We’ve just put up for sale ComicBookCritics.com, “Comic Book Reviews from Around the Web.” It’s a site we had lots of hope for. It took off quickly, but the time required to maintain the site made it hard to continue. The ideal buyer would be a comic book lover with experience in WordPress, PHP, MySQL, and RSS. If the buyer can spend a few hours a week consolidating reviews and scores and some time dedicated to marketing it, it can be huge.
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Thursday, August 27th, 2009Optimize Your Way to Higher Conversion Rates
Thursday, August 27th, 2009Want to improve your conversion rates, sell more widgets, and keep your customers coming back – all for free? I’ll show you how…
6 Best Practices for Email Marketing
Thursday, August 6th, 2009We’ve uncovered a truth about email marketing: It works! However, if you’re just joining the party you may have to adjust your marketing habits. Here are 6 best practices to consider when developing an email marketing strategy…
Blog Shoutout: Conversation Marketing
Monday, August 3rd, 2009One thing about having an online marketing blog is you should get to point out other noteworthy blogs. Today I’d like to point out Conversation Marketing by Ian Lurie. Conversation Marketing is a blog (and a book) that “ties together all aspects of internet marketing: design, copywriting, search engines, analytics and more.”
You Registered a Domain Name for your Newborn?
Wednesday, July 29th, 2009My one month old son has just learned how to hold his head up. His mother and I are ecstatic. We’ve got a hard drive full of DV to prove it. Being the forward thinking father, I registered (within just a week of his birth) his very own domain name: CarsonLyall.com – Don’t go there, it’s a GoDaddy parked domain. It will probably remained parked until he masters HTML (we’re thinking about teaching him English first).
Email is Dead. Long Live Email.
Monday, July 27th, 2009Spammers have ruined it for everyone. Legit email marketers fight an ongoing battle for the inbox. Even though our email marketing is permission-based, some ISPs block us anyway. A recent study as reported by MediaPost brought up some interesting stats…
Optimal Advertising Positions For Best Performance
Sunday, July 26th, 2009Lance Jackson of Nuedesic Media Group, shares: “One important area that should not be overlooked is the placement of the ad. Google has put out a heat map study on ad placement and their performance. The colors fade from dark orange (strongest performance) to light yellow (weakest performance). All other things being equal, ads located above the fold tend to perform better than those below the fold. Ads placed near rich content and navigational aids usually do well because users are focused on those areas of a page.”