Can dinosaur industries live in the digital age?

This morning Seth Godin posted a great blog about reforming the music industry or any other dinosaur industry.

This is the digital age. The rules have changed. The only way anyone can win is by knowing the new rules.

Take a look at Seth's blog. Good stuff. I have some more of Seth's e-books posted here.

How do you rank?

I checked my stats today and was pleasantly surprised. Our first client's web site has been online for 20 days. He already ranks #1 on Google for "Powder coating Redlands" and for several other communities they serve. He is on the first page of Google for a handful of other powder coating keywords. This stuff really works.

As a web designer, I would never tell my clients that I would guarantee placement on the search engines. I always suggested putting their url on everything they printed because "the small guy doesn't have a chance to show up well in the search results." Well, things have changed.

I spent the past two years learning SEO and internet marketing and now I am seeing the fruits of those labors. Sorry to go on and on about this, but it really is exciting.

Oh, and by the way, if anyone needs help getting found on the internet, IdeaBox can help.

For the record, my client's site is www.fivestarpowdercoating.com

Do you Squidoo?

I have been meaning to create a Squidoo lens for some time now, so I used a portion of my New Year's Day to do it.

I had just written an article for my website about Squidoo and thought it would be a great idea to actually have a lens to show people that I know what I am talking about and I actually do what I say.

So now, several hours later, I can proudly say, "I am a squidoo lensmaster."

It is supposed to drive insane amounts of traffic to your real web site if you set it up right, so I will have to sit back and see if that is what happens.

You can see my Squidoo lens here.

Oh, and Happy New Year!