Professional Speakers, Best Selling Authors, Online Marketing Pioneers
Last week, I visited ComicCon Austin with my 7 year old son. The people in costumes, the famous actors and characters were not what caught my attention. What fascinated me is the engagement that people had with these characters many of whom have been around for more than 50 years. That is the value … [Read more...]
I just came back from Shop.org's Annual Summit in Denver, where over 4,000 retailers and industry supporters came to learn more about what the industry was up to. While I was there I thought I would spend some time interviewing some of my retailer friends and bring their words to you. I asked … [Read more...]
We came up with 5Rs of Search Engine Marketing (SEM) to demystify the process of Search Engine Optimization (SEO). This 7 1/2 minute video interview with Dr. Ralph Wilson from Web Marketing Today covers how content on your site must be (1) Relevant, (2) build your Reputation, (3) Remarkable, (4) … [Read more...]
Just last week, I had the pleasure of keynoting the fabulous eMetrics Conference in San Jose. While there I had a chance to sit down with my good friends Jim Sterne and Avinash Kaushik to discuss Jim's latest book Social Media Metrics: How to Measure and Optimize Your Marketing Investment. If you … [Read more...]
Learn how an innovative retailer used Google Voice to increase their re-orders in this guest post on the Econsultancy blog. Want to know how to avoid the 8 Second Black Friday trap? Find out my advice on this guest post on the Microsoft Adcenter Community blog. My good buddy Avinash does a … [Read more...]
It's now been almost 2 years since I last did my training session "Call to Action: Conversion Optimization Training" publicly. If you are looking to improve your conversion optimization efforts you'll want to be there. I'll be teaching a Search Engine Strategies Training course on November 5th, at … [Read more...]
Earlier this month, The Brand Show headed to Scottsdale, Ariz., for the BOLO 2009 annual conference presented by agencyside. I was one of the keynote presenters with Guy Kawasaki. After the presentations, the Brand Show sat down with many of the speakers and did interviews with them. These … [Read more...]
I just got back from speaking at the Bolo Conference and AZIMA event in Arizona. They were both well organized events, with very attentive audiences. At the Bolo conference I premiered my latest presentation, Trim the Fat: How to use Personas, Analytics and Human Psychology to Improve Marketing … [Read more...]
What happens if your onsite web analytics look good, but you still aren’t drawing conversions? Mike McDonald, of WebProNews caught up with me after one of my site clinics at Search Engine Strategies for an interview on Creating a Self-Service Sales Cycle. After looking at the analytics, I … [Read more...]
