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Hybrid Landing Pages: Access Challenge Landing Page

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

Effective membership websites employ an access challenge landing page that teases users with a snippet of the content that awaits them beyond the turnstile.

Private, exclusive, premium and paid-only vs. visible, available and accessible. The conundrum for membership website has long been how to have it both ways.

The idea of a pay-for-access website appeals to everyone who owns valuable, premium content. And it’s a viable business model for some publishers. But what if visitors and potential paying customers can’t find your site and its members-only content? … Continue Reading »

Organic Landing Pages: The Article Landing Page

Thursday, April 16th, 2009

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 source of good information on a topic.

Article landing pages are organic landing pages and contain narrative content, with the objective of being picked up by search engines, capturing the users’ interest and leading them to browse more content. … Continue Reading »

What’s the Value of an Inbound Link?

Friday, April 10th, 2009

You know the drill: put on your link-building hat and drive website traffic! But why? … Continue Reading »

Online Publishing Book Review: Content Rich by Jon Wuebben

Wednesday, January 21st, 2009

Finding a Balance with Online Publishing - The Free vs. Paid Conundrum.

Your book is done. Your website is up. How do you build book sales and web traffic simultaneously? How do you determine how much of your book is available online without purchasing it? After all, this is a business not a hobby, right? … Continue Reading »

Online Publishing Book Review: Search Engine Optimization by Kristopher B. Jones

Friday, January 9th, 2009

Once you have identified your target audience or demographic, you must streamline your online marketing strategy. Understanding Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is vital. For a basic overview and useful tips, … Continue Reading »

Online Publishing Book Review: How Not to Start a Magazine by B. Ann Bell

Saturday, December 27th, 2008

So, your favorite hobby has spurned your creative desire to start a new magazine. How do you decide if print or online publishing is best? … Continue Reading »

12 Online Publishing Tips from SiPA’s Marketing Conference

Friday, December 12th, 2008

A wrap-up of the best ideas from SiPA’s 25th annual mid-year marketing conference that took place this week in Las Vegas

We love the wrap-up sessions at the end of SiPA conferences. They allow us to hear the best-of the best that we may have missed, as there are always great sessions running concurrently. Here are the tips, along with supplemental Mequoda Daily content that can help put you on path to more profitability and success online. … Continue Reading »

Every Page is a Landing Page

Monday, November 24th, 2008

Think about every page on your site as a landing page and start converting all of your visitors into subscribers or buyers.
Many people think that a landing page is just one type of page. When you think of a landing page, what do you picture? A single page, long copy, highlighted text, lots of bolding and italicizing, strong headline?
Sure, that’s one design of a landing page, most likely a rapid conversion landing page or email capture page. Or maybe it’s a salesletter landing page selling a single eBook. … Continue Reading »

3 Sources for “Complimentary” Special Reports and eBooks

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

Aggregate, Extract and Summarize your existing content to create products that will build your email file.
One of the questions we get asked most often by our clients is: how to create those complimentary products that we give away in exchange for an email address. Some publishers don’t realize how simple it is to create dozens of these products just from repurposing your existing content—not by creating original content.
We’ve identified three different ways to create complimentary products using your existing inventory: … Continue Reading »

Website Speed Check: Give Your Site a Website Load Test

Friday, October 17th, 2008

Most users are now broadband users, and they expect your site to load in 4 seconds or less! … 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!

SummitThe 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 a specific strategy that your company needs to master in order to be successful online.

Take a look at the seven strategies below and ask yourself the following questions:

Editorial Strategy:
Do you understand how to effectively repurpose your paid content into other products such as blogs, membership websites and podcasts for new revenue opportunities? Do you know which platforms you should use as opposed to other publishers?

“Learn how the Web’s top publishers are using podcasts, webinars, book, and other new media platforms to build loyal customer relationships.”

Master the new media—websites, email, blogs, RSS feeds, audio programs, video seminars, conferences, workshops and more. Offer customers information and entertainment on multiple platforms, using a variety of business models and marketing channels.

We’ll show you how to offer users many products on many platforms, how to give them a free, robust online content, and a personalized marketing experience.

Plus you’ll discover how to use different platforms for distributing your branded content and how to determine which combination of platforms will work best for you.

Business Strategy: Do you know which business models you are running? What about which business models are complimentary to each other and make the most revenue when run together? Should your business have a social network? What about a membership website?

“Discover how to choose and use the right business model for your online business.”

Every website is not the same. Depending on your goals and the way you generate profits, your design should fall into one of ten different strategic designs.

Get real-world, practical guidance on the 12 media business models and how each generates revenue for publishers.

Website Strategy: Do you know how to make sure every page on your website is optimized so that every visitor to your website wants to sign up for your email newsletter or buy a product?

“Learn the 12 web page templates used by today’s top publishers to capture the most visitors.”

You don’t need to be a professional graphic artist or information architect to understand the secrets of an effective publisher’s website.

Your overall strategy must be to drive traffic to a primary online venue, capture visitors’ email addresses, establish a permission-driven database, market products to the database, and build loyal customers and repeat sales.

Just as in direct mail (postal) marketing, the money is in the list!

We’ll show you how to establish a permission-based database and all the ways to drive traffic to your site. Plus, how to monetize these site visitors and convert them to paying customers.

Keyword Strategy: Do you know what your primary keywords are? Are the topics or categories on your blog optimized for search engines? What about your articles? Do your editors have a keyword list in front of them that guides their editorial strategy?

“Learn the SEO strategies every writer, editor and publisher needs to get found on the web.”

In 2008, no online publishing business should be hiring an outside SEO firm. The job of search engine optimization should be in the job description of every writer and editor. It is a logical extension of the editorial process. Hiring outside only doubles the work and expense and adds to the time putting out articles, blogs, and other website content.

You’ll learn how to choose keyword phrases, determine keyword popularity, optimize article headlines and subheads, measure keyword density, optimize your meta tags, optimize your URL’s and maximize internal and external linking.

And if you are not part of the editorial staff, we’ll provide you with all the information you’ll need to kick them into gear.

Email Strategy: Do your email newsletters and promotions get delivered? If they do, what makes the difference between someone reading them and someone throwing them into their junk folder? Do you know what best practice emails look like?

“Discover how to create email newsletters and promotions that get delivered, opened and read.”

While success or failure of an email newsletter or promotion should be directly tied to bottom line goals (sales, revenue, etc.), there are some things that can help—or hurt—a newsletter’s chances of achieving those goals.

No matter how valuable its content, an email newsletter is ineffective unless it gets delivered, opened and read.

We’ll introduce you to email newsletters that get the highest conversion rates and email revenue per thousand and show you how to design your email newsletter for the same results.

Organizational Strategy: Do you know the best way to staff an online publishing team? Do you know how to write accurate job descriptions in the new publishing environment and staff accordingly?

“Learn how to organize activities around your content and build an effective online publishing staff.”

Most publishers load more responsibilities onto their existing print staff but those in
the know are hiring dedicated staff to run their online business units.

Learn why it’s critical to isolate your online teams before you integrate and how to eventually leverage all your editorial assets, cross promote print, Web and email circulation and create synergies for sponsors.

