Quick Update

It's been a long road since the last post, over a decade ago. Where are we now?  The original invention is now manifested as a vibrant digital marketing agency with up to 20 employees and interns at times, a business in Fairfax City VA at https://kme.digital. We are Loudoun, Fairfax and Northern Virginia's most prominent and experienced source of deep digital marketing expertise for local businesses and agencies. Through all the stops, starts, turns, successes and failures - the original intent to develop interest in something new using the Internet, persists as the core thread of our business to this day.  Most amazing is that I can actually still blog on this platform, under my original "hotmail" ID...Lots have certainly changed with digital marketing and Google since then - evidence is in the 100+ spam linkbait comments in the last posting of 2007; this practice is all but gone now.

This year looks to be an amazing one for growth, thanks not only to our fantastic employees, customers (some still with us for 10 years!) and partners, but mostly to the dramatic acceleration in our local, regional and national economy.

Renewal

So it's now been a full year since our last post on the topics herein....it seems we'll refocus this blog again back to inventions - it appears at least one of our kids is becoming consumed with "inventing", now that their Daddy's patent has been actually granted. Coming up - kid inventions...

What's to come in 2007

2006 ended with a lot of online projects queued up and ready to take off, for 2007. Our own family content network's latest addition "Dulles South Online" at http://www.dullessouthonline.com reflects all we've developed and learned over the past year. It's totally optimized for SEO/SEM purposes, and acts as a central vehicle to advertise and promote all our family businesses, along with related community and business listings.

KME Web Design (our business we started to focus on helping others with their websites and Internet Marketing) has had its first customers at the end of this year. http://www.kmewebdesign.com

Our real estate site was significantly enhanced with listings now automatically fed (via XML/RSS) to Googlebase, Trulia, Oodle, Edgeio, Propsmart and other listing aggregators - pretty surprising there's not yet an accepted real estate XML standard that everyone subscribes to. http://www.ingridmyers.com

The "invention" (Slingwheels!) that started this all off is on indefinite hiatus, as our funds have been shifted from investing in it, to investing in our children and the online businesses that will provide more immediate return. It'll have to be a back-burner project, but like everything else, a little bit at a time should eventually produce some kind of productive results.