I'm headed out to the Google HQ in Mountain View next week for a CPC conference. This should be a good way to get some fresh marketing ideas and best practices on CPC strategies, conversion techniques and so on from the gurus at Google and from some.
Topics: cpc, Google

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I'm headed to India in late November to attend a friend's wedding and to hopefully meet with an Indian Angel Investor to discuss a Mixed Martial Arts site I have been working on. We built Fightlaunch .com to connect the members of the mixed...
Topics: FightLaunch, India, Mixed Martial Arts, MMA, Thailand

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SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is a complicated subject and it would take hundreds of posts to cover everything in depth. So, I won't get into the details here. But, I do want to point out that choosing the right SEO expert can mean the difference..
Topics: Search Engine Optimization, SEO Experts

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A quick note about building the proper team for your startup : Every entrepreneur is passionate about their idea--especially within the first couple of weeks of hammering out how that idea is going to "change the world". In that excitement,...
Topics: Startup Team

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A lot of first time entrepreneurs get hung up on the little details when forming a company. What legal entity do I choose? What URL should I pick? What should I name my company? All of these questions are important to answer in time, but they're...
Topics: Naming a company, startup details

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