Spelling bee champions have it easy. They just need to spell one word right and they are deemed correct. They can even ask somebody else to use their word in a sentence and know absolutely nothing about grammar or punctuation themselves. When it comes to posting content online, spelling and grammar is important, but it…
This is a science driven comparison between our very own content that we produce and everybody else’s work. As you can clearly see by this scientific chart, driftpoint media does produce superior advertising and media content. THE TRUTH Our friend Tom, at Tango Charlie Apparel posted up a similar comparison chart for his products. This…
Last year I heard the best quote come out of a friend. There was a group of us were filling up concrete anchors for a water ski course and the oldest guy in the group is moving faster than everybody else to get them done. His push to finish the work was such a sight…
An elevator pitch, elevator speech, or elevator statement is a short summary used to quickly and simply define a person, profession, product, service, organization or event and its value proposition. – source wikipedia You are supposed to perfect your elevator speech to cover a few minutes of a random encounter in an elevator. While the…
Maintaining a social media presence can be overwhelming, especially when every outlet has a different layout, a different audience and different image dimensions. To make every post as impactful as possible, it’s important that the adorable kitten you posted to Facebook doesn’t have his head cut off in the thumbnail or that the special offer you’re tweeting…
It is our favorite question to ask people trying to understand what we do here at Driftpoint Media. “When was the last time you opened the Yellow Pages?” In our experience most people touch their Yellow Pages once a year to recycle them when the new book arrives. Many people have abandoned their home phone and…
So much happens online every second of every day, that it can be hard to visualize. Just to give you a glimpse of how much happens online take a quick visit to Internet Live Stats. It’s one of our favorite sites for remembering that life moves pretty fast online. Life moves pretty fast. If you…
Embedded in our company culture is the concept of mandatory escapes from work. It has been a busy year at Driftpoint Media. When things are at the peak of getting busier it is a good time to pause, step back and come back at where things are going with a clear head. At least it sounds a…
The government coming back “online” this week had me thinking of how little emphasis there is on defining the US Government as a critical resource compared to our demand for technology services. Before you think I am going to get all political, I am not. I am actually looking at the percentage of time the…
You can now embed Google+ into posts and websites, including WordPress. It is really easy to add to your WordPress site as there are really only two steps here. The key being that you need to add the javascript to your header, so that when you put the embed code in your post, it knows…