Archive for the 'Online Marketing' Category

Book Review: Email Marketing - An Hour a Day

So the past month I’ve been chipping away at an email strategy book. With the merger into One to One, I’ve been placed into our email and widget division. So, I figured I could use a little more info around email strategy.
Email is the most cost-efficient marketing medium available today. According to the book, every [...]

March 1st, 2010
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Book Review: Steve Gurney - Lucky Legs

One day I was sitting over at the Weaver household, and Ron comes in and throws this book at me.
“You want to read this? I don’t want to. My friends in New Zealand say it’s good.” I looked at it and wasn’t too interested. But while I was waiting for Bridget, I managed to read [...]

December 30th, 2009
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5 Must-Have Ingredients for your Email Campaign

This little tidbit was something I wrote before we merged into One to One interactive. One thing I noticed while readings this is that mobile phones are getting more savvy in interpreting HTML email (e.g. Iphone), but this is still not standard.
Catering to the Mobile User
Today, the term cell phone is now only a feature [...]

December 30th, 2009
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Travel Reading in Greece: Book Reviews

As with any traveling, there’s a lot of down time. Whether riding on a train or waiting for a ferry, this gives a lot of opportunity to catch up on some books. For our Greece trip, I brought two.
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
This book is a classic that I’ve heard about for [...]

October 5th, 2009
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The past 18 months with Twelve Horses

Since I’ve been working at Twelve Horses, we’ve been doing some cool stuff with a few of my clients. Here’s a short summary of some of the things that my clients have been up to.

Website Redesigns

Over the past year, we’ve launched a few sites, which I’ve been part of the entire process or [...]

August 10th, 2009
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Reno-Tahoe Wordcamp

A Saturday ago I decided to nerd out at the Reno-Tahoe Word Camp. Twelve Horses was a sponsor, so this also motivated me.  The day was composed of different speakers talking about aspects of WordPress. WP is our CMS of choice for blogs, but the functionality doesn’t stop there, and there was a lot to [...]

May 11th, 2009
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Software Flavored Websites

The development of the Web today includes powerful applications that mimic desktop software. Google Docs has tried to provide the functionality of Microsoft Office. Picnik is attempting to target Photoshop users. And even our own Content Management System, WebGen, uses some of the basics that made Dreamweaver so popular a few years ago. Perhaps the [...]

May 2nd, 2009
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The Extreme Sheep LED Art of Viral Marketing

Samsung has started to run the above campaign which has become a pretty effective use of viral marketing. I believe viral marketing for corporations is not an easy task to do, so I commend those that do it well.  It’s grabbed a few million views over the past few weeks. So… that made me wonder [...]

March 29th, 2009
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Traveling the Web via Widgets

Widgets have become an integral part of daily web life. From Facebook’s iLike to a local website poll or video gallery, widgets provide an effective means of engaging, understanding, and servicing your customers and prospects.
A web widget is best explained as a mini-application that runs on a web page. Bloggers use widgets to update their [...]

March 24th, 2009
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