Happy New Year! And a Prank… Wanted to pop on real quick and share a quick story w/ everyone… As many of you that follow me on Twitter already know, we just had our annual Christmas / New Years party for ProspectMX. It was a blast and quite frankly one of the funniest things that I’ve ever been a part of… and NO I didn’t prank anyone… the prank was on me. Rory Wilfong, one of our 3 founders pulled the best trick I’ve ever had pulled on me… first a bit of back story.

Now those of you that know me personally know that I’m not really an arrogant jackhole! I know I come off that way in some of our meetings… but hey, I’m opiniated! So after hearing that I’m a little cocky from the founders I started playing it up - BIG TIME… finishing sentences w/ “Because I’m kind of a big deal on the Internets” (which always gets a laugh, but drives the point home) LOL I digress. So one day in a meeting I even bought / registered / and put up a page at www.ImKindOfaBigDealOnTheInternets.com which just has a picture of me on it… again, me being a smart ass… And I should probably point out that this has been going on for a few months now.

Hey all… just a quick note to say Merry Christmas from all of us here at ProspectMx! And I would also like to call out any of our non-profit friends and say PLEASE go enter yourselves in our PMX Christmas Wish contest! We are giving away $10,000.00 USD worth of Internet Marketing to one lucky non-profit… All you need to do to enter is write a blog post about how your non-profit could use SEO / SEM or Internet Marketing, then come and leave a comment on our post with a link to your post and your entered! It’s really that easy There are also some great runner up SEO prizes! So be sure to take a bit of time and create a winning entry TODAY!
For now enjoy some newb tips from (most) of the team at PMX!

Here’s to you and yours this Amazing holiday season!

David Brown

SEO Chief in Geek

Sexy Title eh?  Sexy titles aside let me just take a minute to point out the fact that I VERY SELDOM endorse anything! Am I one of those geek elitist’s? Yeah a little, but mostly, it’s the fact that I’ve been screwed by eBooks promising fruitful knowledge, How-To do x,y, or z only to be told near the end of a ridiculously long read that I’m going to need to buy something else… Great! How far down the rabbit hole do you continue to follow that? I still believe that the best things in life are free!

And with all the crap ebooks out there who has the time to waste anymore? So needless to say I was more than a bit Leary when David asked me if I’d review his ebook “Sticky SEO” I looked at his site, then I saw the ‘Sales page’ - not to worry, David just has a great sense of humor! After all a Sales Page for a Free ebook, I don’t care who ya are, that’s funny!

While David calls this new algorithm the “usefullness Algorithm” Any of you that have listened to Brian and I for the last few years know that we’ve been preaching about “Universal Search” well it’s finally here! Matt Cutts said in an interview w/ Mike McDonald that Universal Search is hitting Shelves Q1 of ‘09! Plain and simple this is a 25 page ebook w/ some real down to earth common sense.

So as we got up this morning and realized that the trees have all changed colors, some of our plants are dying from the cold… and we still don’t know our way around very well after having been here for 3 months now… We decided it was time to go and do some GeoCaching! Now I have been using a Garmin hand held just like the guys over at GeoTeaming.com told me to when I got started in the game. Now in hindsight - I wish I would have gone a bit more high tech (being that I’m a puter geek an all).

So before we set out to go this morning I realized I needed to plug the ‘ol iPhone in for a charge if we were going to be out of the house for a bit. Then it hit me… I wonder if there’s an app @ the app store for geocaching? 1 Googly woogly later and I’m downloading a $9.99 app (the good ones usually require you to buy them) and I must say at under 10 bucks - turning my phone into a $300 GPS tracking device = BRILLIANT!

Oh yeah… And sorry first gen’ers this won’t work on your iphone… just the new ones! I’m pretty excited to see this thing in action… we’ll still bring the other GPS (since this hunt is in beta) and @mrsneo can run that one… Will be nice to see which gets a better signal and which gets us closer to the prize at the end of the trail!

Yeah you read that right! Go out and VOTE people! Enjoy the day, and be happy that we get to vote and choose our next leader! I do want to let you all know about a very serious problem that we have here on the internets… Jon Stewart covered this a few years ago - and I just don’t think that enough people paid attention to the underlying issues of congestion and clogging! So here to explain w/ a short video - Jon Stewart from the daily show!

Now that you understand better how the internets works… give it a break today and lets make sure everyones Vote gets counted!