They say that “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.” Not if you are a Web site owner and you have a brand to protect, however!
I’ve seen designs copied, content copied, even entire sites copied. It’s so easy for infringers to “View Source” and take whatever they like, without regard to copyright.
You can locate copyright infringers pretty easily with Copyscape if they’ve lifted some of your page copy. It’s much more difficult if they’ve limited their sticky fingers to just your design.
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Heidi Cohen, author for ClickZ, discusses the latest Advice & Opinions. By & for Marketers. In this section, Cohen gives high-level explanations for “Ten Trends to Drive Traffic and Sales in 2007.”
At top if this list are “social media” outlets and proper “search marketing.” Cohen gains input from Netconcepts’ Founder and President, Stephan Spencer for his expertise on these trends.
Spencer first describes the importance of social networks and their key role in today’s marketing. He goes on to explain the dynamics of search marketing and how companies will need to tap into the Long Tail of natural search if they want to seriously compete in the market place.
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Abny Santicola, Editor, FundRaising Success Advisor, calls on the expertise of Netconcepts’ Founder and President, Stephan Spencer last week at Direct Marketing Association’s (DMA) Annual Conference & Expo in San Francisco. Abny caught up with Spencer after his “Blogs, Podcasts and RSS: New Tools for Customer Acquisition and CRM” conference session.
In this article, Spencer discusses how blogs can serve as great marketing tools for non-profit organizations as well. Spencer also shares his success with, humanitarian organization and personal blog of former President Jimmy Carter, The Carter Center.
Spencer closes with 5 insider-tips for making the most of a blog.
Read this entire article and learn key blog concepts to put your non-profit on the blogosphere map.
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Web content guru Gerry McGovern, author of “Killer Content” - one of the best books on writing copy for the web - says that one of the biggest mistakes companies make in regards to their website content is thinking that customers care one little bit about the company. “Customers care about themselves (their loved ones and their community),” he said in an interview with founder and president of Netconcepts, Stephan Spencer. He went on to add that organizations need to be customer-centric, talk about benefits, and speak the language of the customer.
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realestate.co.nz is operated by the Real Estate Institute of New Zealand (REINZ). The site is a comprehensive meta-directory of listed properties in New Zealand and is currently the second most popular real estate site in New Zealand.
The site boasts a number of Web 2.0 features including RSS, Google Maps, microformats and AJAX. Every page, every search and every field has a corresponding RSS feed as well as email alert to which visitors can subscribe. This new site is of course search engine friendly, allowing spiders to traverse the site fully through text links. Dates and times of open homes can be saved directly to the calendar software such as Outlook, thanks to the use of microformats.
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The Long Tail is crucial for companies with big inventories as an SEO tactic that enables them to draw customers to their websites and find products that may otherwise be buried in catalogues. But much may not change for small businesses with low quality products.
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Taking the Netconcepts website from a traditional static “corporate brochure” to one where visitors can interact by posting comments on every page is a great example of Web 2.0 application says Stephan Spencer in an interview with the New Zealand Herald.
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