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09 July 2007 @ 10:48 am
Notabene.net to Acquire the Search Engine Marketing Company Guava Ltd.  
Notabene.net, one of the largest online marketing companies in Scandinavia, has acquired UK-based Guava Ltd. (www.guava.com). Notabene.net A/S (www.notabene.net), which focuses primarily on Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) and Search Engine Marketing (SEM), is quoted on First North under Copenhagen Stock Exchange OMX.

In a market with giants like Google, Yahoo and Microsoft dominating the headlines of online marketing globally, Danish Notabene.net A/S is about to create a strong niche for its own Search Engine Marketing business. It is Notabene.net’s intention to become Northern Europe’s leading player in the field of online marketing, an objective that Notabene.net has planned to achieve through acquisitions, internal growth, highly-qualified employees and technological developments.

With its acquisition of UK-based Guava Ltd., Notabene.net has now taken a decisive step toward achieving this goal.

Acquisition of Guava Ltd.
Guava is one of the largest and most well-respected search engine marketing and web development companies in the UK. Guava specialises in the field of Search Engine Marketing (PPC), Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) and web development providing services to a wide range of large companies both in the UK market and internationally, including ebookers, BT, Travelbag, WHSmith, STA Travel and others.

Guava Ltd. is a perfect fit with Notabene.net’s aggressive business development strategy.

“It is our plan to become Northern Europe’s market leader in the field of online marketing and we are going to achieve this objective through acquisitions and internal growth,” says Brian Mertz Pedersen, the CEO of Notabene.net.

“Through the acquisition of Guava, one of the largest and most well-respected search engine marketing companies in the UK, Notabene.net acquires some of the most qualified search engine marketing employees available. We are delighted that the transaction has completed which will ensure Notabene.net will be among the market leaders in one of Europe’s most mature markets,” continues Brian Mertz Pedersen.

Guava Ltd. was established in 1998 and now has 20 employees. Graeme Radford, Guava’s present Managing Director and co-founder, continues as the Country Manager and UK CEO.

“I am excited about becoming part of Notabene.net as it is clearly a rapidly expanding company with excellent knowledge of search engine marketing within the European market place. I am looking forward to strengthening and expanding Notabene.net’s position within the UK,” says Graeme Radford.

Other acquisitions in sight
The acquisition of Guava Ltd. is only the first in a range of acquisitions which Notabene.net expects to complete in the coming year. It is the intention of Notabene.net to make additional acquisitions, within Germany and the UK to further strengthen Notabene.net’s position within these markets. Notabene.net has in the last year acquired 6 businesses in Denmark and Sweden.

For further information, please contact:
Brian Mertz Pedersen, Group CEO, Notabene.net. Phone: +45 70 27 80 89, Mail : ir @ notabene.net
Graeme Radford, CEO, Guava Ltd. Phone: +44 0118 932 1100, Mail: graeme.radford @ guava.com

Om Notabene.net A/S
Notabene.net is Scandinavia’s leading and most rapidly growing Agency in the field of online marketing. Notabene.net specialises in online marketing, including SEM (Search Engine Marketing) and SEO (Search Engine Optimisation), and has more than 3,000 customers throughout Scandinavia. The customer portfolio covers some of Scandinavia’s leading companies, such as International Health Insurance, Novasol, Danware, Viasat, Oracle, Toyota and others.

In May 2006, the company was first quoted on First North under Copenhagen Stock Exchange OMX. Since being quoted, the company’s shares have increased by approx. 90%. Notabene.net is planning to apply for admission to official listing on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange OMX during 2007/2008.

Headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark, Notabene.net has offices in Denmark, Sweden and England.
 
 
bhartzer
09 July 2007 @ 10:47 am
Sawmill Analytics Adds Support for Adobe Flash Media and Microsoft Streaming Media Log File Formats  
The Sawmill Limited has announced a further expansion into the streaming media analysis market with the addition of two important media server platforms: Adobe Flash Media Server and Microsoft Media Server. This announcement brings the total number of formats supported (analyzed) by Sawmill to 13, consolidating its position as the #1 analysis tool for streaming media server log files.

Sawmill supports over 750 different log file formats providing accurate data for web, security, and IT professionals worldwide. Support for Streaming Media Servers is a key application area for Sawmill with support for 13 different log file formats, and more on the way. "No other analysis tool approaches Sawmill as the universal analysis solution for providers of streamed content" commented Les Ferrington CEO of The Sawmill Limited. "Content providers can now gain access to key performance statistics and provide usage and service level reports to their customers across all the most popular streaming server platforms."

Currently supported Streaming Media Server log files:

Adobe Flash Media Server Log Format
Microsoft Media Server Log Format
Quicktime/Darwin Streaming Server Log Format
Quicktime Streaming Error Log Format
Helix Universal Server (Style 5) Log Format
SHOUTcast W3C Log Format
Blue Coat RealMedia Log Format
Blue Coat Windows Media Log Format
Helix Universal Server Log Format
IceCast Alternate Log Format
IceCast Log Format
RealProxy Log Format
RealServer Log Format
New formats implemented on request

Steve Mack founder and CEO of LuxMedia (www.luxmedia.com) in a recent article for Streaming Media magazine had the following to say about Sawmill and the tools available to analyze streaming media log files (the full article can be viewed at http://www.streamingmedia.com/article.asp?id=9604&page=1

"Sawmill is a fully featured log-processing solution available in three different versions: Lite, Professional, and Enterprise. The Lite version is limited both by the number of profiles you can have (more on this below) and the amount of customization you can do. The Professional and Enterprise versions are the flagship products, with nearly identical functionality, except the Enterprise version includes external database support, multi-processor support, plus extensive customization of the user interface.

Sawmill includes rich documentation that explains how to install, operate, and customize the software. Sawmill can run either as a CGI program, or as its own standalone web server if you don't have a web server with CGI access. Sawmill runs on practically every OS and has a simple install process. After you install the software, you create profiles to process your log files.

Sawmill is very, very slick. From the install process through profile creation and report generation, it's rare that you need to consult the documentation -- it just works. For example, creating a profile couldn't be simpler. From the Administrative interface, you click the Create New Profile link at the top of the page. This causes a small window to pop up, which then walks you through the process. First you tell Sawmill where to find the log files you want to process. If the log files are on the same machine, you can browse to the directory using the Browse button. If they're on another machine you can tell Sawmill to retrieve them using FTP or HTTP."
Steve Mack, Luxmedia (www.luxmedia.com)

About Sawmill Profiles
Sawmill pricing depends on the number of profiles you need. Each streaming format requires a separate profile. Additionally, if you want to supply separate reports to clients, each client will require their own profile. So if you support Windows Media, RealMedia, Flash, and QuickTime, and have 10 customers for each then you will need 40 profiles to provide individual reports to each client on each format.

Sawmill Licensing & Pricing
Sawmill Lite starts at $99 for a single profile license, Sawmill Professional starts at $249 for a single profile license, and Sawmill Enterprise starts at $695 for a single profile license. Licenses are available in profile sizes as follows: 1, 5, 10, 25, 50, 100, 500, and unlimited. Upgrading profiles and upgrading the product are very simple and straightforward operations, with no loss of previous investment. Sawmill licenses may be purchased online in all three currencies (US$, UK£, Euros) at www.sawmill.co.uk or by contacting the sales desk at e-mail protected from spam bots or by telephone to +44 (0) 870 741 8787.

