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Completed sessions.
(A collection of
notes from the classes
can be found elsewhere on this site.)
Back to the
Clinic Schedule. |
Useful Reference Sites |
Linksfile Spreadsheet
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Clinic Demo Site |
Date |
Instructor(s) |
Topic |
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 |
Beth Guide |
Content and Linking; Why
they are important and how they work together to enhance your site
performance. |
Wednesday, October 7, 2009 |
Jay Mock |
A review of current
issues pertaining to search engine and other forms of internet
marketing.
{Notes} |
Wednesday, September 23, 2009 |
Dick Myers |
Evaluate Your Site; How
do you know how well your site is performing and how do you identify
what to do to improve it?
The presentation provided for this clinic
does not include references to all the material that was used to
illustrate the subject covered. Some links to information about the
software used is available in the
notes to this
class.
{Evaluate
Your Site} |
Wednesday, September 9, 2009 |
Dick Myers |
Blogging; What it is
and how to use it to improve your business.
{Blogging} |
Wednesday, August 26, 2009 |
Dick Myers |
Links on your web site;
Why they are important, how to create and use them effectively, what
they can do for you.
{Linking
Your Site} |
Wednesday, August 12, 2009 |
Dick Myers |
Creating a Business
Website: An Overview of the various elements that go into making a
successful website. This is a basic presentation that will describe what
is required to constitute a successful site. It is a good introduction
for beginners and a review for more experienced operators to put the
elements into perspective.
{Start Up
a Site} |
Wednesday, July 22, 2009 |
Bill Johnson & Dick Myers |
Bill attended the Internet Retailer show in Boston
in June and will cover how the major internet retailers are employing a variety of tools to build a strong base of loyal visitors to their sites.
{Bill's
presentation}
{SEM
presentation}
{Internet Retailing Conference} |
Wednesday, July 8, 2009 |
Jay Mock & Dick Myers |
Jay will bring us his latest insights into the world of Internet Marketing as seen through the eyes of an active and experienced professional.
Exact subject matter varies depending upon what aspect of Internet
Marketing Jay has been working on recently, but always reflects
up-to-the-minute ideas for improving your web site performance..
{Jays Notes} |
Wednesday, June 24, 2009 |
Michelle Wicmandy & Dick Myers |
Affiliate Marketing:
How you can use this tool to create revenues for your business from the
Internet.
Michelle is an on-line marketing consultant and webmaster for the Alley
Theater. She is actively involved in the Houston Interactive Marketing
Association (HiMA), Online Marketing Connect (OMC), Houston Area League
of PC users (HAL-PC), and the American Marketing Association (AMA).
{Affiliate Marketing} |
Wednesday, June 10, 2009 |
Dick Myers |
Keywords: What they are
and why and how you use them to improve your site performance.
There were several links mentioned and
used in the clinic session. Those can be found here in the
class notes.
{Keyword Presentation} |
Wednesday, May 27, 2009 |
Beth Guide & Dick Myers |
How your hosting
service contributes to the success of your web site, and other topics.
Beth discussed domain name and hosting
issues and referred to a
checklist of
questions about hosting on her web site. She also talked about how
to look up domain ownership
and other matters, and how to see
what a site looked like in
prior versions.
She can be reached through her website
where she offers domain hosting services. |
Wednesday, May 13, 2009 |
Bill Johnson |
Bill will talk about the
principles he has learned in this clinic over the years he has been
attending, and describe how he has employed them in building his
Internet businesses.
{Bills Presentation} |
Wednesday, April 22, 2009 |
Dick Myers |
Starting a business web
site; what to think about and why. This session is oriented toward
beginners and people wanting an overall review of basics.
{Start an
E-business} |
Wednesday, April 8, 2009 |
Jay Mock & Dick Myers |
Attributes and
product-based websites, using Google keyword tools, duplicate content
issues, and latest thoughts on linking for your site, are among the
topics that Jay will discuss tonight.
{Jays Notes} |
Wednesday, March 25, 2009 |
Dick Myers |
Blogging: Why and how
you do it. How to set up a blog.
