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For the second consecutive year, search engine and social media marketing agency, Anvil Media, ranked in Portland Business Journal’s Fastest-Growing Private 100 Companies. At the PBJ Fastest Growing Companies awards reception, Anvil received recognition as the 32nd fastest growing private company in Oregon. Anvil has received previous recognition from Portland Business Journal, including 10th Fastest [...]

Ellington Leather CEO Mike Edwards has an interesting professional journey to say the least. He began his career as a buyer at May Department Stores, working his way up the food chain at Target, CompUSA,  Golfsmith, West Marine and Jo Ann Stores before transitioning into the executive suite at lucy activewear.
As CEO at lucy, he [...]

At Online Marketing Summit (OMS) in San Diego, I met Liza Tewell, online editor for REI.com. As a native Seattleite, I’ve always been impressed with the organization. I asked if she would be open to an interview, and she said yes. Below is the complete interview with Liza.
How did you end up as Online Editor [...]

Last night on the The Daily Show, Jon Stewart referenced an old Muppet’s sketch featuring Muppet Scat, after which he challenged viewers to do a Google search on “muppet scat” to see the results. Within hours, it became the most searched term on the Web. The power of Comedy Central, Daily Show and Jon Stewart [...]

A few months ago, I waas asked to write a 400 word essay on marketing in the social media age for The Project 100. The innovative concept of crowd-sourcing a book was the brainchild of Jeff Caswell, social media marketing evangelist based in Chicago.  It was an honor to be selected one of one hundred [...]

The third annual SEMpdx SearchFest will be held March 10th at the Oregon Zoo.  Danny Sullivan, the godfather of search engine marketing (as well as SearchEngineWatch, Search Engine Strategies, SearchEngineLand and SMX) will keynote the daylong SEM conference. Having co-created the original SearchFest in 2005, the SEMpdx board has taken the industry event to a [...]

Having just finished Malcolm Gladwell’s new book, Outliers: The Story of Success, my head is spinning once again. As Gladwell has done in the past with The Tipping Point and Blink, he managed to get me thinking about whole new ways of living and doing business. In that vein, The Outliers successfully argued that we [...]

I recently posted Anvil Media’s annual news release on the Portland Advertising Federation blog, as I didn’t want to bore you with the details on my own blog.  It’s a fairly positive big of reportage with plenty of good news, as we had a good year despite the economy. In a nutshell, Anvil expects 20 [...]