What exactly is Bill Hartzer disease, and how do you get it? Is it a real disease? That’s a good question, I’ve been asking myself this for well over 5 years now. Maybe longer than that. Several years ago, when I started searching for my own name, this keyword phrase (my name with the word ‘disease’ attached to it) showed up in the auto suggest. Auto Suggest is when you start typing in a search query and the search engine suggests other related keywords, or words that include the characters you are typing. [Read more…]

By Bill Hartzer, posted January 31, 2020 at 10:10am CST

Digital marketer Mark Rofe, sick and tired of using dating apps that weren’t working for him, purchased a billboard to promote himself. Mr. Rofe also set up a website, as well, DatingMark.co.uk that is promoted on the billboard. [Read more…]

An interesting thread on Reddit reveals data, and a graphic, about the world’s most valuable brands. [Read more…]

I had the incredible opportunity to be invited to speak at the Domain Name Association breakfast meeting held at the ICANN 53 Meeting in Buenos Aires, Argentina this past week. While I didn’t attend the whole ICANN 53 meeting, I was able to attend the event on Monday and Tuesday for two full informative days. On Tuesday night I flew from Buenos Aires to Toronto, Canada, where I spoke at the ClickZ Live conference. Speaking at these two events during the same week gave me a unique perspective. I met with some amazing minds behind the New gTLD domain names and domains in general. And then met with a lot of marketers who are not directly involved in the domain name industry. What did I learn? [Read more…]