you start to interact with anything Skittles, […]

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Social Media – Part 2: Dominating the Search Engine Results Pages

Last week I talked about how to stay active, answer questions, etc. to keep brand awareness high and reputation management under control. This week, I’m going to give you an overview of how to dominate the SERP’s (Search Engine Results Pages) by using Social Media to your advantage. We all know since the “Web 2.0 […]