5 free online marketing resources

Search engine optimization (SEO), email marketing and many other things related to emarketing is not something mysterious that only a few wizards can do. There is a lot of things you can (and should) do…before you turn to the wizards for that final golden touch.

Learning how to use online marketing for your business takes time. There’s no quick fix available, but the resources below will give you a great start for both learning and doing. Make this knowledge work for you and your business!

0. Before you do anything else

• First – make sure you have Google Analytics installed on your site, so you can track visits and much more.
• Then – register at Google Webmaster Central and update the settings so it suits your site.
• Now – you’re good to go, so keep on reading.

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Tags: blogging, eMarketing, Online Presence, Recommended Services, seo, Social Media

Search Engine Optimized Copywriting

Is your cool new JJ website user friendly? There’s more to a successful website than cool JoomlaJunkie templates. They’re an important first step. People judge by first appearances but then they want to find what they’re looking for quickly and easily.

How to hook your customers and then keep them

You need sales oriented SEO copy that engages both your customers and the search engines! And then you need to ensure that your site navigation makes it easy for your customers to find the information and products they’re looking for.

Special offer for JoomlaJunkie template users

To help you get the most from your cool JoomlaJunkie site The Copywriter Online has come up with a great special offer for October.

You can have your homepage professionally written with crisp, sales oriented SEO copy plus a site review (10 pages max) that will tell you what works and what doesn’t for only $250! That’s great value. The average cost for such a service is $520.

Get in quick as this offer is available to first 20 customers only. Visit the contact page and put JJ site offer in the subject field and then The Copywriter online will contact you to discuss details. Simple!

Tags: Copywriting, seo

Joomla plugin available for MailChimp

MailChimp honestly makes our email marketing fun and easy! One of the reasons is that they keep on developing new cool and powerful things around it (their plugin page just keeps growing).

Joomla plugin for Mailchimp

No longer valid – “This extension has been unpublished for the following reason: Security issue(s).” See update further down on this page!
This Joomla! plugin will place a Subscribe box for your users to use. Allowing your users to sign up without refreshing the page with AJAX as well easy management for the site admin. Very simple to use. (thanks to generationsix!).

You don’t have a Mailchimp account yet?

Since we have a Mailchimp account, you can get USD 30 and 3 Inbox Inspector reports if you become a MailChimp customer today. Just sign up for a free trial here (there’s no obligation, no credit card required, and they keep your information private).

UPDATE 2009 June 5

In March Mailchimp blogged about mod_mailchimp2 – a new Mailchimp plugin for Joomla1.5.

“This 1.5 Native module will place a simple Subscribe box on your Joomla site allowing your users to sign up without refreshing the page by using an AJAX call, plus includes easy management for the site admin.”

Visit the plugin/download site.

Tags: eMarketing, Joomla, newsletter, plugins