Pinterest Tool – PinAlerts
PinAlerts regularly checks to see if there are new pins for your domain name. Continue reading
BMA Houston May 16th Luncheon – Jeff Hayzlett
BMA Houston May 16th Luncheon to feature Jeff Hayzlett. Continue reading
Pinterest For Business Tool
Here’s a great tool for finding out how many times your business has been Pinned on Pinterest. Continue reading
OTC 2012 Recap
OTC 2012 – record year for exhibit space and third highest attendance. Continue reading
OTC 2012 Day Three – Live from the floor
OTC 2012 Day Three – Go BIG or Go Home. The exhibit booths at OTC 2012 are some of the largest in years. Business is strong. Continue reading
OTC 2012 Day One
OTC 2012 kicked off today.. Here are some registration tips to help you. Continue reading
OTC 2012 Client Companies
A number of OTC 2012 Exhibitors are clients of Upstream Marketing. Continue reading
OTC 2012 Houston, TX
Resources to help you have a productive OTC. List of OTC 2012 Open Networking Events. Continue reading
Pinterest for Business
Don’t miss out on the fastest growing Social Media site Pinterest. Your business should have a presence on Pinterest. Continue reading
Indexed Web Pages
Have you ever checked just how many of your website pages are indexed? If you are wondering what indexed is and why this is important, before your website can rank well on Google, Yahoo, Bing and most search engines, your … Continue reading
Google Patent Search
A fast and easy way to locate and view patents. Continue reading
Help with Pinterest
An overview of the basics of using Pinterest. Continue reading
BMA Houston Auction
Bid Now on auction items that include Media Space in Oil & Gas Industry magazines. Continue reading
The Hunger Games – Online Ticket Sales Blockbuster
Fandango.com is selling 10 tickets per second to The Hunger Games movie. Continue reading
New iPad Features
The new iPad was released last week. Here are some of the new features. Continue reading
Gmail Notification Tool
A great tool for letting you know when an email arrives in your Gmail account. Continue reading
Subsea Tieback 2012
Subsea Tieback is back in Galveston, TX this year and runs March 6-8, 2012. I look forward to seeing you there. Continue reading
Home Page Importance
The goal of any website’s home page is to convince visitors to stay and click at least one link. Continue reading
Is your name available? Vanity URL
Do you own your own name for a URL? How about on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and more? Continue reading
LinkedIn vs Facebook – Company pages
LinkedIn Company Page versus Facebook Business Page, which is right for your business? Continue reading
Facebook Storefronts – Like to Sales Not So Easy
Major retailers find selling on Facebook is not so easy. Some shut storefronts. Continue reading
How do I choose the right geographic keywords?
How to choose a Geographic Keyword for your business. Read more to find out how to narrow your search terms to reach the right potential customer. Continue reading
What is a geographic modifier?
Website Design Houston is a geographic modified search term. Geographic modifiers are used to help narrow searches to a state, city, zip code or neighborhood. Continue reading
EmpoweringPumps.com
The pump industry has a great online resource for the latest news, products, sales & marketing tips and more. Continue reading
Underwater Intervention 2012
The 20th Anniversary of Underwater Intervention (UI) is taking place this week. January 24-26, 2012.
UI will be held in New Orleans at the Ernest N Morial Convention Center
Underwater Intervention is the combined annual conference of the Association of Diving Contractors International and the The Marine Technology Society’s ROV Committee Continue reading
What People Use iPads For?
What people us their Apple iPads for? 75% Access the web 63% Email 53% Entertainment 48% Play games 41% for Social networking 29% for Researching services & products Continue reading
Firework Sales Go High-Tech
July 4th and New Years are two times of year that fireworks are sold in my area. All firework sales were canceled for July 4th due to the drought that we had in Texas. If they were going to make … Continue reading
Google Analytics Real Time Data
Google is always adding additional features to it’s Google Analytics. Here is one feature that really stood out for me this past year. Real Time Data Previously, Google Analytics data was typically delayed up to 24 hours after a visit … Continue reading
Fried Mullet Anyone? – How the internet has changed the face and taste of business.
A couple of years ago if you were looking for a restaurant that served Fried Mullet, you looked at the either the hand written sandwich board or marquee sign outside of restaurant as you drove by. Now 67% of consumers … Continue reading
Doing Business with the Houston’s Petrochemical Industry
Want to meet the Procurement Managers from ExxonMobil, Lubrizol, Texas Molecular and Vopak? Attend the ABC Power Breakfast. When: Thursday, October 20, 2011 Time: 7:30am Breakfast Buffet and Exhibit Booths Open, 8:00am – 9:30am Program Where: Galena Park ISD Admin … Continue reading
Family Lost in Corn Maze Calls 911 – couldn’t find their way out
A Massachusetts family out for what seemed to be some simple Fall-time fun got trapped in a cornfield maze and had to call 911. “We received a phone call that someone was lost in the maze. We dispatched an officer,” … Continue reading
Steve Jobs – our lives have been changed forever – Thank You
A quote from Steve Jobs that I live by every day. “You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new.” Steve Jobs … Continue reading
George Bush Intercontinental Airport Terminal B Opportunities Meeting
For all small and minority businesses in construction, concessions, and facility maintenance this opportunity is for you. Join United/Continental Airlines in partnership Houston Airport Systems and the City of Houston for an information session about the George Bush Intercontinental Airport … Continue reading
Ashton Kutcher Provides Free Product Placement on Two and a Half Men
In this week’s episode of Two and Half Men, Internet billionaire Walden Schmidt played by Ashton Kutcher has a laptop that was covered in stickers for the technology companies Foursquare , Flipboard , Hipmunk, and Chegg (a textbook rental service, … Continue reading
NASA UARS Tracking Website
NASA’s Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) is heading to earth and should be splashing down very soon. On Friday night, NASA said it expected the satellite to come crashing down between 11 p.m. and 3 a.m. EDT. It was going … Continue reading
Groupon For B2B Businesses?
Groupon is the number one provider of online daily discounts and has over 80 million subscribers that receive the deal of the day in their email box. They reach over 600 local markets. Living in Houston, TX, I have seen … Continue reading
Online Intellectual Property Resources
I had the pleasure of meeting Intellectual Property Attorney, Ron Haggerty when I spoke at METRO Small Business University on “Effective Website Design”. After our conversation, I thought the internet must have some good resources for those interested in starting … Continue reading
Twitter Adds Galleries for Users’ Last 100 Tweeted Photos
Twitter has just announced the rollout of user galleries for tweeted images. Galleries will show images shared using all the major services supported by Twitter, including yFrog, TwitPic, Instagram and Twitter’s new native images. Galleries can be found on the … Continue reading
3 Deep Water Gulf of Mexico Permits, so far.
ATP Oil and Gas Corp won approval on March 18th to resume drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. ATP will now be allowed to continue the final phase of drilling a well in 4,000 feet of water at it Telemark … Continue reading