02:33 John Blue heads South of the Border, and reports back on the billboards, John regrets that the fireworks aren’t what they used to be. Digital billboards and billboard strategy.
18:02 Georgia Southern Checks out Marketing Over Coffee, Jessica rates us as fast talking Yankees. Eryn and Erika B. check in too. We say make sure you have a strategy, and follow Dale Carnegie and Peter Drucker
14:40 Jim Neville on online survey tools - WebMine is fully customized functional online survey tool, he’s offering a 30 day trial for MoC listeners, comment for more info.
17:22 Mike McAllen asks about Google Keyword tools - Take a free ride on popular terms, get the terms related to the ones you are already winning on, pay attention to time frames. SEO Tips - Use a 5 most recent plugin for your blog, have hooks to the new content.
22:09 Adam asks about the Gmail Seed technique - Chris enlightens John on inbound message processing with Gmail.
24:40 Amazon dumps search arbitrage
26:42 Tim from Melbourne, Australia writes in on a free QR code generation service called Kaywa - www.qrcode.kaywa.com. You can embed URL, text, phone number or SMS instructions.
07:25 Ben Mezrich’s next book is about Facebook, we’ll try and get him on as a guest, but you missed the free Kindle version of World Wide Rave, we talk graphics on the Kindle
09:15 More on Webinars, tips and the circle of content
15:50 A new way to do seeds - track your email blasts and email sources by modifying your gmail address. Unlimited testing accounts!
18:10 Don’t mess with our Dora controversy - change is not appreciated, margins in the toy and soft drink industries
20:33 Google Profiling - got it from AdSense and EFF.org, more analysis of reader behavior, Question of the week: We’ll ask again about survey tools.
08:38 WebInno big and MIT Entrerpeneur action increasing - the economy thawing or unemployment getting worse? Economy not looking good yet.
12:00 Question of the week: What survey tools do you use? I use Surveymonkey, Chris likes GoogleDocs and Zoomerang, anything else we should try?
13:19 Michael asks:
We know that blog engines - Word Press et al are really optimized for search. Did the search engines decide blogs were cool and modified search to give them more juice OR did the blog engines modify their structure to be more SEO? Chris points to Google Blog Search.
BTW, can you guys help push www.pledgetoendhunger.com? Yes we can.
17:58 Kyle replies to last week’s question of the week:
The most important stat that I track, as of now, is my sources of traffic. This comes from the fact that my blog is still fairly small, and I want to be able to learn where my traffic comes from in order to make the most effective social media strategy.
19:18 Doug answered the public PR firms question: There are, IPG for example, however they all seem to be marketing firms that do PR, not only. One of the difficulties in PR firms going public is the uncertainty of the cash flow and the generally smallish size.
06:50 Mike McAllen asks about Google analytics - Get this book: Web Analytics: An Hour a Day. AdWords concepts Lost IS (Rank) and Lost IS (Budget). Geotargeting
15:07 Keith Burtis is trying to figure out the best way to move information out of social networks so that it can be usable - ChatCatcher, Google Docs,Twitter Search to RSS to Yahoo Pipes (including John’s PSP Pipe).
18:00 Plug for the eBook and buying tracks through YouTube on iTunes or Amazon, both of us get Kindles, PDFs on the Kindle, PRSA cast in this weekend