About The Sawmill Limited
The Sawmill Limited is the publisher of Sawmill software and provides commercial and technical support via distributors and resellers world-wide. Every copy of Sawmill includes email support and free access to minor releases. Support upgrades to Premium Care are available providing telephone assistance and free access to all updates, minor and major. Premium Care costs an additional 25% of the license fee.
 
 
bhartzer
09 July 2007 @ 10:47 am
NextEra Media Rolls Out Its Pay-Per-Click Video Network  
NextEra Media is debuting its Pay-Per-Click Video Network after several months of beta-testing. NextEra CEO, Jaffer Ali said, "Since the beginning of the year we have aggregated 127 video sites into a network. Our goal was to offer a reasonably priced PPC program to advertisers and marketers. All clicks are generated in conjunction with video clips and the initial results have been extraordinary. All video sites are "safe-for-work" and currently serving over 300 million video views per month."

This is not the first time NextEra has created an advertising network. Back in 1999 NextEra aggregated content-based email publications into what became the largest e-zine network online. At its zenith NextEra controlled the advertising inventory of several hundred e-zines with over 63 million opt-in subscribers. Today's announcement marks the evolution from an email-centric model to a web-centric network utilizing state of the art streaming and licensed video content.

Ali continued, "The technological challenges are always a matter of development and tweaking, but getting licensed, fully legal content is what posed the major challenges. Fortunately our subsidiary video portal, EVTV1.com, has secured licenses with studios and producers which enables us to put our client's messages in and around thousands of professionally produced clips. Links to these content clips are placed on our network's video sites with the view either terminating on a special, branded landing page or the marketer's very own website. Our video player can be embedded anywhere so the client controls the environment in which their message is viewed."

It is estimated that 45% of all online advertising is spent via the PPC model. NextEra Media is marrying the most popular form of online advertising with the new Belle of the Ball -- online video.

Ali concluded: "Our Video PPC program addresses the two major concerns that clients have with online video advertising: the legality of the content used in their promotion, and the atmosphere that their message will be seen in. Our technology and fully legal content create a safe haven for marketers and advertisers alike. Quality video content will now be used to drive traffic."
 
 
bhartzer
09 July 2007 @ 10:46 am
Apple iPhone Talk with Mobile Search Expert Gregory Markel  
Mobile search engine marketing expert Gregory Markel, Founder/President of www.InfuseCreative.com , discusses the Apple iPhone's impact on the mobile browser's experience and mobile search engine marketing in both Investor's Business Daily and CNN articles and downloadable PRWEB Podcast this week.

"The iPhone browser is among the first true Web browsers," Markel said. "As a mobile search services provider, we, (Infuse Creative), need to become intimately acquainted with the iPhone browser, search and Web user experience."

Markel discusses the reasons why the Apple iPhone browser will serve to dramatically upgrade the mobile search engine user and browser experience.

Along with Nokia's S60 and Opera's mobile browsers, the iPhone browser takes mobile users into a new era of a more desktop browser like experience, with combined usability of the three browsers including:

Web 2.0 rendering including Ajax., (Though Flash rendering and Java support remains MIA. Adobe is rumored to be providing a version of Flash for the iPhone within 60 days.), Multiple rendering modes, Improved user interfaces, Keyboard shortcuts, Open second window, Memory manager, designed specifically to handle out-of-memory situations on the device; Mouse Pointer, delivering a desktop-like navigation experience, Web address auto-complete, Password manager, Find in page, Frames rendered as tables, Full support for "Text Search" capabilities, Reference UI, a reference implementation of standard browser user-interface features; Full mobility support for dynamic HTML and the scripting language that enables it, Preservation on mobile screens of original designer-intended web page layouts, with text custom-fitted to the mobile display width, Overview mode, Intelligent zoom, Opera Widgets and Greater security.

A helpful site that provides software that will allow users and developers to simulate the iPhone's mobile browser experience can be found at: http://www.marketcircle.com/iphoney/

Markel goes on to say, "One simple example of how the mobile search engine marketing experience has been changed by the iPhone can be found by simply loading Google.com. The user gets the normal, desktop version of Google.com rather than the default mobile version of Google.com, which is currently the case on my Treo, for example.

However, one obvious shortcoming remains, the inability to render Flash, which is a shortcoming for many sites, our client, New Line Cinema's hairspraymovie.com being an example. There may be good news on the horizon about this. My sources indicate that Adobe may be releasing a version of Flash for iPhone within the next 60 days."

Gregory Markel will be speaking publicly about the iPhone and mobile search engine marketing at the Search Engine Strategies conference in San Jose, August 20th, 2007.


CNN Article
Investors Business Daily Article
Apple iPhone

About Gregory Markel and infusecreative.com:
Gregory Markel, recognized as one of the early "pioneers of search" and his Infuse Creative search engine marketing company, are internationally regarded as one of the premiere tech driven lead generation, ecommerce, branding/awareness and entertainment focused search engine marketing companies in the world with clients that include; Mazda, Pacificare, Secure Horizons, United Health Group, Realty Executives, Natrol, National Geographic Channel, Kazoo Toys, The Venetian Resort, John Robert Powers, Prudential, Universal, CBS, EA Sports, FOX Network, New Line Cinema, Sony, Time Warner, Warner Bros, and many others representing dramatically varying client types. Infuse Creative was a 2006 Los Angeles Business Journal nominee for it's "Excellence in Business" award along side companies including Mattel, Inc.
 
 
bhartzer
09 July 2007 @ 10:46 am
Search Engine Optimization Workshop Coming to Charleston, South Carolina in August 2007  
Tracy Fredrychowski, SEO Professional announced today that a specialized Search Engine Optimization Workshop is scheduled for August 20-24, 2007 to be held at the Radisson Hotel Charleston Airport in North Charleston, South Carolina.

Tracy Fredrychowski of SEAofSC stated that, "Companies are looking for solutions when it comes to their on-line marketing efforts. In today's competitive Internet marketplace it is vital that companies can position their Web site to be found on the Internet. Being able to offer this type of workshop to area business owners and being able to teach them the latest principles and strategies needed to gain those top positions on Google, MSN and Yahoo! is very exciting."

In describing the 5-Day Mastery Workshop, Fredrychowski added, "Many companies spend hundreds even thousands of dollars monthly on PPC (pay per click) ads. Showing companies how they can achieve top organic (non-paid listings) search results can save them valuable marketing dollars previously spent on PPC ads."

In the past many companies have outsourced their search engine marketing plans. By offering hands-on, non-technical workshops, business owners can learn to optimize their Web site in as little 5 days and see results quickly.

