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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It may tempting to let search engine optimization slide to the bottom of the priority list but Stephan Spencer, President of Netconcepts says marketers need to be aware that an increasing number of customers rely on search engines to access information for them.
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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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PAII 2002 (Professional Association of Innkeepers International) — Chicago, IL
Think your website is the best it could be? Step back and take an objective look
at your website and identify its weak points in the areas of branding, usability,
security, legal, search engine findability, design, content, and more. A magazine
columnist, international speaker, and founder of multinational web design firm
Netconcepts will provide insider information on “best practices” in online
marketing from corporate clients like Birds Eye, Gorton’s Seafood, Wella, and
Midwest Express.
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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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Sales & Marketing Executives International - Auckland Chapter — Auckland, NZ
Imagine an online ad that costs you nothing per impression, guarantees both a local and worldwide audience actively seeking your products and services, and offers 6 times the click-through rate of a banner ad - a search engine listing.
Join us for a full-on, hour-long primer on search engine marketing from Stephan Spencer, author of Marketing Magazine’s March feature article on search engine marketing and the upcoming Marketing
Magazine Search Engine Marketing research study.
Stephan’s going to talk about:
- which search engines to target
- hands-on keyword research
- benchmarking against your competitors
- Google’s secrets revealed
- pay-for-performance search engines
- developing a search engine marketing plan
- best and worst practices (emulate the leaders, squash your competition)
- measuring the return on your search engine marketing investment
- criteria for selecting a search engine marketing agency
- online tools and resources
Don’t miss this hands-on session with heaps of audience participation and a live internet connection. You’ll walk away with practical, actionable tactics and tips. It’ll be great, like drinking from a fire hose!
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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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