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    How to Guarantee Your Site is Blacklisted for Email

    We were reviewing one of our clients’ sites today. They’re going to be moving to our email integration soon – which is a good thing. I’m guessing their websites are probably already blacklisted… here’s why… They have a contact form on their website. It’s nice enough, a bunch of fields to send all your personal info to them to sign…

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    Video >= Images + Stories

    People don’t read. Isn’t that a terrible thing to say? As a blogger, it’s especially disturbing but I have to admit that people simply don’t read. Emails, websites, blogs, whitepapers, press releases, functional requirements, acceptance agreements, terms of service, creative commons…. no one reads them. We’re busy – we just want to get to the answer and don’t want to…

  • Google Adds Forms to Google Spreadsheets

    I’m an avid user of Google Spreadsheets. Google just added an intriguing feature that Marketing folks might be interested in to do data capture (example: contests and opt-in programs) without the need for professional development. You can now build a form to post directly to your Google Spreadsheet! This is still a far cry from a robust application like Formspring,…

  • The Business of Word Research

    This is a Sponsored Post. With the value of search engine ranking so high, it’s no wonder that research tools are popping up everywhere on the web. I utilize WordTracker in my blog, simply because it has an easy-to-use plugin for finding the best tags for each of your posts. I know that SEOmoz has quite a few keyword and…

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    What Search Engines Read…

    Search engines index pages with complex algorithms that weigh a ton of different variables, both internal and external to your page. I do think it’s important to recognize what key elements that Search Engines pay attention to, though. Most of them are elements that you have full control over when planning or designing your site or simply writing your page.…

  • As I Tweet on Twitter with Snitter…

    As I Tweet on Twitter with Snitter, I try to Twoosh. Twooshing with Snitter is easier because Snitter from Snook comes with Snurl. What the? What in the world is this new lingo? Here goes nothing… a while back I joined Twitter. Twitter is basically a universal chat room where anybody can talk to anybody (there are some privacy features).…

  • You Would Read Every Post If I…

    My CEO has hired a part-time resource to produce the marketing copy we need when we deploy our new marketing website. The person that’s been hired has a strong marketing background but not a web marketing background – I’m assured that they’ll be able to pick it up easily (I hope so!). To provide some direction, I’ve provided the copywriter…

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    Connecting the Dots

    Whether you’re selling a product, pushing a website, or marketing your services… all of us have three dots on our sketchpad… acquisition, execution, and retention. For a long time, each of these dots were handled independently. We even organized our departments unique to each of the dots: Sales Department – for acquisition. Production and Operations Department – for execution. Customer…

  • Why No Intense Debate?

    There’s a new kid on the block on the comments side of the business, Intense Debate. The premise of the service is outstanding – provide a central repository to track your visitors’ comments, expand the commentary beyond your blog, and provide a very rich interface to display the comments. There is a single flaw with the service, though, that makes…

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    Hardware, Software… Webware?

    In the evolution of the computer industry, we’ve had Hardware – the equipment necessary to run the applications. And we had Software, the solutions that utilized those resources to do the work that we could purchase and install from different media. Nowadays, you can download the software without the media. Two Decades of Hardware and Software Hardware has upgrades and…

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