Archive for May, 2008

B2B Magazines drive traffic to websites?

Posted on May 27 2008 by Dave J.

Got a link to this webpage from a magazine publisher: Magazine Vertical Search:
“Business-to-Business magazines drive more readers to their own website than any other medium. … The reader goes direct from the print page to an advertiser’s website to continue to search a product or service or new technology.”
The webpage is actually an attempt at [...]

New AdWords Beta: Automatic Matching

Posted on May 23 2008 by Dave J.

Dear AdWords Advertiser,
On May 20, 2008, a checkbox will appear on your campaigns’ ‘Edit Campaign Settings’ pages giving you access to an optional beta feature called ‘automatic matching.’ The feature will be enabled by default, although it won’t begin to affect your account until June 3, 2008.…
Automatic matching shows your ads on relevant search queries [...]

Best time to launch a website? Its in the stars!

Posted on May 22 2008 by Dave J.

I thought I was the only one who wasn’t sure when to launch my new website till I saw this post at The J-Walk Blog:
This guy posted a perfectly good question in the forum for the Organization for Professional Astrology. Seven months later, nobody has replied!
I’m reworking my own astrology website now while [...]

The State of B2Blog (1.5): Filtering the noise

Posted on May 19 2008 by Dave J.

As a follow up to my post about Noise in the B2Blogosphere, I just found this relevant post from Rex Hammock in my Bloglines: Let’s hear it for the noise:
“Using the idea of ‘noise’ as a metaphorical framework for understanding how much of a filter you want before learning something that in your world may [...]

Closing 2.0–how do you get a signature?

Posted on May 15 2008 by Dave J.

I get a emails from various companies looking for publicity on my blog. Many are off target, but this one from Sertifi intrigued me:
“Closing 2.0 is all about providing your customers with the easiest and most convenient way to sign, store and retrieve mutual agreements. With our solution you can send agreement out for [...]

The State of B2Blog (1): Noise in the B2Blogosphere

Posted on May 14 2008 by Dave J.

Let’s start with a quote from THE top marketing blogger:
Seth about blogs, “Lately, the noise seems to be increasing and the signal is fading in comparison. Too much spam, too many posts, too little insight leaking through. “
Seth Godin has a way of being topical, personal, all mixed with great punditry. That’s why he’s tops. [...]

Rant: The 'one-page' website goes YouTube

Posted on May 6 2008 by Dave J.

Remember when all those ‘get rich on the internet’ websites were out there? The ones that were one page long and went forever? Usually selling PDF books about how to do the make your own long-winded webpage and make millions?
Well I just saw one of these done as video. Someone linked to it as a [...]

Get drunk or free branding-you decide

Posted on May 1 2008 by Dave J.

One of our sales reps is doing a local show this week. The event had a nice party for the attendees and exhibitors last night. We got about 50 drink tickets from the show to give out, but most attendees weren’t interested in hanging around. Typical of a local show.
So what do you do with [...]