Since I dumped my top ten things I hate about the Internet, I found it appropriate to illustrate the top ten things I love about the Internet:

1.) Success stories are made daily.  People hit the right formula with their web site and create a niche following.
2.) Inspiration: You can always find people and sites out there that inspire and have been where you are.
3.) Creating : with the Internet, you can create something beautiful and help it grow.
4.) Publishing: where else can you freely publish your thoughts, ideas etc. and exchange with others?
5.) Instant communication: anything I can do to get my local phone company out of my life brings a great sense of joy to my life.
6.) Friendships: with the net, I can stay in touch with college friends without having to use that same local telephone company.
7.) Google Pop Up Blocker: block the evil smiley icons, the congratulations you just won a million dollars, etc. Makes me happy.
8.) Steering your market: you can change your Internet marketing instantly with the net, attract new undiscovered markets rapidly.
9.) I’m able to buy my lovely wife shoes. (she does read this…..)
10.) Helping people grow their company online each and every day.

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People tend to get quite philosophical around the end of the year, but what about corporations?  Are employees at your company more interested in what Jones’ did last night with that banana and the punch bowl at the Christmas Party or how your company will thrive and grow in 2008?  I’m pretty sure we all know the answer to that question already unfortunately.

The new year is a tremendous opportunity to review your corporate image, what worked last year, how successful was your marketing plan? How much traffic did your web site pull and convert to leads or sales, how many new educational articles were posted on the company web site? If you have no idea, we need to talk.  If you’ve spent thousands upon thousands of dollars in that big yellow book of phone numbers and have not invested time or effort into your web site, we need to talk.  How can your company increase sales next year?  Call us. 407-830-4550.  And hey, you should probably talk to Jones’ about his behavior at the Christmas party…..

With so much talk about web 2.0 and how to most effectively market your website online, I had this vision in my head of the woodstock days back in the 60′s: where peace, love and happiness (and mushrooms, hash, pot, etc….) ran rampant.  The revolution against the system translated to a movement where people used music and love to express their feelings publicly.

The internet has certainly evolved, from the first email sent out by a military contractor, to hotbot, snap, yahoo, google and now the social internet marketing scene.  Rather than people conveying their ideas and beliefs through their song, they convey through their blogs, through their carefully or hap hazzardly thought out you tube videos: Yes, there are internet hippies.  But what message are they spreading?  They spread the message of freedom, freedom from banner ads, freedom from ads and ideas being pushed in their face: they now, publish those ideas, they publish the reviews on products, services, companies, you name it.  Internet hippies spread their words and thoughts more rapidly than anyone could have done even two years ago.

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