Web site owners attending the workshop can expect to learn:


How to Utilize User-Generated Content for Attracting New Traffic
Social Media Marketing Strategies
6-Step System for Gaining Top Rankings
Keyword Research
Which Search Engines and which Directories are Most Important
Advantages of Paid Inclusion
How to Stay out of Trouble with the Search Engines
How to Build Link Popularity
Working with Blogs
Converting Visitors to Buyers
Affiliate Marketing
In-depth Review of Google, Yahoo and MSN
Latent Semantic Indexing
Link Reputation
Truth and Myths About Search Engine Robots
Why Cascading Style Sheets are so Important
Article Marketing
Work Around Strategies - Frames, Flash, Databases Sites, Image Maps, JavaScript
Pay Per Click Advertising
Web Site Statistic and Log Analysis

Any business owner who wants to understand exactly what the search engines are looking for without guessing will truly benefit from this workshop. After class each student will receive an added bonus of 6 Months free Mentoring that will help them put their SEO skills to work on their own Web site.

Fredrychowski stated, "Students will work on their own Web site during the workshop and learn to recognize its strengths and weaknesses, along with applying their newly discovered SEO skills…putting the power of Internet marketing to work for them."

Fredrychowski concluded, "We have been offering SEO services to our clients for over 7 years and we know the significant impact good quality optimization has on a Web site. Being able to provide Web site owners SEO skills is just the beginning in making their Web sites more profitable."

The Search Engine Academy of South Carolina is the exclusive authorized training workshop to deliver SEO Training throughout the state of South Carolina.

For additional information on workshop dates and locations please contact Tracy Fredrychowski or visit http://www.searchengineacademysc.com
 
 
bhartzer
09 July 2007 @ 10:45 am
topseos.com Announces the Latest Rankings for Internet Marketing and Services Vendors for July 2007  
In order to help organizations find experts in the search industry, topseos.com is releasing its top Internet Marketing & Services Vendor Rankings online and in print via the new Visibility Magazine.

Plymouth, IN (PRWEB) July 9, 2007 -- Topseos.com, a resource for evaluating internet marketing and services, announces the newest group of top Internet marketing and services vendors from organic optimization to PPC, email marketing, training, linking, web development and design, and more.

"The July 2007 rankings have a rare distinction. These rankings are the first to be simultaneously featured in print, i.e. in the Visibility Magazine which is releasing this month." Bill Peden said during the announcement of the release of the latest monthly rankings from topseos.com.

Internet Marketing and Services Vendor Rankings for July 2007 include:

Organic Optimization
1. SEO Image, Inc. - New York
2. Intrapromote LLC - Ohio
3. Bruce Clay, Inc. - California
4. SEO Inc. - California
5. Arteworks SEO - Texas
6. Ionic Media - California
7. YELLOW7 Interactive - Texas
8. Customer Magnetism - Virginia
9. TopRank Online Marketing - Minnesota
10. WebMama.com Inc. - California
11. USWeb.com - California
12. icrossing - New York
13. Service Internet Solutions, LLC - Connecticut
14. iProspect - Massachusetts
15. High Position Limited - United Kingdom
16. Dexterity Media LLC - Texas
17. Neutralize - United Kingdom
18. Submit Express - California
19. 1st on the List Promotion Inc. - Canada
20. Inteliture - Utah
21. Unreal Marketing, Inc. - Pennsylvania
22. Web Targeted - Utah
23. 87 Interactive - Pennsylvania¬¬
24. VKI Studios - Canada
25. First Page SEO - Canada
26. Reprise Media - New York
27. Prime Visibility - New York
28. eTrafficJams.com - Florida
29. Fathom SEO - Ohio
30. Blizzard Internet Marketing, Inc. - Colorado

Pay Per Click Management
1. Ionic Media - California
2. Intrapromote LLC - Ohio
3. SEO Image, Inc.- New York
4. SEO Inc. - California
5. SearchAdNetwork - Colorado

Link Popularity Services
1. Intrapromote LLC - Ohio
2. Ad Maiora - Italy
3. Patrick Gavin Inc. - USA
4. TextLinkBrokers.com - Arizona
5. LinkExperts - New York

Training Programs
1. Bruce Clay, Inc. - California
2. Search Engine College - Australia
3. Global Strategies International - Connecticut
4. Laredo Group - Florida
5. Apex Pacific Pty Ltd. - New Jersey

Email Marketing
1. VerticalResponse, Inc. - California
2. Topica Inc. - California
3. Constant Contact - Massachusetts
4. Double Click - New York
5. Mailworkz.com - Canada

Content Creation
1. InfoSearch Media - California
2. Ascent Copywriting - Massachusetts
3. Content Domain - California
4. The WriteContent.com - Canada
5. Smith Content - Maryland

Press Release Marketing
1. 24-7pressrelease.com - Canada
2. PR.com - New York
3. PR Web International, Inc. - Washington
4. Business Wire - California
5. PR Newswire Association LLC - New York

Website Traffic Analytics
1. Omniture, Inc. - Utah
2. Mondosoft - California
3. Web Trends Inc. - Oregon
4. Maxamine, Inc. - California
5. Click Tracks - California

Hosting
1. Rackspace Ltd. - Texas
2. Hosting.com - Kentucky
3. Interland, Inc. - Georgia
4. Hostway Corporation - Illinois
5. GoDaddy.com, Inc. - Arizona

Web Design
1. Oxidev Interactive - Florida
2. Ionic Media - California
3. ecisive.com - Florida
4. DeepBlue - Georgia
5. 352 Media Group - Florida

Web Development
1. red : rain Solutions - India
2. Red Clay Interactive - Georgia
3. 2advanced.com - California
4. DeepBlue - Georgia
5. avenuea-razorfish.com - Washington

Click Fraud Monitoring
1. Click Tracks - California
2. Click Authority - Florida
3. KlickPatrol - Georgia
4. ClickDetective Limited - Colorado
5. Clickrisk, LLC - Canada

SEM Tools - 5
1. Web CEO - Ukraine
2. ClickDetective - Colorado
3. BidMaximizer - Australia
4. SEO Suite - Australia
5. WebPosition Gold - Georgia

Criteria Topseos.com uses to evaluate applicants include:


What are the applicant firm's competitive advantages?
How are the applicant's services and pricing levels superior to the competition?
What is the availability of customer and technical support?
What is the average response time and time-to-resolution for client problems?
What SLA does the applicant provide?
What other attributes/innovations does the applicant provide to set it apart from the competition?
What is the average rating for the firm in terms of customer service?
What is the average rating for the firm in terms of efficiency?
What is the average rating for the firm in terms of overall performance?

Internet marketing and services companies wishing to be considered for the topseos.com Top 30 Directory can complete an application by registering as a service vendor and applying for rankings at: http://www.topseos.com/index.php?option=com_rank&task=GetYourFirmRanked

Companies that wish to research and evaluate internet marketing firms can easily do so at: http://www.topseos.com

About topseos.com
topseos.com was founded in 2002 by e-ventures and serves to provide the search engine marketing industry and companies with a single source for researching internet marketing vendors as well as a place for internet marketing and service providers to showcase their services. http://www.topseos.com
 
 
bhartzer
09 July 2007 @ 10:44 am
Dealerskins Becomes a Google AdWords Certified Company  
Dealerskins, a division of Dominion Enterprises and a leading provider of automotive dealer web solutions, announced today that it has been recognized by Google as an AdWords Qualified Company. Google awarded this status to Dealerskins based on strict qualifications including Dealerskins' team, which has three Google AdWords Certified Professionals, the size of the total AdWords accounts managed by Dealerskins, and Dealerskins' experience with AdWords campaigns.

