Travis Wright is the Chief Marketing Officer for a Kansas City Marketing company, Advangel. He is a local search strategist. Crowdsourcerer. SEO Jedi. Brand Trafficker. Über Bullshittapotomus. Social Shaman. Pompous Windbag. Net Ninja. His Tweet Fu is Strong. Follow @teedubya for additional golden nuggets of awesome sauce. Find me on Google+
During today’s announcement by Apple for the iPhone 4S, their website totally crashed. And I mean “Crashed”. It was down for a little over an hour. And after Apple announced that the iPhone 4S was going to be available on the Sprint Network. Boom, Sprints Phone page crashes… and it’s been crashed for about 2 [...]
Today at Cupertino, Apple had it’s first post-Jobs era product launch. Apple announced 2 things really. The iPhone 4S and the Siri, Assistant Search. This is a much better phone than the Samsung Charge that I have, but it’s not the “iPhone 5″ that was buzzing around the interwebs. Siri Search, makes use of Yelp’s [...]
It’s an age old discussion. Does SEO go under the Marketing umbrella? Or does it fit under the Information Technology umbrella? Quite simply, it fits under both. It’s the bridge over troubled waters. It’s the mojo that gets your website workin’. But where does SEO fit in your organization optimally? First of all, what is [...]
When LG Mobile asked me to be one of their esteemed bloggers and tweeps at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, I had the privilege of meeting Arnold Aranez, “Mr. Gadget” from down under in Australia. He has since moved to Hong Kong and has created one of the most amazing iPad cases [...]
The Web and mobile have gone local. One out of every five searches has local intent. One out of every three mobile searches has local intent. So, if you are a local business and you aren’t engaging your connections via mobile, you maybe missing a vital component of your interactive marketing. Here at the SMX [...]
If you want to win, you must have the attitude that your product kicks ass. Does your idea kick ass? Does it makes people bow down to the badassness that you are creating? Does it excite you? Can it excite other people? Does it excite your team to work overtime and stay late… and desire [...]
How do you manage your online experience? Are you more concerned with getting the highest scores you can on the social influence sites… or are you in social media to connect with people? Do you can check in on Foursquare, check TwitterGrader, buy Groupons, try to raise your Klout score or sell your “social stock” on [...]
Have you ever wanted to take a Facebook Fast? And just delete your account? Well, I just finished a 30 day Facebook Fast from my Facebook Wall. I went into my privacy settings and shut down the wall. I always have to quantify the value of something to my life. And it seems to me [...]
Google+ is transforming our social experience. No longer does the internet have to be columns of RSS feeds full of endless, faceless articles… it now can be “RSS feeds” of journalists, authors, writers, entrepreneurs and other thought leaders that you can interact with. This is why Google+ is a game changer. Now, that I’ve been [...]
By now, we all know the latest and greatest social media craze is Google+. What we don’t know is how this new tool is going to affect the SEO industry. Personally, I’ve been doing SEO since the late 90′s and many iterations of what’s good practice and bad practice have changed as the industry has [...]
Google+ profile URLs are long, cumbersome things. Mine is https://plus.google.com/u/0/107496519574681170790/posts. How in the hell is anyone going to remember that? Zero percent chance of remembering that. Ok? Sure, Google+ is still in beta, but a vanity URL would be quite handy. Et voilà! Here is the remedy for what ails you. Gplus.to, the unofficial short [...]
Google+ soft launched in a limited beta, last week, and thus far, many tech pundits are giving it glowing reviews. It is interesting to see the points of view from some of social media pioneer entrepreneurs perspective on Google’s latest foray into social. Google Wave and Google Buzz were Google minus. Google+ is getting lots [...]
Silicon Valley is all about creating the next big thing. The trio that helped turn Twitter into an Internet sensation has joined forces for another go-around at internet glory. But, how this affect Twitter? Biz Stone said Tuesday he’s leaving his full-time gig at Twitter to resurrect the Internet incubator Obvious Corp. with Evan Williams [...]
As an awesome 38 year old dude, who specializes in local marketing, I thought I would share with you my personal tech “get-up” and my rationale for my choices of technical gadgetry and the operating systems of choice. I help businesses be found online. I need to know what in the hell Google is doing [...]
As social media evolves, it appears that tribes are being created online. Small groups of influential people are congregating in various social media sites and helping each other create more influence. This appears to be a relatively new phenomenon. There are several sites out there that gauge our social influence. They take our actions on [...]
If you don’t know Mike Blumenthal, you don’t know local search. He is one of the brightest minds in the local seo game. He has a direct connection to Carter Maslan, product management director of local search over at Google and therefore, Mike gets the low-down before the rest of us plebes. Anyway, Mike put [...]
