No, this isn’t a fanboy post. I’m not going to gush about Lion or the Air or the iPad. I was amazed today by this headline — Survey: Consumers Want iPhone 5, Sight Unseen. Here’s a quote: So frenetic is the fever pitch that 35 percent of nearly 3,000 US consumers surveyed online said they would…
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I selected this headline thinking of this video classic on YouTube. From the commentary on the Interwebz over the last week, you’d think that Netflix announced they are planning on breaking into our homes and stealing our puppies. Relax. Netflix doesn’t want your puppies. The company did, however, raise prices. Is this really that big…
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As soon as it was available in the Apple App Store yesterday, I started the download of Lion, the latest release of the OS 10 operating system from Mac. I’m glad I started early: it took until nearly 2 p.m. to finish the download. While we don’t have the fastest Internet connection at the office,…
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I’ve said it before: buying Microsoft Word does not make you a writer, just like the fact that I own a few power tools does not make me a carpenter (in fact, I’m really not allowed to use the power tools at home. Safety issues). Just because you’re writing for a blog instead of a…
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The Results Are In As you can see, Metzger Associates has officially launched our new website, so we decided to kick things off with a good ol’ fashioned Easter egg hunt. The contest is now officially closed and the results are in. The winner of the FREE exhaustive keyword analysis for a small- to medium-size…
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So you want to add a blog to your company website. Congratulations! You’ve made the first step in adding some seriously powerful SEO juice to your web presence! Maybe you already have a blog, but it’s fallen by the wayside, or you’re just not sure what to do with it anymore. That’s ok too. We’ve…
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Google announced today it will begin tracking and ranking individual content creators. Authors will be ranked, not just content on individual websites. If your business is gunning for organic search placement (and who isn’t?) what could this mean for you?
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By now, it’s common knowledge that the news about Bin Laden’s death broke on Twitter and set new traffic records for the site. Donald Rumsfeld’s Chief of Staff, Keith Urbahn, was the first credible source to break the news last Sunday. What is there to learn from this?
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There are a few phrases I hear as a customer that really get me. They include: “We’ll do this as a one-time courtesy.” (You’re only courteous to me, your customer, one time? Really?) “That’s not our policy” or the variation “That’s just our policy.” (Well, my policy is not to do business with people that…
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I might get fired for this post. I’m a little burned out on social media. Every day, thanks to Facebook, Twitter and a dozen or so other online communities in which I’m involved, I am awash in a sea of noise. And that’s all it is: noise. Sure you might manage the noise with any…
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Today it was announced by Cisco that they are discontinuing the manufacturing and marketing of the popular Flip camera. (Here’s the story as reported by Mashable this morning.) I own a fairly new Flip camera and, as a self-proclaimed video hack, I enjoyed the ease of travel and the quality of the video on the…
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Whether you are tweeting for yourself or tweeting for a brand/company it is important to make sure that you are putting the right message out there. Since Twitter allows you to send just about any message in 140 characters or less, that is plenty of space to influence your followers. However, it also leaves plenty…
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