This was my second year attending Pubcon, a “Search, Web 2.0, Net Marketing, SEO/SEM, Affiliates, Domainers, Video, Multimedia : aka: Webmastery.” That’s a lot of words needed to describe a conference, but it’s fairly accurate, as Pubcon covers quite a wide range of topics. Which is one of the things I love about it.

The keynote that really stood out was by George Wright of Blendtec. I wasn’t all that familiar with the Blendtec ad campaign before the conference, but I still found George to be an excellent speaker who did a great job telling the story of a tiny company who increased their sales 700% all thanks to a marketing campaign started with $50.

Yesterday, our company purchased Mozy Pro to help us with our daily backups. We have a database file, a few gigabytes big, that’s important to have a daily backup of. Instead of backing it up to tape and worrying about bringing a tape home every day, Mozy automatically uploads the changes made to the file.*
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At my job, we are constantly looking for ways to improve our landing pages. Our main goal is not to sell something to someone when they arrive, but instead to interest them enough to sign up for our free mailing list. You’d think it would be easy to give something away for free, right?

 
Well, it’s not! People are very wary of giving their email addresses away, thanks to all those lovely princes of Nigeria who would like to send us money if we would be kind enough to send them a few hundred dollars first.

I’ve been grumbling a bit the past few days because of the new iPhone. Not because I’m not getting one – believe me, I’d love one, but I’m perfectly happy with my LG env2 with free internet (albeit, WAP browser internet). Instead, I am annoyed that all of my Google Reader feeds have turned into iPhone this, iPhone that. But I understand that a lot of people have iPhone on the mind, and that this will all die down in a few days.

Last night, my wife and I headed over to Salem Beer Works after work to hang out with the Build Guild. This was our first time attending a networking event for the “web inclined”, as you might call them – a mix of web developers, designers, and pretty much anyone else involved or interested in [...]