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Online Editor

Social Media for Publishers

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

Making Twitter and other Social Networks a successful part of your media mix… … Continue Reading »

Mequoda System’s Talent Dependency

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

Learn what you need to operate your Mequoda System successfully
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SEO Campaign Management Webinar tomorrow!

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009

A higher website ranking and conversion rate are virtually guaranteed when you learn the secrets of using free reports to build email circulation. … Continue Reading »

Everything You Missed at the Mequoda Summit (Well, Almost Everything)

Thursday, October 8th, 2009

This week we’ve been at the Mequoda Summit in Boston, and covering it live just for you!
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Notes & Quotes from Mequoda Summit Boston 2009: SEO Campaign Management

Thursday, October 8th, 2009

Danielle Werbick tells publishers how she creates and deploys SEO campaigns for KnittingDaily.com … Continue Reading »

Notes & Quotes from Mequoda Summit Boston 2009: Twitter for Publishers

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

Amanda MacArthur, our resident Online Editor & Publisher, led the session on social media strategy today, addressing how publishing are (and should) be using Twitter in their own businesses.

“Twitter is what I consider the universal social network, it’s great for publishers since it’s all content driven,” MacArthur told the audience. … Continue Reading »

Notes & Quotes from Mequoda Summit Boston 2009: Titling, Targeting and Tagging Online Content

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

Tips for online editors on tagging, targeting and titling online content
“Each information product in your brand portfolio can be used to supply content and drive traffic to your Internet hub. In return, your hub and its companion email newsletters can drive transactions for all of your information products. This concept … Continue Reading »

Get Trained on SEO Campaign Management!

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

SEO experts tell all about using free reports to build email circulation … Continue Reading »

Download the Online Editors Toolkit!

Friday, September 25th, 2009

Master your editorial management skills when you download our new toolkit for online editors
Online editors generally have pretty specific day-to-day responsibilities for the creation and deployment of content. Editors will send out at least one email newsletter a week, published in different formats, they’ll also create blog posts and build … Continue Reading »

So You Wanna Be a Mequoda System Editor?

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009

Being a Mequoda System editor means following a regular, formal process that recasts the content of other media products.
As a Mequoda System Editor, or any online editor, you may have responsibility for developing content that is variously combined and disaggregated for four uses: emails, blog posts, free special reports and … Continue Reading »

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Wednesday, September 16th, 2009

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Join 70+ Special-Interest Niche Publishers in Boston

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

Less than two weeks left to get our lowest price on this Internet marketing event for publishers
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Take Away 12 Tools from the Mequoda Summit (it’s not your average conference)

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

A valuable conference should reach three goals: #1 great sessions, #2 great take-aways and #3 great attendees.
We’ve got #1 and #2 covered, come to the Mequoda Summit and be a part of #3!
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117 Mequoda Best Practices

Friday, June 19th, 2009

Ten free whitepapers for turning your print publishing company into a successful online publishing company
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Publishing Industry Research Company Announces Date and Location for their next Online Publishing and Internet Marketing Conference

Thursday, June 11th, 2009

Bristol, RI – June 11, 2009- For the sixth year in a row, the world’s most prestigious publishers and information marketers will come together in Boston for the Mequoda Group’s 2-day Mequoda Summit on October 7-9th, 2009 … Continue Reading »

SIPA Take Away #2: Get Your Staff Pumped About Search Engine Optimization

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009

Herndon Hasty gives publishers five ways to integrate SEO into the roles of your online editors
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Social Media Marketing for Publishers – Let’s Talk About It.

Thursday, May 21st, 2009

Since two years ago when we started engaging in social media, our traffic has doubled, and our email list has almost tripled. Since October, when social media really started ramping up, our Twitter followers have gone from 100 to over 2,000. That’s an easy metric to track, but you can … Continue Reading »

Who Belongs On Your Digital Publishing Team?

Wednesday, April 1st, 2009

An immature industry requires some mature professionals. If you are running an online media operation, don’t underestimate the value of diversity of age, opinions, experience and skills. … 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 »

The Best SEO Keyword Strategy – Picking SEO Keyword Fights You Can Win

Monday, March 2nd, 2009

All SEO keywords are not equally important—volume and competition matter!

The most effective SEO keyword strategy is to compete vigorously for top placement for the most popular keyword suggestions returned by the Google Keyword Tool for a given root keyword phrase (Primary Keyword Phrase). … Continue Reading »

Online Editor & Publisher Job Description 2009

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009

Online Editor & Publisher Job Description 2009 – Setting Measureable Goals for your Online Team

In the more than three years since last we shared our goals and metrics for the Mequoda Daily team, the job description for our Online Editor has changed with the times (and the times have been … Continue Reading »

Astounded Twice in One Day

Thursday, February 5th, 2009

Rock Star Online Editors Wanted: Must Know Your Subject, Write Well and Not Be Afraid to Sell Your Company’s Products. Knowledge of the Rebel King a Plus. … Continue Reading »

Online Team Management – Four Ways to Organize

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009

Organizing an online business team isn’t an exact science. In fact, when it comes down to laying out a generic standard for online team management, we’ve found it simply isn’t possible. There are many successful publishers running their businesses in different ways. What we have discovered after interviewing and analyzing … Continue Reading »

What makes a good online editor?

