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Studies and Reviews: Email Newsletter Reviews

Tuesday, April 14th, 2009

FREE White Paper: Learn how to Create Impressive Email Newsletters with 40 Email Newsletter Tips on 10 Design Best Practices by downloading our FREE 10 Email Design Best Practices white paper. … Continue Reading »

Get Ready for the Mequoda Summit in Boston!

Thursday, April 9th, 2009

When the Mequoda Summit returns to Boston October 7-9, 2009, it will surely be a sellout. Don’t miss this opportunity to reserve your seat at the guaranteed lowest price.
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Join Me in Munich and London

Friday, April 3rd, 2009

Online publishers now have an opportunity to monetize an international audience.

Digital products that can be downloaded from your website are only the beginning. If you conduct live events, you should also consider the potential of your overseas customers. … Continue Reading »

Maximize Email Marketing Revenue by Reconsidering Your Contact Strategy

Monday, March 23rd, 2009

Online Marketing Tools: Using an Email Lifetime Value Calculator to measure the real lifetime value of an email name

The essence of the Mequoda Method is to build a database of email newsletter subscribers, send them valuable free content, build your brand, earn trust, and eventually monetize these email subscribers by … Continue Reading »

Designing the First Screen of an Email Newsletter

Friday, February 27th, 2009

How to control what your readers see when they first open your email newsletter

The first screen of your email newsletter, which includes the preview pane, is another part of your email newsletter’s prime real estate. … Continue Reading »

10 Email Newsletter Design Best Practices

Friday, February 27th, 2009

Learn the key strategies for boosting email conversion rates, open rates, delivery rates and more when you claim your FREE copy of 10 Email Design Best Practices: Create Impressive Email Newsletters with 40 Email Newsletter Tips on 10 Design Best Practices! … Continue Reading »

Online Metrics: Measuring Email Newsletter Revenue per Subscriber

Monday, February 16th, 2009

How email newsletter contact frequency affects the annual value of an email newsletter subscriber

The online metrics of making your email newsletter yield more revenue

If he had been a consultant to our industry, the legendary Peter Drucker probably would have said something pithy like “measure your email revenue right, … Continue Reading »

Lesson from the Obama Campaign: Email Marketing Rocks!

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009

Using email newsletters to lower the cost of creating online brand building. When the history of the 2008 U.S. Presidential election is written, the role of the Internet, and especially email, will be recognized for having revolutionized campaign strategy more than any technology since John F. Kennedy mastered using … Continue Reading »

Seven Email Footer Template Best Practices

Friday, February 6th, 2009

How to comply with the rules of sending an email newsletter, while providing your customers with friendly ways to keep in touch, and maintaining the rights to your content. … Continue Reading »

Online Publishing Book Review: Get Content. Get Customers. by Newt Barrett and Joe Pulizzi

Friday, January 16th, 2009

Let’s focus on the third activity – email newsletters. If you want to turn subscribers into customers (and isn‘t that our goal) take notes. You’ve got to stop treating your emails like a lowly sales flyer. It can, and should, be so much more. View them as a tool where … Continue Reading »

Variety Headline News: Email Newsletter Review

Friday, December 26th, 2008

This daily entertainment news update has a great footer and from line, but it’s first and preview screens aren’t exactly star studded … Continue Reading »

What is your “reader satisfaction” score?

Friday, December 26th, 2008
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I’ve heard people refer to their email opt-out rate as a “reader satisfaction” score. Can you explain this a bit?


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What are some ways I can increase the amount of product I sell from my email newsletters?

Friday, December 26th, 2008
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What are some ways I can increase the amount of product I sell from my email newsletters?

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Which business model (search, online publisher or online retailer) generates the most money?

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008

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Of the three business models (search, online publishers and online retailers) which model generates the most money and how does it all relate back to us as online publishers?


