Presentation to FedEx conference in Greensboro, NC discusses how to create hits in a crowded world.

Web designers shouldn't be SEO experts since keeping up with DESIGN is a full-time job. But web designers are where SEO rubber meets the Google Road so understanding a handful of ideas is critical to the online success of any designers creations.

Asking the right questions in the right way is key to online marketing success. How SMBs can compete with Amazon isn't as important as what is their why and how are they learning from Amazon's web marketing power.

We shocked a SEO Meetup suggesting 90% curation to 10% content creation. This deck explains why you MUST curate content. Content curation is a CSF (Crtical Success Factor) for online marketing.

Social Media It's The Conversation, Stupid is about the new rules of branding being created by a social world.

Successful content marketing engages over time. Engagement needs online community and a role shift from content creators to community curators and GAME creators.

Warren Buffet's tips for startups as Bill Gates says, "Stick 'em up".

Biggest challenge to great web marketing may be learning to THINK like an Internet marketer. Here are 5 Secret Tips to help you become a great IMer.

Hero Marketing combines passion, customer focus, exponential thinking and the creation of movements to help Small to Medium Sized Businesses (SMBs) compete with Amazon.

How can SMBs (Small to Medium Sized Businesses) overcome the web's vicious catch-22 - winning requires scale and scale needs winning? Disrupt or die and burn down your website.

Content curation is becoming the next big thing. Use these tools to reduce costs and increase profits from your content curation.

There is a new invisible giant, a giant using 5 "tricks" so the "new seo" is hard and harder to see and understand. This Haiku Deck and Curatti blog post is about how to see the invisible giant. How to win hearts, minds and loyalty online.

8 Visual Marketing Tips From Vogue

After almost 14 years an Internet marketer and the last two as Marketing Director for Raleigh's largest web and software design agency I know people need HELP buying web design.

Connection, our human ability to listen, share and respond, is the new ecommerce. This Haiku Deck is in support of Marty Smith's Keynote talk at FedEx Connection Conference 7.30.14.

Crowdfunding's real explosion will come at the enterprise level. Combine with advanced loyalty and gamification crowdfunding becomes a new marketing channel.

After Curagami's annual Black Friday online retail study ecommerce 2015 trends such as free returns and ship to store are clear. This Haiku Deck explores trending online retailing tactics, strategy and pressures merchants will face in 2015.

Fires happen to every website no matter how careful their overseers. Fires destroy value. Today's online marketing fires are complex and intertwined requiring specialized cross functional teams to extinguish. These teams are called Hellfighters.

Crowdfunding may be the ultimate "in your face" DIY (Do It Yourself) disruption. Much like the CLASH's "punk ethos", so well described in The Future Is Unwritten the biopic documentary film about Joe Strummer, marketers must create content and community with authenticity and awesome, daring and original content.

As social media changes the web marketers need to inspire the kind of commitment, support and contribution made popular by Wiki-pedia - the Wiki-ization of Marketing.

Creating a distributed content network with widgets is a vast blue ocean of low cost, high reward Internet marketing. Won't be that way for long.

Haiku Deck demonstrates elements needed for successful SaaS model.

Which comes first ecommerce strategy or tactics? Trick question. Doesn't matter as long as you end up swimming in a blue ocean.