NYTimes.com will likely boost advertising revenue if it offers more free content
The New York Times may soon stop charging readers to access premium content, according to a Tuesday New York
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For those of you that missed it, there was a fantastic New York Times article on Monday
A report shows 5 tactics are commonly executed and commonly fail
A mantra that remains true across email marketing and direct mail is "the money is in the list."
Email marketers are
Rupert Murdoch's newest newspaper will likely be more risky and experimental
Publishers around the country should keep an eye on The Wall Street Journal. It may be radically pursuing a new
Cutting through chaos to find success
There is no denying it: the Internet is a confusing place.
Commerce, piracy, debate, theft, publishing, networking, research, news, war—it all happens online. It's chaos.
When you
Slow websites push visitors away; speed yours up
Creating your website—or even editing it—is a complicated undertaking.
Many different parts have to work together to satisfy your visitors, and ultimately, satisfy you.
Yesterday's
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We are happy to announce that the 19th Annual Awards for Publishing Excellence awarded HR Daily Advisor the grand
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If you're publishing online and in print, you can see which way the wind is blowing. Your website needs to succeed.
As discussed yesterday,
Lost in the online publishing jungle? We have a map.
When bringing your publication online, you're entering a business world unlike any other.
Yesterday's Daily compared publishing online to navigating the Amazon.
Is this new system heaven for publishers or hell for users?
Advertising online is an unsettled business. New ways to spread your name online and monetize your website traffic are still
Specific guidelines for retail and media websites
When your publication is online it should be on a network of websites, not a single website.
Yesterday we discussed that one of your websites
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Conduct research before you make any changes to your online marketing or publishing strategies.
Research is essential to online profitability.
There is a wide array of technology, marketing tactics,
Study publishers that are already making money online
If I could only make one suggestion to you—a publisher that wants to make more money online—it would be to research.
There is no
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When you have finished creating any type of website—whether it be membership, hub, or search engine—you need to
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We at the Mequoda Group are very fond of our website archetypes.
They are website designs from which all similar
If you have to change your website, only use proven tactics
If your website is not making much money, it's natural to want to constantly change it.
You might think after some
Google's Sitelinks can turn your 1 link into 6 on results pages
Google is constantly changing its algorithms, features and included media, so staying on top of your page rankings requires
There are solutions to every website problem
You have a website and it costs money. So it should be generating revenue, right?
As we described Wednesday, that is not always the case.
Landing pages should convert targeted website traffic. That means having an organized system that matches the user with the right landing page.
The more targeted the landing page, the better the
Learn how one company is applying lessons from direct mail, and find out who won our Mequoda Summit Raffle for SIPA attendees
It's widely known that direct mail campaigns are more
Treat the Internet as a unique medium with multiple platforms
Content delivery has constantly evolved over the centuries—and it is not going to stop now.
There was word of mouth and tall
Today, most would-be travelers start their journeys online by researching destinations, carrier schedules, accommodations and free web mapping services.
In order to compete with travel agencies and agents, travel information publishers,
Celebrity news continues to dominate the blogosphere while the nation's top newspaper slips in rank
The April results of the Mequoda Blog100 are posted, and celebrity news hub TMZ continues to
A new report suggests that traditional media are losing audience to niche topic publishers online.
If users have an informational need not being fulfilled, then it is only a matter of
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Interweave Press, a fast growing multiplatform media company, needs an executive with extensive online direct marketing and project management experience and skills. The Company is currently building two
An old-media chief executive senses the birth of a media revolution and provides adoption tips
Rupert Murdoch is a classic old media titan. He's the majority shareholder and chief executive of
Create a professional quality video that offers your customers value without damaging your bottom line.
The Internet is not a book, a magazine, a television program or a radio show. It
The top five media blogs in the country remained for March, but one community-centric website is knocking at the door.
The March results of the Mequoda Blog 100 are in, and
Adjusting the time your emails are sent can save your customers from sifting through spammy subject lines to find your content.
Variety, the bible for show biz insiders, has provided Hollywood
Attend SIPA's June conference and take home practical methods to make your company more profitable.
SIPA's 31st Annual International Newsletter and Specialized Information Conference is set to be three days of
Offering free, valuable content has attracted enough sales to earn this company tens of millions of dollars.
The many recurrent themes of the Mequoda System—offering value, building community, driving traffic with
Have you ever wondered how your online revenue stacks up against your competitor’s?
Work in the dark no more. Estimating a competitor's online revenue is easier than you think and requires
Find out why your email newsletter should follow the 60/40 rule
Email newsletters are a great way to keep a company’s brand in front of its customers. Their popularity, however, has
Celebrity news sites are making gains on the Mequoda Blog 100 with content added several times an hour
The February results are in for the Mequoda Blog 100, our list of
Use different emails to relate to your customers in different ways.
The Mequoda Group is a strong advocate for the power of email. It is cheap, easy and effective at maintaining
Avoid driving away users by eliminating DRM
EMI Group, one of the recording industry’s four leaders, announced Monday that songs it sells online in Apple Inc.’s iTunes Store will no longer
How one company designed a website that shot to the top in 6 months
Socrates Media began helping small businesses and consumers manage themselves financially and legally online five years ago.
The cost of publishing a high quality magazine just went up.
It may be time to consider switching to online publishing. The print business is not getting any cheaper in America.
How one magazine is successfully making the transition across the globe
Unless they have been living in a cave or are an extreme anomaly, most print publishers in the US have
Email newsletters are not like the direct mail campaigns of old. They are based in a volatile environment where spam laws and software capabilities constantly change, and where best practice
Websurfers are not getting any more patient.
More people are installing broadband connections in their homes, and more than 80 percent of all active Internet users in the US now access
Publishers merely posting their magazine content online are leaving readers to their competitors.
Forbes Media began with a focus on the entrepreneur and capitalist class almost 90 years ago—born into an
TMZ’s constantly updated celebrity news draws more unique users by a wide margin.
Entertainment news hub TMZ dominated the Mequoda Blog 100 this month, generating more unique visitors during January than
The Mequoda Online Media Index (OMI) is a Simple Calculation that Measures a Publication’s Transition from Print to Online
Online advertising is in an explosive trend. Internet advertising revenues for 2006
See how one magazine’s website is set to out-earn its print counterpart.
Publishers seeking a successful transition from print to online should consider the Computerworld example. Computerworld may have began as
The Mequoda Research Team has made a list of the top 100 media blogs in the country based on unique page visitors per month.
In the sprawling and volatile blogosphere, mining
How email newsletters, conversion architecture and incentives will help build your audience.
Online marketing expert and ecommerce guru Andrew Palmer ran a campaign last year to build subscriptions to Agora’s free
More attention to detail would help improve the reader experience and lift response.
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