Lee Traupel
Maximizing ROI via Web Site Traffic Analysis
We are clearly well past the innocent “golden age” of the Internet – Darwinian economics have become the order of the day today. Any company worth their salt must maintain a web site as an information resource and/or to generate...
Date Posted: July 25, 2002
Marketing Maxims for Today’s Challenging Times
These are turbulent times for all businesses - necessitating streamlined marketing processes that are finely honed to mesh with today’s sputtering global economy.1.
Date Posted: July 25, 2002
LookSmart Not Small Business Friendly
There is a firestorm of negative press regarding LookSmart's recent marketing stumbles via numerous discussion groups, including two of the oldest and most influential, I-Search and I-Advertising Digests.
Date Posted: July 25, 2002
Fast Forwarding your Business with Instant Messaging
Instant Messaging is rapidly becoming accepted in the business community as a viable communications tool and process - it's faster than e-mail, free on the client side, even a novice user can easily grasp the interface in just a few minutes and...
Date Posted: July 25, 2002
E-Mail Newsletter Marketing Essentials
If Gutenberg were alive today he would be in publishing heaven! Forget the printing press, the web has fast-forwarded self-publishing in ways that are evolving so rapidly it's becoming difficult to integrate technology and process to leverage...
Date Posted: July 25, 2002
Driving Qualified Traffic Using Directories
Some education is essential to enlighten you about this form of interactive marketing. Directories aren't Search Engines; they are web sites or information portals which use analysts on staff to review submissions from companies who want to be...
Date Posted: July 25, 2002
All Along the Digital Watchtower
It's no secret interactive (web-based) marketing has arrived. The IDC research group just released a study in late June of this year indicating 99.9% of a survey of executives and entrepreneurs said they currently conduct online marketing...
Date Posted: July 25, 2002
Creating Effective Opt-in E-Mail Campaigns
It's been said before, but important to re-emphasize, e-mail is the "killer application" of the information age. According to the latest Forrester Research numbers, the permission based e-mail industry is projected to grow from $164M...
Date Posted: July 25, 2002
Don't Become Another .com Road Kill
Remember those Super Bowl and World Cup commercials where you saw talking hand puppets, scantily dressed women, cowboys herding cats and crude lettering on cardboard?
Date Posted: July 25, 2002
Ten Basic Steps For Building A Web Site That Works
1. Assemble a web site development plan that is integrated with your overall marketing processes; the content should be consistent with offline materials, the graphics/images don't have to be identical with traditional media, but should be...
Date Posted: July 25, 2002