Web marketing my MartinKelley.com blog:
A potential client recently came to me with an existing site. It certainly was slick: the homepage featured a Flash animation of telegenic young professionals culled from a stock photo service, psuedo-jazz techno music, and words sweeping in from all sides selling you the company’s service. Unfortunately the page had no useful content, no call-to-action and no Google PageRank. It was an expensive design, but I didn’t need to look at the tracking stats to know no one came this page.
So you’re ready to ditch a non-performing site for one more dynamic, something that will attract customers and interact with them. Here’s five tips for building a self-marketing website!
If it is true that the public at large doesn’t know who Quakers are, then now is as good a time as any for us to raise the Quaker profile in the media, with local stories providing the ‘bread-and-butter’ coverage and some national ‘garnish’ with stories connected to the news.
Quote from David Armano’s piece:
“In the past few months I’ve noticed a trend. Organizations of all shapes and sizes are appointing people into “social media” positions. From VP’s of Social Media, to Social Media editors, etc. It’s indicative of the fact that businesses are taking the space very seriously and making investments to grow capabilities. But if you dig a little, you’ll often times find that some (not all) of the people placed in these positions have very small “footprints” in the space. A recently created Twitter profile with a very short history, a presence on Facebook that looks like an unfurnished apartment, no blog to speak of. You get the point. And it’s got me thinking. Should the people who lead the charge within your organization be active participants in the medium? Does it really matter?”
I left my own comment at on his site. I found this via Dirk at Herd.
Do you need a website? BooneOakley’s is on Youtube. Tres cool, these cats have vision. Via Herd.
Adam Ostrow looks at the successful Facebook campaign by the makers of Vitamin Water.
Although there are a few risks of building a campaign that directs users to a social media site versus your own property, the benefits are likely to far outweigh them if you can successfully get people engaged. Not to mention – what’s the last memorable corporate website you visited? Vitamin Water’s site – though impressive graphically and informative if you’re looking for details about their sports drinks – has absolutely no compelling reason to come back to it.
On the other hand, users will keep logging into Facebook for the foreseeable future, and in turn, seeing updates from the brand on their homepage. Vitamin Water’s approach makes sense, and turns what would otherwise be a difficult-to-measure branded advertisement into an interactive one with tangible results.
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See also: my recent O’Reilly Media piece, Will Facebook (all but) Replace Corporate Websites?