If you haven’t heard by now… first of all, where the hell have you been? So, on May 27, 2011, Rep. Anthony Weiner “accidentally” sent a link via Twitter of his weiner. He couldn’t have imagined the backlash that would ensure. By not sending this message as a DM, direct message, this became an embarrassing [...]
Yesterday at SMX Advanced Seattle, industry experts offered case studies on how mobile local social marketing are helping brands reach audiences at the point of sale. During the event’s “SoLoMo Revolution: Social Media, Local Search & Mobile Search Collide” session [should have been called, MobLoSo], it was discussed how mobile content has the potential to [...]
Facebook is about to evolve it’s look with some of the coolest software designs on the planet, as they’ve acquired Sofa, a Dutch design firm. When we started Sofa in 2006, we set out to make friendly, useful and enjoyable products that matter to people. Over the years, we built an awesome team of designers [...]
The daily deal space has always interested me. Back in April 2007, I went out to San Francisco and went to the Web 2.0 conference. It was alive with great energy and ideas. Twitter was 9 months old. Yahoo was still strong. I gained tons of insight from this conference. Before going to the conference, [...]
Google is taking mobile localization to the next level. They are now leveraging their location based services feature on smart phones w/ Near Me News.
Today, Facebook launched a feature that will certainly help all social media managers managing large brands, the ability to tag the pages of great and companies in your photos. Now the Facebook, the brand/page photos, partly based off of their users privacy settings and will only appear on a brands tab, if that visibility is [...]
According to the Wall Street Journal report, Microsoft is close to a deal to purchase Skype, the Internet’s site with the most members. Think Facebook has the most members? Nope. Skype does, and Microsoft is thinking about buying it for $7 billion to $8.5 billion dollars. Why would Microsoft want Skype? Actually my estimation, it [...]
There is a science to creating the perfect landing page the generates lots of conversions. Look at this infographic to give you some valuable insights on how to increase your conversions. Via FormStack
Late Friday night, Facebook announced a new round of privacy settings for third-party applications via the company’s developers blog. They no doubt hoped to minimize the repercussions from its latest privacy change by announcing it late on Friday evening, but there could be a larger repercussions from its new privacy move than Facebook initially anticipated. Essentially, Facebook [...]
The latest, greatest version of Apple’s iOS mobile operating system, iOS 4.3, apparently has a hidden easter egg, a new “find my friends” feature, MacRumors has discovered. It seems most likely that Apple is building a geo location-based social network to compete with Foursquare, GoWalla, Google’s Latitude, Facebook Places and the million other startups in the mobile, local, [...]
So, on the last day of CES 2011, I finally made it over to the Motorola booth, as I just had to try out the new Motorola Xoom tablet powered by Google’s Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) which eventually topped the polls and was named the best gadget at CES 2011. It is indeed a crush-worthy device. The [...]
Today at the Verizon presser at the International CES 2011 event in Las Vegas, Verizon launched the new LG Revolution, which is an Android 2.2 powered smartphone with 4G LTE data support. The LG Revolution might look pretty familiar to you, as it is Verizon’s version of the incredibly badass LG Optimus 2X, in appearance anyway. We [...]
LG kicked off press day here at CES. LG Mobile connected with Mobile Local Social back in December and invited me to come out and blog about their event and give our honest take on their new product line. However, after the press event, I can say I am very impressed. 2011 is going to [...]
Boom! Apple and Skype finally agree to allow Skype’s popular video chatting compatible with the iPhone. Amazing. The cats out in Cupertino are starting to cooperate with people now. Can you feel the love tonight? And it’s available IMMEDIATELY. We didn’t have to wait for CES or MacWorld! Holy sh#t! I heard of some rumblings [...]
January is quickly approaching. What does this mean for early adopters and lovers of cool tech gadgetry? Only one thing, CES is nigh. This will be a fun time to go to CES, as many companies are preparing to take on Apple iPad with tablets of their own. I expect internet TV to get some [...]
The Motorola PR firm just sent out this teaser video which shows that a Motorola tablet is on it’s way very soon. No details about Motorola’s tablet are shared in the video, but we already know that it will feature NVIDIA’s Tegra 2 processor inside and should run on Verizon’s network. At the end of [...]
Seriously. This will be awesome.
There has been much speculation the past couple months on whether Apple and Verizon will announce a partnership on with the iPhone running on “America’s Most Reliable Network.” or whatever slogan they have, at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in early January. The reason is, AT&T’s customer experience is consistently bad. Worse than [...]
