We here at Digital Third Coast are looking forward to a great 2010. We’ve expanded, we’ve retooled, and we were recently accepted into the Google Advertising Professionals Program. While DTC has always employed qualified individuals, this expanded company-wide status is a welcome credential and solid building block for an establishment as young as ours.

Digital Third Coast looks forward to taking full advantage of the new growth opportunities afforded to us through this qualification. We are even more excited about the opportunity of being able to pass on tips, promotions, marketing tools and more than ever before to our current and future pay per click client base.

A few weeks ago, DTC was selected as a “Favorite Place” on Google. Based on information gathered from user behavior and local listings, this means that we have been selected among the Top 10% of businesses, calculated by the popularity of our local business listing.

Google informed us of our status with the following letter:

Dear Business Owner,

Congratulations! You’re a favorite Place on Google. Between July 1 and September 30. Google users found your Digital Third Coast Internet Marketing business listing xxxx times, and requested driving directions or other information about your business xxxx times. Read More

A friend of mine sent me a cool new link today – the new Google Agency Toolkit can be found here. Nothing on here is new, but the convenience of having every major AdWords tool I use found at a central hub is a great improvement. Now I can consolidate 6 of my bookmarks into just one.

Some features include trend tools, placement tools, keyword tools and more.

I know I am late to the Twitter game, but I’ve started to play and I will say this – Twitter can be great!

First – we here at Digital Third Coast started using Twitter about a month ago as an experimental way to communicate easily between all of our employees. As George and I started exploring the options we started following some users… but wait…. Read More

A little late on posting this, but we’d all like to congratulate George and Kim on the birth of Elliott Dmitry. Mom and baby are happy and healthy. Elliott already has his own Google shirt too!

2008 was a great year for all of us, but 2009 will be very new and exciting for George and family. Congratulations buddy!

Times have changed and the meaning of what is classified as “a hard day at work” has changed as well. I just read a great post by Seth Godin about the true meaning of hard work these days. Times have definitely changed in the work environment. It used to be that hard work meant plowing the farmland in the hot sun for 12 hours a day, or working at a factory producing machinery parts. Nowadays, hard work for a lot of people means taking creative and personal career risks to get ahead. Can you compare taking a risk at your job to a 12 hour day of plowing the fields? I think it’s probably comparing apples to oranges. It’s not that we don’t work hard these days…just in a different way.

I find this kind of insight fascinating as I grow my company. I’m so glad that I decided to take risks in my career. Starting my own business has been one of the hardest jobs I have ever had but I love what I do and I know that I’m helping my clients grow in the process which makes my job so rewarding. The one thing I have learned is no matter what your job is, unless you take some kind of action, you won’t get anywhere.

I’d like to leave you all with a little quote.

“In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing,
the next best thing is the wrong thing,
and the worst thing you can do is nothing.”
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919)
26th president of the United States

Happy Labor Day Folks!

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