How to waste your offline marketing budget!
Nett is an excellent magazine and website, it caters to Australia's many small and medium business people and help them get the most out of the internet.
There's lots of content from the print magazine on the website, plus more (as you would expect from being so net focused). There are blogs on Technology, People, Motivation, Red Tape, Marketing, Internet Trends and Work/Life Balance, and the design of the site is slick and easy to navigate.
I just received the August 2008 edition of the print magazine, Page 89 really caught my eye as there is a huge (nearly half page) ad titled "Free Website Makeover". I'm interested in seeing this as I'm going to be involved in a site makeover competition soon. The ad gives a url: www.intentiomedia.com.au/makeover so off I go to have a look ... 404 Not Found screams the page .. huh??
They must have spent a fortune to advertise this but there is nothing on the site. I then start having a look through the rest of the site & find a few broken links very quickly so I'm out of there never to return, I don't have time to waste looking at broken websites!
I look at the other even bigger ad on the page "Affordable SEO for your business" www.seotribal.com.au/offer .. Hooray! This page works, It's a nice site & I have a little read but again find a few broken links!
If I was da big boss man at either of these websites I would be kicking some ass right about now!
Comments (1) 21.07.2008. 13:43
WordPress release version 2.6
Wordpress have just released version 2.6, it contains a number of new features that make WordPress a more powerful CMS: you can now track changes to every post and page and easily post from wherever you are on the web, plus there are dozens of incremental improvements to the features introduced in version 2.5.
They’ve prepared a brief video tour of 2.6, if you have 3 minutes and 29 seconds to spare, it’s worth a watch:
I've just updated this Bookkeeping Site & the process went very smoothly following the extended upgrade instructions.
I had only made on small change to a "core" WordPress file, I knew exactly where this change was so that took a few seconds. The only other thing I had to look up was the API Key for the WordPress.com Stats plugin, so make sure you have this handy.
I would be happy to upgrade your site to this latest version if you are nervous, please feel free to Contact Me to discuss your needs, if you are just upgrading from 2.5.1 to 2.6 & have made no changes to core files it will cost you just $25.00 for me to upgrade for you.
Comments (0) 16.07.2008. 11:32
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Comments (0) 12.06.2008. 00:48