SmashingRed™ Web & Marketing

Here is where I kill my blog!

The other night I was driving home from the grocery store and noticed two women walking up to a restaurant to find in frustration that it was closed—at 6:30 in the evening. I know that this little European sandwich shop closes at 4:30PM because I had done the very same thing as the two women.
The [...]

Yesterday, I said that you were a marketer and that one of the ways to take hold of your marketing was to do something now. While that is a bit of an oversimplification, I want to discuss the “do something now” as one of the ways you can improve your business overnight.
Like many small business [...]

Some of you may already know this but just to reiterate: you are a marketer. And, to make it even more powerful, your competition are marketers. And, to really bring it home, some of your competition are better at it than you.
Small business owners all to often think that they offer a product or service [...]

SmashingRed has been around for over a year and a half now and I have learned lots. I have worked with a number of clients to help meet their objectives and goals and continue to do so in the future.
Help Smart Small Business Get the Web Right
In the past few months, working on website projects [...]

Although there has been a drought of posts here, that hasn’t meant things haven’t been busy. Tracy, my wife of 11 years started a blog to support her hand-made baby blanket business, Snug-A-Bug Blankets. She has been making high end baby blankets from beautiful prints and the really soft minky fabric and selling them on [...]

The Title Is All Wrong
Catching up on posts this morning I came across this post from Steve Rucinski (whose posts I go out of my way to read) at BizInformer. Steve wrote, “…this company (www.sitekreator.com) is actually integrating the underlying basic principles and technical capabilities to help businesses improve customer relationships by developing a better [...]

Doing the Actions of Business is What Really Tests the Business Owner
Running a business that helps other business has been and continues to be an incredible learning experience. I read a lot about how to run and develop a business, about better ways to integrate marketing technologies, about management, customer service, and more. It is [...]

Called Out Via TrackBack
After posting yesterday about Baekdal’s post. I got a trackback from here that talked suggested that it was content light and mostly “a gushing piece of love for the actual story”.
The thing is—is that it was the first time that I found someone who mirrored many of my feelings towards Web 2.0, [...]

A Kindred Spirit
I came across a post today that reinforces my true feelings about the hype and flutter that surrounds Web 2.0. It goes on to argue as to why AJAX is often misrepresented and misused in application development.
The reason for my distaste for Web 2.0 is because it is a label that gets applied [...]