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Website Metrics and ROI: Getting the Most out of Your Online Marketing Spend

Lorman Education Teleconferences — online

March 4th, 2008

Seminar by Stephan Spencer

In this teleseminar, learn what to measure, including…

  • Abandonment metrics - for uncovering why visitors are leaving your site prematurely
  • Conversion metrics - for insight into your acquisition funnel
  • Retention metrics - for boosting your customer retention
  • Search engine metrics - for obtaining the best return on your search marketing investment
  • Email marketing metrics - for achieving the highest response rates from your email campaigns

Is your web site successful? Is your online marketing — including your SEO, paid search ads, email campaigns — all working, and how can you find out? The answer lies in metrics. It’s hard to improve upon something you’re not measuring. You could drop $100,000 on a high-end web analytics package. But if you don’t have a staffer dedicated to making sense of all those reports and taking some sort action as a result, it’s wasted money. Better to spend $10,000 on a lesser web analytics solution and $90,000 for a salary to employ someone highly skilled in web analytics. In fact, you’d be surprised the powerful tools you can get for free (and yes, we’ll go over some of the most exciting ones during the teleseminar). However, right now your first investment should be in signing up for this teleseminar.

Speakers:
Stephan Spencer — Founder and President, Netconcepts
Avinash Kaushik — Author, Speaker and Analytics Evangelist

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Driving Engagement Through Widgets and Gadgets

Shop.org Strategy and Innovation Forum — Orlando, FL

January 23rd, 2008

Panelist: Stephan Spencer

iGoogle, Facebook, MySpace, Bebo - social networks are the hottest topic of Web 2.0. Recent developments such as Google’s OpenSocial platform may further accelerate the explosive growth in widget and gadget application users. So what do widgets really mean to your customers and to your bottom line? What monetization strategies should you focus on to ensure widgets are more than just a buzzword to your organization? And how to you prevent your widget from becoming another lost or unused orphan among thousands of other apps? Misty Locke, co-founder and president of Range Online Media, has been working with numerous retailers to determine the most innovative, engaging and measurable approach to web applications. Misty will lead a discussion with other industry experts to answer these questions and to tackle how to succeed with widgets and gadgets today, pitfalls to avoid and emerging opportunities beyond 2008.

Speakers:
Misty Locke, Co-Founder and President, Range Online Media
Stephan Spencer, Founder and President, NetConcepts
Pinny Gniwisch, Founder and EVP Marketing, ice.com

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Link-Building Impacts Search Engine Ranking

January 3rd, 2008

by Netconcepts

Originally published in Internet Retailer

Netconcepts founder and president Stephan Spencer discusses the mystery of link-building. Links can influence ranking and play an important role in natural search optimization. To get a jump on the competition, online retailers need to build valuable links over time and resist paid links schemes which search engines frown upon. Quality links can increase search engine ranking.

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Holiday 2007 Search Traffic Increases 14.5%

December 7th, 2007

by Netconcepts

Originally published in Internet Retailer

A survey by Netconcepts of leading-brand online retailers showed a 28% increase in natural search traffic from Monday November 19, 2007 to the Monday after Thanksgiving, November 26th. The 30 retailers surveyed consist of Netconcepts clients, who dominate the top 200 of the Internet Retailer list of Top 500 online retailers. Their search traffic increased an average of 14.5% for the season week-over-week, up from 9% in 2006.

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SMX: Wikipedia, Yahoo Answers & Answer Sharing

October 19th, 2007

by Netconcepts

Originally published in WebProNews

A recap of this panel at SMX that Netconcepts Founder and President Stephan Spencer presented on. Moderated by Danny Sullivan, Danny Sullivan, Editor-in-Chief, Search Engine Land, the panel which included Lise Broer “Durova”, Administrator, Wikipedia, Jonathan Hochman, Founder/President, Hochman Consultants, Matt McGee, SEO Manager, Marchex and Don Steele, Director of Digital & Enterprise Marketing, Comedy Central. The focus of the discussion were tips on how to engage with end-users delicately to manage your brand.

Read the full recap here at WebProNews.

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Wikipedia, Yahoo Answers & Answer Sharing

SMX Social Media — New York, NY

October 17th, 2007

Panelist: Stephan Spencer

Web users rely on community-contributed-content sites such as Wikipedia and Yahoo Answers. These sites enable you to communicate directly with an engaged audience. But contribute to the conversation with care. Too much spin and you’re credibility will be shot-and your brand damaged. You’ll come away from this session knowing how these influential sites work and how to participate constructively.

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Cabela’s Derek Fortna on SEO

October 10th, 2007

by Netconcepts

Originally published in Target Marketing

In this article written by Kate DeBevois, Senior Associate Editor for Target Marketing, the spotlight turns on GravityStream. Derek Fortna, Cabela’s Marketing Programs Manager, reports on GravityStream’s implementation and success.

With its Web site approaching 50,000 product pages and more than 200,000 unique products, such as “hunting socks,” “compound bows” and “riflescope accessories,” the company required a more robust natural search solution. So it turned to software provider Netconcepts to update its site with GravityStream, a natural search management platform that helped Cabela’s gain a real-time, Web-crawler version of its site and allowed the company to optimize existing pages without rebuilding the entire site. This resulted in a 200 percent traffic increase and a 50 percent online sales increase within the first six months of implementation. Continue reading »

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Wikipedia & SEO

eComXpo — Online

October 10th, 2007

Moderated by Stephan Spencer

It seems like Wikipedia shows up in the first page of results in Google for just about every search imaginable. Wikipedia’s position as a top authority site is undisputed. Having a presence in Wikipedia has never been so important as it is now, despite the fact that external links in Wikipedia no longer pass PageRank. And it’s never been so dangerous to make self-interested edits to Wikipedia as it is today, particularly with the advent of such wikisleuthing tools as the Wikiscanner.

Is there a place in Wikipedia for you? Can you protect your interests within Wikipedia in a way that is appropriate and minimizes the risk of a backlash — now and in the future? Want to know the best ways to interact with the service? Want to learn some valuable lessons from a few Wikipedia marketing successes and failures? Then this session is for you!

Moderator:
Stephan Spencer, Founder and President, Netconcepts

Speakers:
Neil Patel, CTO, Advantage Consulting Services
Jonathan Hochman, Founder/President, JE Hochman & Associates
Don Steele, Director of Enterprise Marketing, Comedy Central

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Nuts & Bolts: Case Study

October 1st, 2007

by Netconcepts

Originally published in Target Marketing

In this article written by Kate DeBevois for Target Marketing, she talks about the success of Netconcepts’ client Steve Spangler. She writes, “Steve Spangler, famous for creating a 30-foot geyser of Diet Coke by dropping Mentos into a soda bottle, not only has mastered the art of science, but also the art of blogging to optimize natural search results and increase Web sales.” Read more about how Netconcepts helped Mr. Spangler achieve success in this case study article about Steve Spangler Science.

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Toy Stories: Show-and-Tell Blog Hooks Customers

August 29th, 2007

by Netconcepts

Originally published in Wall Street Journal

Colorado science teacher, marketing guru, and Netconcepts’ GravityMarket client, Steve Spangler sits down with Simona Covel, reporter for the Wall Street Journal to discuss his blog’s successful impact on his business.

In this interview, Steve discusses how Netconcepts has helped him over-achieve his business goals by rebuilding his original ecommerce site and later creating a powerful blog to fuel his viral online success.

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