Reporting Strategy: Do you know which metrics are the most important to your online publishing success? Do you have a key metrics dashboard in front of you every day that tells you exactly where your business needs improvement?

“Learn the key metrics every online business manager should know.”

In order to run an effective online business, you need to know what statistics you should be watching (both yours and your competitors).

We’ll show you the key metrics you should know at the end of every day, week and month in order to keep in control of your online business, make the right changes at the right time, and generate the most profit for your online business.

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AMC Coverage 2008: 4 Tips (and 3 Results) for Setting your Content Free, from TVGuide.com’s Christy Tanner

Wednesday, October 8th, 2008

Give more content away, spread it around to various outlets, especially the online areas you know your users are already occupying, and the rewards will ultimately fall back in your lap. … Continue Reading »

4 Steps for Building Email Circulation

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

How Golf Vacation Insider Manages 75 Complimentary Special Reports and a Page #1 Ranking in Google on Almost All of Them. … Continue Reading »

9 Ways to Drive Website Traffic to Your Freemiums

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

Link-building is like a popularity contest, the more inbound links you have from other websites, the higher your page will rank, and the more conversions you’ll see … Continue Reading »

13 Tips for Fixing Slow Loading Web Pages

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

Slow loading web pages can mean turning customers away from your landing pages and ultimately from buying yor products. … 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 marketing
  • Business models and online strategy
  • Creating digital products
  • Writing for the web
  • Building online publishing teams
  • Transitioning from print to online
  • Online publishing event coverage

Plus dozens of other hot topics that relate directly to online publishers.

Contribute! There’s nothing we like more than to hear about your own online publishing experiences. That is, after all, why we’re here—to spread the word on what’s working (and not working) in our industry. I hope you’ll feel compelled to comment on articles you see here in the newsletter and share your own wisdom on the topics with the rest of our readers.

What to expect: You can expect to receive 5 editorial emails a week from us, along with the occasional promotional email.

Please remember to add mequoda@e.mequoda.com to your address book so that we make it to your inbox without any snags.

Unsubscribing: Should you decide to unsubscribe from our email list, please use the unsubscribe link at the top and bottom of our emails so that you’re properly removed from our list (hitting the “junk” button in your email client won’t do this).

You can also stay up to date with us via RSS and Twitter.

You can email me directly at anytime with questions, tip ideas, feedback or suggestions at amanda@mequoda.com or by replying to any of our emails.

Thanks again for subscribing and have a great day :)

Amanda MacArthur
Editor & Publisher
MequodaDaily.com … Continue Reading »

Web 2.0 Expo Notes: A (Mostly) Free SEO Toolbox

Thursday, September 18th, 2008

Stephan Spencer, Founder and President of Netconcepts lists some helpful SEO tips and (mostly) free online tools … Continue Reading »

Web 2.0 Expo: Why is SEO Important?

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

Chris “Silver” Smith of NetConcepts explains why ignoring search engine optimization means that you’re “leaving money on the table” … Continue Reading »

Web 2.0 Expo: 7 Ways to Get Ranked in Google

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

Chris “Silver” Smith of NetConcepts gives seven basic ways to appease the Google gods (and why that means Yahoo!, MSN and Ask will like you too) … Continue Reading »

Web 2.0 Expo: 7 Reasons Why Search Engines Are Your Friends

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

Chris “Silver” Smith of NetConcepts explain how search engines are working with you to improve search rankings and deliver qualified results … 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 »

Lowell Allen

Saturday, September 6th, 2008

Senior Information Architect, Mequoda Group, LLC

Lowell Allen specialized in direct mail design for publishers before moving to Web design and development. He has worked as creative director for an ecommerce production company, where his experience expanded beyond graphic design to include HTML markup and programming. He has designed and developed a number of custom Content Management Systems and database-driven websites.

Lowell is currently assisting the Mequoda Group with delivery of forward-compatible websites using streamlined, standards-compliant code for search engine optimization and accessibility.

Lowell received his B.A. in Visual Design from the School of Design at North Carolina State University. Please visit his website for more information about his professional experience and services. … Continue Reading »

Four Best Shopping Cart Upsell Strategies

Monday, August 25th, 2008

How are you recommending related products on your shopping cart that both offer a helpful service and increase revenue at the same time? … Continue Reading »

Harvard Health Letter Sales Letter Landing Page Review

Sunday, August 10th, 2008

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 a paid subscription publication online.

Knowing the smart marketers at Harvard, we have to believe that this is a deliberate choice. As we recall, they don’t use this “bare minimum” approach in print promotions: their paper direct mail that we’ve seen consists of strong, long-copy sales letters that sell the publication and its benefits, and sell it hard. Why then would they opt for this “bare bones” approach online? This review really addresses a broader, more important question: are online and offline copy fundamentally the same or fundamentally different? … Continue Reading »

About Mequoda

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

Mequoda Group provides research, training and educational services exclusively for the publishing industry. Our mission is to help publishers succeed online by providing them with free daily tips, free reports, online seminars, live events, consulting services and software services.

We have brought together publishing industry veterans and information architecture experts to create a unique road map for creating successful websites. We combine the benefit of 30 years of experience in periodical management with a cutting-edge knowledge of Internet marketing and publishing.

Mequoda Educational Services: Discover the best practices for online media management and Internet marketing strategy through private and public training workshops.

Mequoda Consulting Services: Transform your business into a profitable online publishing company in 12 months or less with intensive coaching from Don Nicholas and the Mequoda Research Team.

Mequoda Software Services: Outsource your website system design, development and support to Mequoda’s software team for a fast and economical strategy for building your online marketing program.

Mequoda Clients: Learn more about the publishers who have chosen the Mequoda system to help them make more money on the Internet via the sale of information products, sponsor revenue and lead generation.

Contact Us: Please reach out to learn how we could help you launch your online publishing and marketing initiative. … Continue Reading »

Needs Analysis

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

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 be recognized as an expert in the field of gardening — and to make a good living doing what she loved.

Rosemary was terrified the Internet would spoil it all.

From what she had read — her beloved books, newspapers and newsletters were all going to be replaced in a matter of years by the Internet — a vast offering of information that would soon be available for free to every man, woman and child in America.

She asked me what she should do to protect her life and her livelihood?

“Embrace the Internet,” I told her. “Use your knowledge of gardening and reputation to build a new media empire that is platform agnostic — one that can prosper even if print dies, one that does not rely on any single medium, channel, publisher or partner to build your brand and marketing your information products.”

“Take control of your publishing future by building direct relationships with your most loyal customers,” I told her.

Today, Rosemary owns a $75-million niche media empire that is highly profitable.

The Internet did not destroy Rosemary’s life.

To the contrary, the Internet is the nexus of Rosemary’s media empire.

Her email newsletter, Gardens Daily, ended 2005 with 2.7-million opt-in subscribers in 41 countries. While her email newsletter is free, the average Gardens Daily subscriber spent $25.48 direct-to-publisher on Gardens Media Group books, newsletters, memberships and tours in 2005. In addition, Gardens Media Group sold another 235, 403 hard cover books at retail bookstores and garden shops generating $5.9M in retail sales in 2005 and exposing Gardens Media Group to thousands of new customers.

