I am not sure if anyone else has noticed this, but almost every property that I stay at within starwood is making excuses that all their suites are under construction. Except Planet Hollywood. I have been at the W Chicago City center and got the same useless excuse as the Westin Dublin. I never get upgrades at the Sheraton Towers in Times Square, but heading there tomorrow, we'll see what happens.
The funny thing is that I know employee's who get upgraded without any question and never an excuse. I will play along for a little longer, but at some point I will give up on this sham. I am naming this the Platinum blow off, they think we have all tasted the cool aid and we will continue to fall for it.
Labels: starwood hotels
Well another round of SES is over in the warm 15 degree city of Chicago. There is a definite change in focus from the retail segment, they seemed to have slowed way down in experimenting around and really focusing on their businesses with this new economic climate. I am not really seeing a slow down in spending online, but then my clients have a decent SEO strategy and are doing quite well with it.
I think we will not be able to see how 2009 is going to look until the end of Q1. But this should be a very interesting year to come.
Labels: chicago, ses
Pat Boone a country singer, has called the peaceful protests of prop 8 an act of terrorism! What the hell is wrong with these red neck racist hicks? No one should support this uneducated price of white trash. I would love to hear what he has to say about Obama, I am sure he calls him a radical Muslim leader, who is going to kill us all. Where did the land of the free open up to allowing these people to be figures in our country?
- Name: Aaron Shear
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
I have been in the search industry since the late 90’s, no not 10-20 years. My career started early in the search Day’s at Inktomi, where I supported large search portals. For example, MSN, AOL, iWon, Hotbot, CNet too name a few.
After Inktomi I became a freelance consultant. I consulted for a few of the Top SEO’s around 2002 time frame; obviously the market has changed since then. After consulting I joined a small SEO firm called SEO Inc as the CTO. At SEO Inc. I successfully optimized some of the largest clients including IGN, Sony, VEGAS.com, Beaches and Sandals Resorts to name a few.
Even though SEO Inc was a ton of fun, I still wanted the ultimate SEO challenge. I moved on as the global head of SEO for Shopping.com an eBay company. This challenge was an interesting one, how do I optimize a site with 50 million products? Every month I helped the business grow by leaps and bounds.
I am now consulting for mostly enterprise e-commerce clients.
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