Archive for July, 2008

Integrating Content Management Systems with Web Analytics Data

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

One of the problems which Marketing for Mavens solves is that content management systems and a separate web analytics applications don’t talk to one another.

Every day your content management system pushes out the same content to the same people and it doesn’t know whether that person has visited your site in the past or what they were looking for. Instead, web marketers are left looking at reports on a monthly basis and then trying to configure the site content accordingly. This response is far too slow and you’re reacting to the masses and not individual visitors.

Marketing for Mavens helps to solve this problem by tagging you’re visitors based on the web pages they view. It then knows each visitors interests and can push the appropriate promotions and content to them in real time based on these interests. Now your site can be personalized to your visitors without them having to register for your site. This is important as you can now target your content and messages to only the visitors interested in seeing it. If you are interested in seeing how Marketing for Mavens can help you to manage your web content and promotions and deliver them to targeted visitors, please check our our short demo video and join or beta program.

Giving back to the web community

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

Today, I’ve been working on a little side project. This idea popped into my head during lunch and I feel compelled to act upon it. Over the years, I’ve received a lot of help from web community. Whether it’s support for a particular product or learning a new programming language, I couldn’t imagine having the success I’ve had without someone answering these questions or showing the steps necessary to solve various problems.

It is for this reason that I’ve decided to devote an hour of each day to answering one person’s web marketing questions. The questions can be from a wide range of topics including coding, web design, development, SEO, paid advertising, database design. No questions is too dumb and I welcome questions from those who have no clue about the web but find it fascinating or need help getting started. I don’t pretend to have all the answers but I can, more often than not, point you in the right direction.

Of course this is free and in return I want nothing other than for you try to pass the knowledge along or help others as best you can. This is my opportunity to pay forward all the help that people have given me in the past. If you’re interested please fill out the form at www.marketingformavens.com/free_web_marketing_help.html.

Beta Now Open to Web Developers and Marketers

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

Today, we opened the beta to all new registrations. If you would like to participate in the beta, please register now and you can begin promoting targeted web content on your site in just a few minutes.

For those that choose to participate in the beta, please keep in mind:

Bug and Issue Tracking

As a member of the beta, it is your responsibility to make Marketing for Mavens aware of any issues or bugs you find while using our products. Please post these issues to our forum at www.marketingformavens.com/forums. When logging a bug, please post as much detail as possible including time of day, screenshots, browser version, and any other information that can help us narrow down the problem.

Support

If you need assistance with your account, please contact us at support@marketingformavens.com.

Additional Resources

Beta Agreement and Privacy

Web Site Visitors: Tag and Learn

Friday, July 18th, 2008

One of the side benefits of using Marketing for Mavens is learning what topics (tags) your visitors are interested in and how they relate to other topics. For example, you can tag all of your web pages with keywords associated with your content, as each visitor navigates your site, a list of tags become associated with them. Through this relationship you begin get a different level of insight into how your individual pages relate to one another. Unfortunately, right now, most of this analysis must be done by hand. I’m trying to come up with a better way to show this relationship in a report which would remove a lot of complexity. Either way it give a unique view into your visitors and your site that I believe you’ll find valuable.

Update: Limited Beta

Monday, July 7th, 2008

The limited beta has been live for a week now and the first round of invites has gone out. We’re keeping the number of invites to a minimum to ensure the best service possible for our beta group. Over the next few weeks, the number of invites will increase so if you would like to take part in the beta, please submit your email address at marketingformavens.com and you will be contacted when you’ve been added to the beta.