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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PoolDawg.com, one of Netconcepts clients, was recently featured in an online article through InternetRetailer.com.
“A year ago, PoolDawg traded in its modified version of an “off-the-shelf” e-commerce platform for a completely new platform from Netconcepts. The Netconcepts GravityMarket 2.0 e-commerce platform offers a flexible design that, for example, supports the placement of content that has proven to help shoppers complete purchases, Feiman says.”
Read the article here. For more information about PoolDawg.com’s success, read the PoolDawg.com Case Study.
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Michael Fitzgerald focuses on the popularity of Steve Spangler’s blog in this article written for Inc.com. Learn more about how Steve Spangler turned boring content and bad publicity into an overnight “organic” success with the advice of Stephan Spencer, Founder and President of Netconcepts.
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Wouldn’t it be great if all the whiz-bang Web 2.0 interactive elements like Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX), widgets, Flash, RSS feeds, podcasts, video blogs and so forth were all search engine optimized?
Unfortunately, that’s not the case. In fact, many of these technologies are inherently unfriendly to search engine spiders. So, if you intend to harness Web 2.0 technologies for increased conversion, improved usability and greater customer engagement, you’d better read on or you’ll end up missing the boat when it comes to better search engine rankings.
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“What’s the top secret to developing a winning blog, one that draws an audience, grows your brand and improves your products sales?” writes Hallie Mummert, editor in chief for Target Marketing. In this article, Hallie writes about Steve Spangler’s relationship with Netconcepts Founder and President, Stephan Spencer. “Spangler works with Stephan Spencer, president of Netconcepts, an e-marketing services firm that specializes in natural search, to develop and optimize his blog.” Read this article to discover “a few lessons they have learned about what information to post and how to go about doing it so your blog becomes more than a one-way conversation.”
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Mike McDonald of WebProNews interviewed our very own Stephan Spencer at SES in San Francisco earlier this month, on May 3 2007. This 6.5 minute interview with Stephan and Mike discusses the insider secrets to blog marketing.
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For the world’s foremost outdoor outfitter, Cabela’s, ecommerce landing page have made all the difference. Derek Fortna, Marketing Program Manager for Cabela’s, has been implementing best-practice search friendly marketing since his switch to Netconcepts’ GravityStream platform.
“With the earlier system, he says, “If I’m a user searching for boat trailer parts, I can’t buy from that page, I have to make another click to go into the web site to make a purchase. With the GravityStream proxy, if I find what I want I can place the order right there.”
Read the article here.
For more information about Cabela’s success with Netconcepts, read the Cabela’s Case Study.
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In this interview, Stephan Spencer sits down with Netconcepts’ analyst Jeff Muendel, to talk about MySpace marketing tips. Learn how to utilize this social media tool to market your business, expose your brand, and make friends!
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The New Zealand Marketing Association announces that Netconcepts’ patent-pending GravityStream technology to optimize the “long tail” of product-related natural search traffic and sales for online retailers won Gold in the category of Innovation.
Read the entry submission and GravityStream product overview published by the NZ Marketing Association and written by Netconcepts’ very own Chief Executive Officer, Nigel Varcoe.
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The phrase “social media optimization” is relatively new to search. SMO is defined as: the new art of wielding tools, strategies, and influence for the purpose of gaining visibility on social media networks and websites like Digg.com, del.icio.us, reddit, NewsVine, Netscape.com, MySpace and even Wikipedia.
Neil Patel a leading practitioner of social media optimization, a top influencer at Digg.com and an eloquent speaker. In this 15 minute interview, Stephan Spencer, President and Founder of Netconcepts, sits down with Neil to talk about the most important social media sites. You’ll learn how to get there, how to determine potential risks, and what the benefits are to engaging in SMO.
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