Nashville, TN (PRWEB) July 9, 2007 -- Dealerskins, a division of Dominion Enterprises and a leading provider of automotive dealer web solutions, announced today that it has been recognized by Google as an AdWords Qualified Company. Google awarded this status to Dealerskins based on strict qualifications including Dealerskins' team, which has three Google AdWords Certified Professionals, the size of the total AdWords accounts managed by Dealerskins, and Dealerskins' experience with AdWords campaigns.

In late November of '04, Google announced a new certification program. The goal of this new program was to recognize those companies that had distanced themselves from others in the field in their abilities to design and manage Google AdWords Pay Per Click programs. In order to be considered for this recognition a company has to demonstrate a complete understanding of the Google Pay Per Click system over a period of time and also pass rigorous testing to demonstrate knowledge of all aspects of these programs.

Pay Per Click (PPC) search engine marketing is a technique to reach and attract search engine users to business web sites- when users see and click on ads that appear in search engine results. Ads are created using keywords or phrases related to web site content. When consumers search on Google using one of the keywords, the ad may appear next to the search results. Now the business is advertising to an audience that is already interested in their products or services. The consumer can simply click on the ad to make a purchase or learn more about the business.

Businesses may either create their own AdWords account and go through the time-consuming process of account setup, activation, ad campaign monitoring, reporting and optimization, or employ the services of PPC search marketing specialists such as Dealerskins, to manage all these tasks.

Dealerskins account managers are currently working with numerous clients to create complete web solutions and Internet marketing strategies that include pay-per-click programs, paid inclusion, search engine optimization, website tracking and link building strategies.

"Our staff trains constantly to stay on top of the ever changing technology of Search Engine Marketing and Optimization," said Amanda Tossberg, Marketing Director with Dealerskins. "Being recognized by Google as one of their qualified companies is an important step in making sure that we provide our clients the best management of day-to-day and long-term campaign needs."

To find out how Dealerskins can help maximize the return on pay-per-click programs through their customized solutions, contact 404.314.5089 or email Ups(at)dealerskins.com.

About Dealerskins (www.dealerskins.com):
Dealerskins, a division of Dominion Enterprises, provides automotive dealers beautiful, powerful, distinctive web solutions. The company's expertise comes from real-world dealership experience and a passion for listening and responding to dealers' needs. In fact, company founders designed, built and used the first Dealerskins websites while employed at a top-50 dealership group. Dealerskins recognized that automotive dealers require high-caliber, dynamic websites to meet car buyers' needs. Dealerskins was founded in July of 2000 to serve those needs. Dealerskins` websites have won numerous awards for excellence. For more information visit www.dealerskins.com

About Dominion Enterprises:
Dominion Enterprises, headquartered in Norfolk, Va., is a leading media and information services company serving employment, real estate, automotive, recreation and industrial markets in the United States. The company operates a variety of technology businesses that offer Internet marketing, Web site design and hosting, lead generation, CRM, and data capture and distribution services including Advanced Access, PowerSports Network, and Dealer Specialties. The company has more than 500 paid and free magazine titles such as The Employment Guide, For Rent, Harmon Homes, Boat Trader, Cycle Trader and RV Trader with a combined weekly circulation of over 5 million, and more than 40 market-leading Web sites such as EmploymentGuide.com, ForRent.com, Homes.com, and TraderOnline.com, reaching more than 8 million unique monthly visitors. The company has nearly 7,000 employees nationwide and 2006 annual revenue of more than $850 million. For more information, visit DominionEnterprises.com.
 
 
bhartzer
08 June 2007 @ 03:35 pm
Leading Google Search Expert Offers Five Free 30-Minute Sessions  
As website owners know, obtaining a top 10 ranking at the search engines where an online storefront can be quickly spotted by a target audience that is ready to buy can be a daunting task, especially without firsthand knowledge of how the search engine works, which is why natural search expert James Martell has just released a series of free informative sessions from his sold-out Backlinks Workshop.

"Most site owners remain confused about legitimate, 'non-spammy' techniques that can be used to drive free from the search engines to their websites because they simply but lack the understanding of what it takes to obtain top rankings," Martell explains. "They don't realize that the search engines, especially Google, determine where a page is listed in the search results by analyzing others pages on the Internet that are linking to it," Martell, successful publisher, speaker and author of the Affiliate Marketers Handbook - '2006' (THIRD EDITION)," adds.

As he explains in the Backlinks Workshop sessions, the search engines use these "incoming links" (also known as "backlinks") from other sites as "votes" to determine where a website page should reside in the search results.

This explains why if a Webmaster wants a site to rank highly in the natural search results, with Google and other search engines alike, they need other search engine trusted websites linking to the site.

"In short," as Martell says, "There's just no other way."

Aside from releasing the free five 30-minute sessions for Webmasters of every level, Martell has also just announced his next live Backlinks Workshop, right on the heels of the first Backlinks Workshop, which boasted record attendance and sold out in a matter of days.

Slated to begin July 17, the engaging workshop will be delivered to participants desktops via Martell's online conference room technology, providing live, media-rich instruction of every step of Martell's proven inbound link campaign process.

This allows participating Webmasters to learn by watching then by doing, having questions answered by Martell as they go, ultimately providing Webmasters with the tools needed to develop their own links, and a thorough backlinks campaign that gets results.

The night-school style classes will be held every Tuesday, starting at 6 pm (Pacific Time) and last for approximately 90 minutes. Each session is broken into two parts: During the first part, Martell provides live instruction, followed by the second part, which includes an important interactive question and answer period with Martell and participating site owners.

Additionally, the Backlinks Workshop sessions can be reviewed at any time online or through downloadable video, MP3 audio files or written transcripts, providing participants with both the flexibility and ongoing support needed to achieve the strong results desired.

As attendees of the previous sold-out Backlinks Workshop know, website owners will learn the same techniques and strategies Martell has relied on to achieve and maintain his own online success for more than seven years now.

"The inbound link workshop is straight-forward, detailed and systematic," says student Jim Stenson. "James Martell has done it again! I know when I fully implement the system I will finally be ranking in the search engines at a level that will generate the traffic needed for my success."

Fellow student David Caban concurs.

"Martell's backlinks workshop opened my eyes to the true "secret" of getting my sites to rank highly in the search engines," he says. "I loved the week-by-week approach to learning the material and thought it was highly effective. The best part for me was that each session was recorded. Since I wasn't able to make each week's meeting, I was so relieved to know I could watch the video at a later date and still get the information I needed!"

According to both Stenson and Caban, by following along, participating Webmasters will create inbound links to their website, as well as develop a comprehensive system that provides ongoing links, with the cutting through the clutter and delivering real long-term results.

To learn more about James Martell's Backlinks Workshop, and to download five FREE 30 minute sessions loaded with spam-free strategies, tips and techniques for gaining higher rankings at the search engines, go to: http://www.BacklinksWorkshop.com.

About James Martell (http://www.jamesmartell.com)
James Martell resides with his wife Arlene and four children Adam, Justin, Shelby and Victoria in little seaside community (White Rock, British Columbia). Although a carpenter by trade, James is a self-taught entrepreneur who has been a recognized expert of natural search techniques since 1999.

