I live in Vermont. In the capital city, Montpelier. We had a bit of rain the last few days as you can see.
If you can’t see the video, head on over to the blog to check it out.
My town was flooded. Water and downed branches were everywhere. Power flickered and went out. People had to be evacuated. In a word, it was bad. There even were tornado sightings.
Thankfully, I live on a hill (and I always will for as long as I’m in this state, after this). So I’ve been safe and dry this whole time. Dealing with this on top of my usual work load has thrown me off schedule a bit, so this post is rather late in the day–sorry about that.
Links
- How SEOmoz Gained 1000s of Visits from Google News (You Can Too)
- SEO Smart Links Plugin – I get asked a lot what plugins are “must have.” This is one of ‘em.
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- From Ripe to Ready: Nurturing Leads Increases Sales Conversion
- Who Tweets? – Pew research data. Important if you market on Twitter.
- Want to Get Motivated? Find an Enemy
- What Secrets do Remarkablogger’s Palms Reveal? – Well, I guess you’re just gonna hafta click through to find out…
Blogs
- Susannah Conway – Photographer, writer & creator of the Unravelling e-courses. I discovered the delightful Susannah through a friend on Twitter. Very classy and unique-looking blog.
- Back at the Ranch with Paula – She calls her blog “coffee” which I found out when I asked her where her blog was (I suppose I can let this one slide, but beware getting “cute” with things like basic navigation). Anyway, beautiful site and interesting woman: architectural historian working to document and preserve the cultural legacy of Kansas.
- Visual Selling – A brand spankin’ new blog from my blog consulting client Dave Schaefer. We soft-launched it. Not a lot of content there, yet. I love his take on selling though and how visual selling works by engaging the whole brain instead of just the left side. Show him some love if you can by retweeting and liking his home page? Thanks!
- Dangerous Tactics – Friend and client Christian Russell has his own take on online lead-generation. I helped him out with a quick site review and when he ran with the suggestions his traffic and responses went all explody. He writes with gusto: short, not-so-sweet (in a good way) and to-the-point.
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Wow now I have follows your blog for quite some time and I have no idea how I managed to miss that we are in the same state. Just one more reason why I love this blog!
Glad you love it! Whereabouts are you?
Glad you & your’s are okay, Michael! I’m sick of hearing about natural disasters (or, not sick of hearing about them, but just sick of them, you know what I mean hopefully). Joplin is my hometown and the tornado there has made every bad thing I’ve heard about since hit much closer to home, because now I know how it feels to have friends and family in the path of that.
Anyways! Thanks for the links – the email version is especially awesome this time around.
Have a great week, Michael!
Thanks for the kind words, and yeah… Joplin… holy shit. Do you still
live there? I’ve been thinking of moving out to the southwest. Not much
disaster happening there.
I don’t still live there, my husband and I moved to Austin about two years ago. There’s not much going on here disaster wise, unless you count the ungodly heat in the summer. I think in the time we lived here there’s been one incident of flooding (and it wasn’t really bad flooding, and part of it was because they don’t properly drain the streets). Thankfully, all of my family and loved ones in Joplin were unharmed and still have homes, including one cousin who somehow survived his friend’s house being torn down around him. My dad’s workplace was destroyed though (the hospital that’s been on the news as being totaled), and my mom’s was damaged with an estimated 6 months of repairs needed, so neither of them have jobs any more. : / But everyone is safe and that’s the important thing.
Epic comment is epic! Sorry for the length, succintness is not my strong point.
Oh good, I’m glad the fam is okay. And yes that’s the important thing. Jobs
are (even still in this economy) a lot more replaceable than people. This
ain’t twitter… talk all you want.
This is very dangerous things and i didn’t think at that time what can i do for it?