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Publishing Team

14 Website Design Guidelines, the Mequoda Website Scorecard™

Monday, March 1st, 2010

The Mequoda Website Scorecard encourages you to score your website on each of the 14 Mequoda Best Practice Guidelines, add them together and arrive at a cumulative score. The goal is to emphasize the importance of balanced, usable websites. Your website should achieve respectable scores in all areas, rather than … 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 »

Here’s a Quick Way to Train Your Team in One Day

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009

One method for training your entire online publishing team in one sitting (plus maybe a lunch break if they’re good) … 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 »

Management Tips for Creating a Great Online Publishing Team

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

The best online publishing management team is comprised of subject matter experts, Internet marketers and information technology professionals who share the common objective of maximizing customer lifetime value. … Continue Reading »

Maximize Revenue with your Website Advertising Inventory

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

Have you ever wondered why some publications — both print and online — enjoy a wealth of advertising support, while others — perhaps yours — barely show a respectable profit? … Continue Reading »

Internet Advertising Basics

Thursday, April 2nd, 2009

This 90-minute seminar co-produced by Mequoda and SIPA, could change forever the way you structure online ad sales. Think of it as your blueprint for driving more revenue online. … 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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

Seven Online Publishing Secrets

Sunday, September 14th, 2008

If you’re an author, editor, website designer, or online publisher, Seven Online Publishing Secrets will forever change the way you think about how to make money on the Internet with online publishing. Claim your FREE copy of Seven Online Publishing Secrets: Using the Internet to Transform Your Special-Interest Publishing Brand … Continue Reading »

Job Descriptions for Managers – 6 Online Publishing Jobs

Thursday, September 11th, 2008

How your print publishing team translates online … 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 »

Making Money Online

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

Seven Strategies that Successful Publishers are Using to Turn their Traditional Publishing Brands into Internet-Centric Media Companies … Continue Reading »

Mequoda Summit Napa Valley 2010

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

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

Seven Online Publishing Secrets – Updated for July 2008!

Friday, July 11th, 2008

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

Are You an Online Publisher, Online Retailer, or Both?

Monday, June 2nd, 2008

Make more money online by being content-driven, Google-friendly and profit-minded … Continue Reading »

Profiting in the New Publishing Environment

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

Join Don and Kim at the SiPA conference in DC and learn all the latest trends and best practices in this new publishing environment … Continue Reading »

Using Paid Media to Build Email Circulation

Thursday, December 27th, 2007

Paid media programs balance your Internet marketing system

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

Setting Up a Mequoda Marketing System – Phase 1

Thursday, December 27th, 2007

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

Two Tools to Evaluate the Success of your Website

Tuesday, February 20th, 2007

Using Compete SnapShot and Yahoo! Site Explorer to Measure the Success of Your Websites (and those of your Competitors!)

One very common way to determine a site’s success is to know how many unique visitors it gets each month. Unique visitors is a stat everyone wants to know and it’s usually … Continue Reading »

Magazines, Google, Yahoo! and Online Publishing in 2007

Thursday, October 26th, 2006

I’ve been attending the annual American Magazine Conference since 1985, back when the conference was about magazines and brand extensions that created “ancillary revenues.”In 2006, things have become much more complicated.Historically, only a handful of magazines have ever created non-magazine revenue from television, books, events or other brand extensions that … Continue Reading »

Using Job Analysis to Increase Website Productivity

Thursday, August 31st, 2006

How many people does it take to run a publishing website? The answer varies widely from none to 75 across the several dozen website publishers I’ve spoken with over the past three weeks.

None is the answer given by publishers who treat their website as something their team can do in … Continue Reading »

University Health Publishing Launches Next Generation Mequoda Marketing System

Friday, July 28th, 2006

I turned 50 this past December. We were about halfway thru the process of designing, testing, writing and coding Johns Hopkins Health Alerts and the 29 marketing websites that surround it form the Johns Hopkins Health Network. Stuart Jordan, who is COO for Johns Hopkins Health Alerts and its parent, … Continue Reading »

A General Manager to Drive Your Internet Marketing Strategy

Tuesday, February 28th, 2006

What both types of CEOs have in common is the need for someone to execute their Internet marketing strategy on a day-to-day basis. Enter the Internet Marketing System General Manager and Publisher of your Mequoda Internet Hub. … Continue Reading »

The Mequoda System: A Seven-Habit Website Management System

Friday, February 4th, 2005

Successful website publishing in 2005 means creating happy users and healthy profits. Without both, no website will exist for long. All of the successful website publishers we’ve studied have one thing in common: a consistent management system for achieving success that includes a number of key behaviors that are repeated … Continue Reading »