James is the author of the best-selling downloadable Affiliate Marketers Handbook 2006, which now, five years later, has been revised and updated to become the most comprehensive affiliate marketer's handbook available today.

This 389-page training manual and companion video series are continually relied on by people worldwide who, using James' teachings as a roadmap, have guided themselves and their families to home-based business success.

James is also well known through the affiliate marketing industry for his legendary live Coffee Talk interviews, which include candid discussions with some of the top professionals in this field, and his Affiliate Buzz audio newsletters, both of which provide website owners new and old alike with information, resources, tips, tools and techniques on online publishing that website owners can use to achieve their own online success.
 
 
bhartzer
08 June 2007 @ 03:34 pm
IndexTools Announces Their Strategic Alliance Partner in the Netherlands  
IndexTools (Inc.), which broke new ground last month by launching its Partnership Alliance Program, pleased to welcome Leads2Business, a dynamic online direct marketing agency as its first Strategic Alliance Partner.

"Leads2Business' personnel have a wealth of knowledge and experience in the field of web analytics. We believe that their knowledge will provide a strong background for IndexTools web analytics products in the Netherlands" - said Charlie Holbech, Head of IndexTools Partner Division, of his firm's new Holland-based partner.

The Partner Alliance Program is geared toward commitment and long-term perspective in the IndexTools partner network. Benefits to Strategic Alliance Partners such as Leads2Business now include among other things:

- Ready access to IndexTools training sessions and Professional Services
- Direct engagement in IndexTools product developments

Of particular interest to Leads2Business is an innovative program activity tailored specifically for lead generation. Moreover, IndexTools provides is partners with access to vital marketing and sales resources. As the first sales collaboration, IndexTools and Leads2Business jointly participated at the Digital Marketing Event in Amsterdam, on June 5/6.

"The partnership connects Leads2Business with one of the most important web analytics suppliers of the Dutch market: IndexTools," said Michiel van Gaalen, director of Leads2Business. "This cooperation enables Leads2Business to produce even better results from the online campaigns and optimize the web sites of our clients. We now have a direct line to the product development of IndexTools, so that we can offer a tailor-made solution. This in combination with the extended training program transforms the most complex questions into user-friendly, flexible and profitable solutions."

About Leads2Business
Leads2Business is an online direct marketing agency that helps clients get the best results from their online marketing activities. Leads2Business sets up creative and innovative campaigns that drive traffic, revenue and profits. Insight into the effectiveness of campaigns and the clients' websites are key to gaining higher ROI and customer satisfaction. That's why Leads2Business works closely with their clients in both implementing IndexTools and getting the most out of the analysis. They help define business requirements and KPI's, as well as to guide the implementation process and offer analytical services.

About IndexTools
IndexTools offers a highly customizable and scalable analytics platform for companies' online marketing activity in each phase of the customer lifecycle. With IndexTools Web Analytics and Bid Management, businesses gain accurate, insightful and timely intelligence about the effectiveness of their online marketing.

IndexTools' services have boosted the online performance of more than 3000 clients worldwide, including Tesco, Vodafone, PriceRunner, and Jamba. IndexTools serves its worldwide client base directly and through a network of more than 200 local partners in over 25 countries around the globe. IndexTools was founded in 2000, operates from New York City, US and has an extensive Technology Development Center in Budapest, Hungary EU. IndexTools' competitors include Webtrends, Visual Sciences (WebSideStory), Omniture and Coremetrics.
 
 
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08 June 2007 @ 03:33 pm
The Corporate Blog Emerges as a Powerful Way to Influence the Media  
Journalists are increasingly relying on blog content as they write stories and corporate blogs are now an important way for businesses to reach members of the media, says David Meerman Scott, author of The New Rules of Marketing & PR: How to use news releases, blogs, podcasts, viral marketing & online media to reach your buyers directly.

"Until very recently, the only way to influence journalists was to have a direct personal relationship with them or to send out a generic press release and hope for the best," says Scott. "But today, blogs allow organizations of all kinds to tell authentic stories directly to the market. Journalists increasingly rely on blog content when they are researching stories."

Over the course of more than a year of research for his upcoming book, Scott reviewed hundreds of blogs and interviewed dozens of bloggers who have found success. He also spoke with journalists to understand how the put their stories together. The book includes dozens of case studies of organizations that use blogs, podcasts, online media, and viral marketing.

"Smart marketing and public relations professionals understand that corporate blogs are one of the best ways to deliver their story and influence journalists, but press releases and personal relationships are still part of the overall mix," Scott says. "Business blogs make it easy to deliver a viewpoint into the sprawling marketplace of ideas. When the posts are indexed by search engines and delivered via RSS feeds, journalists all over the world will see the thoughts and ideas and they will command attention. If the posts are compelling, stories will be written."

Scott's book "The New Rules of Marketing & PR: How to use news releases, blogs, podcasts, viral marketing & online media to reach your buyers directly" is available wherever business books are sold. The book features a foreword by Robert Scoble, Vice President Media Development, PodTech.net, co-author Naked Conversations, and blogger at Scobleizer.com. ISBN: 0-470-11345-6

David Meerman Scott is an online thought leadership and viral marketing strategist. The programs he has developed have won numerous awards and are responsible for selling over one billion dollars in products and services worldwide. He is also an instructor for Pragmatic Marketing and he has lived and worked in New York, Tokyo, Boston, and Hong Kong and has presented at industry conferences and events in over twenty countries on four continents. Check out Scott's ideas on his own popular marketing blog.
 
 
bhartzer
08 June 2007 @ 03:33 pm
SEO Training, Monetizing Traffic & Avoiding PPC Advertising Mistakes  
Michael Campbell an internet marketing consultant, coach and author, today published Internet Marketing Secrets Issue #124, which is read by over 35,000 internet marketing professionals, search engine optimizers, affiliate marketers, sales people, and webmasters around the world.

In This Edition #124:

1) The Secrets of Selling More.
2) Letting Your Own Morals Guide You.
3) SEO Training for Competitive Markets.
4) Best Way to Monetize Type-In Traffic.
5) Passive Income from Your phpBB Forum.
6) How to Profit From Google's Universal Search.
7) How Practicing the Fundamentals Leads to Success.
8) The Biggest Mistake in PPC (pay per click) Advertising.

Pricing & Availability:

The newsletter is a free PDF download. Bonuses include Michael Campbell's best-selling ebooks Clickin' it Rich and Revenge of the Mininet (a $125 value) free when you subscribe to the Internet Marketing Secrets Newsletter.

Published since 1999, the Internet Marketing Secrets newsletter provides breaking news, FAQs and real world testing in SEO, SEM, search engines, affiliate revenue, PPC advertising, sales, persuasion and conversion, in addition to inspirational articles and encouragement.

Michael Campbell is a search engine optimization specialist and highly sought after internet marketing consultant. He has written three best-selling books on internet marketing, several white papers, and has contributed to dozens of internet related publications and software packages.
 
 
bhartzer
08 June 2007 @ 03:32 pm
Want Better Rankings in the Search Engines? Search Engine Trust Makes it Possible  
Search Engine Trust, http://www.getsearchenginetrust.com, an Internet marketing company that owns over 3,000 websites, has developed an innovative search engine optimization program that helps websites improve their rankings in the major search engines.