A Mequoda Marketing Parable: Rosemary Gardner is a composite case study based on the 35 clients we’ve taught the Mequoda Marketing System over the past 12 years and the hundreds of publishers we’ve interviewed over the past three years for the Mequoda Daily & Library.

How Rosemary transformed her book and newsletter into a $75-million media empire is a process I’ve been studying, testing, refining and teaching publishers since 1995.

We call the process the Mequoda Marketing System.

Mequoda Marketing System Facts:

  • The Mequoda Marketing System is business model agnostic and can be used to sell information products, generate highly targeted advertising inventory or both.
  • The Mequoda Marketing System is massively scalable for any B2C or B2B publishing operation where there is a clearly identifiable group of like-minded individuals. Media entrepreneurs routinely use the system to double their online revenues year after year for several consecutive years.
  • Through hundreds of interviews, we’ve identified just 51 publishers who use the Mequoda Marketing System and average between $18 and $90 in online revenues per free email subscriber per year. We’ve identified one publisher who went from no online revenues in 1998 to $110-million in 2005 using the system.
  • Since 1995, we’ve taught the Mequoda Marketing System to 35 publishers. One large consumer publisher that was in a steady-decline during the late 1990s, embraced the system in 1999 and in 2005 topped $190-million in total information product revenues — a whopping 16-percent increase over 2004.
  • The Mequoda Marketing System is software and operating system independent. It is a set of seven business strategies that when practiced as a system, form an Internet-centric, audience-driven, database marketing system that can be operated by one person or a small team of marketing and publishing professionals.

How can you learn about and implement the Mequoda Marketing System?

1. Making Money Online Private Seminar & Workshop

In just one day, I’ll teach you the seven business strategies that make up the Mequoda Marketing System and I’ll scope the time, budget and resources that would be required to implement the system. We’ll build a simple three-year business model that will forecast revenues, costs and profits that you could expect the system to produce for your organization.

2. Mequoda Marketing System Training & Support

At your and my option, we can enter into a six to 12 month coaching relationship, where we will work on:

  • Exploring the information needs of your target audience
  • Creating a detailed version of our business forecast
  • Choosing topics for your email newsletter
  • Selecting sources to build email circulation
  • Setting your editorial and promotional contact frequency
  • Prioritizing your information product development efforts
  • Creating job descriptions and hiring required staff
  • Planning, executing and evaluating your first marketing campaigns
  • Communicating with staff, management, directors and investors

3. Mequoda Marketing System Architecture & Design

The Mequoda Marketing System Design Team, led by Aimee Graeber & Michael Phillips, can scope, architect, write, and design a complete Mequoda Marketing System and Website Network for your organization that may include:

  • A Mequoda Internet Hub and a high-frequency Mequoda email newsletter to serve as the 24/7 nexus of your integrated customer acquisition and database marketing efforts.
  • Multiple free information products, Rapid Conversion Landing Pages and Up Sell Order Flows to drive your email newsletter subscription acquisition efforts using both free and Paid Media sources.
  • Information product marketplace with multiple dedicated Product Marketing Websites and Subscription Marketing Websites and their associated Sales Letter Landing Pages and Up Sell Order Flows.
  • Information Product Catalog Marketing Website with multiple information product category pages, product pages and high-performance shopping cart with quick-shop functionality.
  • Classified Marketing Websites and Lead Generation Websites to connect buyers and sellers of products and services inside your user community.
  • Membership Websites to offer your audience a searchable, in-depth library of answers to their on-demand questions and a place to share information and inspiration with other members of the user community.

Explore how you can double your online revenues every 12 months:

I am available to teach Making Money Online privately 12 times a year or about once a month. We’ll spend three hours in the morning teaching you and your team the seven Mequoda Marketing System best practices and sharing in-depth examples of how other publishers use the system to double their online revenues every 12 months.

Then in the afternoon, we’ll explore exactly how the Mequoda Marketing System can work for you. We’ll walk the whole process on starting and running a Mequoda Marketing System including a three-year business forecast using the Mequoda Internet Marketing Model which will be yours to keep at the end of the day.

Then you and your team can decide how to proceed:

  • Engage me and the Mequoda Team to help you launch a Mequoda Marketing System that can double your online revenues every 12 months… or
  • Chalk the day up to an interesting educational experience and be done.


To apply for a private presentation of Making Money Online, email or call Julie Ottomano, our Consulting Services Manager. If you and Julie agree that your organization and ours can benefit from the day, Julie will schedule a FREE 30-minute conference call with me to discuss your online opportunities, organizational needs and information marketing strategies.

I encourage you to join Rosemary Gardner and the elite group of media entrepreneurs who have embraced the Internet and are now generating 20, 30, 40 or 50-percent of their revenues on the Internet.

You can double your online revenues every 12 months using the Mequoda Marketing System just as dozens of other savvy publishers have done before you.

I look forward to hearing from you.

All the best,

Don Nicholas

Managing Partner
Mequoda Group, LLC

PS: If you’re the type of person who wants to do lot’s of research before reaching out for help, consider buying the Making Money Online Video Seminar. It’s the next best thing to having me as your personal Internet marketing coach.

PPS: Still not yet convinced that you can double your online revenues every 12 months? Then consider these comments made by some of the Internet’s most successful publishers and authors:

Ask the Builder currently sells about 400 e-books and 200 checklists monthly, ranging in price from $6.95 to $47. This is equal to nearly $1,000 in daily sales of downloadable content.

“The Internet has completely turned upside down the old publishing model where the publishers made all the money and the writers had no power. Now, writers can instantly become publishers, and they need to do that. Anybody can be a publisher on the Internet. And if you take your time and publish really good content, it will be found. Most people don’t want to work. So if you decide to put your nose to the grindstone and you pick a niche and become the expert in that niche, it will pay off. There is just so much opportunity out there. There is this never-ending conveyor belt of people who need to learn about things. They don’t have a clue what to do. Find out where those markets are, where people need information and tap into it.”
— Tim Carter, Author and Publisher, Ask the Builder

Agora Financial Group, powered by the 500,000 circulation The Daily Reckoning, generated 73 percent of its total annual revenue online in 2005, primarily by selling print products linked to DailyReckoning.com.

“We actually think of DailyReckoning.com as an e-communication website. It is the ‘front door’ through which all our business activity passes.”
— Addison Wiggins, Publisher and Editorial Director, The Daily Reckoning

Jay Conrad Levinson, author of the 25-year best-selling Guerrilla Marketing series, said it best in an interview in How to Become Both Published and Profitable:

“Someone once asked me how much I made for my first Guerilla Marketing book. The answer I gave was $10 million… The book, itself, only paid me about $35,000 in royalties, but the speaking engagements, spin-off books, newsletters, columns, boot camps, consulting, and wide open doors resulted in the remaining $9,965,000.”
— Jay Conrad Levinson, Author, Guerrilla Marketing

For GoalsGuy Learning Systems, Inc., the Internet and search engine optimization are key to driving revenue and profit growth.

“We sell a lot of products. This just happened two days ago. We had a human resources executive for a large oil company who was looking for some material to teach their employees. As a result of searching the words ‘goal setting’ they came to our site, asked us to overnight a package, and anywhere from 30,000 to 40,000 books will be sold as a result. And that’s not a fluke.”
— Gary Ryan Blair, Author and Publisher, Goals Guy Leaning Systems

Some six million visitors per year show up on the Cook’s Illustrated website which has been the primer driver to grow Cook’s Illustrated paid circulation to more than 700,000 and facilitates the sales of more than 40 branded information products.

