AmCham Breakfast — Auckland, New Zealand
Four speakers from leading companies give you the good oil on how to succeed in the USA!
Speaker #1: Neville Jordan, Executive Chairman, Endeavour Capital
Neville Jordan, CNZM, is the Executive Chairman of venture capital company Endeavour Capital. He founded Lower Hutt-based MAS Technology in 1976, growing it into a $100 million-a-year exporter which successfully listed on the NASDAQ in 1997. Neville was recently inducted into the NZ Hitech Hall of Fame. As an entrepreneur who has “been there and done that” in the US market, Neville will share practical hints and tips on selling into, and doing business with the US.
Speaker #2: Dr Paul Cossum, CEO, Proacta
Dr Paul Cossum is CEO of Auckland start-up cancer drug developer Proacta, which was named Biotechnology Company of the Year in the 2004 Westpac New Zealand Hi Tech Awards. Paul has 20 years of drug development industry experience in the US. He was most recently Executive Vice President of Drug Development at San Diego-based NewBiotics Inc. Paul will offer insights on attracting investment from US companies, as well as outline some of the pros and cons of setting up shop in the US.
Speaker #3: Stephan Spencer, Managing Director, Netconcepts
Stephan Spencer is the founder and managing director of Netconcepts, an online marketing and web development company specialising in e-commerce, website auditing and search engine optimisation. With headquarters in Browns Bay, Auckland, and offices in Madison, Wisconsin, Netconcepts delivers interactive services to US clients such as AOL and Verizon. Stephan brought Netconcepts to NZ from the US in 2000. He has successfully grown operations in the U.S. and is in an ideal position to provide, from an American’s perspective, unique insights for NZ businesses on how to best operate and market themselves in the U.S.
Speaker #4: Nigel Kirkpatrick, CEO, Industrial Research Limited
Nigel Kirkpatrick is the CEO of Industrial Research Limited, New Zealand’s leading industrial scientific research company. Nigel has substantial international business development experience. Before returning home to New Zealand in 2002 to head up IRL, he was the Zurich-based global innovation leader for DiverseyLever.
The US is a key market for IRL and one where it has been successful in winning key contracts.
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Wisconsin Metal Tech needed a new website that offered easy access to an extensive range of industrial metal products in an appealing and search engine optimal site. Netconcepts incorporated content from the existing three sites into one redesigned site, developing a coherent site structure that organized the content logically. This content was then represented within an appealing look and feel which reflected Wisconsin Metal Tech’s new corporate colors. Search engines and customers alike now have easy access to the steel product they are looking for.
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Training For Change is an association of professional corporate trainers specialising in enhancing the communication skills of people in business. Netconcepts was asked to design, develop and implement web solutions for this growing business. The project included a public website and a web-based core application system.
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Microsite for WellPoint. Netconcepts worked with WellPoint to create an innovative user friendly and search engine optimal website. The site needed to serve both new and existing customers, as an online resource providing information and advice on health coverage. Health insurance is a highly competitive field, so the design had to reflect and enhance the information available on the site.
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Fletcher Construction came to Netconcepts with a site design that needed to be built in a way that reflected best practice. They also needed a site that incorporated content management tools, equiping them to update their large portfolio of work and provide a timely insight into the business. Netconcepts developed the supplied design in a Web optimal form, offering a responsive (fast-downloading) insight into Fletcher’s rich history and contemporary successes.
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Etail 2004 — Fort Lauderdale, FL
- Understanding the evolution of the E-Commerce operations of the panelists
- Discovering growth areas in your already seemingly optimized E-Commerce operation
- Understanding how operations, fulfillment and returns are the crux of your E-Commerce operation
- Unwrapping the key issues around the next holiday season and applying lessons learned from seasons past
Panelists:
Lorna Borenstein, VP & GM, eBay
Fiona Swerdlow, Vice President, e-Commerce, Tommy Hilfiger USA, Inc.
Ruth Crowley, VP, General Merchandise, Harley Davidson
Brian Klais, VP, eBusiness Services, Netconcepts
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Evangelical Christian Credit Union (ECCU), a financial provider of loans, money management and banking services to churches, ministries, schools, mission agencies, and ministry-minded individuals around the world, needed a new search engine friendly website that took advantage of natural search listings. Designed and built by Netconcepts, the website incorporates a professional look and feel, rich content that enables online prospects to learn about their services, downloadable member applications to generate sales leads and links to the ECCU online banking and visa account systems.
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Many ecommerce sites have session IDs or user IDs in the URL of their pages. This tends to cause either the pages to not get indexed by search engines like Google, or to cause the pages to get included many times over and over, clogging up the index with duplicates (this phenonemon is called a “spider trap”). Furthermore, having all these duplicates in the index causes the site’s importance score, known as PageRank, to be spread out across all these duplicates (this phenonemon is called “PageRank dilution”).
Ironically, Googlebot regularly gets caught in a spider trap while spidering one of its own sites - the Google Store (where they sell branded caps, shirts, umbrellas, etc.). The URLs of the store are not very search engine friendly: they and are overly complex, and include session IDs. This has resulted in 3,440 duplicate copies of the Accessories page and 3,420 copies of the Office page, for example.
If you have a dynamic, database-driven website and you want to avoid your own site becoming a spider trap, you’ll need to keep your URLs simple. Try to avoid having any ?, &, or = characters in the URLs. And try to keep the number of “parameters” to a minimum. With URLs and search engine friendliness, less is more.
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Our favorite tips for online catalogers: automatic spell correction on search queries, breadcrumb navigation, keyword themes, top 10 lists, open source, 1-click ordering, and more…
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In an interview with MultiChannelMerchant, Stephan Spencer had this to say to the announcement that Yahoo! would stop using Google’s technology in favor of its own search engine, and what it would mean for catalogers.
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