Google first introduced its Panda update in February of 2011, claiming that Panda would improve the quality of their users search results. The idea behind this Panda update was that search results would be improved to include more authoritative and relevant websites. Ultimately, creating a higher quality for Google users as they pull up results using Google’s search engine....

Hiring an Internet advertising agency is one of the most important decisions your business will make. Understanding this, it is important to ask prospective vendors the right questions. In this blog post and continuing our 12 pillars of Internet marketing series, we will briefly discuss how to see past promises and sales hype and determine what agency best suits the need. Before ‘going there’ and especially for ‘solo-preneurs’, with a bit of determination, you can forego these high cost...

In our ongoing entrepreneur series, we now feature Reed Timmer, tornado chaser and business owner at Tornadovideos.net. As some know, Reed chases tornadoes across the Midwest in a place known as ‘Tornado Alley’ and was one of the stars of the now cancelled Discovery Channel series titled Storm Chasers. I love Reed and have followed his progress since the series was taken off air. He represents everything that is right about entrepreneurship and holds the honor of one of only two streaming video...

For serious businesses only; please avoid free website hosting! Many years ago when SBDC TV began, in the year 2000 to be exact, surfing the Internet was relatively new and with its increased popularity, came new technology companies to service this growing market. The company we used to access the Internet was Netzero.com. For those unfamiliar with NetZero, they opened for business (online) right around the turn of the century, had great commercials and accessing the Internet using their services...