Everybody Needs a Website

I remember the phone book.  (I don’t say this sarcastically)  Anytime you needed to find someone, you looked in the phone book.  I had a good friend at school but didn’t have his phone number, so I looked it up and found what I thought was his home phone number.  I called it up and it turned out to be his father’s office.

Ooops.  I was eleven, so I could be forgiven.

Today, I can’t remember the last time I looked inside a phone book, and that’s huge.  Even more important, I’m not the only one.

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Google Says: Don’t Do This

A massive mistake people make, especially sales people trying to navigate their way through the social media and blogging landscape, is to copy/paste whole ‘articles’ onto their own websites.  This is a big no-no for several reasons, not the least of which is the impact it can have on your visibility on search engines like Google.

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