Independence…and online marketing 7.5.18

One Of The Web’s Most Prolific Online Marketing Writers Has Been Promoting His Clients In Articles For Forbes, Entrepreneur, And Inc. Magazine
“And I got my hands up / They’re playin’ my song / I know I’m gonna be ok / Yeah, it’s a party in the USA”

Buried by the Ash of Vesuvius, These Scrolls Are Being Read for the First Time in Millennia
“Don’t want to be an American idiot / One nation controlled by the media / Information age of hysteria / It’s calling out to idiot America”

Back story: Why, how Scot Wingo turns startup Spiffy into a national car maintenance player
“They come from the cities / and they come from the smaller towns / Beat up cars with guitars and drummers / Goin crack boom bam … Voices from nowhere / and voices from the larger towns / Filled our head full of dreams / Turned the world upside down”

Google Testing Large Product Knowledge Panel With Paid & Organic Features
“Well she was an American girl / Raised on promises / She couldn’t help thinkin’ that there / Was a little more to life somewhere else / After all it was a great big world / with lots of places to run to”

How Amazon Steers Shoppers to Its Own Products
“So bye-bye, miss American pie / Drove my Chevy to the levee, but the levee was dry.”

I Delivered Packages for Amazon and It Was a Nightmare
“When the jester sang for the king and queen / in a coat he borrowed from James Dean / and a voice that came from you and me/ Oh, and while the king was looking down / the jester stole his thorny crown / the courtroom was adjourned / no verdict was returned”