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Italian Red Winners 27 Aug 2013 | 05:56 am
I last wrote about Italian wine for my April WashingtonExec column. Since then I’ve enjoyed some new Italian red winners that I talk about below. I wrote in April about how Italian wine can be hard t...
Can Content Marketing Rescue Social Media Marketing? 22 Aug 2013 | 05:23 am
I read a really good article today written by Mark Schaefer for Ragan on content marketing. It echoed a lot of things I stress to clients each day about content marketing done right. It also added a p...
Repairing an E39 M5 Wheel 17 Aug 2013 | 02:51 am
This past weekend I completed a repair project for a rear wheel on my 2002 BMW M5. In this post from late July I explain how I bent and cracked the wheel. Initially I was thinking replacement rather t...
Google Wants All Natural SEO 15 Aug 2013 | 06:30 am
I’ve been writing about helping clients with SEO for a long time. Organic SEO improvement is never the end goal of client engagements (that’s sales integration), but rising rankings are a welcome bene...
The Demograpics of U.S. Wine Consumption 12 Aug 2013 | 06:26 pm
This February I wrote a piece that looked at wine purchases in 2012 by age group. Last week Gallup came out with some new numbers on U.S. wine consumption. As is often the case with surveys, any concl...
Can an Equation Measure Wine Value? 8 Aug 2013 | 06:48 am
How do you get good value from the wine you buy? It’s a very natural question that many people have asked me. It’s also a very subjective question with no hard and fast answer. That said, the populari...
Edelman Opines on Sponsored Content 5 Aug 2013 | 06:06 am
Sponsored content is a major and often controversial trend in online publishing. Traditional revenue streams have been greatly reduced, and publishers are looking for ways to make publishing make mone...
E39 M5 Wheel Damage 30 Jul 2013 | 10:37 pm
Last Saturday I was feeling particularly good about my 2002 M5. Over the past few weeks every fluid (minus power steering) has been refreshed on the car. Brake, coolant, oil, transmission and differe...
Now That’s Quality Content 25 Jul 2013 | 04:29 am
Every week I work with clients to produce high quality content for their online properties. It’s not easy consistently producing content that accomplishes business objectives via thought leadership ra...
Clear Bra Removal on My E39 M5 23 Jul 2013 | 06:28 am
This weekend I tackled clear bra removal on my BMW M5. The bra had come with the car, and over the past two years had become dingy looking. It had been on the car since at least 2009. I had removed th...
