In a Recession and building construction is on hold there is a lot of heavy, earth moving equipment sitting idle... particularly in Las Vegas.  An enterprising firm in Las Vegas has opened a heavy equipment theme park that allows you to fulfill your dreams by renting heavy earthmover equipment with a few hundred bucks, a valid driver's license and a penchant to move dirt.... lots of dirt.

Tired of just playing with the equipment?  Truck School Jobs is a great place in Florida where you can find a school to get your real CDL Class A License and you can actually stop playing and start making money with that skill.  If you have questions you can visit the Truck School Jobs site at www.TruckSchoolJobs.com

For the full article on MSNBC, you can visit www.MSNBC.com and read about the Heavy Equipment Earth Mover Theme Park called Dig This.

MSNBC reports that Facebook has shutdown Facebook Deals, their attempt to compete with Groupon.  The rumor is that the Groupon model is simply unsustainable.  I suspect that there is retailer backlash at the heavy handed discounts required by Groupon (50% of gross profit) and their advertising costs are simply too high.  I also wonder that paid search advertising is their primary driver and Google has a way of deciding what the bid amounts are..... food for thought.

MSNBC full story

http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/social.media/08/29/facebook.kills.deals.mashable/index.html?hpt=hp_bn7

For almost a year, we have been helping Malcolm Anthony and his law firm dominate the search engines for highly specific keywords such as "DUI Attorney ." The competition {toughcompetition}, but we're slowly making a breakthrough on Google organic search.

As a DUI attorney in , Malcolm Anthony {service}. His specialty is not only in DUI defense. His real specialty is treating people more like human beings and less like "clients." He is in this business to to simply help people get back on the right track in life.

Malcolm Anthony almost has as many ideas as we do in order to get the word out about his professional legal services. Other areas of his practice include {AreasofPractice}. Whenever we meet with Malcolm during the week, he always has a recent success to tell us about. That's what pumps us up even more to let know who Malcolm is and just how much he can help.

If you or someone you know are in need of a DUI attorney in , we are telling you now that you can put your full trust in Malcolm Anthony and his law firm. Go ahead and contact him today.

We recently {branch} moving company in . Luckily, we had The Florida Movers as a client. Though we are their marketing agency, the prices they offer compared to other moving companies in are incredibly affordable. The Florida Movers are able to help you in almost any moving situation, {clienttype}.

As The Florida Movers' marketing agency, we have worked hard over the past few months to create a dominant position online for focus keywords. As we began {research}, we discovered which keywords converted the best. After a few months of using our advanced techniques and strategies, The Florida Movers suddenly got a boost in leads. Conquering the "Moving Company " keyword has been difficult, but we have seen results already.

We plan on using The Florida Movers in opening up more and more branches across the country. If you or someone you know are in need of residential or corporate moving services in , {ability}. Contact them today and see just how honest and hard working of a moving company in they really are.

I recently {trip} across the United States. Along the way, I noticed how many truck drivers there were just on those few highways we crossed. I'm sure many of those were graduates of the schools featured at Truck School Jobs and their CDL license programs in .

With home study, self-paced lessons, many of the schools linked at Truck School Jobs know what it takes to for you to succeed out on those American highways. They will take you from point A to point B, {help}. Getting your CDL license in has never been easier.

With much {competition} "CDL License ," we have helped Truck School Jobs begin to take a dominant position on the search engines using many tactics including social media and blogging. We are here to help them connect with {applicants}. With these schools' CDL license courses in , they can give you a head start in the growing career of professional truck driving.

You can contact them today for more information.

got the unique opportunity to meet the great folks at The Florida Movers in .   met with them as they started their marketing campaigns and they were hesitant in the beginning since natural search optimization seemed to take time to mature, but as our keywords in began to mature, their rankings for keywords like "Moving Company " and " Moving Service" began to take hold and started to deliver results.  The Florida Movers is a coast to coast moving company that can help people move from within or from to any other state.  Their {offer} to residents in are important in a time of frequent unemployment and jobs shifting around.

pleased to be able to help them with their internet marketing as a .

How Else Can Our Florida Movers Help?

If you feel that you need moving and relocation services in the area or in another city or state that didn't mention here, feel free to contact them and they will do all that they can to make sure your moving needs are met.  recommend them highly.

Please join me for my two seminar sessions on Saturday, August 13th in Ft Lauderdale as I cover the following two topics:

• Funding your Software Project in Two Easy Steps
• SQL and SEO - a DBA's Guide to Search Engines

You can download the seminar materials at the following link:

FundingYourWebProject.pdf (4.66 mb)

{Action}, Truck School Jobs {fact}. With the most state-of-the-art training facilities in the industry, you can expect professional training, giving you a head start in your career as a qualified truck driver. Many of the graduates from the truck schools featured at Truck School Jobs in are hired even before they graduate. {Programs} CDL Preparation, Military Transitioners, and an Independent Trucker CDL course, their Jacksonville truck schools are like nothing you will experience anywhere else in the country.

At their truck school in , many schools offer home study, self-paced lessons to help you qualify for a CDL license. If you want to learn the business side of truck driving, they have lessons just for you. Are you transitioning military personnel? For over 20 years, these truck schools in have been offering courses to military transitioners.

