Oskar Jaśniewski joined the ClickMeeting team as an intern but quickly moved up the ranks and is now responsible for their outreach and marketing efforts. He shares what it’s like working at ClickMeeting, how the webinar company has grown so quickly and how it has differentiated itself in the marketplace in our latest People Who Rock the Web interview…
Email marketing is frequently one of the last things that small businesses focus on to promote their business. Below we will take a look at the importance of including an email marketing plan into your small business model and touch on three of the most beneficial email marketing services currently available…
SendinBlue is our top pick for best email marketing platform for ecommerce and we had the chance to interview their Chief Marketing Officer, Amalia Bercot. Based in France, Amalia heads up the company’s marketing and acquisition efforts which has resulted in vast growth to over 20,000 global customers in just five short years! Find out more about how they did it and how SendinBlue can help your small business succeed through email marketing in our exclusive Q&A session…
Having your own toll free 800 number for clients to call is less expensive and easier to setup than you may think. And it’s more professional for your business too. Here at We Rock Your Web we have used the Kall8 Toll Free Number Provider for years, and haven’t had any problems. Our 800 call volume is not terribly high, but we do get a regular schedule of calls to our toll free number. In addition to a small monthly fee ($2), we only pay when a call is made. Finally, you can setup forwarding to further minimize your 800 call costs…
Do you want to bump up your WordPress site’s marketing exposure? One surefire method is to convert your site’s visitors into subscribers. And there’s an easy and affordable way to do just that — by using a plugin to connect your site with MailChimp, the hugely popular (and affordable) email marketing service. What’s the best Mailchimp plugin for WordPress? Our vote goes for MailChimp for WordPress created by ibericode. Here we’ll tell you what this plugin can do for your company’s marketing goals and why we chose it for our sites’ MailChimp WordPress integration…
Since launching in 2011, Treehouse has created nearly 500 hours of original course content which has helped nearly 200,000 students to learn invaluable skills including coding, web design, app building, starting a business and more. Their 200+ courses led by expert instructors help people of all ages and skill levels around the world advance their careers so they can stay ahead of the trends and have a leg up on their competition in the workforce. And Micah Cooksey, one of their brightest up and coming team members, is no exception. Micah received his Bachelor’s degree at the young age of 16 and is finishing his masters degree at 19! He’s currently doing sales and marketing at Treehouse. We were honored to have the chance to interview Mr. Cooksey and learn more about Treehouse, one of our top picks for best online learning site. We also learned more from Micah’s insights into the online learning market…
Are you overwhelmed with keeping up with all your social media stats? Facebook, twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, Google Plus, Vine, Flickr – it can all become too much to manage. But, do not dismay, there are social dashboard tools to help and one of our favorites is Sprout Social. It is not only an extremely useful social media monitoring tool but also is very affordable at only $39 per month. If you think about all the time you are spending tracking all those fans, followers, retweets, +1 and conversations, it does not take long to see clearly that time saved with an effective management tool is worth much more than a monthly cost of less than ten bucks! We at Cover Story Media and We Rock Your Web use Sprout Social to track, publish and engage on social media and wanted to share some of the features of this tool so you can get started benefiting from it as well…
Everyone understands the dangers of smoking and everyone understands the importance of being active. What people may not know is that physical inactivity at work may be just as deadly as taking a smoke break. This has many people questioning their sedentary ways. After all, while many know that activity is good for you, they may not know that not being active could actually kill them. How is this possible and how can physical inactivity and the lack of movement at work be as deadly as a casual cigarette with your co-workers?
Thanks to the internet, it’s now easy for everyone to create and promote their own content with little (if any) start up costs via blogs, all you need is a computer and something to say. Some people do it just as a hobby, while other bloggers make it their full time job. In fact, some blogs now have more reach than more established, formal distribution channels. As technology has evolved over the years, so has journalism. Blogging makes it possible for everyone to be a writer and have a soap box. But is that a good thing? We’ll dive into what bogging is, which platform to use, why you should do it, how to start a blog, and more!…
Not only is it an honor to interview one of my content marketing idols, it is particularly exciting that she is our first female featured in our People Who Rock the Web series. And what better way to kick off the girl power than with a kick @ss woman like Ann Handley. Not only is she an accomplished author, speaker, mom, wife and overall awesome person, she is the Chief Content Officer (CCO) at MarketingProfs, where she’s been leading the charge on all things B2B Marketing for more than a decade. But before we get into her Q&A , I have a small back story to share…