| Quick Links | | | | | |  | | Weblogs | | | Our MyST Blogsite generates highly qualified leads compared to other venues of online lead generation. One of the primary reasons is we have a trust factor, which we built (and continue to build) by providing dependable and accurate information through the blogsite. As a result, actions are more meaningful for business and the customer." |
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| | | October 29, 2008 | | A new study finds that blogs can have more impact on purchase decisions than social networks. Blogs provide a trusted resource that may lead to deeper understanding and conversation that influences purchase decisions. | |
I noticed this recent article from ClickZ about social sites versus blogsites as bona-fide business drivers. It appears that while social sites are great for making connections that may lead to new business development projects, purchase decisions are far more influenced by blogs and content based on personal and business expertise. | | |
| | October 21, 2008 | | MyST Blogsite® provides content management and corporate blogsite services that enable combined blogsite and website functionality in one solution. | We've watched the trends and we've known for years that MyST Blogsite® is ideally suited to provide combined website and blogsite services. Overture Technologies, provider of decisioning software for mortgage and higher education industries, is the latest MyST customer to launch a combined website/blogsite which will soon replace the corporate website. Value Networks launched a similar MyST combined website/blogsite solution in August 2008 citing productivity, responsiveness, and marketing agility as some of the business drivers. | | |
| | October 09, 2008 | | The first event of this type featured an informal round-table discussion that helped reaffirm an understanding that beginning an endeavor into social media requires a paced, humble beginning. | |
I met a business owner at Vail Valley Partnership's technology gathering last night that was recently the victim of an SEO SQL Injection attack. His blog and website was successfully hacked about three weeks ago by a malicious band of Inter-web thugs. Within three days, Google had removed his domains from the search index. His company is now on a long and very costly road to SEO recovery. Everything on the web comes with a degree of risk - engaging in social media simply increases the exposure. | | |
| | October 06, 2008 | | We've recently been hammered with many new types of aggresive crawlers, comment spam, and SEO code injection attacks. | |
There's only one thing we hate more than telling a client their blogsite is down - it's that their blogsite content is gone. | | |
| | October 01, 2008 | | Long time MyST client redesigns and relaunches blogsite. | Enviance, longtime MyST Blogsite client, recently requested a major redesign to their business blogsite. The site was relaunched today. We worked in concert with the Enviance Marketing Communications Manger and Enviance Creative Director to update and revitalize the site to their liking. | | |
| | October 01, 2008 | | Conversations. Above all, social media is the biggest success opportunity for small business marketing on the web. | Michael Kurz, CEO of Vail Valley Partnership, recently posed this question for an upcoming panel session on web marketing - it's an excellent question. | | |
| | September 10, 2008 | | Bill French will be speaking at the Vail Valley Partnership "Ask the Experts" Roundtable, October 8, 2008 in Vail, Colorado | |
Ask the Experts is an informal, rotating panel of local industry experts focused on a particular subject matter affecting small businesses. Each event will feature a new topic featuring a knowledgeable, experienced speaker. These events are meant to help emerging enterprises discuss business issues with Partnership partners every other month. The event is around the second Wednesday of every other month from 5:30 - 7:00 p.m. in the Board Room at the Vail Valley Partnership office, Suite 240, Traer Creek Plaza, 101 Fawcett Road, Avon. | | |
| | September 01, 2008 | | While at Search Engine Strategies, WebmasterRadio.fm interviewed Bill French, panelist for the Enterprise Search session. | Most businesses have many Internet domains; a web site, a blogsite, a media room, and perhaps other sites for support or special marketing content. Some of the content may be secure and some is indented only for discovery through extranets or intranets. Internet-savvy businesses may also have a social forum, a product catalog, or perhaps marketing partners with high-value content about their products and services. Creating and managing a multi-domain search solution that comprehensively addresses user requirements present a number of security, technical, and usability challenges. | | |
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| | Guest Weblogs | | | | | | |  | | Blogsite Feeds | | | MyST Blogsite Briefings | | | | | | | | | I spoke with a group of bloggers in Phoenix recently. What I found is that very few had any business from their blogs despite a lot of effort. I have 5 closings and 7 active buyers directly from [our MyST blogsite] in 2008. I know because I ask. One person told me they have been reading my blog for almost a year before they called me to buy a property." | – | Artur Ciesielski, Realty Executive |
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