The search engine optimization program developed by Search Engine Trust is simple to use. Search Engine Trust owns over 3,000 websites that have a Google Page Rank ranging from 1 - 7. When a business subscribes to Search Engine Trust, that business is given high quality one-way links pointing at the business's website. As any search engine optimization specialist knows, getting high quality links pointed at your website is the most effective tool for getting high search engine rankings. With Search Engine Trust, businesses get access to receive high quality one-way links from thousands of websites.

Peter Geisheker, a marketing consultant and search engine optimization specialist states, "I have to admit that I was extremely skeptical of Search Engine Trust when I joined it. However, after using the Search Engine Trust program for only two weeks, my website jumped from being ranked #17 on Google to being ranked #5 on Google for an extremely competitive search term. I was absolutely blown away because it only took me about 30 minutes of link building on Search Engine Trust to achieve this result. To make sure this wasn't a fluke, I tried it again with another website I manage. In a span of only 8 days, that website went from being ranked #35 on Google to being ranked #8 on Google. I have found no other SEO system that even begins to compare with the results I have received from Search Engine Trust."

Ed Dale, one of the world's most respected Internet marketing consultants states, "I hated search engine optimization and all the work that went into getting high search engine rankings for my websites. Then I found Search Engine Trust. I tried it and I was simply amazed by the results. The websites I promoted with Search Engine Trust received top 10 search engine rankings within about a month. All I can say is that if you are frustrated by bad rankings in the search engines and a lack of traffic to your website, Search Engine Trust is the answer to your prayers."

For more information on Search Engine Trust and getting improved search engine rankings ,please visit http://www.getsearchenginetrust.com.

About Search Engine Trust http://www.getsearchenginetrust.com
Based in New York City, Search Engine Trust is the world's premier Internet marketing firm. It is also the largest private owner of websites, with over 3,000 websites under its management.
 
 
bhartzer
08 June 2007 @ 03:31 pm
Google Universal Search Confirms Information in Newly Released Book  
Web sites who are constantly battling for Visibility are going to need to focus on external content such as link building and other media formats. This has been confirmed with the launch of Googles Universal Search.

Universal search integrates all formats of information from image, maps, to video into one, providing and over all search. Google is indeed looking to provide the ultimate searching mechanism, the best result possible across all formats.

"Google analyses over 200 different elements in its algorithm to provide accurate results. At the same time, external content such as link building, videos and social linking have had a major effect of top results" said Paul Easton, author of the newly released book, Link Traffic: A Plan for Free Web Traffic

"Many opinions have been formed as to what works in regard to how to get to the top of Googles results. I set out to provide proof that link building from external sources proves to be the most effective. From a results point of view, nothing is more convincing than the real facts, which I uncovered" said Paul Easton

Many web designers have claimed to SEO (search engine optimization) proficient, without the use of external content. In the New media world of the Internet, they are unlikely to achieve any success. This would result in low website traffic and a lack of belief the Internet as a marketing channel.

All web designers, web development and ecommerce managers looking to capitalise on more visitors to a website, at the lowest cost, need to be aware of the tactics and strategies that work. The ROI on free web promotion, done the right way can bring an endless source of targeted long term customers that can form the base of a reliable database.

The knowledge alone is not enough -- activation of the concepts, in the right way, will improve the reach of any reputable company online increasing market share and branding.

"Developments in the fast moving world of marketing on-line where competition is high, Link building and what others say about you will be around for many years to come as its an effective way for Google to provide the best results and keeping its market share"
 
 
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05 June 2007 @ 11:23 am
Search Engine Sproose.com Launches New Self-Voting Platform For Web Search  
Sproose, an upcoming search engine with technology allowing users to rank the index of results, launched today a new voting platform inteface so users can easily rank their favorite sites. Former Netzero Executive, Bob Pack who helped raise its initial funding in 1998, founded Sproose.

Users are given control over search listings. Search engine Sproose.com lets users rank the index. With its self voting platfom the more popular sites move up to the top of the index of search results.

Sproose uses a "human popularity voting" model where users can self- rank the index creating personalized search results. The more users that vote a site the further up in the ranking it goes.

"The new look is much more visual providing a total score of the voted sites and a ranking system that improves upon the algorithmic based order," says Bob Pack, CEO of Sproose. Users merely need to click on the "I like it" icon next to the search result and the index will refresh immediately moving that site up.

Registered users may also display their voted sites if they elect to. "This connects people in a social way to share knowledge through (search), states," CEO Bob Pack.

The Sproose website is at www.sproose.com

About Sproose
Sproose provides a consumer search engine whereby the users can influence the ranking of the index by voting on the results. Each user is able to create a different set of search results when searching under the same keyword. With its proprietary 'Knowledge Rank' moderated directory technologies, Sproose users can effectively categorize and index sites, tailored for personal or group usage. The rating of search results is done without downloading applications to ensure privacy.
 
 
bhartzer
05 June 2007 @ 11:22 am
Podcast Production Takes Podcasting to Business Market  
New media production agency, Podcast Production Ltd, is helping business take advantage of this new and exciting communication channel throughout Europe. The Company was formed by a group of media, marketing and technical specialists in order to make the dynamic and engaging media of Podcasts accessible both to the corporate business community and its customers.

Sales and Marketing Director, Stephen Ballard commented, "Corporate customers are now recognising Podcasting as a unique marketing channel that will give them a fast track connection to the iPod generation. Giving users the flexibility to listen to information on the move has undoubtedly been the key driver in making Podcasting such an effective new communication channel. As a marketing professional I would recommend that customers embrace this technology to provide competitive advantage."

A Podcast is a series of multimedia "episodes" much like the chapters of a book, delivered via an audio or video file to which a listener can subscribe and receive regular updates. Having subscribed using free and easily accessible software, listeners automatically receive the episodes as they are published. All this happens within affecting the users email account so SPAM is not an issue. Each Podcast episode can be automatically downloaded to an mp3 player such as an iPod, mobile phone or simply played back on a PC.

Communications Director, Robin Wolstenholme has discovered a knowledge gap within business, "When we talk to new customers about Podcasting, they think a Podcast is just an mp3 download. For me, the real power of Podcasting lies in the subscription mechanism, building up a listener base."

Another misconception that Podcast Production has encountered is a lack of imagination when embarking on a corporate Podcast. Rob Granville who heads up the production department at Podcast Production elaborated, "We have found that formal interviews, chaired discussions and short market reports adapt well to Podcasting, but the possibilities extend to many other areas of application. For example, a customer newsletter delivered by Podcast is more engaging and dynamic than a paper equivalent. It is also more accessible and environmentally friendly than a paper delivery for a socially responsible business or organisation"

Ballard summarized, "Podcasting is not a replacement for existing communication channels, but a powerful ally in the struggle for voice in today's fast-paced business world. "

About Podcast Production Limited
Podcast Production Ltd is a full service pan-European Podcast and media production agency run by marketing, technology, media and audio engineering professionals based in the UK, close to London and international airports.
 
 
bhartzer
05 June 2007 @ 11:21 am
InetSoft Innovates Operational Business Intelligence  
Luke Liang, CEO for InetSoft, in an exclusive interview with Ron Powell and the Business Intelligence Network (www.BeyeNETWORK.com), talks about their operational business intelligence (BI) platform that allows business users and IT staff to explore, collaborate and integrate information without a long implementation cycle, and also describes the benefits of their patent-pending data block technology.