“We feel the publishing business is increasingly becoming a database business. Ultimately, that’s how we view the business side of what we do. But we don’t view our various businesses as separate universes. We have a single database of people with a strong interest in cooking. It’s a large database with lots of names from lots of sources, and we have lots of ways of sorting through them.”
— Chris Kimball, Publisher and Editor, Cook’s Illustrated

Schedule a 30-minute call with Don today!

Our Mequoda consulting team led by Don Nicholas provides coaching to some of the most prestigious publishers in the industry. We provide our clients with a plan for online success.

Using the Mequoda Method, which is a system derived from decades of experience working with publishers, we are well versed in turning single print brands into multiplatform online publishing empires. To do this, we conduct usability tests, provide in-depth project plans, do keyword research, brainstorm product ideas and editorial schedules, train your staff, and provide unrivaled research and best practices.

We are proud to say that we’re one of the most sought-after consulting groups in online publishing.

Mequoda Consulting team: Don Nicholas, Kim Mateus, Laura Pittman, Julie Ottomano

Contact us for more information and to schedule a FREE 30-minute conference call with Don Nicholas to discuss your online opportunities, organizational needs and information marketing strategies.

 

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Mequoda Summit Boston 2009

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

“The Mequoda Summit is not an educational luxury, it’s a survival strategy.

2009 may be the year that will make or break many publishing companies. Blogs and “free” information sites are blowing us out of the water in terms of profits and popularity.

The online environment is competitive and 2009 is the year that will make or break many publishing companies.

Where will you stand?

Save $800 when you register today!

Attention Publishers:

Learn how to Make Money Online in a Web 2.0 World at the Sixth Annual Mequoda Summit and Internet Marketing Conference, October 7-9, 2009.

  • 12 information-packed sessions covering SEO, link-building, content management, email newsletter marketing, budgeting, staffing and more…
  • Organized and hosted by world-renowned authority on Internet strategy for publishers Don Nicholas
  • A collaborative and unique environment to network with fellow publishing colleagues
  • Hosted at a picturesque Boston location set along the banks of the Charles River, overlooking the Boston skyline…
  • Complimentary cocktail party and networking event on the first night…
  • Bonus SEO workshop following the Summit that gives an in-depth walk-through on copywriting, keyword research and optimization across your entire site (optional fee applies)…
  • Don’t take our word for it, see what others are saying

July 4, 2009

Dear Colleague,

Download the brochure!

Download the brochure!

Now in our 6th year, the Mequoda Summit is the most highly reviewed event for online publishers in the US. Whether you’ve attended our Summit in the past or not, you’ll surely benefit from this year’s Mequoda Summit 2009 in Boston. As always, our research is up to the minute and we’ve added tons of new sessions.

You’ve read about the layoffs at Time Inc., Conde Nast, and almost every other media/publishing company. Last year LIFE magazine made the transition to online-only and PC Magazine just made the same announcement.

2009 may be the year that will make or break many publishing companies. Blogs and “free” information sites are blowing us out of the water in terms of profits and popularity. How is it that a magazine with 50 or 100 years of content under its belt can build a website that is not even comparable to a 3-year old blog?

Social media? Web 2.0? eBooks? SEO? Free stuff? What are the online publishing kids doing these days?

We have the man-power, the reputation, and the resources to build online teams that defeat the newbies, but so far many publishers have chosen to keep content on lock-down, live by the rules of print and stay the same.

This new year is a whole different ballgame, it’s time to change or be left behind. In order to build your brand and product sales online, you must learn how to make money online in a web 2.0 world. At the Mequoda Summit, you will learn what your company needs to start doing now in order to make it through 2009.

We’ll show you dozens of case studies from successful (and not-so-successful) online publishers. Then we’ll teach you what your online competitors are doing and how to take what we’ve learned from thousands of hours of interviews, conferences and meetings with clients to turn it into a business plan for 2009.

If you want to succeed to 2009, you’re going to need to understand the new tools of the trade.

In the days of old, editors had one primary responsibility: writing great content. Now the rules have changed and in order to be a successful online publishing company, your editors must also be trained in SEO and must learn how to connect with their audience via blog comments and other online interactions.

Marketers also used to have one goal: push the word out through a handful of mediums. These days, if a marketer really wants to be heard, they must engage on social networks, build relationships with bloggers, publish digital press releases, submit events to online directories, and otherwise reach their audience more personally than ever before.

The new business models used by successful online publishers now include building an online audience that chooses them over the millions of websites online today. Five years ago, “online publishing” meant “PDF”; Now it means producing and delivering content that is optimized for search engines and may never even appear on a printed page. And in many cases, it’s free!

We didn’t say it would be easy, or fair—but it’s fight or flight.

Your audience now expects to find you on their mobile phones, in RSS feeds, on social networks and through content syndication. How will you keep up? What should be your first priorities? How can you be sure that all your efforts will ultimately translate into dollar signs?

Join us at the Mequoda Summit, happening October 7-9, 2009 at the Royal Sonesta Hotel in Cambridge, MA to explore these and other emerging trends around online publishing, including:

  • Taking 20+ years of back-content and turning it into blog posts, eBooks, podcasts and other new media initiatives
  • Starting with a concept, instead of a story, and turning it into a multi-platform product
  • Marketing to the social web with personal branding and using consumer-driven communities to help build business
  • Creating business models and monetization methods with online media
  • Building online publishing teams dedicated to creating a robust website with a profitable product line
  • Search engine optimizing not just blog posts, but every element, of every page, of a website network
The Mequoda Summits have been so successful… and the demand has been so strong for encore performances… that we’re now hosting two each year!

Adams Business Media… American Medical Association… Aspen Publishers… Blood-Horse Publications… Crain Communications… Dow Jones & Company… Ebsco Industries… FDA News… Harvard Health Publishing… Highlights for Children… Infocom… J.D. Powers & Associates… Kiplinger… Lutheran Magazine… Manisses… Massachusetts Medical Society… Ogden Publications… Pinnacle Publishing… PRIMEDIA… Rodale… Scientific American… The Motley Fool… Time Inc… Unity World… University Health Publishing… Vance Publishing… Wiesner Publishing… Yoga International… and many others.

Summit

Spend a few days with the Mequoda Team in Boston…then go back to your office—and shift your online marketing into high gear!

During the Mequoda Summit, you’ll master a new methodology—the Mequoda Methodology—that has generated hundreds of millions of dollars in information product sales online for dozens of publishers, from start-ups to multi-million-dollar media giants.

