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Optimizing, Networking, Venn Diagrams, and Other Observations from BarCamp Nashville 2009

The third BarCamp Nashville took place this past Saturday, and I’m proud to say [meta]marketer was intimately involved in many aspects of making it happen. Both Matthew Freeman and I were on the planning crew; [meta]marketer was a “Worthy” sponsor of the event; and Freeman and I were both speakers (as were several other folks [...]

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Speaking at BarCamp Nashville – Are You Going?

If you’re in Nashville on Saturday, October 17th, the place to be is downtown at Cadillac Ranch where the third BarCamp Nashville will be happening, and I mean really happening. This is where the best minds in technology, web, digital content, social media, and more will be. And if you do go, you can see [...]

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How Do You Sell More Hats?

Let’s say you run an online store selling, I don’t know, let’s call it hats. And let’s say that your site gets 100 visitors each and every day. Out of those 100, let’s say 2 of them buy a hat. (For what it’s worth, 2% is a pretty average conversion rate for an un-optimized e-commerce [...]

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Simplicity Sells.

I’m a big fan of Dr. Flint McGlaughlin at Marketing Experiments. I spoke at their Selling Online Subscriptions Summit in ’08 and was invited to attend and listen to all the other speakers; his keynote alone was enough to make the whole conference worthwhile. The thrust of his message is encapsulated, for me, in this [...]

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You Know This Already, But Here It Is Again: Marketing vs. Mythology

Here’s a bit of wisdom from the Conversation Marketing blog: Of Mythology and Marketing | Internet Marketing Strategy: “Mythology is what makes people say “I don’t know why, but I just need a web site”. Or “We should add some social media stuff to our site”. Marketing is what makes people say “We have a [...]

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