About Us Pages Get Prominence, Demand Attention
“About Us” pages often receive high prominence in website navigation and architecture.
It’s no surprise because any credible website publishers who care about their brand and reputation want to put forth the best possible impression. A good About Us page is a small but important part of any website marketing strategy. (more…)
Online Marketing Strategy: 3 Goals, 8 Tactics and 1 Solid Plan
“Online marketing strategy” is a popular phrase that often is used to describe ways of generating large amounts of traffic to a website.
In the business world, the words strategy and tactics are often used together and sometimes mixed together so tightly that the meaning of one is almost the same as the other. (more…)
Online Strategy Depends on Constant Change
An online business needs to accept constant change as part of its strategy if the business is meant to survive.
Any business that does the same thing year after year and decade after decade has little chance of surviving, much less growing.
Online Subscription Strategy Demands High-Value Content
The newspaper industry is a great example of how to implement an online subscription strategy. It’s also a great example of how not to implement it.
Online subscriptions have had a rocky lifespan. Some of us experimented with them for newspapers all the way back in the 1980s with services such as CompuServe and Prodigy. (more…)
Healthy Online Business Depends on Bonuses to Survive
A healthy online business has more potential for staying healthy if it puts a heavy emphasis on bonuses rather than salaries.
Consider two scenarios with different approaches to paying the owner, the staff or both. (more…)
Online Business Success Demands Flexible Thinking
Success with an online business requires flexibility to survive and thrive beyond the five-year lifespan of most businesses.
In the 1980s, Compuserve was the dominant online business in access and content. It eventually failed. Then came Prodigy, which shot up and later fell into oblivion. (more…)
Online Advertising Models: CPC, CPM or CPA?
Online advertising models show up on websites in three important forms — cost per click (CPC), cost per thousand (CPM) and cost per acquisition (CPA).
Publishers and advertisers should know and consider all three depending on the situation. (more…)
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