Oregon

For Anvil’s Q1 field trip, we tapped our favorite winter friends, Club DreamLife for a snow day on Mt. Hood.  We packed the cars with employees, food and warm clothes and headed to Timothy Lake, where we met up with the DreamLife crew. As usual, the DreamLife crew gave us the red carpet treatment with [...]

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 [...]

I have to say that I’m impressed with with Portland’s Movers by Moov. Last fall, we used Moov based on a friend’s recommendation. During the move, the crew were friendly and professional, but managed to damage a few things in the moving process. Initially, the owner discounted the total bill when we informed him that [...]

A company of smart and talented people are walking through the dark and bumping into barriers.  They’ve figured out their own individual ways to adapt to the dark and navigate around these barriers as best as they can.  But, this is negatively affecting the company as a whole, as reflected by the numbers.  So in attempt [...]

Formic Media Inc, a Portland-based search engine marketing (SEM) agency servicing small and local businesses, is now hiring for two primary positions. The job openings are currently posted on CraigsList:
SEM Account Executive
SEM Specialist
For more information about Formic Media, visit the SEM SMB blog. To apply, follow the instructions on the job postings. Stay tuned for [...]

Two years ago, a major player in the world of online business directories, approached me to develop a customized search engine marketing (SEM) service offering for small and local-based companies. Having focused Anvil Media on servicing Fortune 1000 companies, I hadn’t spent much time considering a scalable SEM service model. Over the next week or [...]

When I logged into my Facebook profile, I found a message from Kevin regarding a sweet offer from Portland-based McCormick & Schmick’s Seafood Restaurants: get $20 off your next dinner when you print the $20 off coupon, make a reservation online and bring your confirmation in.  Pretty low bar in order to get a free [...]

For those of you that may not already know, I’ve been a long-time supporter of Oregon’s early literacy reading program for struggling students.  In 2003, I created SMART Gala to raise awareness for the SMART reading program among a new generation of volunteer readers and financial supporters. Over the course of 4 years, Anvil Media [...]

I’m spending the day at Internet Strategy Forum Summit West conference in Portland, Oregon. Charlene Li, co-author of Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies, kicked of the event with a keynote based on the concept and title of her book, Groundswell. She initially outlined the four step approach to the groundswell, [...]

Hallie and I attended The Portland Business Journal’s 2008 Fastest Growing Private 100 Companies reception tonight at Portland Art Museum. We represented Anvil Media, the only search engine marketing (SEM) firm to make the PBJ Fastest Growing 100 List. Needless to say, we were pleasantly surprised with the outcome. After watching clients [...]