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nvohk - Community-Managed Eco-Friendly Clothing

kkrejny — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 21:51:31 +0000

NVOHK is an eco-clothing company managed by the people who wear it. I signed up for this community a month or two ago as I think it’s a neat concept to be involved in. Although I have never surfed before in my life, I am always on the lookout for interesting surf/skate clothing lines.

Here is how nvohk works:

THE DETAILS - AFTER 5,000+ MEMBERS SIGN UP [ONLY 40,000 MEMBERS CAN JOIN]

members will contribute $50 in annual membership dues (YOU ARE NOT OBLIGATED TO PAY ANYTHING TODAY) to…

receive regular business updates and provide ongoing feedback via message boards

help make major business decisions including logo design, product designs, advertising, sponsored athletes and musicians, etc.

members will be invited via email to login to nvohk.com and read about specific business decisions on the table. members will then vote on their preferred outcome. when members reach a consensus of 60%+ (active votes), the decision will be executed via nvohk’s management.

earn reward points based on 35% of net profits (1 to 1 ratio of dollars to points!)

identify and select beneficiaries for corporate charitable donations (10% of net profits!)

YES, as a member, you really are in charge

Free Social Media Websites Directory

kkrejny — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 03:47:19 +0000

If you are an online marketer or social media guru, please check out my latest website project - Social Media Websites.

My goal with creating the site is to maintain a high-quality listing of social media and networking websites. Think of the site as a tool that you can use to identify the best websites for you or your clients to participate in.

I encourage all visitors to rate and write reviews for each and every listing. Please feel free to write your experiences for each website in regards to; SEO, membership base, demographics, usability, referral traffic, advertising opportunities, etc.

Besides manually reviewing and adding sites I have indentified as top-notch, I also allow social media site operators to submit their website to be included in our directory. All submissions are manually reviewed for quality and relevance.

Any comments or suggestions for improvement are greatly appreciated.

Does Your Website Have a Negative Online Reputation?

kkrejny — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:49:23 +0000

Has your business or website ever received any bad online press that resulted in an unfavorable Google search result?

If so, please check out my article about online reputation management (ORM) insights for your business website or marketing client’s website. It covers vital steps, expectations, useful tips and sites to target.

Sure-fire Strategies to Pounce On Negative Search Engine Results

Social Media Optimization Video Interview with Paul Richlovsky

kkrejny — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 18:55:31 +0000

Fathom SEO’s Paul Richlovsky talks with Dominic Litten and myself about new social networking technologies, reputation management, YouTube, and other social media optimization topics.

My Online Search for Mini Ping Pong Tables

kkrejny — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 00:36:25 +0000

Let me start by saying I love playing Ping Pong. This dates back to my teen years playing games with my buddies in my best friend’s basement.

Earlier in 2007 I was able to buy a table for my place of work for $50 bucks. What a steal! My co-workers play games on it daily and it has become a great stress reliever for breaks during and after the work day. View a YouTube video that our ping pong table starred in.

I have always wanted to buy a full-sized ping pong table for my condo, but realized I just don’t have the room for it, except in my single car garage. Even storing it in my garage would take up almost an entire wall and leave no room for stuff like my ladder, garbage can, and grill.

This dilemma lead to my online search to try to find a high-quality and affordable mini ping pong table for my basement. Unfortunately, the search results didn’t lead me to many options. After an extensive search of combing through bogus search engine listings (thanks again Google), I came across a few options, but they seemed overpriced and lacking quality.

Recently I came across two tables with promise: one at totaltabletennis.com for $249.99, and one at amazon.com for $146.87. Both are virtually the same exact tables, and I’m most likely going to purchase the one at Amazon and use a $50 promotional certificate I have. BUT, the certificate code is not working. That’s another story.

Anywho, I came up with an idea to create a site for mini ping pong tables [http://www.minipingpongtables.com] to help searchers find the best tables for sale on the web. The site is a work in progress, but I intend to make it a valuable resource for those that have the same problem I had.

I see opportunities like this all the time from my experiences as a searcher on Google, but I don’t always act on them due to my limited time for web projects. It is really unfortunate there are so many misleading/bogus results in the search engines. Also it makes me cringe to think of all the legitimate companies that fail to recognize the opportunity to optimize their websites for a specific key phrase like “mini ping pong tables”.

Search engine optimization works! I have seen it firsthand dealing with many diverse clients with small to large websites. If you can’t handle search engine optimization on your own, it is well worth the money to hire a search engine marketing firm (like Fathom SEO) or an individual consultant to get your site up to speed.

Contributing to the Graphic and Web Design Community

kkrejny — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 15:51:32 +0000

Back in the day when I was working as a full-time Web Designer I frequently visited stock.xchng for free stock photos to use for various designs. When you work for an employer with no budget for design elements like fonts or photos, a quality and free stock photography site is invaluable. For as much as I used photos from stock.xchng I also contributed some of my own photos for the community to use for free.

Over the years various designers have contacted me for permission to use my photos for web and print projects. It’s always exciting to see how my photos are being used.

Below is the latest project using my “Cleveland Skyline” photo. The design by BNP Media is for a Snips Magazine article about the Federal Building in downtown Cleveland “going green”.

Free Social Media Newsroom Template for WordPress

kkrejny — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 01:15:44 +0000

I am proud to be part of a group at Fathom SEO that has publicly released a free social media newsroom template for WordPress. After months of determining the needs of Fathom’s own SEO Pressroom, we decided to design a generic theme that any company can use for their own newsroom/pressroom/social media newsroom/etc. The theme is highly customizable for anyone with WordPress coding knowledge.

A new free template from Fathom SEO allows businesses to create and update a central Web page for media visibility and social networking. The customizable template is a downloadable theme designed for the WordPress blogging application.

Download Fathom SEO’s Free Social Media Pressroom WordPress Theme

We’d love to hear your feedback on our theme and see how you plan to use it on your own website. Please send suggestions or comments to pressroom@fathomseo.com

Are You In Love With My Office Quotes Website Too?

kkrejny — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 02:52:25 +0000

Wendy Zang from the McClatchy-Tribune News in Southern Mississippi is in love with my Quotes from The Office website!

I’m in love with Quotes from The Office (www.quotesfromtheoffice.com). Is it a blog? Well, OK, technically no, it’s not really a blog. But it is an amusing Web site and one that demands to be written about.

It is just what you’d suspect - a collection of quotes from “The Office” (NBC’s hit show), although it is not affiliated with NBC. And it’s not just a random collection. This is a highly organized quote list with highlights from every episode, organized by season. The site recently got a sleek redesign, and now allows you to browse by character or search the quotes.

Thanks for the write-up Wendy!

Read Wendy’s full article

Strung Out at the Cleveland Agora - Part 3

kkrejny — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 16:15:17 +0000

Strung Out Setlist (Part 3):
- Velvet Alley
- Diver
- Matchbook
- Analog
- Bring Out Your Dead

Strung Out at the Cleveland Agora - Part 2

kkrejny — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 15:20:44 +0000

Strung Out Setlist (Part 2):
- Calling
- Mission Statement
- Virginia Madison
- Cult of the Subterranean
- Blueprint of the Fall
- King Alvarez