{Blogging} |
Wednesday, March 11, 2009 |
Dick Myers |
Evaluate Your Site:
Determine how well your site is performing and identify things you can
do to improve it.
{Evaluate
Your Site} |
Wednesday, February28, 2009 |
Dick Myers |
Linking on your web
site to enhance your search engine performance.
For an illustration of how
linking
changes the importance of your site pages, visit this tool.
{Linking
Your Site} |
Wednesday, February 11, 2009 |
Dick Myers |
Review of keyword importance and usage
in the optimization and performance of your web site.
{Keywords} |
Wednesday, January 28, 2009 |
Jay Mock & Dick Myers |
As always, Jay will bring us his latest
insights into the world of Internet Marketing as seen through the eyes
of an active and experienced professional. |
Wednesday, January 14, 2009 |
Dick Myers |
Review of the basics; What makes a web
site work?
This session will be an overview of the
elements that go into making a website into a successful marketing tool
It is a comprehensive introduction for people new to search engine
optimization, and a review for everyone else.
{What
Makes a Web Site Work?} |
2009
Happy New Year to All!
2009 |
Wednesday, December 24, 2008 |
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No Class tonight |
Wednesday, December 10, 2008 |
Bill Johnson & Dick Myers |
Integrating Internet Marketing through a
website to your existing company. Bill is a long time member of our
clinic family and operates a successful web site selling Medical, Work
and School uniforms, and is in the process of developing several other
sites. He will share some of his experiences with his business and talk
about how effective marketing techniques have contributed to his
success.
{Integrating Internet Marketing} |
Wednesday, November 26, 2008 |
|
No Class tonight |
Wednesday, November 12, 2008 |
Tom Adolph & Dick Myers |
Tom is an attorney in the intellectual
property practice of the Texas law firm of
Jackson & Walker,
L.L.P., and will be presenting a discussion of intellectual property
issues on the Internet. This is a special presentation that will be of
interest to all businesses operating in this web environment.
{IP and
the Internet} |
Wednesday, October 22, 2008 |
Katie Laird & Dick Myers |
Katie will return to update us about
blogging and other social media that is new and hot. For certain kinds
of businesses and sites, there is nothing better as a tool for promoting
your business over the Internet!
Katie's last visit was in June 2008. |
Wednesday, October 8, 2008 |
Jay Mock & Dick Myers |
New approaches: Tweaking your site for
better performance, and localizing your blog.
{Tweaking-Localizing} |
Wednesday, September 24, 2008 |
Bill Johnson |
Cancelled!
This session has
been cancelled as a result of Hurricane Ike.
Integrating Internet Marketing through a
website to your existing company. Bill is a long time member of our
clinic family and operates a successful web site selling
Medical, Work and School uniforms, and is in the process of
developing several other sites. He will share some of his experiences
with his site and talk about how effective marketing techniques have
contributed to his success. |
Wednesday, September 10, 2008 |
Beth Guide |
How to employ links on and to your site
to enhance your performance. |
Wednesday, August 27, 2008 |
Dick Myers |
Webmaster Toolkit: Review and discussion
of various tools to help webmasters analyze their site performance and
construction.
{Webmaster
Toolkit} |
Wednesday, August 13, 2008 |
Brian Armstrong & Dick Myers |
Brian has a very interesting blog about
starting a business and
will be sharing some of the ideas he has tried to promote his site, some
of which worked and some of which did not. This should be a very
interesting session for everyone trying to get their own business up and
operating on the web. Links
mentioned in the class by Brian are listed in our
"Notes" page.
{Passive Income Online} |
Wednesday, July 23, 2008 |
Dick Myers |
Keywords: What they are, where you find
them, and how you use them to your best advantage!
{Keywords} |
Wednesday, July 9, 2008 |
Jay Mock & Dick Myers |
Performance maintenance; How to "fine
tune" your site for better performance.
