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Marketing: Obvious Gimmicks that Still Work

Kat — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:01:07 +0000

There are some marketing efforts that just fall into the category of Gimmicks. Marketers use these cheap little “tricks” to get an action out of people (purchase, share, whatever). These tricks range from taste-testing products to sappy stories made for a few heart-string tugs. Most of us are aware of these gimmicks. We allow them [...]

Why I work in Social Media

Kat — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 23:42:49 +0000

Everyone has a passion that drives them in their day-to-day work lives. For business owners its usually some personal belief or action they want to make into reality. Of course the little things, the constant paper-work, the unwanted phone calls, and the persistent bills sometimes cloud over this reason. We get caught up in the [...]

The Internet Owns Your Business’ Soul

Kat — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:32:12 +0000

Your brand is not in your hands anymore. The internet possesses powers that can turn you into a celebrity overnight. But the great god that giveth, doth also taketh away. In other words, deal with your business honestly or you won’t own a business anymore. Think this sounds dramatic? It’s true. Take the example of Brian King. [...]

Love to London

Kat — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:12:20 +0000

(Make sure to leave your link-love in the comments!) Just a quick update. I’m now writing for a UK-tech blog. So if you are a fan based in Europe you may want to subscribe over there! The blog is a little less web design-based and will have more “tech” writing (which should be fun since I’m [...]

A Younger, Sexier Twitter

Kat — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 23:11:33 +0000

Twitter made some subtle design changes recently and I couldn’t help but comment on them. Don’t get me wrong, I’m all about sleek designs. Except the new bird is kinda weird. But here’s my problem: why is Twitter spending money on a redesign when they could put that cash towards greater/smoother functionality or finding a monetization [...]

Recording of the September Dallas SEO Meetup

Kat — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:05:04 +0000

Wanted to do a quick blog post. Last week I was a panelist at the Dallas SEO/SEM Meetup along with Damian Skinner & Erick Osia. We discussed a number of topics from social media to viral video to Blackhat SEO. I posted a recording of this event on the Meetup’s Upload section here. Feel free to [...]

Top 10 Ways To Ruin Your Website Summary

Kat — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:07:32 +0000

We have reached the end of our series! Its true, so many little things can ruin your entire website. In the series I tried to touch on each of the most common pages businesses place on their site and then discusses the top ten worst things for each. Here we’ll do a quick summary of [...]

Top 10 Ways to Ruin Your Blog Page

Kat — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:46:01 +0000

Blogging has become an essential part of good online marketing. Most people have either connected a blog to their site or link to one hosted elsewhere. A blog page has many different aspects, which makes it easy to ruin. Here are my top ten: 1. Hiding the RSS feed No visible RSS feed might be the most [...]

Top 10 Ways to Ruin Your Shopping Cart

Kat — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 01:07:54 +0000

Not all sites have an e-commerce section, but many do. Today, in our continuation of the Top 10 ways to Ruin your website series, I want to talk a little bit about your “shopping cart”. Any e-commerce site has multiple sections from how products are laid-out to payment options, but I just want to focus [...]

Top 10 Ways to Ruin Your Contact Page

Kat — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 19:39:57 +0000

The next important page we’ll deal with in our Top 10 Ways to Ruin Your Website series is the Contact page. Most websites have one. Usually a Contact page consists of some kind of form and also a list of other ways to connect with your business. So how does one screw up something so [...]