At the Mequoda Summit Boston 2009, you will learn:

  • How to come up with ideas for new ways to package your products and services—and sell them online.
  • The most common traits of online publishing companies that have made millions on the Internet.
  • Why arrivals, conversion rates, email circulation, RPM and cost per new subscriber are important metrics for product-driven websites.
  • Why impressions, revenue per page, email circulation, RPM and cost per new subscriber are important metrics for ad-driven websites.
  • The keys to maximizing profit using your existing content and knowledge-base.
  • How to recycle, reuse and republish information in different formats.
  • How to identify the right archetype for your business, to ensure higher revenue, lower operating costs and happier customers.
  • How to optimize an organic landing page to help a user searching with Google, Yahoo! or MSN to find it.
  • How to increase conversion rates and improve the user experience with your brand online.
  • How to price your information products and test different offers to maximize sales and profits.
  • How to use meta pages to maximize website traffic and help users find your content more easily.
  • How to get your email newsletter through ISP filters and those that reside on the recipients desktop.
  • Luncheon

  • How to use the power of your brand to launch a TV show, radio show, or syndicated newspaper column.
  • How to use personalized content to enhance user satisfaction and increase page views and time spent.
  • How to measure the effectiveness of your websites.
  • How to get your email promotions opened and read.
  • The how, why and what to test for ad-driven and product-driven websites.
  • How to use multimedia and interactive technology to increase interest in email newsletters.
  • How to make your website’s interface more intuitive and uncomplicated.
  • How to generate massive traffic to your site—and capture each visitor’s email address.
  • How to use the 12 different types of landing pages effectively.
  • How to increase your site’s rankings with the major search engines.
  • Which tools are available to help make keyword research easy and effective.
  • The external media sources and database marketing channels that constitute a proven Internet marketing system.
  • How to up-sell and cross-sell online customers for maximum profits.
  • The key drivers that affect your website’s bottom line and how to implement a metrics-driven plan for your integrated online publishing empire.
  • How to build large, responsive email lists that generate huge cash flow—month after month.
  • How to generate multiple streams of income from a single book or information product.
  • How to create relationships and gain the trust of your prospects so that they will order from you over and over again.
  • How to get the biggest publishers in your market to actively promote your products to their lists—at no up-front cost to you.
  • How to precisely measure unique visits, click-through rates, conversions, orders, dollars per name, and other key metrics.

The bottom line: by the close of the Summit, you will have in your hands dozens of practical, specific, detailed, and realistic ways to build, manage, and get results from your online marketing program. And if you decide to opt for our bonus SEO workshop on October 9, you’ll get some invaluable hands-on training that will prepare you for the next step in the online success of your company.

To enroll in the Mequoda Summit call Julie Ottomano at 508-435-1005. Or click below now:

But I urge you to hurry. First come, first served.

Sincerely,
Don Nicholas
Don Nicholas
Managing Partner
Mequoda Group LLC

P.S. As of today, you can attend the Mequoda Summit 2009 in Boston this year for just $897. Bring along your staff and you can all attend at the low rate of just $797 per attendee! If you want to attend the bonus SEO workshop, it’s just $497 more.

P.P.S. We guarantee your satisfaction. If you are not convinced that the Mequoda Summit will absolutely revolutionize and transform your Internet marketing… and take your publishing company to a whole new level of sales and success online… just let us know by lunch time of the first day.

You can return your conference materials, leave, and get a prompt and full refund of all your money. That way, you risk nothing.

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Mequoda Pro

Thursday, August 7th, 2008
Now you can ask any question about online publishing and marketing and receive a detailed answer from the Mequoda Pro Research Team and I for less than 54 cents a day.

Introducing Mequoda Pro — the ultimate publishing support program — designed exclusively for experienced professionals who want to take the next step toward a secure and rewarding future in online publishing.

Plus, get unlimited access to all eight Mequoda Pro Video training modules online, discuss the Mequoda Pro Online Publishing and Marketing System with your professional colleagues, and stay on the cutting edge of our rapidly changing industry.

Special introductory offer slashes the Mequoda Pro charter membership fee to only $297, but only if you act quickly.

Dear publishing colleague,

Frankly, if you haven’t yet mastered all the details and nuances of online publishing and marketing, it’s not your fault.

There’s an awful lot to learn.

For more than five years, my Mequoda Pro Research Team and I have been working nearly full-time to discover, document and update the best practices of the world’s most successful publishers.

During that time, we have become the recognized authority on online publishing management, Internet marketing, landing page optimization and membership website publishing.

Our work is never done, because the landscape keeps changing.

We’ve created books, case histories, special reports, online webinars and a two-day seminar on how to build, manage, and get real results from your online marketing program.

Now you can ask any question about online publishing and marketing and receive a detailed answer from me and the other members of the Mequoda Pro Research Team.

Not to sound immodest, but we know what we’re talking about.

Over the past 20 years, I have personally guided the media strategy for hundreds of companies in the areas of content development, information product design, marketing, economics, mergers, acquisitions and organizational development.

I’m an expert on Internet media strategy. The Newsletter on Newsletters has dubbed me “a publisher’s publisher” and the Specialized Information Publishers Association (SIPA) calls me “one of America’s leading experts on website publishing strategy.”

In fact, I have spent my entire adult life working with publishers—from huge media giants like Gannett, Hearst and Time Inc., to hundreds of small and medium-sized special-interest magazines, newsletters, and book and website publishers.

“Ever since Aristotle mentored Alexander the Great, smart politicians and business people have been hiring more experienced people to enhance their educations, advise on best practices, and help advance their careers.”

Plus, I’ve been fortunate enough to work on what are now some of the most successful publishing operations that started in print and have moved onto the Internet. These include Computerworld, Morningstar, Tech Republic and Consumer Reports, among many others.

I’m currently coaching some of the most prestigious publishers in the industry. My hourly consulting fee is $450, with the average Mequoda Pro consulting client on retainer for $3,600 monthly, or eight hours of my time.

But what if $3,600 monthly is a little bit out of your reach, but you’d still like to have direct access to me and the other members of the Mequoda Pro Research Team?

Where can you get our expert advice and instruction when you’re on a budget?

The answer may surprise you.

There is a solution to getting detailed, authoritative answers to your most pressing questions about online publishing for yourself and your staff members. And the fee is so low, I think you’ll want to jump on this offer right away — before we change our mind.

Join Mequoda Pro today at the special charter membership fee of only $297 and I’ll answer your questions about online publishing and marketing, plus give you unlimited online access to all eight Mequoda Pro Video modules — and more. This limited-time offer is exclusively for publishing professionals. Your complete satisfaction is assured with our 100 percent, money-back guarantee. But you must act now, because the low Mequoda Pro charter membership fee will soon increase to $697 annually.

Yes! I want Mequoda Pro charter membership for only $297, including Mequoda Answers, the new Mequoda Pro members-only forum, plus unlimited online access to all Mequoda Pro Video modules.

I understand that I can review the initial Mequoda video training seminars risk-free for 30 days. If I am not completely satisfied, you’ll refund my investment in full. I also understand that I will automatically renew at the $297 rate a year from now unless I contact you beforehand. On that basis, here’s my order.

Yes I want to subscribe to Mequoda Pro

We hate spam as much as you do. You have our promise not to sell or share your email address, ever! Please read our Privacy Policy. Learn more about Mequoda.

An invitation to join Mequoda Pro — the new membership website exclusively for publishing professionals

Now you can ask questions and receive detailed answers from me and the Mequoda Pro Research Team for less than 54 cents a day.

That’s right. The charter membership fee in Mequoda Pro is only $297, or less than 54 cents a day.

