General Business

comScore, Inc. recently announced that online shopping is in decline for the first time in at least seven years. While online sales are only down 4% from this time last year, at a turbulent time in world economics, news of a downturn in online purchases may not come as a surprise to many.
"With consumer confidence low and disposable income tight, the first weeks of November have been very disappointing," said… Continue reading Study Shows Online Shoppers Spending Less This Season.
Posting has been slow this week because a lot is happening right now:
Shane is moving to Hawaii to pursue a Master's Degree in New Media. We're going to run a satellite office for him from there. If you're in Hawaii, we would love to chat with you - or if you want to come out on 'business', we would be happy to meet with you for a short time so… Continue reading Traveling From Coast to Coast.
Holly Anderson is our newest team member at semvironment, and will be working with us in managing PPC client accounts.
Currently a senior level student at Brigham Young University-Idaho, Holly will Graduate with a Bachelor's degree in Business Management/Marketing in April 2009.
Holly has worked in a variety of marketing capacities, including on the market research team at the multinational firm, Melaleuca. Other notable work accomplishments have included her position as… Continue reading Introducing Holly Anderson.
Download another semvironment wordpress creation today and start improving your organic traffic!
Rand just published a "Headsmacking Tip" this morning about the importance of researching and optimizing your blog post titles and content before hitting 'publish'...and roughly 24 hours before he published the post, I wrote to our lead wordpress programmer about developing a plugin that let's us do exactly that!
We planned on using the KeywordDiscovery API - and… Continue reading Keyword Research Wordpress Plugin!.
Introducing the Link Builder for Wordpress
The Link Builder simply tracks the websites and pages you link to and sends an email message to that website owner/administrator notifying them of your link.
Download the Link Builder for Wordpress here
Then watch this video (update: haha - if you turn up your volume, you can hear a 'darth vader' breathing… Continue reading Link Builder for Wordpress - Download it Now!!!.
Then watch this video (update: haha - if you turn up your volume, you can hear a 'darth vader' breathing… Continue reading Link Builder for Wordpress - Download it Now!!!.
We hope you enjoy the 4th of July!
Take just a minute to remember what this day represents...



Just Kidding!
We're proud to announce a new forum that is 100% dedicated to pay per click management - assuming you already know about pay per click advertising but have questions or want to bounce ideas off other pros in the industry then you need to register and participate at… Continue reading Everything You Need To Manage Your Life.
The new look is what we are. :)
Fresh, vibrant, green and fun!
Shane Snow is the genius behind the new design - and in fact, we have given him a new official title to add to his box of titles - lol - he is now our copywriter and creative director. That's really where his best experience and expertise is...he has already rewritten some of our ads for clients and… Continue reading New Look!.
Tobias D Pimentel – Marketing Team
Coming over to the company from a management position at Verizon Wireless, Tobias is thrilled to be joining the semvironment team in June 2008. With several years in customer acquisition and sales, Tobias will add another level of service to semvironment.
Currently, Tobias is a senior level student at BYU-Idaho, and will graduate with a Bachelor's degree in Business Marketing this year. BYU-Idaho's business program currently… Continue reading Tobias Joins The Team!.


