ListMessenger.net is an online service for e-mail marketing and sending e-mail newsletters
Next to my work as a consultant, I own a business offering an online service for e-mail marketing and sending e-mail newsletters. It’s called ListMessenger.net, and earlier this month we’ve launched a new website. At the same time, we introduced a new pricing model. An account now costs US$ 149 per year.
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E-mail Marketing & Internet Business & WordPress | 18 January 2010 | Comments Off
Google Wave may be the way we all communicate and collaborate 5 years from now
I just received my Google Wave Preview Invitation. I’ve been waiting for this for a few months, and exciting started to grow when the first invitations started to be sent out almost a week ago.
It is hard to describe what Google Wave is. Just think what it would be like to explain a micro wave oven to someone living 100 years ago. The people that created Google Wave describe it like this: “this is what e-mail would have been like, if it was invented today instead of 40 years ago”.
The short video below attempts to explain only a fraction of what Google Wave is:
As a user of the Google Wave Preview, I get to invite others too. That’s because there is no real point in communicating and collaborating with just yourself. Now who should I pick to invite …
Google Wave | 13 October 2009 | 5 Comments
I’ve been invited to present at the first ever WordCamp event in The Netherlands, on October 31 at Seats2Meet in Utrecht.
I will be presenting a very practical use case of the integration of WordPress and OpenX. OpenX is an ad server. More information about OpenX can be found on my blog. OpenX is free open source software, just like WordPress, and can be downloaded from www.openx.org.
Online advertising & OpenX & WordPress | 09 October 2009 | Comments Off
Today I watched a presentation by engineer Michael Pritchard. He has developed a technology that has the potential to solve the problem of access to safe drinking water. His Lifesaver water-purification bottle could revolutionize water-delivery systems in disaster-stricken areas around the globe. The bottle uses nanotechology to filter even the filthiest water into sterile, safe drinking water.
Perhaps even more amazing: according to Pritchard, it would cost about 8 billion US dollars to hit one of the Millenium Goals of halving the number of people without access to safe drinking water. That is a lot of money, unless you put it in perspective: the UK government alone spends 12 billion UK Pound or 20 billion US dollars on foreign aid each year. That money would be sufficient to give every single human being on the planet access to safe drinking water. It would change the lives of 3.5 billion people and save the lives of 2 million children, every year!
The video below will explain it all in just 10 minutes.
This video was filmed in July 2009, at the TED Global conference in Oxford, UK.
General | 13 August 2009 | Comments Off
Google Website Optimizer helps webmasters and site owners improve their website and increase conversions and sales
When people arrive on your website after clicking an ad or a link, the first page they see is what is known as the ‘landing page’. The purpose of this page is to enable the visitor to buy your product, request a quote, sign up to be a member or receive a newsletter, or whatever action you had in mind.
There are many things that can distract your potential customer from completing that action. Online expert and author Tim Ash presented a webinar on “7 Deadly Sins of Landing Page Design”, for the Google Website Optimizer YouTube channel.
It’s a pretty long video, where the 7 most common problems are presented, including recommendations to fix those problems. In the second part of the video, Tim answers questions from the audience.
If you don’t have the time to watch this video, I’ve made a list of the 7 common problems in landing page design and the fixes that Tim Ash suggest.
Internet Business | 24 July 2009 | Comments Off
