tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-375357452008-09-29T23:36:45.924-05:00Mark Potter: Internet Marketing Professional, SEO and SEM Consultant, PhotographerMark Potterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10582997461295246732noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37535745.post-42530803214285242012008-09-24T22:39:00.007-05:002008-09-29T23:36:45.932-05:00

Back in the Fall of 2005 I was given a domain name, a splash page, a vision, and told to make it happen. The domain was MazdaGear.com, and here is the splash page: (click any image to see the full-size version) The vision was to build a store that will grow to sell $30-40,000 in accessories per month. I started by looking at our competition's e-commerce sites, expanding to other industry e-comm

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Well, an event that consumed much of my time and life over the last few weeks has finally come and gone. We (Bentley Minneapolis) sponsored the 2008 Trent Tucker Foundation's fund-raiser weekend, and added a new VIP reception between the poker and golf tournaments. Our goal was to get between 150 - 200 people to attend a benefit party at our dealership and to raise at least $100,000 for the Trent

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I ran across this show on the Internet Archive a few months ago, and wanted to take a minute to share the love. If you're a fan of Death Cab for Cutie or The Postal Service you should definitely check this out. It's a solo acoustic show by Ben Gibbard recorded in May of 2007, and it's available for free (legally!) on the Internet Archive in Flac, OGG, and MP3 formats. www.archive.org/details/

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Well; After success with this website, I decided it was finally time to move the Maserati blog from the blogspot domain (maseratiofminneapolis.blogspot.com) to its new home at www.maseratiofminneapolis.com/blog/ The new blog is done in php, so I can tap into the parent site's database to load dynamic content, and once version 2 of the parent site is done in the next couple of weeks, I will be

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Not that basing a website around a blog platform is something new or groundbreaking, but it's not something I have done before. I decided to use Blogger as my major content management system, with a customized template and style-set. The reasons behind this are mainly ease of use, search engine friendliness, and deployment speed. The transformation from my previous test setup to this took less

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Also available for download: resume.pdf resume.doc SEO, SEM, WEB CONSULTANT Solutions-oriented specialist with a broad skill-set and notable experience in planning, analysis, and implementation of web technologies in direct support of business objectives. Strengths in written and verbal communications, for both internal and consumer oriented mediums. EXPERIENCE MARKETING: BENTLEY MINNEAPOLIS,

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My "SEO" tab on iGoogle: About 30 of the best sources of information for SEO news, organized into one easy to import tab.

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So, this is the first year I've spent enough as an advertiser to get added to Google's holiday card list. I've heard of cool presents in the past, so I wasn't sure what to expect when this was left at my desk. The USB memory card is cool, but suspect. The connector looks scary enough not to use it for anything beyond about 15 minutes of bragging rights. The $200 is great. They can put a bunch

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OK, So, I've had plenty of site redesigns, and for the last few years I have never either fully developed, or fully finished a redesign.  On a bit of prompting from Sarah, and also because I don't want to be that guy(1), I'm determined to finish this one. Stay Tuned... (1) The web developer \ internet marketer \ photographer without a decent website.

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So, Saturday night I worked an event with the Ferrari Club of Minnesota. At this event was the prototype of a new car coming out. Naturally, I took a bunch of pictures. Monday I posted this to the blog I run for Maserati of Minneapolis, and sent a tip to Autoblog. maseratiofminneapolis.blogspot.com www.autoblog.com This story beat Road and Track and the other guys the prototype was shown to by

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