Hugh Macleod: Death to the Social Media Dotcom Douchebags

According to Hugh Macleod there are too many “Dotcom Douchebags” out there spewing mass amounts of useless, meaningless content that clutters the web and your brain. Social media, marketing, and most especially advertising professionals were singled out in this talk as a generalization of who spreads the crap out there online. Hugh is hysterical in…

Local Passion: It’s Just a Start But That’s What Matters

Part of Salty Waffle is our blog, our hope is that it provides people out there with helpful information with which to better their business and themselves. We focus on social media; highlighting tools, methods, experiences, and relaying information that hopefully translates into success for your business. Naturally, we have a soft spot in our…

Salty Swag: The Grand Opening! Our Shiny New Zazzle Store

Salty Waffle is proud to announce the grand opening of our shiny new Zazzle store. Dubbed ‘Salty Swag’, it is the only place to go to get to the gear you need to show off your Salty Waffle pride. I personally designed many of the products we have and we will gladly help you make…

My SEO Quest | Defeat New Zealand: The Conclusion

Well, my grand quest to defeat the other ‘Mitchell Cuevas’ from New Zealand through SEO tactics turned out to be more of a massacre than the battle I expected. I have Salty Waffle to thank for the fact that today, well before the end of the year, New Zealand has fallen. I searched my name…

Events Drive Social Media: The VMA Twitter Storm Spectacular

This past Sunday, MTV’s Video Music Awards were at the center of the twitterverse (Twitter universe). If you watched, you no doubt noticed how many times they would check the tweets related to the event. They tracked tweets for artists and then encouraged the audience and viewers to keep tweeting. As of Monday night, there…

The Other Networks Part III: Flickr

Let’s take a minute to pause and remember the tragedy our nation suffered nine years ago on this day with the attack on the World Trade Center. This article was influenced by this day and by a piece featured on Mashable that I encourage you to check out. There was also a History channel piece…

Gone in .06 Seconds: A Marketing and SEO Oversight That Hurt

Nicolas Cage may be able to steal six figure valued cars in less than 60 seconds, but here is how failing to keep up on your presence in social media, Google, and the press could cost you say, $50,000 every .06 seconds. A recent experience in my hunt for housing last month reminded me of…