![]() And the reason was simple.ĭespite being willing to shell out more than £3000 (nearly $3700 in US money back then) for the TV, he hadn’t invested in a proper sound system. But powering up the TV, while we all gawked at the picture and majestic size of the set, I remember gradually becoming aware that I wasn’t getting the “wow” experience I had expected. The TV also has a place in history as the last plasma set that Sony made.Įager to experience it, we all barrelled our way into his Borough flat and fought over who got the sweet spot in the centre of the sofa. ![]() At the time, this 50-inch plasma was pretty much space-age tech to all of the rest of us, some of whom were still slumming it on CRT sets in our shared houses. And, now that he was on the big bucks, he had invested in a Sony KDE-W50A12U. It sticks in my head, as my host had just joined a bank’s graduate scheme and had more money than God – at least compared with me, who was earning a waiter’s salary as a junior reporter. This is based on a formative experience I had during a movie and football match night I shared with some friends just after graduating from university. But that price set off an important alarm bell in my head around getting the best bang for your buck when shopping for home cinema tech. ![]() The set also has a fairly, on paper, robust speaker system hidden behind the grilles on its front. This isn’t a dig at Bang and Olufsen which has designed the TV to work seamlessly with its Beolab 90, Beolab 50, or Beolab 28 home speakers. It’s a truck, so you never know when it might show up in your hood.But, after my excitement wore off, it reminded me of one of the first key lessons I learned using top-end home cinema equipment: no matter how good a TV’s picture may be, you should always pair it with a good sound system if you want the best experience possible. Don’t worry that it’s actually located in Albuquerque, NM. Suggests no company should rely solely on GMB, especially for leads.Īmong the points to his story: "If you are looking for a great restaurant in Fawn Creek Township, KS, Google recommends It worked, in terms of getting the company off the suspended list - but it was still located in Kansas.Īs of today, the company’s safely back in Pleasanton, California, but Shotland Saldana’s request basically said the same thing although a bit more forcefully, but he also added: "This is our corporate listing and it must be reinstated ASAP!" I deleted the category so please un-suspend us. Shotland’s request went something like this: “Hey GMB, I added a new service category and got suspended. When Shotland didn’t get quick results, he turned to Steven Saldana, LSG’s GMB problem-solver, to ![]() ‘SEO Agency’ must be on the double-secretĭo-not-use list because as soon as I added it, our listing got suspended.” “While in there, for some reason, I decided to add “SEO agency” as a Business Category. Then he forgot about it, until February.įebruary, while in a 20-person Zoom meeting on how much we should freak out about Core Web Vitals, I logged into LSG’s GMB dashboard to see if maybe we had been moved to Colorado (hopefully nearĪspen),” Shotland wrote in a post. He said Local SEO Guide doesn’t really rely on the company’s GMB page for leads, but sent a note to GMB support for help. According to GMB, he moved and opened a hotel, all in the midst of COVID-19. Not only did GMB somehowĬhange the location of this business, but said the company apparently opened a hotel, as Shotland wrote in a post. MediaPost about search, I’ve learned that Blumenthal and Local SEO Guide Founder Andrew Shotland are two funny and smart SEO guys. Thank you, Mike Blumenthal, Near Media co-founder and authority on local search, for calling this to our attention in a tweet. Well, not so funnyīecause Local SEO Guide, an SEO agency, was never located in Kansas, but Google My Business believes the Pleasanton, California, company has been located in Fawn Creek Township, KS, since November A funny thing happened on the way to Kansas. ![]()
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