{Jay's
notes} |
Wednesday, June 25, 2008 |
Dick Myers |
An overview presentation about Internet
Marketing for the benefit of new class participants who need to get an
understanding of what the elements of a successful marketing program are
and how to implement them effectively. This will also be a good review
for participants who need to clarify their understanding of how these
elements fit together into a coherent program.
{What
Makes a Site Work?} |
Wednesday, June 11, 2008 |
Katie Laird & Dick Myers |
Katie Laird, Strategic Advisor at
Schipul The Web Marketing Company
and Blogger at www.happykatie.com,
has been an active Blogger and Social Media geek for 8 years. With a
background in Web and traditional marketing, Katie will share her
insights for using Blogs to grow your organization, expand your online
Community and have a smashingly good time. Expect to learn about
Blogging basics, see real companies (large and small) utilizing Blogs as
part of their marketing and customer service strategy and discover basic
tools and Blog Bling to enrich your online conversation experience and
track your Blogging success.
Katie's presentation is available below, but
be advised that this is a large file and may take a while to download.
The presentation is also
available on a sharing site where you won't have to download the
whole thing/
{Blogging For business} |
Wednesday, May 28, 2008 |
Don Parsons & Dick Myers |
Class: Many people attending classes have
asked about tools for developing web sites. Don will present an example
of a new software development tool ("Ruby on Rails") that illustrates
the approach to developing a site and one of the alternatives available
to new site owners.
{Ruby On Rails} |
Wednesday, May 14, 2008 |
Dick Myers |
Class: Keywords, a review of what they
are, where you find them, and what you do with them to make them work
for your site.
{Keywords} |
Wednesday, April 23, 2008 |
Dick Myers |
Class: Tools you can use, a survey of
various tools to help you evaluate the effectiveness and performance of
your site. Links to many of
the tools discussed in the class can be found in my
useful links
spreadsheet.
{Webmaster
Toolkit} |
Wednesday, April 9, 2008 |
Jay Mock & Dick Myers |
Class: Localization and other current
opportunities for site performance enhancement.
{Jay's Notes} |
Wednesday, March 26, 2008 |
Dick Myers |
Class: How to use articles to improve
your site performance.
Tonight, we used my recent blog entry about
Press Releases as a guide to talking about using articles. Many of
the points mentioned in the blog pertain equally to article marketing.
We also referenced tow of the article submission sites listed in my
spreadsheet of links, isnare.com and thephantomwriters.com.
Both Beth Guide and Joe Willmeth
contributed their experience to the class. Beth owns a
hosting and web development company and
is a frequent contributor and instructor in the class. Joe ran a
Christmas
Decorations Store business for fifteen years before converting it to
a completely web based business. |
Wednesday, March 12, 2008 |
Dick Myers |
Class: Blogging; What it is and how you
can use it to improve your marketing.
Mike Moore. one of our class members has
created a community site for the
Internet Marketing
Clinic on Ning.com. Please visit
the site and see what is happening there and participate to help make
this a useful resource for the entire group!
Beth Guide contributed a lot of
information to the clinic tonight. More information about her services
can be found on her site about web
hosting and development.
{Blogging} |
Wednesday, February 27, 2008 |
Dick Myers |
Class: Linking; How it improves your site
ranking.
{Linking on
your Site} |
Tuesday, February 19, 2008, 9-12 a.m. |
Dick Myers |
Competing in the Online Marketplace, a 3
hour summary of the principles of marketing on the web.
{Competing Online} |
Wednesday, February 13, 2008 |
Beth Guide, Dominik Huss, Dick Myers |
Class: Domain names and Hosting;
Understanding what they mean and how to make wise decisions about them. |
Wednesday January 23, 2008 |
Dick Myers |
Class: Keywords, where it all begins!
{Keywords} |
Wednesday, January 16, 2008 |
Dick Myers |
Class: Introduction to the essentials of
Internet Marketing.
{What Makes a
Site Work} |
Wednesday, January 2, 2008 |
Beth Guide |
Class: An overview presentation on
Internet Marketing and the elements that make a website productive for
your business. Learn the basics of setting up your website so that it
will contribute to your visibility on the web. |
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