It’s not often that I come across something that is SO Funny / Slap you in the face w/ reality / comedy. (yeah that’s a mouthful) @brianmark sent this to me this morning in chat and I’ve watched it 3 times now! If you are in the SEO industry… chances are you’ve run across the same situation at least a dozen times! So w/o further ado… enjoy this Safe for Work video!

DB

Well my blog friends… I figured it’s about time that I finally updated my blog w/ a quick post to at the very least let you know what I’ve been up to since March (when I posted last - *sorry*) Brian Mark and I have been busy starting a new business - Shade Tree Marketing LLC - While the final paperwork is being finished up I figured I’d give a little background on the name…. A how we arrived @ STM.

Years ago (pre - 9/11) I was in the Timeshare industry selling timeshares! I know, I know, please don’t hold that against me! Anyways one thing I heard time and time again from the folks sitting in front of me was this - “We’d love to vacation more, We’d love to have a timeshare… someday” Well here’s the problem w/ that statement… SOMEDAY never comes…

When your young & first married… you’re working on career’s - trying to find a first home, start a family, etc… etc… etc… and it’s not the right time to start vacationing… Then when your blessed w/ a family… it’s hard to travel w/ babies / small children (and the vacation becomes a much different experience). Then the kids get older, have soccer, baseball, ballet, horse camp, etc… Summers are pretty much booked solid. Then by the time the kids are in college - well you get the point - people can find all kinds of excuses as to why they cannot do the things they wanted to do when they were younger. Others jump in with both feet and make it work.

As it’s been said in the not to distant past, “It’s no longer a question of Who’s on Twitter, it’s a question of Who’s NOT on Twitter.”

I thought this video was worth reposting so everyone got a chance to see it! And how cool - Mariel Hemingway even RT’d me! (thanks Mariel, you made my day!)

What say the tweeps?

DB

So I suppose this announcement deserves it’s very own blog post eh? Two days ago I got down on bended knee and asked Melanie to make me the happiest man on Earth! After a few moments of silence / confusion… Melanie realized what was happening and yelled out a resounding YES!

Those of you that have known us for the last 5 yrs have been bugging me almost as much as my Mom… w/ the “when are you going to marry her?” questions… well now ya know… Melanie is the most beautiful person in the world, she has a wonderfully sweet heart, kind soul, amazing aura, and radiates love everywhere she goes! I am truly blessed and having a hard time being mushy online (it’s not my forte)

Thanks for all the kind words and congratulations on Twitter - (you should be able to see them on the right hand side of the site!) Be sure to swing by @mrsneo and tell her too… Oh yeah and the ring is here if ya wanted to take a peek…

I wanted to take a quick minute here and make sure that all of our readers were aware of our new service…. It’s called TweetMe located at http://tw33t.me - Now for those of you new to Twitter you may be saying… ah another twitter app! Just what we need. Well it’s a little different, as my experiment w/ my Tweeple video ran from Oct 2nd to present I’ve since had 5k+ views to the video and almost as many comments about the video.

Not a webmaster? Still want to have your very own twitter welcome video? Yeah we got that! Tw33t Me is a simple solution… an online business card for your social media types that want to be able to drop some links (up to 5 - and they’re do-follow) And easily add all of your other social media references to the page. Now I know the site is not ‘pretty’ yet - we’re working on that! But for now go ahead and check out our beta launch… let me know what you think by leaving us a comment here or by adding myself or any of the other creators a message on Twitter!

Best,

DB