Your Mequoda Pro membership entitles you to ask me and the Mequoda Research Team any question about online publishing and marketing strategy and get a direct answer. Questions like these, that we are asked nearly every week:

  • What qualities and skills should I look for when hiring an online editor?
  • What are the job descriptions of the staff required to run an online publishing business?
  • What is the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® and how can it be used to hire and understand co-workers?
  • What is a “reader satisfaction” score and how is it calculated?
  • How can I increase the amount of product I sell from my email newsletters?
  • How can I increase my email subscriber file?
  • What’s the best way to structure a sponsorship package?
  • What is a revenue pyramid and how should I construct one?
  • What is the best source of content for my free special reports?
  • What’s a “free on free” offer and why do you recommend it?
  • Why is it important for ad-driven publishers to collect email subscribers?
  • How do you measure the total number of keywords you should be targeting?
  • What exactly is a “Mequoda website”?
  • Which business model (search, online publisher or online retailer) generates the most revenue?
  • How are an online subscription website and a membership website different?
  • What is the function of “conversion architecture” on a webpage?
  • Where is an upsell landing page typically used most effectively?
  • How can I get our email “white-listed?”
  • What does it mean to “webify” the content of an email message?
  • Is it appropriate to use testimonials in email? Why or why not?
  • How can I measure my website’s effectiveness? What metrics are important?
Join Mequoda Pro today at the special charter membership fee of only $297 and I’ll answer your questions about online publishing and marketing, plus give you unlimited online access to all eight Mequoda Pro Video modules — and more. This limited-time offer is exclusively for publishing professionals. Your complete satisfaction is assured with our 100 percent, money-back guarantee. But you must act now, because the low Mequoda Pro charter membership fee will soon increase to $697 annually.

Yes! I want Mequoda Pro charter membership for only $297, including Mequoda Answers, the new Mequoda Pro members-only forum, plus unlimited online access to all Mequoda Pro Video modules.

I understand that I can review the initial Mequoda video training seminars risk-free for 30 days. If I am not completely satisfied, you’ll refund my investment in full. I also understand that I will automatically renew at the $297 rate a year from now unless I contact you beforehand. On that basis, here’s my order.

Yes I want to subscribe to Mequoda Pro

We hate spam as much as you do. You have our promise not to sell or share your email address, ever! Please read our Privacy Policy. Learn more about Mequoda.

“Don Nicholas has an unquenchable thirst for learning and applying new technologies. He is also a gifted and passionate teacher. Combine those attributes with over 20 years in the publishing business, and you will understand why I tell you that this program is a ’must have’ for anyone involved in the development or management of a modern publishing enterprise.” — Greg Jones, President, Granite Bay Media, Inc

“Mequoda Pro sounds too good to be true. What’s the catch?”

Actually, there are two.

First, there’s a limit of one question per week or 52 questions annually.

And second, you have to be willing to share your question and answer with other Mequoda Pro members (after any personal or company identifying information has been removed).

Here’s how it works. You’ll send me your question via email and get a direct, specific answer by return email.

We reserve the right to rewrite and reprint the question and answer (deleting any specific information that identifies you or your company and publication) in the new Mequoda Pro Answers forum on our members-only website. So, you should expect the question and answer to be read by other Mequoda Pro members.

How can we afford to do this? How can we enable you and every other Mequoda Pro member to ask and receive answers to 52 questions annually?

The answer is simple.

Everywhere I go — especially at meetings of SIPA and the Magazine Publishers Association (MPA) — I get asked many of the same questions.

Most queries are about procedural issues — “how-to” questions like the ones above that have specific, empirical answers.

So, because we expect a lot of Mequoda Pro members will have the same or similar questions — and replies — we can share them online at Mequoda Pro Answers.

We figure that over time, the average Mequoda Pro member won’t ask a question every single week, but will discover that many of the answers to their questions have already been posted in the Mequoda Pro Answers forum.

The entire contents of the Mequoda Pro Answers forum will be searchable and available to Mequoda Pro members 24/7/365.

So we can promise you this: If the answer does not yet exist in the Mequoda Pro Answers forum, or you can’t find it, simply send us an email inquiry. We will either answer your question directly or point you to the existing online answer.

Either way, your satisfaction is guaranteed.

Join Mequoda Pro today at the special charter membership fee of only $297 and I’ll answer your questions about online publishing and marketing, plus give you unlimited online access to all eight Mequoda Pro Video modules — and more. This limited-time offer is exclusively for publishing professionals. Your complete satisfaction is assured with our 100 percent, money-back guarantee. But you must act now, because the low Mequoda Pro charter membership fee will soon increase to $697 annually.

Yes! I want Mequoda Pro charter membership for only $297, including Mequoda Answers, the new Mequoda Pro members-only forum, plus unlimited online access to all Mequoda Pro Video modules.

I understand that I can review the initial Mequoda video training seminars risk-free for 30 days. If I am not completely satisfied, you’ll refund my investment in full. I also understand that I will automatically renew at the $297 rate a year from now unless I contact you beforehand. On that basis, here’s my order.

Yes I want to subscribe to Mequoda Pro

We hate spam as much as you do. You have our promise not to sell or share your email address, ever! Please read our Privacy Policy. Learn more about Mequoda.

Access to a virtual Who’s Who of publishing professionals

What happens if you ask a question that we haven’t already researched and answered?

The Mequoda Pro Research Team and I will go to work.

We won‘t hesitate to fall back on other highly experienced publishers like David Baum, Golf Odyssey, Matthew Bennett, First Class Flyer; Lynn Chambers, Canadian Living; Ed Coburn, Harvard Health Publishing; Helmut P. Graf, Verlag fur die Deutsche Wirtschaft AG; Clay Hall, Aspire Media; Helen Hoart, StayWell Consumer Health Publishing; Stuart Hochwert, Prime Publishing, LLC; and Gregory S. Jones, Granite Bay Media. Plus Jodi Kahn, Reader’s Digest Association; Robert Michel, Dark Intelligence Group; Steve Sachs, Real Simple; Billy Smith, American Quarter Horse Association; Charlie Spahr, American Ceramics Society; Peter F. Sprague, Gearhead Communications and Bryan Welch, Ogden Publications.

These are the crème de la crème of publishing professionals, members of the Mequoda Pro Advisory Board, who are ready to weigh in with advice, comments, resources and personal experiences.

Plus, you’ll get unlimited access to all eight Mequoda Pro Video training modules online

That’s right, as a Mequoda Pro member, you’ll get unlimited access to all eight Mequoda Pro Video training modules online.

These are high quality, HT-64 QuickTime videos, each ranging in length from 22 to 55 minutes, that explain in detail the Mequoda Pro best practices for online marketing and publishing.

Mequoda Pro Video Training Module #1:

Online Market Analysis — Getting to Know Your Online Neighborhood

Discover how to do market analysis research, then choose or change your website business model, plus which competitors represent potential marketing or content-sharing partnerships.

Mequoda Pro Video Training Module #2:

Search Engine Optimization — Mapping and Tracking your Keyword Universe

Discover how to know, with certainty, the keywords by which web surfers find your website. Learn how to use the Google Keyword Tool to do keyword research, and how to use the Google search engine to quantify competition.