Because of InetSoft’s open-standards architecture and collaborative platform, companies can leverage their existing BI infrastructure, allowing them to save time and money.
“InetSoft’s unique platform and innovative operational approach to BI, empowers business users across the enterprise to proactively visualize, analyze, monitor, report, and explore vital business data,” said Luke Liang, CEO of InetSoft. “By visually exploring the combination of projected and actual data, input to operations and business managers can be immediate with a major impact to the bottom line.”

“InetSoft’s operational BI platform allows business users to easily create meaningful views of the data that are specific to their reporting needs,” says Ron Powell, Cofounder and Editorial Director of the Business Intelligence Network. “Because of InetSoft’s open-standards architecture and collaborative platform, companies can leverage their existing BI infrastructure, allowing them to save time and money.”

“The Business Intelligence Network Solution Spotlights are intuitive dialogues with innovative solution providers, and these spotlights provide a cutting-edge introduction to the new products and services we know are of interest to the business intelligence community,” says Powell. “The network publishes six newsletters serving more than 115,000 readers across a wide variety of industries, making us the largest newsletter-based information source for business intelligence, performance management, data warehousing, data integration and data quality.”

About InetSoft
InetSoft establishes a revolutionary new approach to business intelligence by incorporating the best practices of traditional BI with the fundamental principles of operational BI: real-time integration, collaboration, and exploration. This approach drives direct productivity gains throughout an organization and minimizes both the initial IT investment and on-going maintenance.

About Business Intelligence Network™
The Network’s flagship site BeyeNETWORK.com leads the industry with up-to-the-minute news, newsletters, articles, executive spotlights, podcasts, expert-hosted channels and blogs. Experts include Claudia Imhoff, Bill Inmon, Craig Schiff, Colin White, David Loshin, and others. BeyeRESEARCH.com provides research and case studies from leading authors and experts in business intelligence. BeyeBLOGS.com is a business intelligence-specific community blogging site which provides an open forum about industry issues and challenges. BeyeSEARCH.com offers the first and only editor-driven directory and search engine specially built to serve this industry.
 
 
bhartzer
05 June 2007 @ 11:21 am
LinkConnector Rolls Out Technology to Support More Merchant Shopping Carts  
LinkConnector (http://www.linkconnector.com/), an Affiliate Marketing Network, announced today that it has fully integrated LinkConnector tracking with Google's shopping cart solution, Google Checkout, giving merchants more advanced checkout options for their shoppers. The ability for merchants to provide more checkout options for their customers can mean greater conversion rates for LinkConnector Affiliates as well, creating a synergistic outcome for both parties. LinkConnector made its way onto the coveted list of approved Google tracking service providers earlier this year, making the integration of Google Checkout possible for merchants using their industry-changing Affiliate Marketing Network. The integration of Google Checkout comes in addition to an already impressive list of other shopping cart solutions that LinkConnector currently supports for its Network Merchants. It also keeps with LinkConnector's philosophy of providing the best technologies, services, and support to its merchant and affiliate base.

Google Checkout offers a trusted checkout option for shoppers allowing them to make purchases from participating online stores with a single Google login. A shopper can use Google Checkout by creating a Google Checkout login directly from the merchant's website with a single username and password, and basic information such as their contact details and payment preferences. With Google Checkout, shoppers are able to track their purchases (including order history and shipping details) in one place.

Google Checkout also benefits merchants by streamlining the checkout process and making it less expensive. Once shoppers buy with Google Checkout, merchants using AdWords can process all or a portion of their sales for free. For every $1 merchants spend on AdWords, they can process $10 in sales through Google Checkout at no charge. Current merchants that work with Google Checkout include Jockey, Starbucks Store, Levi's, Timberland, and Buy.com.

"Integrating Google Checkout was a natural progression for LinkConnector," said Michele Fuentes, Director of Technology for LinkConnector. "We are committed to providing the most advanced and up-to-date technologies for our merchants and affiliates. Working with Google to provide this latest shopping cart option for our merchants lined up with these goals."

Beyond Google Checkout, LinkConnector also supports a variety of other shopping carts, including OSCommerce, X-Cart, Yahoo Cart (all versions), and PayPal. LinkConnector remains dedicated to working with both small and large merchants to integrate whatever shopping cart provider works best for their business.

"LinkConnector has worked with a number of merchants in the past to integrate custom-built shopping carts," said Drew Bowman, a programmer at LinkConnector. "We work hard to provide personalized solutions for our customers. Even if a shopping cart is not currently supported, we will generally find a solution."

About LinkConnector.com
LinkConnector, an Affiliate Marketing Network, headquartered in Cary, NC, helps merchants and affiliates increase online revenue. Since its inception in 2004, the company has continuously introduced new technologies to the industry, such as the patent-pending Naked Link Technology®, Affiliate Connections™ optimizing technology, and FraudFREE™ Protection, to elevate affiliate and merchant expectations. LinkConnector maintains a strong emphasis on network quality and stands by a zero tolerance fraud policy. LinkConnector also offers SEO and SEM strategy integration, and brand control for merchants. The company includes two dedicated merchant and affiliate relations departments to provide comprehensive support to all companies within the LinkConnector Network. To join, please visit http://www.LinkConnector.com/join-now.htm.

To learn more about the LinkConnector Affiliate Marketing Network, please visit http://www.linkconnector.com.

To learn more about Google Checkout, please visit http://checkout.google.com/sell.
 
 
bhartzer
05 June 2007 @ 11:20 am
Marketing Operations Partners Continues to Provide Pioneering Vision and Leadership  
Marketing Operations Partners today announced a series of developments that build upon its fast-growing leadership and momentum in the evolving discipline of Marketing Operations. The company's founder and CEO, Gary M. Katz, is again chairing a day-long track at a major marketing operations conference and the company is completing a benchmarking study of best practices in marketing operations.

For the third consecutive year the company's founder and CEO, Gary M. Katz, has been selected as a Track Chair at the Henry Stewart XVII Conference, which begins tomorrow in New York at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. Katz will facilitate the Marketing Efficiency & Effectiveness track on the first day of the conference. The track includes presentations by Technorati Chairman Peter Hirschberg and Proctor & Gamble's Marketing General Manager Dina Howell; a guru panel on marketing efficiency and effectiveness, moderated by The Hub's editor-in-chief Tim Manners; an executive roundtable on marketing transformation; and a review of International Data Corporation's 2007 marketing performance matrix.

Best Practices in Operations Reviews among Technology Marketing Organizations
Responding to a growing technology industry need for more disciplined marketing accountability and performance, Marketing Operations Partners will soon be publishing a benchmark survey, "Best Practices in Operations Reviews among Technology Marketing Organizations" and will be able to discuss preliminary results after June 15. The study, which includes insight gleaned from in-depth interviews with more than 20 Silicon Valley technology companies and an online survey, is targeted for final release in July. A sampling of the participating companies in the interviews include Agilent, Applied Materials, Ariba, BEA, Cadence, Informatica, Intuit, Network Appliance, Seagate, Symantec, and Xilinx. Marketers who want to share their experience with marketing operations reviews and get a complementary executive summary of the report can still participate in the online survey until June 15 at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=1Hc34t4aXgorEiu3SZwOog%3d%3d.

