Mar 25

OK, I think my couch time has gone on long enough. I started thinking that maybe I had gotten back in the game a little late. There is too much competition, I have a full time job, oh what else? The excuses are endless. I went to a meeting a couple weeks ago with my boss. We met with the owner of one of the oldest audio companies. They have been around since the 60’s and used to be really well known. When walmart and mega-super-gross mart came on the scene, it put the high end audio stores out of business. Everyone started to want cheap crap headphones, it killed the industry. Out of nowhere, Bose comes out with massive two page ads for $399 headphones! I bought some, actually I bought 2 pairs, one for me one for my father. At any rate this other company had to scramble to change the model again, they knew high quality headphones, but got caught with their pants down. Well short story long, they want to get back in the game and they need some heavy duty web marketing. So this is why we met.

The reason for me telling you all of this, is that he told us he was currently paying a local SEO company in Wisconsin, $400 a month for their platinum package, and he wanted me to look at it and tell him exactly what they had been doing for them. NOTHING. ZERO. He showed me a thick packet of paper that was nothing but a webtrends printout, and SERP listing. I was topfloored . After looking around at my competition, I am seeing that I shouldnt expect much more from these other guys. This should really go on my business site, but I am struggling with sitting down for a re-design, so I needed to put this somewhere so that I could remind myself to turn off the TV and get to work.

Mar 17

I’ve been busy lately. Well, I think I have. I have been enjoying a slight increase in energy and trying to do something other than sit on the couch or in front of my computer. I go through phases of how much I feel like interacting and producing on the web. Currently I am back in my “Why bother doing anything that isn’t making me money” phase. That includes posting on this blog.

I am really wanting to get things up and running on the freelance tip. I am so sick of watching companies waste their money on bullshit overpriced internet marketing. I could easily live off the monthly billing of 3 of our clients, and do ten times the job for them. I guess its not going to just fall in my lap.

The IRS crap is stressing me out as well, I need to get some things done before I can move on. I’ve had my head in the sand for the past 5 years and I think Im going to suffocate completely if I don’t pull it out soon.

Glad to see Moby is back in it. Check out the mashup from his new album. I would give my left nut to be at SXSW in Austin right now.

Idiot spammers are still trying to get comments and trackback on here. Morons, I was a spammer for 8 years, you think I am not going to protect myself? Move on.

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