Email can be your company’s secret weapon, or it can end up biting you in the backside if it’s seen as junk email or spam. It all depends on the execution. So says Debbie Mayo-Smith…
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Spam, Spam, Not Spam
The Search is On…
Van Dyke’s Restorers is pretty happy with the results of its site redesign. With a 450% increase in traffic within three months and a 500% leap in revenue, why wouldn’t the Woonsocket, SD-based cataloger be happy? What’s more, the redesign didn’t involve major changes to the Website offering. All that the marketer of woodworking and furniture restoration supplies had to do was …
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Keeping Up with the Joneses
Most companies with websites don’t realise their competitors are winning the race - coming up higher in the search engines, getting more traffic, converting more visitors into buyers and generating a better return on their investment.
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Heel, Rover!
A Wellington-based organisation doesn’t get its website’s traffic statistics from its web vendor until it asks for them. An Auckland company can’t wrestle its website’s source code from its vendor, which subsequently goes under. Another Auckland company is billed over $10,000 for a fairly generic website redesign specification, which contains a costing with a $60,000 margin of error. These sorts of names-withheld horror stories start innocently enough …
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Writing a Request For Proposal
You know your Web site needs an overhaul and you know you don’t want to do the work in-house. It’s time to write a Request For Proposal, or RFP, which you will then send out to prospective Web design firms for
bids. Be sure to also visit my article How to Write a Killer RFP (Request for Proposal) for Hiring An SEO Firm for more information.
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Strategies for Customer Promotions
Business-to-Business e-Marketing — Madison, WI
- Outbound e-mail marketing
- Testing and measuring response
- Website considerations
- Search engines, keywords, and "landing pages"
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Surviving the Dot-Com Shakeout: Strategies to Keep Your Beauty Business Booming
Beauty Online 2001 — San Francisco, CA
One of the secrets to staying viable in the fickle online beauty marketplace is to slow your burn rate through the following low-cost, high return marketing strategies and tactics:
- Email marketing
- Viral marketing
- Link building
- Search engine optimization
- Pay-for-performance advertising (i.e. an affiliate program)
- Content distribution
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Mining for Sales in the E-mail Minefield
E-mail is one of the most important and effective tools in an Internet marketing campaign, but it will only work if it’s done right. And doing it right isn’t easy–e-mail marketing can yield spectacular successes, but companies must be extremely careful about how they do it.
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Applying Project Management to a Website
A website is no different from any other project: It must be thoroughly planned and managed throughout. Anything less than 100 percent effort in building a website is a sure-fire recipe for disaster. Objectives must be defined, briefs written, milestones set, and tasks assigned.
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Evolution of Web Site Strategy
eFoodservice — Chicago, IL
Let’s face it, there is no need for eBusiness unless you have created a web site strategy. And creating it right is the key. This session will give you a step-by-step guide in order to make your strategy a success! After attending this presentation, you will know how to:
- Create a site that is easy to navigate and compelling to the customer
- Market through direct email response
- Acquire the proper lists of names
- Put together a permission based email marketing plan
- Survey users to see what’s right and what’s wrong with your site
- Increase response rates
- Decide what kind of manpower you need to create a full time website
- 24 hour, 7 days a week work force vs. outsourcing
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