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Past Internet Marketing Clinics

Free Internet Marketing Clinics are offered several times a month in the University of Houston Small Business Development Center at 2302 Fannin in downtown Houston. The objective of the clinics is to allow parties who want to promote business and other activities over the Internet to learn the best techniques and practices to become effective.

More information about Internet marketing and Internet Marketing Tips can be found on my site. Current information of interest will be added to my Internet Marketing blog.

 
Click here for more information on the software and to download a trial version.A handy tool that I use for managing reciprocal links on my site and on my clients' sites is Arelis, a software package available from Axandra.  This is not "freeware", as are many of the software packages I mention on this site, but it is software that I use personally and have found to be a very powerful and useful aid to the tedious work of obtaining and managing the all-important links in to my sites.  It is available for a trial period to give you an opportunity to experiment with its functions. Although you cannot use the trial version to work with the links on your site,  you can get a good idea of the functionality of the software and how you use it.

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  |  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   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.
Clinics from 2006-7   Clinics from 2005  Clinics from 2003-2004

 

 

A wide range of other classes is offered through the University of Houston Small Business Development Center.    There is a small charge to attend and reservations are required through UH SBDC. More information is available on their site.

 

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