If you havent had the chance to check out How a Web Design Goes Straight to Hell from The Oatmeal , I highly suggest you do so now )dont worry, itll open in a new window so you can come back and finish this(; it should be required reading for anyone planning to create a presence on the web. In all fairness to the difficult clients parodied in that comic strip, Ive seen more than my share of insane web developers too.

The thing about local search is that businesses often don't realize how important it is to their success; I see time and again businesses getting a ton of traffic from local search and they have no idea that it's happening. In addition to your PPC campaigns , having your business listings appear in local search results should absolutely be part of your online marketing mix. These days,

In my hometown, there was a small independent movie theater that, like all small independent movie theaters, went out of business. The big movie houses were just too much competition. It sat empty for a number of years, but then an entrepreneur with a unique vision came along and bought it up. He had dreams of making it an art house theater that ran art films and foreign films.

Sage Lewis is President of SageRock Inc., a digital marketing company founded in 1999 with the goal of helping clients engage customers across an ever expanding interactive marketplace through multiple channels such as search and social media. To learn more about Sage and the company, visit the SageRock, Inc. website . Tina In my hometown, there was a small independent movie theater that, like all small independent movie theaters, went out of business.

Sage Lewis is President of SageRock Inc., a digital marketing company founded in 1999 with the goal of helping clients engage customers across an ever expanding interactive marketplace through multiple channels such as search and social media. To learn more about Sage and the company, visit the SageRock, Inc. website . Tina Recently, I've been working with a painting contractor and a private elementary school here in Ohio.

Sage Lewis is President of SageRock Inc., a digital marketing company founded in 1999 with the goal of helping clients engage customers across an ever expanding interactive marketplace through multiple channels such as search and social media. To learn more about Sage and the company, visit the SageRock, Inc. website . Tina Recently, I've been working with a painting contractor and a private elementary school here in Ohio.

I learned in the book, "How to Win Friends and Influence People," that a good way to get ahead in the world is to make other people feel appreciated and important. So, with that knowledge, it only seems appropriate that my first guest blogger post here talks about why I like Microsoft adCenter. Whenever I am starting a brand-new project that has little or no advertising budget or I'm working with a client who is very skeptical of online advertising,