Monthly Archives: January 2009

Building a Personal Brand

For those looking to build a valuable personal brand for the long run, this post by Sarah Lacy is definitely worth reading. Here are some further thoughts on personal branding I wrote back in 2007.

A Little SEO Help??

Here is my google analytics traffic graph over the past few months: If you’re like me, you probably notice that big drop in early August. Right about then, my blog stopped ranking #1 in Google for my name (it’s now my Zillow profile). I think my domain was down for a few days near that time as a result of me forgetting to renew it with Dreamhost — would Google crawling a blank domain put me in the penalty box like this? Is there any way to get out of it?

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WAL-MART: The High Cost of Low Prices

I haven’t seen the WAL-MART: The High Cost of Low Prices film, but I stumbled on the website today and thought I’d share the trailer for those of you who may be interested in watching it. I’m not going to rush to the video store to rent this, but I do want to watch it at some point. Who knows, maybe it’ll have a similar impact Super Size Me had on me. After watching that, I rarely, if ever, eat fast food anymore. Here are some voices of employees who have spoken out against their former or current employer: Oh, and for the record, I’ve never set foot in a WAL-MART store — unless my … Continue reading