Market Leader has been busy this week. First, they announced their new “Market Insider” (essentially a competitor to Altos Research). Then, today, they announced they have acquired Sharper Agent, a technology provider providing online and print marketing suites for agents. They are obviously incredibly focused…

This is a common SEO question I hear quite often — does having your target keywords in your domain name help you SEO efforts? For those of you wondering about the answer to that question, here is Matt Cutts from Google on the subject (he…

The topic of discussion for #retechchat tomorrow will be iPad Apps. If you have questions, want to learn, or just want to lurk – join the conversation tomorrow at 6 PM PST / 9 PM EST. Remember, you can vote for future topics here. For those who want…

My buddy Darin posted a great reminder regarding the importance of taking care of your home turf (aka your backyard) when it comes to sphere building. Go read it. Sphere building is something I’ve spent a lot, and I mean a lot, of time thinking…

The topic of tonight’s #retechchat was Outsourcing, a topic I’ve thought a fair amount about over the past few years (and I need to outsource more myself, but that’s a topic for another day on my personal blog). Ultimately, the decision to outsource comes down to…

Based on the responses (you can vote here), it looks like the topic of discussion for #retechchat tonight will be Outsourcing. If you have questions, want to learn, or just want to lurk – join the conversation tonight at 6 PM PST / 9 PM EST….

My friend Jimmy Mackin posted an amazingly detailed overview of all the functionality of Facebook pages. If you are looking to better understand how to use pages, I highly encourage you to head over to his blog and read it.

My good friends over at Diverse Solutions released a brand new site design about a week ago (I’m been behind with this blog post). Having just recently gone through our own site redesign for Virtual Results, I know full well the amount of work that…

The topic of tonight’s #retechchat was Google+. Here is the text document that I saved for those who want to browse through the entire discussion: Download it HERE (best to use TextEdit on a Mac from what I hear). Alternatively, you can view the discussion on TwapperKeeper under the #retechchat…

The acquisition of SocialBios by Move is a smart strategic move. Why? Several reasons It’s “social” — which means it’ll generate some buzz in the industry (the fact that this post has 55 re-tweets should tell you something) and give their sales team something else…