Author Archives: Louise Rijk

About Louise Rijk

Louise Rijk is co-founder and Vice-President of Marketing and Sales at Advanced Media Productions, Inc. After a long career in education covering teaching mathematics, computer and supervisory duties, she joined Advanced Media Productions' full-time in 2001 to head-up sales and marketing. Over the past years, Louise has been a frequent presenter at Advanced Media's Regional Internet Seminars, Chamber of Commerce seminars, Business Expo's, Intranet Week, Carino Group Annual Conference, Clark University, Bentley College and other universities, and many business groups on a wide variety of Internet Marketing topics. She presented as Keynote Speaker for several regional business Expo's and at WebMasterWorld PubCon in Las Vegas for many years covering various topics, including Viral Marketing and Word of Mouth Marketing. Her broad knowledge and current understanding of Internet Marketing makes her able to highlight the critical information that business people need today. Louise also serves on the Board of Directors for the MetroWest Chamber of Commence, committees for Ovations for the Cure, and the ESL (English as a Second Language) Fund.

Mobile Web Site and Application Design Strategy

More and more web users are accessing the web from mobile devices than ever before. As a result, a growing number of businesses, corporations and organizations are now beginning to believe that they need to develop a mobile strategy and make their web presence accessible on smartphones. Continue reading

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Cross-Channel Email Marketing Campaigns for Higher ROI – Part 3

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In Part 3, we focus primarily on email/social media integration. As the use of social media marketing among web users continues to grow, email marketers must adopt and integrate social media into their overall email marketing strategy. They must not perceive social media as a threat, but as an opportunity to combine the user engagement power of social networking with the customer retention and lead generation capabilities of email marketing. By leveraging the strengths of each, email marketers can increase the number of customer touch-points significantly. Continue reading

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Cross-Channel Email Marketing Campaigns for Higher ROI – Part 2

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In Part 2, we focus on tactics and explain the importance and the mechanics behind developing an effective content and the visual design for an email campaign. Continue reading

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Cross-Channel Email Marketing Campaigns for Higher ROI – Part I

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Every few months, it seems, there is an industry analyst or research report proclaiming the dead of email marketing, the workhorse that has serving retailers and online marketers for well over 10 years, generating leads and sales consistently, at low cost. The fact is that email use is growing as a result of increased use in social media networks and mobile and is still the preferred method for users to interact with companies and brands. Today, email is an essential component of various Facebook features, including the recently released Send button and the new Facebook messaging system and serves also as a key daily deal distribution tool for group-buying sites like Groupon and LivingSocial. Therefore, there is a good reason for online marketers to continue to use email marketing and improve email marketing campaigns by integrating social media and adapting the content for proper rendering on mobile devices. Continue reading

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Tips and Best Practices for Effective Mobile Website Design

Now that mobile has become a part of the daily routine for many US consumers, who use their mobile devices for everything from comparing prices of televisions to reading restaurant reviews and checking daily deals, mobile website user experiences have become one of the biggest challenges facing online merchants, website owners and publishers. They must deliver valuable mobile experiences or risk losing customers. Continue reading

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Are Word of Mouth and Social Media the Same?

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There is still a lot of confusion about the definitions of “Word of Mouth Marketing” and “Social Media Marketing” and how, if at all, they are similar and/or different. Often people are using the term word of mouth marketing when they refer to social media marketing. Continue reading

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Online display advertising – The OpenX Display Ad Exchange

Tweet OpenX is an independent open source software company offering display ad exchange solutions for both advertisers and publishers. In the past the company has focused its efforts primarily on the publisher-side of the ad exchange business with its OpenX … Continue reading

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Social Network Advertising Using Digg Ads and StumbleUpon Advertising

Tweet Social media sites like StumbleUpon, Digg and Reddit have become popular social discovery/news sites due to the community aspect that drives them. These sites offer users a unique opportunity to submit articles for consideration and let the community decide, … Continue reading

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Local Search Marketing with Yext and Google Tag Advertising

Tweet Tag advertising services from Google and Yext can offer small local businesses a simple way to run online promotions across a large number of local web directories and search engines, which in aggregate, can add up to a large … Continue reading

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LinkedIn DirectAds – B2B Social Network Advertising System with Unique Ad Targeting Options

Businesses and organizations have been slow to grasp new advertising opportunities at social networks, but now that these sites are adding new users at a staggering pace and monetize their services more aggressively, they are starting to following their audiences to this new medium. Continue reading

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