Portland

To prepare for Internet Strategy Forum Summit West July 24th at The Governor Hotel, I’m hosting a series of interviews with keynote speakers for this year’s theme, Titans of E. My second interview is with Katherine Durham, Vice President of Marketing, Imaging & Printing Group, Americas at Hewlett-Packard.
Q: Please give us a brief background of [...]

To prepare for Internet Strategy Forum Summit West July 24th at The Governor Hotel, I’m hosting a series of interviews with keynote speakers for this year’s theme, Titans of E. My first interview is with Lisa Welchman, Founding Partner of WelchmanPierpoint.
Q: Please give us a brief background of your career; how did you end up [...]

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 [...]

I originally read about SeaPort Airlines in the Portland Business Journal. When they first announced flights to Seattle’s Boeing Field, I decided to contact them and see if they could use Anvil Media’s help with search engine marketing.  I was intrigued by the concept of TSA-free travel, easy parking and the convenience of landing 10 [...]

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 recently had the pleasure of listening to Lou Tice from The Pacific Institute speak about achieving one’s full potential. The Entrepreneur’s Organization (EO) event, held in Seattle, included members from the Vancouver BC, Seattle and Portland chapters. While I’m always impressed with EO presenters at educational events, I was particularly struck by the serendipitous [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Search engine marketing agency Anvil Media Inc. scored big in the 2009 edition of Portland Business Journal’s Book of Lists, appearing on 4 separate lists:
-10th Fastest Growing Private Company (ranked by percentage of growth 2005-2007)
-12th Largest Interactive Agency (ranked by 2007 revenue)
-15th in Corporate Philanthropy (ranked by cash donations for companies under $10 million in [...]