Digital Marketer Blake Smith

The Best Place to Hide a Dead Body is Page Two of Google The Best Place to Hide a Dead Body is Page Two of Google. If you want to grow your business, the second page fo Google just isn't going to cut it. If you want more leads, sales, and revenue, than get in touch to grow your Google rankings and achieve business success. Graphic by digital marketer Blake Smith

Get the low down on  email plans and what plan suits your needs best - Personal (POP), Deluxe (POP), or Unlimited (IMAP). Check out the webs best E-mail plans  HERE. POP3 or IMAP?!? POP (Post Office Protocol)  delivers your mail from the server at once, “popping” it off the server. You connect to your mail server and download a copy of your messages via POP, and then disconnect. POP deletes mail from the server by default. As it is retrieved by you, this email is downloaded off the server. You can opt to leave a copy of the message on the server to be downloaded again later if necessary (there are settings for this in Outlook, for example), but there is synchronization between your device and your mail server so the changes you make in Outlook will not be reflected on your phone, or vice versa. The advantages are: A local copy of your email. Very little remote server storage space overhead required (if emails are deleted from the server as they are re...

Picture courtesy of IowaFiscal.org - http://www.iowafiscal.org/2012research/120412-IFP-collegeaid.html This is an old draft (please excuse the grammatical errors!) of a paper I wrote for a macroeconomics course. Thought it would make a good blog post as I reminisce through some old e-mails, several years old in fact. Overview The Iowa College Student Aid Commission is the state agency that administers the Iowa Tuition Grant for Iowa students attending not-for-profit independent colleges and universities. Last spring we authorized Financial Aid Administrators to provide awards of up to $4,000, the maximum award allowed by law. The recent economic downfall has led to the drops in state revenue, thus ICSAC will reduce the grant by $435 for the remainder of the year. While the maximum award has been lowered to $3,565. The full reduction will affect students scheduled to receive awards totaling $1,000 to $2,000 for the remainder of the academic year. All students scheduled to rece...

Why is it that certain popular cultures and sub-cultures feel as though they identify with a certain brand? After all these items, especially fashion, are made out of cotton and thread, rubber and canvas, plastic and wires. Any certain combination of cotton and thread is NOT unique to YOU. It is called a BRAND for a reason! I saw a post referring to the above photo, stating that "this is (the reason) why I want to destroy my Vans". There is nothing unique about Vans and whatever culture you identify yourself with. They buy their shoes at the same store as you, and your teenage angst is not exemplified by wearing them. It's just a brand. It isn't unique. You are. Just do  wear it. By  Blake Smith

One day Google  will take over the world, knowing our whereabouts and happenings of all of us at all times... I can't wait. The fact that this technology is not that far away is both awe-inspring and awful. This kind of technological advancement will always create mass amounts of furor and virality , but will it really make our lives better? Soon enough will we all be walking around looking like  Keanu Reeves in "The Matrix ."  I really hope this little gem is executed perfectly and we are all walking around talking to ourselves, in our own little augmented reality. By  Blake Smith

Ok well first of all, this is the plane I am going to be travelling on in approx. 40 minutes: Cozy isn't it? The hood news is that after the flight I will be in CHICAGO!!! Even though it is somewhat of a business trip, I am really looking forward to checking out some of my fave shops downtown.  Blazer - $99 - by H&M H&M is one of my all-time favourite stores and is one that I will definitely be checking out. They always have pretty good deals and i'm hoping to catch some good ones on the sales rack! With that being said, it is time to board for my flight. Wish me safe travels and feel free to share your fave new releases by your brand/s of choice! By  Blake Smith

This is a cool little video that shows just how hard one has to work to achieve greatness, and can be a great little motivational tool for aspiring young people Regardless of the profession, art, or sport one is striving for, there is one thing for certain: To achieve true greatness, the only thing that can surpass your level of hard work are your aspirations to be great. So there's my word for today. Go out and be great. By  Blake Smith