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Online Publishing Business

Free eBook: Internet Marketing Strategy for Publishers

Friday, December 4th, 2009

Act now to immediately get the free eBook Internet Marketing Strategy from Mequoda Group. … Continue Reading »

A Mequoda Search Engine Optimization Tutorial

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

Learn the latest techniques of SEO campaign management in this SEO video training program or surrender website performance and publishing profits to your competitors. … Continue Reading »

Making Money Online in 2010

Friday, October 30th, 2009

The Digital Media Strategy 2010: The Only 3 Ways to Make Money Online Now from the Mequoda Group is full of advertising tips online publishers can use to generate online advertising revenue and sell premium information products.

The Mequoda Group interviewed dozens of online publishers and content marketers with robust digital … Continue Reading »

Email Subject Line Smackdown

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

This informative Mequoda webinar on creating and testing email subject lines explains the best practices for defeating email subject line spam filters and for tracking which email subject lines perform best for your products and services. … Continue Reading »

What Everyone Ought to Know About SEO Campaign Management

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

Invest 90 minutes and learn exactly how to conduct an effective SEO campaign, backed up by one full year of additional online Q&A support. … Continue Reading »

New Free Report: Digital Media Strategy 2010

Friday, October 16th, 2009

Read this new white paper and discover how in 2010, anyone with editorial content, or the capacity to create it, can become an online publisher … Continue Reading »

Digital Media Strategy 2010: The Only 3 Ways to Make Money Online Now

Friday, October 16th, 2009

Learn How Smart Online Publishers Use Banners, Tex Ads, Sponsorships to Generate Online Advertising Revenue & Sell Premium Information Products (AKA: Paid Content) when you claim your FREE copy of Digital Media Strategy 2010: The Only 3 Ways to Make Money Online Now … Continue Reading »

Are You One of the “Digitally Enlightened” Online Publishers?

Thursday, October 15th, 2009

Have you brought your online publishing business to terms with the fact that you are not alone in this digital ecosystem?
Have you also pondered whether everyone else is adapting more easily than you are?
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3 Ways to Expand Your Online Business in 2010

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

How Smart Online Publishers Use Banners, Tex Ads, Sponsorships to Generate Online Advertising Revenue & Sell Premium Information Products (AKA: Paid Cont … Continue Reading »

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 »

Missed the Mequoda Summit? Watch the Videos Instead!

Friday, October 9th, 2009

Travel budget frozen? Take a trip to Mequoda Pro and get 13 on-demand seminars that will teach you the ins and outs of profitable online publishing … Continue Reading »

The Best Way to Get Found in Google – Google Visibility Management

Thursday, September 17th, 2009

Get ranked in Google and make search engines become your largest source of targeted website traffic! … Continue Reading »

SEO Campaign Management 2010

Tuesday, September 15th, 2009

Learn the latest techniques of SEO campaign management in this Mequoda SEO video training program or surrender website performance and publishing profits to your competitors. … Continue Reading »

TODAY is the LAST DAY to Save 35% On Your Seat at the Mequoda Summit

Tuesday, September 15th, 2009

Space at our upcoming Mequoda Summit is dwindling and today is the deadline to register at our early-bird rate, so register today! … Continue Reading »

8 Best Practices for Email Newsletter Publishers

Monday, August 31st, 2009

Create an email newsletter that aligns your editorial content with your promotional message while serving the needs of your readers … Continue Reading »

Google Visibility Report

Monday, August 17th, 2009

The Google Visibility Report (GVR) enables you to target, track and manage your SEO efforts and results. Over time, it will reveal whether your have correctly evaluated the risk of a particular SEO keyword target.

Perhaps most important, the GVR will enable you and your online publishing team to discover the … Continue Reading »

Last Week to Save 50% on the Mequoda Summit!

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009

Come to Mequoda’s Online Publishing and Content Marketing Summit to discover the possibilities of an effective online publishing system when you model after publishers who are doing it right
If you’ve been thinking about the Mequoda Summit, or looking for the one conference you should attend this year that will ultimately … Continue Reading »

Mequoda System Key Metrics

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

These key metrics create a dashboard that tells the publisher how fast the website is growing and how that growth is being powered by the website team’s efforts. … Continue Reading »

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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Twitter for Publishers: Webinar Early-Bird Ends Tomorrow!

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009

Last chance to save when you join us next Wednesday to learn about Twitter from BusinessWeek, Dream of Italy, and USAToday
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The Real Reason We Go to Conferences…

Thursday, July 9th, 2009

We travel dozens, hundreds, or thousands of miles to network, collaborate and build better online publishing businesses
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Advanced Training Workshops

Friday, June 19th, 2009

Discover how to meet the challenges of 21st century online publishing with real-world, hands-on skills using free or low-cost software tools and reports.
We’re all familiar with the aphorism, “Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for … Continue Reading »

What are the Business Goals of your Email Newsletter?

