Business Partners

Engine Yard
On-demand deployment and management of Ruby on Rails applications with Engine Yard Cloud.

Steve Johnston: Google Consultant
I pride myself in being an incisive consultant, who can, at very modest levels of commitment in terms of time and money, help direct a Google strategy to meet my client's objectives.

Fearless Branding
A Fearless Brand Idea differentiates your business emotionally, functionally and aesthetically, and provides the foundation to make your sales and marketing more effective. Talk to Robert Friedman! You'll never think about branding in quite the same way.

Web.com: No Cost SEO Review
We partner with web.com because they provide our small business clients with the same ethical Search Engine optimization services they offer to some of the world's largest companies like Wells Fargo and IBM.

Internent Marketing, Tools and Blogs

Backlink Checker
A free tool to find out how many sites link back to yours. Search Engines use the number of backlinks as one factor in determining your search engine ranking.

Brand Autopsy Blog
John Moore shares the "many business lessons he learned from working deep inside the marketing departments" of Starbucks and Whole Foods. Funny and informative.

David Meerman Scott: Web Ink Now
Online thought leadership and viral marketing strategies using blogs, news releases, ebooks and online media.

Design*Sponge
Reviews, articles, features, rant and raves on all things design-related.

eMarketer
The Internet business research source with over 25,000 charts, tables and articles aggregated from over 1,300 sources worldwide.

Google Knol
Knol is a free service from to communicate, collaborate, and share your expertise. Position yourself as an expert on Knol.

Linking Matters Report
A free report to help website owners and publishers plan effective linking strategies - includes guidelines, worksheets and over 50 articles on linking.

Press Release Grader
HubSpot's free Press Release Grader evaluates your press release and provides a marketing effectiveness score. Give it a try.

MarketingTool.com
A comprehensive online directory of Web designers, Flash experts, Photographers, Copywriters, PR agencies and more.

Search Engine Watch
From Search Engine submission tips to reviews, ratings and tests, this site is a great resource. Sign-up for their free newsletter.

Tech Crunch
Dedicated to obsessively profiling and reviewing new Internet products and companies since 2005.