Since 2006 we have held these fourteen guidelines as the most fundamental principles of the best website design.
Every website is unique to its own audience, so you can't include things
A few weeks ago, I read an article from Peter Houston at What's New in Publishing that said email is the ‘Comeback King’ of digital publishing. That's a far cry
According to our own surveys, 42.4 percent of adults with access to the Internet subscribe to at least one digital magazine. Maintaining consumer interest over an extended period is a
At Mequoda, we’ve crunched the numbers and discovered how beautifully email newsletters work to drive revenue. It’s not the traffic that comes to your site, which is the prevailing view
If you've ever joined a club, purchased a membership, or even became part of a team, you understand the benefits of mutual collaboration and teamwork. This year, our goal at
How often do you publish an email newsletter? Once a week? Twice? For our clients, many of them publish 5 to 7 days per week. Sound crazy?
In today's Strategy Spotlight,
A Rapid Conversion Landing Page (a.k.a. “name squeeze” page) is essential to building a database of free email newsletter subscribers. It, along with other landing pages on a website, act
A Mequoda subscription website Portal generates value from both users and sponsors
Mequoda has guided the development of more than a 300 successful niche media websites on a wide variety of niche media
Increase email revenue by determining your ideal revenue per subscriber, and then using service journalism to keep them on a path toward monetization
A Mequoda online publishing and marketing system measures
Some folks like to talk about the decline of magazines. And yet, the digital magazine surge shows that not only are magazines surviving, but they're alive and well, with still
Design email newsletters that are easy to read, share and use by identifying these characteristics of an email newsletter that people stay subscribed to.
Your email subscribers aren't cash machines, they're
When you think of the term "email analytics" there are two metrics you probably think of first: open rate and click rate.
If those are the only two you can think
When it comes to showing off a perfectly executed subscription website, they don’t come any more perfect than CeramicArtsDaily.org. Along with all our other Mequoda top operators, they’re golden in
Point of purchase, social media, and physical products can help you build your email marketing list
With your brand and products listed throughout the Internet, audience members may not be introduced
Email newsletter subscribers will thank you for following these 12 guidelines
An email newsletter is meant to inform the subscriber that receives it. Many non-publishers have an editorial email schedule that
Tips for building your email list with a more effective website
Website success depends on providing incentives to encourage visitor email registration. Email registration permits the website to follow-up with visitors
Two money making website archetypes for online publishers
Online publishers and editors are always looking for ways of growing their audience. For most, this involves increasing the number of email subscribers
Landing page guidelines for writing and testing long copy salesletters
In almost every A/B split test we've ever done, or convinced a publisher to do, long copy prevails when trying to
Are email newsletters better than blogs?
I've read several articles discussing whether or not blogs were dying, since many well known bloggers have recently switched to email newsletters only. There
This free report from Mequoda Group discusses how to build free reports, promote them and use them to convert visitors into email newsletter subscribers
(Nationwide)---Creating a free report, setting up a
This free report from Mequoda Group will teach you necessary components and the lingo behind successful landing pages
(Nationwide)---Every page of your website is a landing page, especially in modern times
Content producers and online publishers can utilize this modern Internet Marketing Strategy to reach niche markets while growing a fan base
(Nationwide)---Modern publishing professionals have stepped away from traditional publishing models
Online Marketing Tools: Using an Email Lifetime Value Calculator to measure the real lifetime value of an email name
The essence of the Mequoda Method is to build a database of
How email newsletter contact frequency affects the annual value of an email newsletter subscriber
The online metrics of making your email newsletter yield more revenue
If he had been a
Using email newsletters to lower the cost of creating online brand building. When the history of the 2008 U.S. Presidential election is written, the role of the Internet, and
Should your internet marketing system include earned media?
Email circulation and revenue per email subscriber are the two key metrics for every Mequoda Marketing System. The first priority for system operators
Want to use other people's content? Are you ready to risk your brand for it?
Many of my clients are creating a book series that supports and monetizes their brand's knowledge
Specific guidelines for retail and media websites
When your publication is online it should be on a network of websites, not a single website.
Yesterday we discussed that one of your websites
Why Harvard Health Publications includes press releases in its email marketing mix
Harvard Health Publications makes its email newsletter subscribers feel like privileged members of the fourth estate.
As part of its
As part of your Internet marketing strategy, do you give your new customers a warm welcoming email when they subscribe to your email newsletter or buy an information product?
Some years
Most Mequoda operators publish a variety of print information products. These books, magazines, newsletters and reports present an ideal opportunity to drive targeted website traffic to a Mequoda Internet Hub.
Online marketers have four powerful tools for converting website visitors to email newsletter subscribers:
All of the above are entry points into the conversion flow. They may link to the Rapid
Discover how one savvy Internet marketing professional increased her targeted website traffic beyond her wildest dreams and generated 252,978 new email newsletter subscribers worth more than $3 million. Learn the
What both types of CEOs have in common is the need for someone to execute their Internet marketing strategy on a day-to-day basis. Enter the Internet Marketing System General Manager
Discover the simple, keyword-driven Internet Strategy that hundreds of savvy authors, publishers and other information marketers are using to transform their books, magazines or newsletters into multi-million dollar niche media
After years of using light copy landing pages to sell subscriptions, one health newsletter publisher increases his landing page conversion rate by 31 percent with a long copy sales letter
While some Internet marketers use a single source to acquire new customers, others use an intricate Internet Marketing System of up to 13 programs to increase website traffic. What's driving
Discover how information-marketing guru Fred Gleeck uses a steady stream of mass-market soft cover books to drive subscriptions to his email newsletter database and the online media network for his