Mequoda Pro Video Training Module #3:

Website Strategy — Converting Visitors into Buyers and Subscribers

A well-crafted landing page will maximize the possibility that a user will take the action you desire and not click away. Learn the 9 website templates required to handle multiple sources of traffic to your website and understand how to implement the conversion architecture that will maximize site traffic and build strong customer relationships.

Mequoda Pro Video Training Module #4:

Editorial Strategy — Using Content to Drive Traffic

Discover the various sources, both original and recycled, that editors can use to aggregate and produce online content. Learn how publishers today are successfully recycling, reusing and repurposing their print content into robust online content that effectively drives traffic to their site and sells more product.

Mequoda Pro Video Training Module #5:

Business Strategy — Embracing Multiple Business Models

Choosing the right business model and supporting infrastructure is fundamental to online publishing success. Learn the 9 ways top publishers are monetizing customer relationships through several business models, as well as definitive website metrics that verify the results of profitable online publishers.

Mequoda Pro Video Training Module #6:

Email Strategy — Using Email as a Publishing Platform

For publishers in-the-know, those who generate 40-70% of their revenue in email, they treat email as a publishing platform. Learn how to create an email editorial calendar that aligns with your products and sponsorships and understand the role of service journalism and clever copywriting in generating serious email revenue.

Mequoda Pro Video Training Module #7:

Reporting Strategy — Managing by Exception

For websites, some metrics are more important than others, depending on the site’s business model. Discover how to measure and manage with a key metrics dashboard, and how to make decisions by regularly reviewing a standard set of daily, weekly, or monthly reports.

Mequoda Pro Video Training Module #8:

Organizational Strategy — Organizing to Innovate

While there is no single, perfect organizational structure for a multiplatform publishing business, there is a pattern that is best described as “organizing activities around the content.” Learn how to integrate your print and online media teams and how to hire dedicated writers, marketers and technical staff to run the online business units.

Join Mequoda Pro today at the special charter membership fee of only $297 and I’ll answer your questions about online publishing and marketing, plus give you unlimited online access to all eight Mequoda Pro Video modules — and more. This limited-time offer is exclusively for publishing professionals. Your complete satisfaction is assured with our 100 percent, money-back guarantee. But you must act now, because the low Mequoda Pro charter membership fee will soon increase to $697 annually.

Yes! I want Mequoda Pro charter membership for only $297, including Mequoda Answers, the new Mequoda Pro members-only forum, plus unlimited online access to all Mequoda Pro Video modules.

I understand that I can review the initial Mequoda video training seminars risk-free for 30 days. If I am not completely satisfied, you’ll refund my investment in full. I also understand that I will automatically renew at the $297 rate a year from now unless I contact you beforehand. On that basis, here’s my order.

Yes I want to subscribe to Mequoda Pro

We hate spam as much as you do. You have our promise not to sell or share your email address, ever! Please read our Privacy Policy. Learn more about Mequoda.

Special introductory offer slashes the Mequoda Pro charter membership fee to only $297, but only if you act quickly.

That’s not a misprint. Invest only $297 for the first year during our Mequoda Pro charter membership offer. After that, Mequoda Pro membership will be $697 annually.

Plus, you’ll receive these valuable bonuses:

Bonus #1: Google Visibility Report

Bonus #2: Email Performance Report

Bonus #3: Email Circulation Calculator

Bonus #4: Email Lifetime Calculator

Bonus #5: Key Metrics Dashboard

Bonus #6: Online Publishing Model

Bonus #7: Link Building Lifetime Calculator

Bonus #8: SEO Lifetime Calculator

Bonus #9: Online Market Audit Sample

“I have known Don for over 20 years, as my friend, business partner and consultant. His strategic brilliance has been a constant throughout that time. Pay close attention and Don will put you on the path to a more successful Internet strategy.” — Stuart R. Jordan, COO, University Health Publishing

Little-known secrets…practical strategies…tactical advantages…and proof.

Whether you’re a publisher, editor, journalist, copywriter, circulation director, website architect, usability engineer, creative director, website designer, Internet strategist, or an online marketer of newsletters, magazines, books and other information products, you know the pressure for more subscribers, additional product sales and higher profits has never been greater.

Now you can save yourself from expensive, tedious, trial-and-error marketing efforts. We’ve done the “best practices” research for you.

Over the past five years, the Mequoda Pro Research team has become the recognized authority on online publishing management, Internet marketing, landing page optimization and membership website publishing.

The Mequoda Pro Research Team and I have already researched, discovered, codified and proven the best Internet marketing practices of the world’s most successful publishers.

With your Mequoda Pro membership, you will discover their little-known secrets, practical strategies and tactical advantages.

And as we discover new and improved strategies, techniques and tactics, we will continually refine the details of the Mequoda Online Publishing and Marketing System.

But make no mistake. While the “best practices” of online marketing for Internet publishers are constantly changing and evolving, Mequoda Pro is not simply theory.

Every bit of the Mequoda Online Publishing and Marketing System has been proven to work to create more subscribers, additional product sales and higher profits.

As a Mequoda Pro member, you will be able to access this priceless information in eight convenient Mequoda Pro Video training programs that are updated regularly.

And don’t forget the most valuable benefit of all: As a Mequoda Pro member, you will be able to post your questions to Mequoda Pro Answers, the new Mequoda Pro members-only forum, and get specific advice and comments from me and other members of the Mequoda Pro Research Team.

Just click on the button below to sign up.

I urge you to do it today. Because the $297 Mequoda Pro charter membership fee will not last forever. This is an introductory offer and may be withdrawn at any time.

Please join Mequoda Pro right now using the order form below.

Join Mequoda Pro today at the special charter membership fee of only $297 and I’ll answer your questions about online publishing and marketing, plus give you unlimited online access to all eight Mequoda Pro Video modules — and more. This limited-time offer is exclusively for publishing professionals. Your complete satisfaction is assured with our 100 percent, money-back guarantee. But you must act now, because the low Mequoda Pro charter membership fee will soon increase to $697 annually.

Yes! I want Mequoda Pro charter membership for only $297, including Mequoda Answers, the new Mequoda Pro members-only forum, plus unlimited online access to all Mequoda Pro Video modules.

I understand that I can review the initial Mequoda video training seminars risk-free for 30 days. If I am not completely satisfied, you’ll refund my investment in full. I also understand that I will automatically renew at the $297 rate a year from now unless I contact you beforehand. On that basis, here’s my order.

Yes I want to subscribe to Mequoda Pro

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Cordially,
Kim Mateus
Don Nicholas
Managing Partner, Mequoda Group, LLC
Chief Architect, Mequoda Wordpress Systems
Editor-in-Chief, Mequoda Daily Network

P.S. In case you have any concerns about the veracity of the Mequoda video training series content, please consider this:

  • Our findings are based on solid research, not theory.
  • More than 2,500 Mequoda consulting clients, Mequoda webinar attendees, and Mequoda Summit veterans can attest to the value of the Mequoda Pro Online Publishing and Marketing System.
  • While client confidentiality requires that I not reveal their identity, one publishing company of our acquaintance redesigned its online marketing program in adherence our best practices guidelines and saw a 38 percent increase in sales, and a 24 percent increase in profits, within one year. Your results may vary, but dramatic improvement is the norm, not the exception.
  • This isn’t rocket science. You could do the same and achieve similar results. But only if you learn these little-known secrets and practical strategies.

