Rackspace LAMP Data Center Management -
Thousands of Rackspace customers run LAMP architecture for the development and deployment of optimal performance web applications. Our highly trained Mequoda team can manage this data center for you.
WhatCounts Email System Management -
WhatCounts offers email marekting solutions for companies with complete support for RSS, survey, … Continue Reading »
Article landing pages are search engine superstars
Article landing pages are most often associated with search engine optimization (SEO), but are also used for attracting any type of organic traffic. This would include any text link given by a webmaster or editor who is referencing one of your webpages as a … Continue Reading »
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 »
Building or looking to improve a newsletter website? Learn these 8 best practices for building profitable newsletter website templates. … Continue Reading »
Harvard has opted not to use a traditional landing page to sell the Harvard Health Letter.
Instead, the main sales page for the Harvard Health Letter is a minimal transaction page with the barest of copy and graphics, and is devoid of the selling effort one would normally expect when promoting … Continue Reading »
From the desk of Don Nicholas — Managing Partner, Mequoda Group, LLC
Discover the Revolutionary Internet Marketing System That Can Double Your Online Revenues Every 12 Months
Dear Colleague:
In August 1999, Rosemary Gardner* was a successful author, newspaper columnist and newsletter publisher. At age 47, she had worked long and hard to … Continue Reading »
Many publishers refer to a Newsletter Website as a Membership Website, but the truth is that Newsletter Websites stand on their own. … Continue Reading »
BTB Publisher Succeeds Online by Dominating FDA Niche … Continue Reading »
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 »
This Mequoda System operator has focused on creating loads of free products to increase email newsletter subscriptions
If you’re a golfer that routinely gets tired of playing the same course in town then you should be subscribed to Golf Vacation Insider. This Mequoda System was created not just for golfers, but … Continue Reading »
Landing pages should convert targeted website traffic. That means having an organized system that matches the user with the right landing page.
The more targeted the landing page, the better the chance of conversion.
Your landing pages are the first place users encounter your website, so choose and design them well. … Continue Reading »
An effective Internet marketing system distributes valuable content without charge
If you’re still using traditional online advertising as part of your Internet marketing strategy, know this: Nobody is paying attention!
According to a recent Forrester Research Study, only 13 percent of consumers admit that they buy products because of online ads, and … Continue Reading »
By building effective conversion architecture, you can build a direct relationship with the customer—a relationship that can be monetized down the road by targeting marketing messages for relevant products of increasingly greater value. This is also the step where, unfortunately, many publishers slip up. … Continue Reading »
I’m writing from my hotel suite in Bonn, Germany where I’m preparing to present 3 Mequoda Bootcamps to German publisher Verlag Norman Rentrop with Don this week.
This is the second time Don and I have presented our content in Europe this year–in late June we had the pleasure of speaking … Continue Reading »
The major differentiation between the Internet marketing strategy of the Mequoda System and that of traditional publishing models is the use of free content to drive online traffic. By offering free content (e.g., email newsletter subscriptions, HTML webpage access, eBooks or eReports, blogs or Web feeds) through a variety of … Continue Reading »
While many Internet marketing professionals ignore direct mail as a viable means to increase targeted website traffic, one newsletter publisher devised a test that shows that direct mail post cards can be a very cost-effective way to increase targeted website traffic and sell paid newsletter subscriptions. … Continue Reading »
By refocusing on its core business, this special interest B-to-B publisher has increased revenues four fold since 2000, deriving 80 percent of its new business from online marketing.
FDAnews is the premier provider of domestic and international regulatory, legislative and business news and information for executives in industries regulated by the … Continue Reading »
Mr. Levinson has been busy practicing, developing and evangelizing guerrilla marketing since 1984, with great success. Many startups and small companies use Mr. Levinson’s techniques to produce tangible results with minimal cost. However, established companies such as Smirnoff and Vodafone have also integrated guerrilla techniques into their marketing mix. The … Continue Reading »
I have been involved in Internet marketing and publishing since 1995, when I was running an agency called Blue Dolphin Direct—primarily a print direct marketing and editorial consulting firm for a variety of magazine and newsletter clients. It was during that time when the folks at Computerworld had the revolutionary … Continue Reading »
Although it Scores Well in Many of Mequoda’s Website Design Guidelines, ChristianityToday.com as a Whole is not as Satisfying as its Individual Parts. A fascinating blend of religious goals and secular marketing, ChristianityToday.com offers an interesting look at providing resources and community in the Internet Age. The site is … Continue Reading »
Laurel Touby started MediaBistro in 1997 in the dot-com heyday with the goal of creating a community for journalists. “We weren’t really sure how we were going to make money,” she confesses, “we just wanted to bring media people together.” While this may not sound like an auspicious mission for … Continue Reading »
BHG.com Internet Marketing System Review
Getting on TV is just one of many ways to leverage other people’s media and drive website traffic—people who will log onto your website, register to download the free item, and, you hope, sign up for your free email newsletter. From simple search-optimized press releases to … Continue Reading »
Match.com Internet Marketing System Review
To draw traffic to your Mequoda Internet Hub—the place where people can sign up for your free, relationship-building, email newsletter—you need a catalyst, a free item that lines up with a topic that’s endemic to the audience in terms of their interest and on which the … Continue Reading »
BeliefNet.com Is Not Your Typical Ecommerce Website—or Is It? The Business Model is Based on the Internet’s Holy Trinity: Content, Community and Commerce and its Website Design is Perfectly Suitable … Continue Reading »
How to leverage valuable content to create customer loyalty and build repeat sales. A step-by-step guide to the Mequoda Internet Marketing System. … Continue Reading »
My friend Fred Gleeck, the Internet marketing guru, says that if all you do to get people to sign up for your free e-zine is have a tiny box on your main website in which they enter their email address, you are probably failing to build your e-list as rapidly … Continue Reading »
Learn how one publisher redesigned his website navigation to make his site ultra-search-engine-friendly and dramatically increase search engine traffic. … Continue Reading »
Integrity and professionalism abound on the Briefings Publishing Group’s website, but their “all business” approach may be responsible for letting a lot of potential business remain unsold. It seems Briefings.com’s future may be based on satisfied readers, not website “sell.” … Continue Reading »
Ragan.com is Strictly Business. Few organizations have done more to improve the quality of corporate communications than Chicago’s Ragan Communications. And, I suspect, few firms have done as much to maintain the morale of corporate communicators than Ragan Communications. … Continue Reading »
