Russ Page
Exploring the Art & Science of Marketing
Utah Freedom Run
Aug 1st
Schedule:
10:00 AM Pick up auctioned vehicles at Luxe Automotive
11:30 AM Registration at Thanksgiving Point
12:00 PM Drivers Meeting/Orientation
1:00 PM Drink Break – Alpine Summit
1:15 PM Drive through Sundance to Park City
2:10 PM Arrive at Downtown Park City – Enjoy Snacks
3:15 PM Leave Park City. Drive through Emigration Canyon
4:30 PM Arrive at Miller Motorsports Park in Tooele
5:00 PM Lead – Follow on track experience at medium speeds
5:30 PM Museum Tour
6:00 PM VIP Dinner in Executive Clubhouse
*Times subject to change
American Idol tryouts for Salt Lake City, Utah
Jul 15th
Looking for American Idol’s Utah auditions?
Salt Lake City, July 29.
WHERE:
EnergySolutions Arena
301 W. South Temple
Salt Lake City, UT 84101
REGISTRATION DAYS: JULY 27-28 2008
Other Dates
San Francisco, July 17.
Louisville, July 21.
Phoenix, July 25.
San Juan, Puerto Rico, Aug. 2.
Kansas City, Aug. 8.
Jacksonville, Fla., Aug. 13.
East Rutherford, N.J., Aug. 19.
Ben Sollee
Jul 10th
I’ve really been enjoying Ben Sollee’s music. He plays a mean cello and has a nice cover of the Sam Cooke song “Change is Gonna Come. (myspace)”
“A Few Honest Words” is another great one, which is only found on his website.
While you’re at it check out Jamie Lidell . . . He’s a slender Englishman who sounds like a Southern soul singer from the ’60s. Great sound.
Pork and Beans YouTube/Weezer video
May 23rd
The media markets
May 7th
Seth Godin said it better than I could have, but this is how I now describe it.
“The media markets. The product they sell is drama.”
He continues . . .
There isn’t media bias in favor of Hillary (my friend Jeff is the first to point that out). Nor is there media bias in favor of floods. There’s media bias in favor of drama.
Most of us are inclined to believe that government officials, doctors and the media are making an effort to tell us the truth. Actually, just like all marketers, they tell us a story.
photo via Flickr
Why doesn’t my website show up in Google?
May 6th
My wife sent me an email from one of her friends asking why a website didn’t show up in a search engine.
It was kind of a fun exercise to see if I could explain to someone the “why” knowing they didn’t know anything about why. Here’s what I came up with. Anything you would have added? Anything you would have said differently knowing the person had zero knowledge of how a search engine works?
Name Withheld:
The site is probably not showing up because of a couple of reasons.
Your site may be too new.
(Google, Yahoo!, MSN) don’t actually scour the Internet when you type something into Google for example. A company like Google uses mathematic algorithms to look for web pages, but those algorithms (called spiders or bots) only visit a site every so often. When the spider visits the site, that information is then stored on a Google server that then points to the servers that your web site is hosted on. So when you type something into Google, Google shows you what its search engine spiders found the last time it visited your site.
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