May 8, 2021
by Monique | General Webbiness, Info, Internet Marketing
I was recently struck by an email that arrived in my inbox. The sender: Ink Cards. The subject line: “Would you like to receive Mother’s Day emails?” I open the email to find a simply worded opt-out letter: Ink Cards is an online greeting card company. You download...
Jan 29, 2019
by Natalie Winslow | Internet Marketing, Social Media News
UPDATE: This post was originally published in April of 2017, just one week before the social-influencer fueled Fyre Festival bomb that is now the subject of a Netflix and Hulu documentary, both of which I watched eagerly, almost greedily, as I’m sure many of us...
Nov 3, 2017
by Natalie Winslow | Internet Marketing, Social Media News, Technology
I don’t need to tell you what a horrible year 2017 has been for political animus and deepening divisions in the U.S. It’s been written about time and time and time again. And you know; you’re probably living it, too. But today I learned something...
Oct 29, 2017
by Natalie Winslow | Internet Marketing, SEO Advice
Content marketing, am I right? We’re all supposed to be producing massive amounts of content to compete with the massive amounts of content clogging the cloud. And this content that you create should be phenomenal because the internet is full of garbage....
Feb 10, 2017
by Natalie Winslow | Internet Marketing
UPDATE 2/08/18: Another commenter states that the racist, hateful rhetoric on the /pol/ board of 4chan exists all over the site. He says it’s no longer contained to one small section, and 4chan has generally turned into a recruitment tool for white supremacists....
Dec 15, 2016
by Natalie Winslow | Featured, Internet Marketing
1/3/18: SEE UPDATE BELOW! 4/21/17: SEE UPDATE BELOW! Ok, 2016 has been terrible. Really, really terrible. Both personally and publicly, some amazing people and animals died. We’ve had an election to end all elections. Everyone hates 2016, right? Remember...
Apr 7, 2014
by Natalie Winslow | Internet Marketing
Remember when ranking well in search was 1. easy 2. effective for your business and 3. super cheap? And then came Google’s algorithm updates that destroyed cheap SEO because marketers had to start acting like people again instead of algorithm-dodging robots....
Mar 24, 2014
by Natalie Winslow | Internet Marketing, Social Media News
To follow up on Jen’s recent post about Twitter’s eight-year anniversary, I thought I’d compile a short list of mistakes that businesses regularly make on Twitter. Twitter is one of those platforms that everyone thinks they should be on, but that few...
Jan 28, 2014
by Natalie Winslow | Internet Marketing, SEO Advice
The beginning of 2014 marks four years that I’ve been with Commerce Kitchen. I started working with Tynan, Jamie, and crew just two months after I moved back to Colorado from Los Angeles, where my daughter had been born the previous July and where I had just...
Jan 20, 2014
by Natalie Winslow | Internet Marketing
Back when I was a twenty-something-year-old working in entry-level positions and trying to break into the professional world, social media wasn’t a thing. Friendster was launched the year after I finished college, and I was already creeping into non-food service...
