Welcome to the new home of Hiring the Internet

Welcome to the new home of Hiring the Internet

Surprise! Over the weekend, we’ve launched a whole new home for our marketing news blog. Everything that used to be over at hiringtheinternet.com can now be found all in one place here at visibleu.com.

Hiring the Internet’s been around since the beginning of 2007 (that’s forever in internet years) and we’re really proud of the loyal following of readers we’ve gained in that time. We get thousands of visits from people like you every month, looking for some advice or insight in web marketing. We’ll be continuing to give you everything you’ve come to expect with our new blog.

Our goal is to deliver a nicer experience, with easier access to both news about us, and our regular and super-informative and probably-researched articles on Internet Marketing.

A brief tour of our new features:

• A slick new homepage at http://www.visibleu.com/web-marketing-blog/ where you can see our most recent posts highlighted (making use of some fun new CSS3 design tricks!)
• Nice big images, both as lead-ins to our most recent posts, as well as in the headline for every post.
• Re-organized and condensed categories. You can see them listed at the left. Each category has it’s own accompanying icon, that appears next to the title on every page a post is listed. Click an icon to see the most recent posts in that category.
• All the old posts on hiringtheinternet.com have been seamlessly redirected to their new URLs. Good for our readers, and good for SEO. Everyone’s happy.

Like the new look? Hate it? We’d love to hear your feedback.

10 Marketing Strategies for a Small Business in 2010

Take a look! We just published a video and white paper with ten things you should focus on for your 2010 online marketing. This list will give you some marketing issues to consider, and will be a good starting point for planning your web site marketing.

You’re going to love it – so check it out and spread the word!

Web Service Highlight: Emma

One of the main questions we get asked by our members is what sort of technology or service they should be working with. It wasn’t that long ago that you’d need an in-house development team to power your internet marketing. Now, there are so many good and reliable web services out there, that it’s entirely possible for a small business to get big business results without their own tech staff. We use a number of different online services here at VisibleU, and we can’t give you a much stronger endorsement than to let you know what we trust our own business with. So this will be the first in a series of posts where we highlight a web service or piece of software we use regularly.

Hear Gabriel Blau Twice this Month

In addition to George Hermann’s webinar with Cathedral Consulting this month, VIsibleU Co-founder and Internet Marketing Strategist Gabriel Blau will be speaking at two events this month.

AJWS-AVODAH Partnership book club

First, offline in New York, Gabriel will be facilitating a discussion about Clay Shirky’s Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations at the AJWS-AVODAH Partnership’s monthly book club “People of the Book.”

We’ll discuss Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations by Clay Shirky. Amazon.com calls it: “A revelatory examination of how the wildfire-like spread of new forms of social interaction enabled by technology is changing the way humans form groups and exist within them, with profound long-term economic and social effects-for good and for ill.”

The discussion will be facilitated by Gabriel Blau, Internet Marketing Strategist and Co-Founder of VisibleU.

Tuesday, January 19 at 6:00 p.m. at the AJWS office. RSVP now to slipkin@ajws.org!

Marketing Tactics that Get Results Webinar

Second, online, Gabriel will be on a panel run by Verio, one of the world’s largest and most respected hosting providers.

Begin 2010 with a BANG! Marketing is a powerful tool for you to generate opportunities, nurture leads, strengthen customer relationships, and increase sales. Join this webinar to obtain new ideas on marketing tractics that get results. You’ll learn first hand from viaVerio Partners what marketing tactics they use to obtain new customers and increase revenue from existing customers. This panel discussion is all about Marketing Best Practices.

Verio Inc. has teamed up with three of their partners, VisibleU, thunder::tech, and Riser Media, to bring you this exciting webcast on “Marketing Tactics that Gets Results” which will take place on Thursday, January 28th at 2:00 pm EST.

Join us to learn what marketing initiatives are working:
– Online Marketing
– Relationship Marketing
– Passive Marketing
– SEO
– Social Media
– Email Marketing
– Content Marketing

Click here to register for the webinar: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/909047675

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Is there really no page fold?

This has been all over Twitter lately – if you haven’t already seen it: http://www.thereisnopagefold.com/

People seem to be passing this around, along with comments along the lines of “amen!” and “send someone to this the next time they make a know-it-all-comment about putting something above the fold on your site design!” As someone who talks about designing around the fold a fair deal, I had kind of a squinty-eyed suspicious sort of reaction to these comments, but I also started thinking about it.