From the monthly archives:

April 2010

Joomla Training-Setting up a Banner

by Charles Grimm on April 30, 2010

If you work in Joomla CMS , at some point you may want to set up a banner in your website.  Below is short video done sometime ago when we had a social small business training community named QuestSocial.com. This community has since been reshaped and re branded as eMediaPlace; a community for Search Marketing and eMedia people to connect.

I had some feedback the other day that suggested it may be a good idea and useful to some to add more training videos to this blog.

If you work in joomla or word press and are have some challenges let me know and I may put up a short training video that addresses those focus areas.

Your comments or remarks will help give suggestions as to future training videos. Thx C

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15 SEO Resources

by Charles Grimm on April 27, 2010

This is a list of SEO Blogs written by some of todays foremost SEO experts. A good place to start and keep going back if you want to stay up on the latest search engine optimization news, strategies and practices.

SEO Blogs that provide daily online marketing training.

Matt Cutts
Search Engine Round Table
Search Engine Land
SEM InHouse
SeoBook
Search Engine Journal
David Brown
Marketing Pilgrim
Online Marketing Blog
Performancing
Search Engine Watch
SEOROI
SEOMOZ
Small Business SEM
Stuntbdl

If you have more great SEO resources or notable people to add please let me know.

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Core Habits of Successful Bloggers

by Charles Grimm on April 21, 2010

If you’re blogging and trying to accomplish an online objective it’s useful to look at some of the common elements of pro bloggers that are apparent in making a successful blog. Here is a short list of key elements:

1. Write a lot – be prolific.

2. Be concise – get to the point and use short posts. Seth Godin is great for this.

3. Analyze – track and analyze your blog stats to find out from whence your readers are coming.

4. Keep learning – in blogging as in marketing, things are always changing so keep exploring and moving forward.

5. Be focused and consistent – have an objective for your blog and set a schedule for your post. (1,2/week etc.)

6. Plan – Think about where you are now and where you want to go. Write it down. It will change, but that is good.

7. Intention – set up your intentions for the blog, then sculpt, reshape, develop..it’s a journey and part of the fun.

8. Initiative and discipline – you’re the champion of your blog. It’s up to you to keep the energy alive.

Well I may have taken the concise part a bit too literally, so if you have an thoughts on this, please expand on these points or add your perspective.

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Google Web Analytics and ROI

by Charles Grimm on April 7, 2010

This list of links to Free Google webmaster tools provides the essentials for small and medium size business to build ROI into the online marketing programs. If you are at the enterprise business level you may want to consider WebTrends but their a little pricey for small business budget.

1. Google Webmaster Central
A webmaster resource for help with crawling and indexing questions.
To increase your site traffic.

2. Google Analytics
For analyzing and tracking your website traffic and marketing campaigns.

3. Google Webmaster Central Blog
Official news and advice on indexing your site for Google.

4. Google Webmaster Tools
Provides detailed reports about your web pages visibility on Google

If you have other tools that your using that are useful and free, let me know. If your using Google tools now for your business, would you say that it is a good tool to evaluate online marketing ROI?

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Comic con

by Charles Grimm on April 1, 2010

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I attended my first Megacon – comic and gaming convention last month. It was quite an experience and certainly out of the norm of the regular trade shows and conferences I attend. Our objective was to meet industry professionals, illustrators, software developers, independent film people and others in order to help us advance our knowledge and build some relationships for the New Visions Interactive Art project and startup.

While it seemed like more of a consumer show there were some great panels featuring people from DC and Marvel comics to celebrities form star trek and the terminator.

Mega-con-bugsTheir were a lot wild and elaborate costumes. One excellent favorite was a “Beattle Juice” (Michael Keaton) impersonator. One of the best though was a kind of round guy with wild hair walking around with a plain card board sign that said “Free Hugs”. I just about fell over laughing. I’ll bet he was having a good time.

Over the 3 days, Maurice, Michael, Chris and myself  met some very talented artists which we may possibly collaborate with in the future.

Next up this month, I will be in Boston for the comic con and then to Anaheim for Wizard World comic con. “I want to meet the man behind the curtain”. Should be a good opp for finding that elusive Wizard T-shirt.

Some fun photos to follow.

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