E-mail Marketing Tips: How To Increase Click Performance

What element in your e-mail newsletter generates the highest click-through rate? Using click-performance data from the past four years, we’ll show you how video thumbnails achieved a click-through rate of over 90%. We’ll also show you the sort of video thumbnails that generate the most clicks.

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Top 11 Tips for Improving Your Local Business’s Web Presence in 2011

Top 10 lists are so 2010. Here’s a Top 11 list for the first Monday of the New Year. Some of these tips are oldies but goodies. Others are just things we all need to do regularly. Please contact us if you like some of these tips and need help improving your web presence this year. We wish everyone a happy, healthy, and prosperous 2011!

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Video Screencast: Four easy and affordable ways to build web forms

Update 3/13/2012: Machform v.3 is now available. The color scheme of the admin isn’t my cup of tea, but the new functionality looks great. I love the PayPal payment option.

Also Forms for Joomla v.2.5 is available. I’m very pleased Phil Taylor at Blue Flame IT decided to support Joomla v.2.5. If you’re using Joomla and need forms, then I highly recommend Forms for Joomla.


In this short screencast, I review four easy and affordable ways to build web forms, including Wufoo, MachForm, Forms for Joomla, and Drupal Webform. In the past, coding a form required special coding skills. Now it’s easier than ever for a non-technical content manager to create, edit, and publish forms.

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