A Quickie Guide to Web 2.0 SEO Strategy


Lately, a lot of people have been asking us about Web 2.0 strategies and more particularly about Web 2.0 SEO and social media strategies. Below, are 6 things that you can do yourself to take advantage of SEO as an integral part of your company’s lead generation strategy.  A Web 2.0 SEO “social media” strategy [Read more →]

10 Great Web Resources for Inc. 5000 Companies.


1.      http://www.incbiznet.com/learn-more  Online Business Networking IncBizNet is a free Website designed exclusively for private companies to promote their businesses and connect with other businesses in the network. Here’s what you can do: 2.      http://www.onecoach.com Business Coaching and Consulting  Every great player has a great coach. These are the great coaches for the business player. [Read more →]

Growth Constraints on Business


I read with great interest Bill Eastman’s inaugural blog for Inc Magazine. Bill offers some excellent insight into the pain felt by “fast growth companies” who may no longer be in that fast growth track. In our practice at Kolbrener USA, we are often engaged by companies who have lost that growth edge. After achieving some [Read more →]

Fake Steve Jobs


Dan Lyons of Forbes is thoroughly entertaining at the Web 2.0 expo. His keynote gives the background into his Fake Steve Jobs blog and makes fun of whole host of other folks along the way. Take a look at the Youtube video of it. 

Top 6 Marketing Mistakes in 2008


1.    Narrow your focus: Find your target audience and gear your marketing efforts to that audience. Trying to appeal to everyone typically does not work. dddddddddddddddddddddddd 2.    Inconsistency in Your Marketing Efforts: You need to have the same look and feel across all of your ads, promotions, and overall marketing efforts.  This is [Read more →]

Branding from the inside out


Back in October of 2007, John Quelch of WPP and professor since 1979 at the Harvard Business School, shared his insight with Laura Mazur and Louella Miles regarding the power of “branding an ingredient” as a key to better marketing a larger or more complex product or service.  ”When is the provider of the final product or service willing to compromise its own brand-building to add the [Read more →]

A company that understands the sales game


Here’s a company that seems to really understand the sales: game: http://www.irwinpollackconsulting.com. They are also willing to put their money where their mouths are because they have bid the top billing on google PPC for “sales and marketing“. A few words of wisdom from their site: “The reality is, your customer will buy from you for [Read more →]

Super Tuesday was Super Cool!


If you watched Super Tuesday coverage the other night, you may have seen a technology which in my opinion is quite amazing. CNN is using a new application called “Perceptive Pixel” which in essence is an interactive, touch screen user interface. Wolf Blitzer was the host, who walked through a massive set with maps, countdown timers, results data [Read more →]

50 Top Niche Social Media Sites, and Their Power Accounts


This fall marked the first semester Kolbrener had an internship in SEO/Interactive Marketing.  Tanya Ferrell, our SEO intern, has been spending a lot of time researching social media.  After reading her latest article, 4 Types of Social Media Marketers and the 1 You Never Read About , I asked her to write a post for our blog.  So without further ado, here [Read more →]

For the sake of clarity


I don’t believe we have ever posted a piece that is politically motivated. Furthermore, I am hesitant to do so, but I can no longer listen to colleagues, friends and acquaintances debate that the arguments to go to war in Iraq were legitimate. Fact: Iraq did not possess weapons of mass destruction (WMD). In October [Read more →]