Truck Driver Shortage

The truck driving industry NEEDS professional truck drivers. Here's an interesting fact. Professional Truck Driver is listed in the top 20 occupations with the largest job growth between 2006 and 2016. According to the 2010-2011 Edition of the Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Outlook Handbook the truck driving industry, because it is so large, will need 291,900 NEW drivers between 2008 and 2018.

In addition to the need for new truck drivers, more job openings will become available for truck drivers out of as experienced drivers leave the industry. According to Salary.com, a truck driver's average earnings range from $33,000+ to $42,000+ annually. Top level truck drivers earn $53,000 and higher. How does that sound?

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I remember the sighs of relief after the Yellow Pages finally took a nosedive and local businesses in could rely on free Google listings to promote their business.  The sheer cost and domination that the Yellow Pages had over the ability for advertisers to capture people interested once they were advertised to was like a dictator lording their will over the masses.

Lately I was approached by the folks at theLaw.tv and thought of this analogy again.  Led by broadcaster Cory Saban out of West Palm Beach and in partnership with local television stations (and backed by Avvo.com - a legal search engine), the appeal of their campaign is to get law firms advertising on TV and gaining rank in search engines.

Here is where the deal falls apart.  Because they are selling the service to the ... shall we say... less technology capable, a close inspection is rarely done.  Well... I've done that inspection and here are some aspects they aren't advertising.

1.  They aren't really playing your ad on TV.  I'm sure they are careful to provide those caveats but they call it a "TV channel"... when it actually is simply a website on a .tv domain that shows their video... and not using YouTube which means that the individual law firm will not get exposure for their firm on YouTube or Google for their videos... TheLaw.tv will get the exposure at the expense of the law firms websites.

2.  They aren't really giving you a search engine benefit (SEO).  This is a very disingenuous trick that the non-tech savvy folks will miss.  They claim to "link" to your website (and Google give rank bonuses for "links").  Let's take a look at one of those "links".

http://thelaw.tv/detroit/Child+Custody+Law shows an attorney at familylawofmichigan.com.... or it seems to link to their website... In fact let's look at the code:
<a href="http://thelaw.tv/detroit/r/gornbein/" target="_blank">http://familylawofmichigan.com</a>

Notice how they are "hiding" their website from google by putting the a href address of http://thelaw.tv/detroit/r/gornbein instead and in place of http://www.familylawofmichigan.com

This seems complicated but when Google is cruising the Internet to determine rankings it tries to see how many times your website is "linked".  In this case it does not give a "point" to FamilyLawOfMichigan.com but instead gives the link "bonus" to thelaw.tv...

We were happy to shed the Yellow Pages overlord when they got toppled by free Google listings.  By subscribing to theLaw.tv you are only putting another dictator on the throne.  What happens when they rank #1 in Google for your own keywords?  Guess who loses.

Don't pay TheLaw.tv to take over your keywords.  Instead consider building your own corporate value and earn your own ranking on Google.  Need television advertising on the web and on the networks?  Take your own videos and put them on YouTube and link them back to your own website.

For the money you would have spent on theLaw.com you will be in a much better position and you will not have to bow before theLaw.tv throne after the fact.

For more information on technology analysis of web marketing and traditional advertising contact at in

Wingate Insurance is a featured client of the FUZION Agency that offers COBRA insurance for business owners in .

The slowing economy has created the spectre of job cuts and the issue of COBRA medical insurance becomes much more of a priority for business owners.  We are going to review the most critical points about COBRA insurance in so that when you are faced with the requirement to pay for your own medical coverage, you will be prepared.

COBRA is an acronym that was created by a tax law revision requiring employes with more than 25 employees to offer temporary health insurance to employees that were laid off or had other situations that may interrupt coverage under benefit plans offered to an employee.  This simply means that the former employee pays the past employer a monthly premium to continue their coverage under the medical insurance plan that they were under at the time of termination.  Within thirty day of termination, the employer must offer this to the employee so they can continue to make premium payments directly to the health insurance company.  COBRA means you will have continuing coverage but you will be a higher price than other medical insurance plans.  The former employer also has the right to charge a small management fee to compensate them for their time in managing the COBRA plans. 

Small businesses are exempt from COBRA which means that they do not need to offer the option of medical benefits to the employee.

Direct conversion of your medical insurance is supported by most insurance companies whether you can use COBRA or not.  If you are on a group insurance policy, you just need to call your insurance company and request to be moved to an individual insurance policy.  Do this right after termination so you can take advantage of the benefits.  This option may be less expensive than COBRA and gives you a wider range of options and access to different plans.  You can go with high deductible catastrophic coverage, but just be aware that you may not have access to auxiliary services like life insurance or dental insurance.

Short term medical insurance is easy to get and most states offer it.  There is value to these policies because they are cheaper but they are more restrictive in terms of pre-existing coverages and other exemptions.  People that are or intend to get pregnant should generally avoid these policies.  You can find short term insurance online but be sure that you find the right provider.

As a business, you should consult with Wingate Insurance in since they can provide the necessary COBRA coverages and management services to be sure that you are in compliance with the laws and regulations surrounding COBRA insurance coverage.

For more information on Wingate Insurance, please visit www.WingateInsurance.com