In response to Marketing Operations Partners growth, the company has added four new associate partners and team effectiveness and knowledge management consultants to its team. Services are now expanded and organized in five categories: Sales Process Acceleration (led by Ron Snyder), Marketing Scalability (led by Jerry Hart), Customer Profitability (led by Lynn Hunsaker), Strategy and Change Facilitation (led by Mike Gospe) and Return on Marketing (led by Linda Popky). In addition to Hart and Popky, new Associate Partners include Marketing IT and supply chain expert Dr. Juan Montermoso and Sharyn Fitzpatrick, a marketing communications process expert. Fitzpatrick is also serving as public relations account director for the Henry Stewart Conference, a new client of CommPros Group, Inc., a marketing programs adoption agency that was also founded by Katz and is a sister company to Marketing Operations Partners.

Larry Lepold, an organization change and team effectiveness expert with a deep marketing and business development background, and Deborah Plumley, a knowledge mapping and management facilitator, have also joined the team as senior consultants.

About Henry Stewart XVII

Now in its seventh year, Henry Stewart combines the thought leadership insights of a case study driven conference with the news from the bleeding edge of technology development within a co-located expo. The show has provided actionable project management advice to over 7,000 Digital Asset Management, Broadcast Automation and Marketing Efficiency program leaders at global events in New York, LA, London, Amsterdam and Washington DC.

Despite serving as the industry event for niche technology categories -- Digital Asset Management, Enterprise Marketing Management, Marketing Resource Management, Broadcast & Workflow Automation -- this show is not about technology; it's about new ways of working. Henry Stewart enables attendees to validate that their problems are shared by hundreds of their peers and helps identify proven strategies to solve those problems. For more information, visit www.damusers.com.

About Marketing Operations Partners

Founded in Santa Clara, CA in June 2006, Marketing Operations Partners is the first ready-to-go COO and change management team dedicated to changing the MO of Marketing by helping CMOs operate like CEOs. The company brings together leading subject matter experts and thought leaders to enable clients to leverage process, technology, guidance, and metrics to run Marketing as a profit center and fully accountable business. A comprehensive blend of pragmatic and innovative services help enterprises accelerate the sales process, build a scalable marketing infrastructure, optimize customer profitability, cultivate an ecosystem of stakeholder support for key enterprise initiatives and demonstrate measurable return on Marketing to management. For more information, visit www.mopartners.com, or contact 408-243-7881.
 
 
bhartzer
05 June 2007 @ 11:19 am
Integrated Online Marketing Leader Oneupweb Publishes New Survival Guides for SEO and Social Media  
Online marketing leader Oneupweb CEO, Lisa Wehr, today announced the release of two new resources for those interested in online marketing -SEO Survival Guide and a Social Media Survival Guide. The SEO Survival Guide is an update of Oneupweb's highly popular guide of the same name, while the Social Media Guide is the first, comprehensive listing made available in a similar format.

"The search marketing industry has a communication problem," notes Oneupweb CEO Lisa Wehr. "Many of the terms and acronyms we use daily did not exist a few years ago. It's hard for people to understand us. And with the recent explosion of social media popularity and outlets - from YouTube and MySpace to Second Life and LinkedIn -- new terms are born daily. This is our contribution to help the marketplace stay current and communicate."

Those familiar with Oneupweb's last SEO Survival Guide, will find considerable new information - nearly 100 more terms and definitions have been added since Oneupweb's last guide was published in 2005. The Social Media Survival Guide is a first of its kind - a literal pocket resource with approximately 125 terms unique to social media.

"We know this is just a starting place," notes Wehr. "New terms enter our language daily. These guides are simply a part of an ongoing educations process. Our intention is to give people an authoritative reference point for further dialog and discovery."

To get a printed pocket version of either of Oneupweb's Survival Guides contact info @ oneupweb.com or call toll free at 877-568-7477. Those looking for an online version of both Survival Guides can access PDF files off of the OneUpWeb.com homepage.

About Oneupweb
Oneupweb has been an innovator in online marketing for more than a decade, creating integrated online marketing plans that include natural search engine optimization, paid search marketing, podcast production, social media marketing, online market research and analytics. An award-winning firm, Oneupweb was named a 2006 Michigan Top 50 Company to Watch and is the only three-time winner of the prestigious ClickZ Best Search Engine Marketing Vendor Award. CEO, Lisa Wehr, an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year, has been named to BtoB Magazine's Who's Who List three years and is recognized as a Leader & Innovator by Lawrence Technological University. The company publishes a blog named StraightUpSearch.com.and produces One for the Money, an informative podcast series available on iTunes and Oneupweb.com. Oneupweb is a privately held company located in Michigan. For more information on Oneupweb, please contact 231.256.9811 or visit OneUpWeb.com.
 
 
bhartzer
05 June 2007 @ 11:19 am
Robert Scoble Contributes the Foreword to David Meerman Scott's New Book  
Scoble, Vice President Media Development at PodTech.net, co-author of Naked Conversations, and popular blogger at Scobleizer.com crafts the perfect scene setting essay for Scott's "The New Rules of Marketing & PR: How to use news releases, blogs, podcasts, viral marketing & online media to reach your buyers directly."

Technical evangelist and author of Naked Conversations Robert Scoble, whose blog scobleizer.com is one of the most popular in the world, has written the foreword for David Meerman Scott's latest book The New Rules of Marketing & PR: How to use news releases, blogs, podcasts, viral marketing & online media to reach your buyers directly.

"You're not supposed to be able to do what David Meerman Scott tells you in this book," Scoble writes. "You're not supposed to be able to carry around a $250 video camera, record what employees are working on and what they think of the products they built, and publish those videos on the Internet. But that's what I did at Microsoft, building an audience of more than four million unique visitors a month."

"The New Rules of Marketing & PR" shows how to leverage the potential that Web-based communication offers all kinds of organizations, businesses, non-profits, and individuals. The book includes a step-by-step action plan for how to identify audiences, create compelling messages, get those messages to the most consumers possible, and lead those consumers directly into the buying process. Told with many compelling case studies and real-world examples, this a practical guide to the new reality of PR and marketing. Robert Scoble's forward to The New Rules of Marketing & PR can be read in its entirety on Scott's site.

"Something has changed in the past 10 years," says Scoble. "Well, for one, we have Google now, but that's only a part of the puzzle. What really has happened is the word-of-mouth network has gotten more efficient. Much, much, more efficient. But first you'll have to learn to break the rules. By reading Scott's book you'll understand how to gain the credibility you need to build your business. Enjoy!"

David Meerman Scott is an online thought leadership strategist and viral marketing expert. The programs he has developed have won numerous awards, have been named to the MarketingSherpa Viral Marketing Hall of Fame for the past two years in a row, and are responsible for selling over one billion dollars in products and services worldwide. Scott is also an instructor for Pragmatic Marketing and he has lived and worked in New York, Tokyo, Boston, and Hong Kong and has presented at industry conferences and events in over twenty countries on four continents. Check out Scott's ideas on his own popular marketing blog.