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Marketing tips and wisdom

Posted by Michael Bloch in web marketing (Thursday January 19, 2006 )

Each year for the last 4 years, Marketing Sherpa has published a wonderful freebie called “Marketing Wisdom”. It contains over 100 case studies contributed by marketers and ad agencies,
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RSS Feed Autodiscovery

Posted by Michael Bloch in web development (Wednesday January 18, 2006 )

A very useful tip - several browsers, such as FireFox and IE7 can automatically locate your RSS feed if you add the following line of code to your pages
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Million dollar home page woes

Posted by Michael Bloch in web marketing (Tuesday January 17, 2006 )

Regardless of some of the criticism I’ve read, I greatly admire Alex Tew, the brains behind the concept of the Million Dollar Homepage. I think even people in outer Timbuktu have probably heard of this site by now, but in case you haven’t,
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New article - Pay Per Call guide

Posted by Michael Bloch in web marketing (Saturday January 14, 2006 )

According to the Kelsey Group, many small businesses would prefer a phone call than a click in a performance-based advertising model and verbal discussions with a prospective client are 45%
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Email woes in the workplace

Posted by Michael Bloch in online world (Friday January 13, 2006 )

Email is such a convenient and efficient communications medium… well, isn’t it?

Not so, according to the results of a survey conducted by Harris Interactive for Fortiva.

According to the report, 59% of employed adults using email at work
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Email marketing and Flash

Posted by Michael Bloch in web marketing (Thursday January 12, 2006 )

I’ve got to admit, I have *never* considered using Flash in an email marketing campaign; it’s just never sprung to mind…. but it appears that some do.

If this is something you have ever considered, you might want to check out
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Search engine marketing in 2005

Posted by Michael Bloch in web marketing (Tuesday January 10, 2006 )

The Search Engine Marketing (SEM) industry generated 5.75 billion dollars in expenditure by advertisers during 2005, according to the Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization (SEMPO). This figure represents a 44 percent increase over spending in 2004
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Flesh and chips - RFID

Posted by Michael Bloch in online world (Monday January 9, 2006 )

Ugh, I really don’t know what to make of this. It seems that some people are having RFID chips implanted under their skin - by choice.

RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) chips are already widely in use, usually to enable data to be transmitted for the purposes of
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Who’s linking to you?

Posted by Michael Bloch in web marketing (Sunday January 8, 2006 )

Keeping track of who’s linking to you can be a really time consuming task, especially with search engines only updating the information on a fairly irregular basis.

Want to be updated each day of new links from blogs to your site and see how you compare with others?
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Spammer fined $11 billion

Posted by Michael Bloch in web marketing (Saturday January 7, 2006 )

According to the Quad City Times, a Florida based spammer was recently ordered to pay 11 billion dollars by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa to a Clinton-based ISP.
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