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009

A case study on aligning your email newsletter strategy with the goals of your online publishing business
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5 Ratios All Online Publishers Must Measure

Monday, May 11th, 2009

Acting on the results of these five online publishing metrics will boost SEO, email conversion rates, and email revenue
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Mequoda Pro Charter Offer – Get Trained for 12 Months

Thursday, May 7th, 2009

“Fifteen years into the online revolution, and the online publishing gold rush is just now starting to get really interesting.”
With the right tools for analyzing new markets, and the skills to use them wisely, the future is bright for smart online publishers and marketers.
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Turn Simple Online Marketing Metrics into Robust Competitive Intelligence

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009

Search engine optimization strategies for positioning your online publishing business against the market leaders
Analyzing a Google Visibility Report on your competitors website can help you go to market wisely. … Continue Reading »

How to Create a Media Pyramid for your Business Plan

Monday, May 4th, 2009

Start your Internet business model with a media pyramid that shows the hierarchy of your products and revenue
Are you in the process of writing a business plan for a new online venture, or an extension of an existing online business?

As you know, having an online portal for your information is … 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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Write a Business Plan that Reflects Your Internet Business Model and Strategies

Wednesday, April 8th, 2009

How to write a business plan with a five-year financial forecast
How large will your publishing business become, and how much of an investment will be required to build it out to maturity?
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Is Daily Email Newsletter Frequency Right For You?

Monday, April 6th, 2009

I suspect that 50 percent of Mequoda Daily readers should not be launching their own Mequoda System periodical website and daily email newsletter…
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Top 20 Online Publishing Books to Read in 2009

Friday, March 27th, 2009

How does a book make our list of “Top 20 Online Publishing Books”?

Over the past couple of months, we’ve been busily scouring Amazon.com for books on the topic of online publishing. There are 5,000+ books on Amazon that one could read to better their online publishing business. … Continue Reading »

To Charge or Not to Charge – Considering a Membership Website?

Friday, March 20th, 2009

With advertising sales dropping, many publishers are considering charging for content. Will you?

After hearing Jim Malkin, CEO of SourceMedia spoke this week at FOLIO about how he intends to transform into a paid-subscription model, we thought now might be a good time to talk about membership websites and the Five … Continue Reading »

Email Marketing Quiz: What’s Your Email Conversion Rate?

Monday, March 9th, 2009

Maximize your subscriber file size with aggressive email conversion architecture.
Discover how to forecast and increase profits with the Mequoda Email Circulation Calculator.

Fundamentally, there are only two ways for any business to increase profits.

Want to make more money? Either increase the number of customers, or increase the average sale per customer. … 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 »

Monetizing Online Customer Relationships with Events

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009

The hidden factors that can determine the success of live events, and how we chose Napa Valley for the Mequoda Summit

Of the nine proven methods used by successful publishers for making money online, the top of the pyramid—and the potentially most profitable—is live events.

If you have a loyal constituency of … 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 »

New Media Trends

Friday, January 2nd, 2009

Bring your online publishing business up to par with these two FREE white papers that will help you introduce new media into your online business model: Mobile Site Design Tips for Content Publishers and Tips for Creating a Successful Podcasting Series. … Continue Reading »

Online Publishing Book Review: Smart Start-Ups by David Silver

Monday, December 29th, 2008

With the proliferation of MySpace, YouTube, FaceBook and similar social networking sites, you might be thinking about advertising on one of them. But what about incorporating social networking into your online publishing strategy. … Continue Reading »

What are the job descriptions for an online publishing business?

Friday, December 26th, 2008
question

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’s the Myer’s Briggs Tool?

Friday, December 26th, 2008
question

You briefly mentioned using Myers Briggs to better understand your employees and/or co-workers. Can you talk a bit more about how you use this tool?

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Management Conundrum: Too Many Numbers, Too Little Understanding

Friday, December 19th, 2008

How to cut through the clutter of data and create a useful website management dashboard with online metrics

More than 50 years ago, legendary management consultant Peter Drucker was telling American businesses like General Motors that they didn’t know how to count.

More specifically, he said, “if you can’t measure it, you … Continue Reading »

Myers Briggs Team Building – How to Staff Effectively

Friday, December 5th, 2008

Learn how to communicate effectively and staff properly with the Myers Briggs MBTI personality test … Continue Reading »

Online Publishing Book Review: From Entrepreneur to Infopreneur by Stephanie Chandler

Monday, December 1st, 2008

Infopreneur (information entrepeneur) is a relatively new buzz word. Good news if your in the online publishing business. So what does it mean? Basically, an infopreneur sells information and information products such as, but not limited to: … Continue Reading »

Why Google Loves Internet Hubs

Monday, November 10th, 2008

How Google chooses to rank sites on broad phrases like “investing advice”. … 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 »

What Search Engines Can Do For YOU

Friday, November 7th, 2008

Vertical search engines, directories, PPC, paid inclusion, oh my! A list of the ways that building and using search engines can effect your online publishing business. … 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 »

Is Your Company Ready for Web 2.0?

Friday, September 19th, 2008

Can you really master Web 2.0 if you haven’t gotten the fundamentals of Web 1.0? Here are 6 steps picked up at the Web 2.0 Expo this week in NYC that will help bring your brand up to par before Web 3.0 approaches. … Continue Reading »

Thank You

Thursday, September 18th, 2008

An email to download your free white paper is on its way!

We’re happy to have you as a new subscriber to the Mequoda Daily and we hope our newsletter helps point your online publishing business in the right direction.

Topics you’ll see covered in our newsletter include:

Search engine optimization
Social media marketing
Email … Continue Reading »