Archive for marketing
Choose Plans That Get Traction and Stop Wasting Time
Jeffrey Eisenberg spoke at the Austin SEO Meetup last Thursday evening on The 21 Secrets for Top Converting Websites. Good stuff. One of many great tips we came away with was #19 — A System for Prioritization.
100-yr-old Virginia Writes limericks On iPad
Moderators/authors of blogs ( are you the same person?) should always read and moderate their readers’ comments and post them ASAP. Otherwise the people who commented will think you thought we were shmucks.
Online Ad Spending WAAAAY up.
Think about your pay-per-click ads. When one customer clicks, a handful of change flies out the door. Ka-ching. So….um, Did you close a sale? Compared to traditional ads (print, radio, TV) you might feel like you’re getting a bargain with digital ads. Or you can feel like you’re being nickled and dimed to death. Either [...]
Strategy Daddy
Case studies of marketing strategies and tactics that worked and some that bombed, along with broad strokes of marketing theories that drive them
Composing a Survey: 8 Pointers
That progress bar is there so that your kindly respondent can measure how much longer he has to endure your pesky questions before he can leave, and if it fills up too slowly, he is bound to lose interest. Keep it as short as possible and don’t waste his precious time. He’s doing YOU a favor.
“Transforming” Your Internet Business
As it is now, the Internet is practically the embodiment of liberty and capitalism, in all its untethered glory… Anyone can make money and tell stories and lie and preach and chase dreams and do evil and get into all sorts of trouble; all in this boundless unmonitored field of work and play. Everyone has access to it; and it’s virtually free. This must not be.
Hey, That’s My Niche!
“Toy building blocks to fix the ravages of time on permanent structures.” Out of nowhere, the tired old walls are transformed with color and childlike handiwork, and the pedestrian spirit is lifted.
The Word “Book” Now Up For Grabs
This week Penguin Books’ CEO John Makinson teased the digital media world with a preview of some of the interactive ebooks it will be publishing for the iPad.
Currently, I and millions of other bibliophiles own countless books that “do” one thing. Well, okay, I take it back. They don’t actually do anything. They are done unto. To think that I may wish my books to someday perform amazing feats that my (future) digital reader can’t facilitate…I can’t even go there yet.
Not Alone
Internet tools shimmy and evolve quickly to suit a demanding user base, so it can be difficult to keep up if it
Flickr
This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing. Oh, yeah. I’ll be using Flickr’s Creative Commons photos whenever possible. There are thousands of talented photographers showing their work on this site. Check it out. You’ll be amazed at the beautiful selection of pictures they’ve given to share on your blog.