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4 Creative Ideas for Making an eBook

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

Listen to your audience when making an eBook by doing keyword research, tracking your user activity, observing your competitors and just flat out asking them what they need. … Continue Reading »

Mequoda Pro Downloads

Saturday, November 8th, 2008

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10 Email Newsletter Design Best Practices
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Digital Media Strategy … Continue Reading »

Benefits of Mequoda Pro

Saturday, November 8th, 2008

Now you can ask any question about online publishing and marketing and receive a detailed answer from the Mequoda Pro Research Team and me for a little over 81 cents per day.
Introducing Mequoda Pro — the ultimate publishing support program — designed exclusively for experienced professionals who want to … Continue Reading »

Mequoda Method Case Studies

Friday, November 7th, 2008

The Mequoda Method is a comprehensive business system for making money on the Internet via the sale of information products, sponsor revenue and lead generation. Each Mequoda System is a unique reflection of the publisher’s audience and online business model. What follows is a sampling of the online publishing … Continue Reading »

Email Marketing Tips: How to Get Whitelisted By Your Readers

Friday, October 24th, 2008

If an email gets sent to an inbox and lands in the junkbox, does it make a sound? … Continue Reading »

Take-aways

Sunday, October 12th, 2008

Mequoda Summit attendees leave with the most robust and inspirational take-aways out of any online publishing conference out there. We know this because attendees tell us all the time!
The sessions you’ll attend at the Mequoda Summit aren’t your run-of-the-mill sporadic conference sessions. Each session at the Mequoda Summit focuses on … Continue Reading »

13 Consumer Email Marketing Best Practices

Wednesday, September 10th, 2008

Email copywriting best practices for effective consumer email marketing … Continue Reading »

Lead-Driven Design – IDG’s Computerworld has a Unique Approach

Sunday, September 7th, 2008

How Computerworld drives traffic from their print product and supplies enough content to satisfy both users and sponsors … Continue Reading »

Information Products

Saturday, September 6th, 2008

The Mequoda Group has identified 30 ways that publishers can deliver and monetize information. While it is not an efficient strategy to adopt all of these platforms, selecting a mix of both print and online mediums will help publishers maximize their customers’ satisfaction. … Continue Reading »

Driving Website Traffic

Saturday, September 6th, 2008

Driving website traffic is a fundamental component of the Mequoda Marketing System. It is by driving website traffic that email newsletter subscriptions are increased and the names on that list are monetized. Publishers should take advantage of every possible way to drive website traffic. Here is a list of 31 … Continue Reading »

Three Email Newsletter Templates & Best Practices

Friday, August 29th, 2008

How Mono Topic, Multi Topic and Promo Email Newsletter Templates are used in online publishing … Continue Reading »

SEO Research & Reporting

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

Choosing the Right Keyword Phrases to Attract Targeted Website Traffic and Using the Google Visibility Index to Track SEO Success … Continue Reading »

The Three Lenses of Consumers: Online, Offline and In-Person

Friday, August 8th, 2008

A special-interest user experience includes multiple platforms: online, offline, and in person; using all three guarantees you the most visibility and the best user satisfaction. … Continue Reading »

Mequoda Group Helps Content Marketers, Producers and Publishers Master the Internet…

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

Can we help you master the Internet?
If you are a publisher, content producer or content marketer searching for a simple yet comprehensive way to create, build and maintain long, lasting and profitable audience and customer relationships, your search may be complete.

Mequoda Group is the global users group for content marketers … Continue Reading »

Mequoda Summit Napa Valley 2010

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

Discover why we have transformed the Seventh Mequoda Summit and Internet Marketing Conference with step-by-step tutorials, expert power panels, advanced roundtables, and hands-on, interactive workshops.
You get to choose. Register early to customize your Mequoda Summit experience with the 10 sessions that best address your interests — from basic, to intermediate, … Continue Reading »

Mequoda Pro

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

Get unlimited LIVE and ON-DEMAND access to the next 17 SiPA/Mequoda Webinars.
Login and phone instructions for the LIVE webinars will be sent separately, closer to the live date. Please call 866-713-1005 or email customercare@mequoda.com with questions.
With your ON-DEMAND access, you’ll also get
dozens of spreadsheet calculators, tools and white … Continue Reading »

14 Email Formatting Tips

Monday, July 28th, 2008

14 ways to get your email delivered and viewed correctly on any browser … Continue Reading »

How One Publisher Increased Traffic 114% This Year with Free Content

Monday, July 14th, 2008

It’s hard to find an idea that you can’t do something with online, says John Rockhold, Managing Editor of Mother Earth News. … Continue Reading »

Seven Online Publishing Secrets – Updated for July 2008!