P.P.S. Don’t delay. Act today. People are already telling me this offer is far too generous and we should charge more for Mequoda Pro membership.

But for right now, your Mequoda Pro charter membership fee is only $297 (subject to change in the near future).

So, while I can guarantee your complete satisfaction, I cannot guarantee the low, Mequoda Pro charter membership fee will be in effect much longer.

Don’t miss out. Sign up right now.

Join Mequoda Pro today at the special charter membership fee of only $297 and I’ll answer your questions about online publishing and marketing, plus give you unlimited online access to all eight Mequoda Pro Video modules — and more. This limited-time offer is exclusively for publishing professionals. Your complete satisfaction is assured with our 100 percent, money-back guarantee. But you must act now, because the low Mequoda Pro charter membership fee will soon increase to $697 annually.

Yes! I want Mequoda Pro charter membership for only $297, including Mequoda Answers, the new Mequoda Pro members-only forum, plus unlimited online access to all Mequoda Pro Video modules.

I understand that I can review the initial Mequoda video training seminars risk-free for 30 days. If I am not completely satisfied, you’ll refund my investment in full. I also understand that I will automatically renew at the $297 rate a year from now unless I contact you beforehand. On that basis, here’s my order.

Yes I want to subscribe to Mequoda Pro

We hate spam as much as you do. You have our promise not to sell or share your email address, ever! Please read our Privacy Policy. Learn more about Mequoda.

Subscribe to Mequoda Pro

Join Mequoda Pro today!

For our introductory price of only $297, you will get unlimited instant access to our eight video training modules (based on our live Mequoda Summit).

You will also be able to participate in our interactive Q&A with your coach Don Nicholas.

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Register today and receive these valuable bonuses:

Bonus #1: Google Visibility Report

Bonus #2: Email Performance Report

Bonus #3: Email Circulation Calculator

Bonus #4: Email Lifetime Calculator

Bonus #5: Key Metrics Dashboard

Bonus #6: Online Publishing Model

Bonus #7: Link Building Lifetime Calculator

Bonus #8: SEO Lifetime Calculator

Bonus #9: Online Market Audit Sample

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Mequoda Research Team

Mequoda Advisory Board

  • Phil Ash
    National Institute of Business Management
  • David Baum
    Golf Odyssey
  • Matthew Bennett
    First Class Flyer
  • Alan Bergstein
    RCR Wireless News
  • Ed Coburn
    Harvard Health Publishing
  • Bill Dugan
    The Pohly Company
  • Helmut P. Graf
    Verlag fur die Deutsche Wirtschaft AG
  • Susan Hackley
    The Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School
  • Bill Haight
    Magna Publications
  • Clay Hall
    Aspire Media
  • Stuart Hochwert
    Prime Publishing, LLC
  • Gregory S. JonesGranite Bay Media
  • Carl Kravetz
    Cultural Assets
  • Pat McKeough
    The Successful Investor, Inc.
  • Nancy McMeekin
    Oakstone Publishing
  • Stephen Meyer
    Business 21 Publishing
  • Robert Michel
    Dark Intelligence Group
  • Steve Sachs
    Real Simple
  • Charlie Spahr
    American Ceramics Society
  • Bryan Welch
    Ogden Publications

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Notes and Quotes from PodCamp Boston 3

Monday, July 21st, 2008

Two days of social media conferencing, 340+ attendees, and a whole lot of Twittering going on. … Continue Reading »

SEO Writing for Blogs and Online Articles

Thursday, July 17th, 2008

Use this list to optimize every new and old article or blog on your site in order to attract the most search engine traffic. … 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 »

Landing Page Keyword Research

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

Choosing relevant keywords for your rapid-conversion landing page will put you on page one and build your list by shaking hands with Google

In September 2007, we initiated a massive update to the original keyword research we had conducted when we launched Mequoda Daily in August 2005. Our plan was to take each of our existing primary keyword phrases (also known as the 10 topic pages you’ll find at Mequoda Daily) and run them through some keyword analysis to discover more niche, secondary terms that we “could own” - aka be in the number one position on page one in Google. … Continue Reading »

MPA-IMAG Conference Coverage: Optimizing Advertising Sales - Print and Online

Monday, May 19th, 2008

What You’ll Like and Dislike about Selling Online Advertising … Continue Reading »

The New York Times and Social Media

Monday, May 12th, 2008

Could social media networking and optimization play a role in The New York Times’ 82% increase in traffic this year? … Continue Reading »

Top 10 Video Networking Sites

Monday, May 5th, 2008

Got lots of viral videos to put up, and not sure where to put them? Here are the 10 most popular places that they should be found. … Continue Reading »

10 Publishers Using PDFs

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

How Publishers are using PDFs to Generate Email Subscribers, Sell Online and Offline Subscriptions, and Create New Sources of Ad Revenue … Continue Reading »

PodCamp NYC 2.0 Coverage: The Economics of Aggregation

Saturday, April 26th, 2008

The Economics of Aggregation with Travell Perkins of TravellPerkins.com and RGBDaily.com … Continue Reading »

PodCamp NYC 2.0 Live Coverage: How to Build and Sustain a Social Community

Friday, April 25th, 2008

The purpose of the session was to show companies how to build and sustain any type of social community. These were his tips of what you need to focus on: … Continue Reading »

SEO Your PDFs

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

Page one and page seventy-five is the difference between search engine optimizing your PDFs or not … Continue Reading »

9 Best Social Media Marketing Sites for Publishers

Friday, April 18th, 2008

How to use social networking sites to create buzz, an online community, and more traffic to your website … Continue Reading »

What is Social Media Optimization?

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

The first step in social media marketing is optimizing your site for inbound links … Continue Reading »

Live Coverage: Mequoda Summit Session 5 - SEO Copywriting and Campaign Management

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

Leveraging Content and Keywords to Drive Targeted Website Traffic, Build Email Circulation and Sell Information Products … Continue Reading »

Preview Pane Best Practices

Friday, March 28th, 2008

8 best practices for effective email marketing in a preview-pane world … Continue Reading »

Reversing the Risk of Online Transactions

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

An effective Internet marketing strategy means anticipating customer hesitations and removing obstacles … Continue Reading »

Optimizing Press Releases for Search

Monday, March 24th, 2008

Increase your site’s search engine ranking with incoming links from press releases … Continue Reading »

10 Tips for Universal and Blended Search

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

Mike Grehan’s Top 10 Tips for Optimizing for Universal and Blended Search … Continue Reading »

12 Steps for Successful Video Search Optimization

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

Shari Thurow’s Tips for Optimizing Video … Continue Reading »

Understanding Link Popularity

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

A few notes about link popularity from Debra Mastaler, President, Alliance-Link … Continue Reading »

4 Keys to Web Analytics Success

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

Blogger, author and Google analytics evangelist Avinash Kaushik shares four keys to succeeding with web analytics … Continue Reading »

Tips from Search Engine Strategies NYC

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

A few tips about Universal Search, optimizing video, link popularity and web analytics from the SES NY show … Continue Reading »