Friday, December 26th, 2008
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You talked a bit, over the course of this whole program, that every online publisher needs at least one dedicated online editor. Can you list some personality traits I should look for and some I should avoid?

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What are the job descriptions for an online publishing business?

Friday, December 26th, 2008
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In the beginning of this section, you went over quickly the various job descriptions required to run an online publishing business. I’d be helpful to see that list here so I can copy and paste once, instead of having to pause repeatedly and write all of that down. Thanks.


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What kind of skill-set does an online editor need to be successful?

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008
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What kind of skill-set does an online editor need to be successful?


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How do you measure the total number of keywords you should be targeting?

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008

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The Mequoda approach to keyword research begins with editors brainstorming the primary keyword phrases they think people are searching for that their content could help answer. Those primary terms then get expanded to include secondary terms, which can result in a rather large total keyword universe. How do you measure … Continue Reading »

Online Publishing Jobs: Who Makes a Great Online Editor?

Monday, November 17th, 2008

Marketers and Editors are jointly responsible for attracting and retaining a robust online audience

By now you should know that the definition of an online editor is not that different from an online marketer. In fact, if your online editors don’t have a little marketing in their blood, your online business … Continue Reading »

Mequoda Pro Downloads

Saturday, November 8th, 2008

SPREADSHEET TOOLS

Google Visibility Report
Email Performance Report
Email Circulation Calculator
Email Lifetime Calculator
Key Metrics Dashboard
Online Publishing Model
Link Building Lifetime Calculator

SEO Lifetime Calculator
Online Market Audit Sample
Article Release Guidelines
Digital Product Pyramid Sample
Online Editor Job Description

FREE REPORTS

10 Email Newsletter Design Best Practices
12 Master Landing Page Templates
5 Deadly Membership Website Mistakes
Blogging for Marketing 101
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Session Overview

Saturday, November 8th, 2008

All 17 Mequoda Pro training seminars currently available on-demand:
The Ultimate Guide to SEO Campaign Management 2010 — Using Free Content, SEO, PR and link Building to Drive Website Traffic and Build Email Circulation
Learn the latest techniques of SEO campaign management in this Mequoda SEO video training program or surrender website … 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 »

Agenda

Sunday, October 12th, 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 »

Job Descriptions for Managers – 6 Online Publishing Jobs

Thursday, September 11th, 2008

How your print publishing team translates online … Continue Reading »

Online Editorial Strategy

Saturday, August 23rd, 2008

How to Give Away Content and Get More Subscribers, Additional Product Sales and Higher Profits in Return … Continue Reading »

Integrating Print & Online Media Teams

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

Building Online Media Teams that Both Represent Your Print Brand and Generate Revenue for Your Online Brand

Mequoda Summit “Integrating Print & Online Media Teams” Session Review:

While most publishers continue to load more responsibilities onto their existing print staff and require them to learn new skills, those in the know are … 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 »

How to Increase Pages per Visit by Over 75%

Friday, March 21st, 2008

Sites Like Menshealth.com and BHG.com Are Significantly Increasing Pages per Visit by Adopting an Improved User-Friendly Online Editorial Layout … Continue Reading »

Two Magazine Publishers Sell Millions of Print Subscriptions Online in 2007

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

Meredith and Hearst Reveal their Secrets for Selling Lots of Print Subscriptions Online … Continue Reading »

5 Lists to Audit Internet Marketing Strategies

Friday, September 14th, 2007

Use this simple process to make your Internet marketing system a continuous improvement machine that produces ever-increasing revenue and profit

About 80 to 100 times a year, I get hired to audit or review the Internet marketing strategy for a publisher who has a website that is making money. The goal … Continue Reading »

Using Meta Pages to Gain an Online Publishing Advantage

Friday, July 27th, 2007

People.com and other online publishers have new ways to attract spiders and readers to their online content using good Information Architecture and Meta Pages

With People.com’s online readership soaring to more than seven million UVs (unique visitors) in May, many big and small publishers have asked me, “What’s up at People?”

The … Continue Reading »

Getting More Repeat Visitors

Thursday, July 19th, 2007

Increase page views by focusing on repeat visitors

If you’re publishing online and in print, you can see which way the wind is blowing. Your website needs to succeed.

As discussed yesterday, it is vital to realize that the people who read your print publication are likely the same people who visit … Continue Reading »

Job Posting: Senior Online Editor Needed for Food Publisher

Thursday, November 9th, 2006

Today we bring you a job posting from the Eating Well Media Group. They are a fast-growing, independent communications company that produces an award-winning national consumer magazine, high-quality food and nutrition-related books, a content-rich website, e-mail newsletters, and serves content to strategic partners with other electronic media. … Continue Reading »

Jobs in Publishing: Online Editor Needed for B2B Media Company

Friday, October 13th, 2006

Today we bring a job posting from Vicon Publishing.

Vicon is looking for an Online Editor to work with the Editorial Director in creating website content. Candidate must be a detail-oriented self-starter who is comfortable in the decision-making role, but also willing to take direction and suggestion from others within the … Continue Reading »