Friday, July 11th, 2008

Download ourcomplimentary report today and learn how to compete with today’s toppublishers by using the most profitable seven online publishing secrets. … Continue Reading »

How to Calculate Your Site-wide Conversion Rates

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

How to build top level conversion architecture that will increase conversion rates and boost sales … Continue Reading »

4 Tips for Training Editors to Sell More Product

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

Use these strategies developed by the folks at HR Daily Advisor to help your writers and editors sell more product. … Continue Reading »

How One B2C Publisher Repurposes Magazine Content

Monday, June 30th, 2008

Real Simple started as a magazine in 2000 and has since repurposed that content on its website, in email newsletters, in events, products, radio and television. … Continue Reading »

What does your “front door” look like?

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

How Agora, Inc. used the free content model to turn a $25 million dollar newsletter publisher into a more than $200 million dollar company that generates more than half of its total revenue online. … Continue Reading »

Increase Email Revenue by Using Service Journalism

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

How to sell products while maintaining the honesty and tactical transparency required to preserve a trusting audience … Continue Reading »

How America’s Test Kitchen Makes Money Online

Monday, June 16th, 2008

Some people prefer books, some the web, some magazines. By multiplatform publishing, ATK delivers users the content they want, how they want it. … Continue Reading »

Focus and Diversify to Succeed Online

Monday, June 9th, 2008

BTB Publisher Succeeds Online by Dominating FDA Niche … Continue Reading »

SiPA Coverage: 8 Ways Editors Can Help Market Their Products

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

Tips for helping editors think like marketers when it comes to their products … Continue Reading »

MPA-IMAG Conference Coverage: Successful Multi-Media Publishing Strategies

Monday, May 19th, 2008

Do you have an Internet Hub? How are you using it to expand your brand?

Mequoda’s Don Nicholas presented a rapid-fire version of our Making Money Online workshop and moderated a panel focused on one of the seven strategies: multiplatform editorial management.

Don was joined on the panel by David McKee of … Continue Reading »

Live Coverage: Mequoda Summit Session 7 – Email Newsletter Secrets

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

29 Insider Secrets for Creating Effective and Profitable Email Newsletters … Continue Reading »

Publishing 2.0: Seven New Media Objectives for 2008

Friday, March 14th, 2008

Expand your brand, audience, and reach with the technology you’ve been pondering since 2007 … Continue Reading »

How a Carefully Planned Contest Increased Unique Visitors by 35%, Doubled Online Subscription Sales and a Saw a 34% Growth in Email Subscriptions for GoodHousekeeping.com

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

If your budgets and resources are limited, we advise allocating them to efforts that are easily measured and monetized, like the contest Hearst Digital ran for Good Housekeeping last year. A simply brilliant and timely sweepstakes, offering $250,000 to pay off the winner’s mortgage, resulted in a 35% increase in … Continue Reading »

Consistency Is Key for Email Delivery

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

How a publisher made one change that increased their delivery rates from 65% to 98% in days. If your email provider is not giving you a delivery report, and you are not registered with a service like Delivery Monitor, we seriously recommend that you pay attention. … Continue Reading »

Using Paid Media to Build Email Circulation

Thursday, December 27th, 2007

Paid media programs balance your Internet marketing system

While patience is a required virtue for earned media programs, paid media programs offer the Mequoda Marketing System operator the opportunity for quick results with a reasonable ROI (return on investment). Each of these programs involves finding and buying traffic by spending money … Continue Reading »

Setting Up a Mequoda Marketing System – Phase 1

Thursday, December 27th, 2007

The Internet Hub is a one of seven Mequoda Website Archetypes discovered by reviewing more then 2000 media websites. Like all Mequoda Website Archetypes, it has a limited set of core functions that make it efficient for completing a limited group of user tasks that are key to the success … Continue Reading »

How to Start and Run an Effective Online Marketing System

Thursday, December 27th, 2007

Key components of the Mequoda Internet Marketing System

The launch and operation of a Mequoda Marketing System can be divided into four phases. Most of the steps in each phase are then repeated over and over again to build email circulation and monetize customer relationships. … Continue Reading »

Don’t feel bad if no one opens your emails

Wednesday, December 5th, 2007

It’s happening to all publishers as open rates continue to drop across all industries. Luckily, the email service providers have stepped in to shed some light on the situation.

Two of the most important delivery rate factors are the “from” address and the subject line. However, if you want your emails … Continue Reading »