Today’s lesson in using social media websites like Facebook to do Internet marketing will be short and sweet. If you run an ad on Facebook like this: Don’t have it take people to a webpage like this: Any questions?
Welcome to Don Loper. Curious about the name?
Don Loper is a collection of commentary by Utah SEO firm proprietor Joshua Steimle on the topics of business and entrepreneurship, web design, search engine optimization, search engine marketing, and business in Utah.
The most popular feature is "You might be an entrepreneur if..." It started with my post entitled What it Means to be an Entrepreneur and now I'm in the process of adding detail to each of the 75 points I came up with based on my own experiences.
Approximately a year ago I bought a Macbook Pro and tried to figure out the best way to continue using Quickbooks. My conclusion was that it was best to continue running Quickbooks on my old Windows machine, but there were obvious downsides to this arrangement. One of the commenters on that post suggested using VMWare [...]
Every time I try my hand at a new business everyone thinks I’m shutting MWI down or quitting MWI or something like that, so let me make the disclaimer that nothing is changing with MWI. MWI continues to do high-end SEO work, as ever, but I’ve always got side projects going on here and there, [...]
I’ve been a Comcast Business Internet customer for something going on 5-6 years, but now I’m canceling the service, or rather, I’m trying to. Unfortunately they require 30-day notice, and a 75% fee on what’s left on the term, which doesn’t end until June in 5 months, meaning it will cost me a few hundred [...]
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2011 in Review
At the beginning of 2011 I made a resolution to be more social, you know, get out of the dungeon, get some sunlight, and talk to people face to face again. I started inviting a lot of people to lunch for no other reason than that I wanted to engage in the art of speaking, [...]
I’ve never had a formal board or advisory board for my company. But I do have mentors, friends, my wife, and other associates, and from time to time I’ve received input from them that has been of great value to me. One such event happened yesterday. But to give some backstory… 2-3 years ago I [...]
I’m a simple man with simple needs. I assume there are others out there with similar needs. In a free market, one would assume that the needs of a viable consumer base would be met, perhaps even prior to that consumer base being aware of their own need. And yet I have been looking for [...]
Sometimes you come up with a stupid idea that you just can’t let go of, like jumping off the roof of your house with an umbrella, or going back in time to 1940, not to kill Hitler, but just shave off Hitler’s mustache while he’s sleeping and then see how that ends up being recorded [...]
I recently read The Google Story and am currently reading In the Plex, both of which are biographical pieces covering the history of Google, its founders Brin and Page, its employees, business relationships, and so forth. As I’ve read these books I’ve been able to get some insight into Google’s core business model, which is [...]
I had an interesting dream last night. I was wading across a stream when suddenly I got swept away in the water. At first it was kind of fun as the water gently flowed along, and I didn’t fight it. But then I saw rapids up ahead and realized I was in trouble. I started [...]
