Email Newsletter Follow Up

Posted by on Dec 4, 2010 | No Comments
Email Newsletter Follow Up

The other day, I was asked by a client about what I thought about their current email newsletter and whether they should convert it to a blog. They send about twice a year and obviously, don’t have a huge response. Nor do they have a lot of subscribers, about 500 or so. They are one of several schools I’ve worked with and I thought I’d share some of my thoughts that I shared with them.

4 Reasons Email Marketing is Less Effective and How to Make it Better

Posted by on Nov 16, 2010 | 2 Comments
4 Reasons Email Marketing is Less Effective and How to Make it Better

Many years ago we designed and started to build an email marketing program much like the Emma’s and Constant Contacts of today. We got it launched and off the ground and had users sending many thousands of emails per month. Eventually, better funded companies built them faster and better and we migrated our clients to our agency accounts and abandoned ours to the digital trash heap. But we learned a lot through this experience.

How Social Media Marketing can be fresh every day

Posted by on Nov 1, 2010 | No Comments
How Social Media Marketing can be fresh every day

I’ve heard people say that they never have anything to talk about with regards to marketing their websites or products. That it’s always the same thing day after day and there’s never anything to talk about and that they’re too busy to see beyond the day to day activities that keep them busy.

I would disagree with this. And here’s why.

My take at a Blog Strategy

Posted by on Aug 31, 2010 | 2 Comments
My take at a Blog Strategy

Recently, I created a blog strategy for a client that I thought was really pretty good.  Maybe a bit aggressive, but after reading Justin Kownacki’s post on “What I’ve Learned From Blogging Weekly Instead of Daily,” I thought that this strategy was pretty close to getting the sort of website traffic that I thought was ...

Friday’s Browser Tab Summary of Cool, Interactive (mostly) Links

Posted by on Aug 13, 2010 | No Comments
Friday’s Browser Tab Summary of Cool, Interactive (mostly) Links

I regularly find myself with way too many tabs open of good, interesting articles I find via email, twitter, facebook, and you know, all the Social Media avenues that everyone knows about.  It really slows my browser down to have so many windows open (more than what I’m listing below).   I don’t want to lose ...

More on Facebook Suicide and how to delete your Facebook account

Posted by on May 10, 2010 | No Comments

Just as we’re building more and more Facebook apps (stay tuned, they’re pretty cool) it seems more users are bailing on Facebook and committing Facebook Suicide, if they can find the link. So, in case your curious, here’s a link to more info about this.

Is Your Website Still Useful and Important?

Posted by on Oct 7, 2009 | No Comments

For a couple years now I’ve been feeling the need to not promote building traditional websites anymore, but instead to help clients be part of the conversation around their product and let that lead them to what they need to do online. Back when we started building websites more than 13 years ago, they were ...

6 Ideas to develop a Social Media Strategy for the Beginner

Posted by on Oct 1, 2009 | No Comments

As I look through log files for clients and potential clients, I’ve noticed some interesting trends.  First, the website traffic of companies without social media programs in their marketing plans generally have fairly random, but flat traffic.  And those that include social media planning in their marketing campaigns have increasing traffic with significant spikes around ...

It’s all about the Conversation

Posted by on Jun 18, 2009 | No Comments

What does your online conversation look like? Is it a passive, one-way conversation with your website sitting there, hoping someone will come and see what you have to offer? (Is that *really* a conversation?)  Or is it an active, 2-way conversation, with regular messages to your audience with available feedback options from them to you? ...

American Idol and ATT

Posted by on May 27, 2009 | No Comments

According to today’s Advertising Age, AT&T is embroiled in some potential controversy around American Idol and how many text votes it might have encouraged Kris Allen fans to send. According to a New York Times story citing the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, employees for AT&T distributed phones to folks at two finale parties organized by fans of ...