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My wife recently sold her 2002 Honda Accord. We listed it online and had two good prospects within the first day. Both were ready to pay with cash. It was so much easier than dealing with a newspaper or traditional auto sales techniques.

Buying or selling a car online is easier now than ever before. There are several good auto sales online Websites like easyautosales.com that make selling your car, or buying one on the Internet easier than ever. With the Web even finding used cars for sale is easy.

The days of sifting through every local paper in your area and driving all over the place looking for the right car are over. With the new Internet car searching and selling has been simplified.

Google SearchWiki is back again.  I’m tired of talking about this crappy tool.  Arrington, over at TechCrunch has a post on how to get rid of SearchWiki for good.

Please tell me Google has something better than this. They can’t be out of ideas yet, can they?

Sometimes the biggest risk a company can make is to take no risks at all. Look at Ford as an example. Instead of taking big risks on hybrid and new auto technology they stuck to their big selling trucks. Now they are screwed. Ford played it safe and did little in the way of innovation.

Of course we are also seeing the problems of taking too large of risk as well. It’s a balance based on common sense, innovation, strategy, and a strong gut.

It looks like Google already killed SearchWiki. I won’t miss it.

If you’ve done any searching the last couple of days, while logged into your Google Webmaster account, you might have noticed little icons next to the search results. This is the new Google SearchWiki feature. This new feature allows you to comment on and order the rankings based on your preference. Interesting I suppose, but I don’t really get it.

As an SEO type my first thought was how this could be used to game the search results, but according to Google your personal preferences won’t affect the results of others. If this is true adjusting the rankings, even from 1000 Google Webmaster accounts won’t change rankings. I could see Google using these as one more aspect of their ranking algorithm, but who can say for sure other than those secured behind the walls at Google.

If SearchWiki could affect rankings via a voting system it might have some promise, but I only see it as a fancy bookmarking tool, and with all the other bookmarking tools – like the one right on the browser – why do we need another?

When building a blog for your company Website or even for personal use make sure you are an expert authority on something. It doesn’t matter what. Just be the leader in some field – no matter how small. If you want to talk about fashion in Waycross, Georgia be the online authority and leader.

People need leaders. They need someone to lead and to instruct them. If you want your blog to be successful consider this approach.

Being an oldtime blogger I couldn’t help but add a blog to Local Price. The purpose of the blog is to provide updates to the Local Price site and to posts about news and sites that will help consumers. Make sure to bookmark the Local Price Blog and share the site and blog with your friends.

My neighbor owns a small pipe bender company. He makes machines that bend metal and pipes for all sorts of uses. He has a good many employees providing a lot of jobs while boosting the local economy. It’s sad to think that he could be taxed more thus reducing his ability to provide those jobs.

I just opened a new box of tissues – it’s cold season – and all it took was one quick pull of a thin plastic sheet to reveal the tissues inside. 

I really appreciated how easy it was to get to the product.  I didn’t have fight off a safety seal, I didn’t have to fill out a long form, or stand in a long line, nothing.  It was just sweet and simple. 

On Saturday my wife and I got up early and went to a local mall to buy Christmas gifts. We found some great gifts in the Ralph Lauren store so I headed to the counter to purchase our finds. Before I paid the guy behind the register asked for my name. I gave it to him. Then he asked for my address and I remembered how they do this at the Polo stores. I declined.

I’m sure that most shoppers provide their address, and I don’t have a problem with companies gathering marketing information, it can be beneficial to everyone if the marketing is targeted well (and a recent visitor is well targeted), I would just like to see it gathered differently. Hand me an address form and ask me to fill it out and drop it in the mail for the chance to win a $500 gift card, or whatever. Just give me something in return to fulfill my human need for instant gratification.