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New Orleans, LA –
Approximately $7 billion* in annual spending is
expected for the search
engine (SE) marketing industry by 2007.
And members at Content Desk,
an Internet content syndication
center and a source of
high-quality, targeted content for
webmasters, are excited to
be a team of go-getters and share in
the bounty.
“Monetizing our websites
doesn't just mean finding the best
paying advertising and affiliate
programs to put on our sites,”
said Jack Humphrey, managing
partner in the exclusive Content
Desk Charter Members
publishing group. “But making the most of
the visitors we get, to keep
them coming back and clicking on ads
and buying from us again and
again.”
And Humphrey does mean a LOT
of visitors and clicks. Research
shows that marketers will be
targeting 15% of their budget to
search engine marketing. In
fact, marketers anticipate spending
$3.3 billion on paid search
listings and $238.5 million on site
optimization services,
according to MarketingSherpa's Marketing
Metrics Guide (2004).
** So that’s a lot of bounty to share.
“The only way to do that is
to have updated, valuable information
that Internet visitors are
trying to find,” explained Humphrey.
“BE that resource for them
and you will reap rewards far beyond
what you may have already
experienced with plain directory
sites.”
Content Desk has a variety
of tools to help members create and use
all types of content. The
exclusive online community focuses on
four things; community,
learning, technology and profits.
“We cover a slew of tactics
we are using for members, including
all the successful and not
so successful tests we have done to
pull in more traffic and
more profits for our content publishing
networks,” said Humphrey. “
We are in the right place at the
right time.”
Charter member David Granoff
shared his experience with Content
Desk.
BRIEF INTERVIEW WITH: DAVID
GRANOFF
Q: How did you learn
about Content Desk & what made you decide to
sign up?
I heard about Content Desk
through one of my Internet marketing
newsletters,
and after 2 years of
building sites "the hard way" and another 2
years of working with a
partner building "resource sites" that I
wasn't particularly proud
of; I decided there must be a better
way to build high-quality
sites. I've been very happy with the
site building system, the
very supportive ContentDest partners,
and the great community of
like-minded members.
Q: Please share how
you've successfully used the tools in Content
Desk / Content Site
Builder so far.
I've built a number of sites
in the past few months, in various
niches, experimenting with various formats - it's
very important
to try different things and
see what actually works. Sometimes
the most "elegant"
approach is not the most profitable, and the
rules are always changing.
Here are a few representative sites,
in which I've used
professionally-developed templates, home-made
templates, and blogs like
WordPress:
http://www.low-carb-diet-411.com
I look forward to
syndicating my original articles with Content
Propulsion Lab (a new part
of the Content Desk publishing
network that will be open to
the public soon) to develop a good
network of quality links
from related web sites, using the
online CSB tool to keep my
sites fresh and to blog on auto-pilot
with the auto-blog feature.
One of the great things
about Content Desk is the great community
we have. I hope that I've
been as helpful to all of you as you
have been to me. I also look
forward to partnering with more
members on joint projects.
If you enjoy writing about something
and are looking for a
partner to put up a web site featuring your
material and integrate some
revenue sources with it, be sure to
let me know … And thanks for
recognizing my own little contributions
to the community.
ABOUT CONTENT DESK
The Content Desk membership
community communicates via their
private forum, virtual
conferences, teleconferences, email,
support desk, workshops and
new Mentor / Sponsorship Program for
members to team up. Some of their
tools are downloads and videos,
while others are online
applications and knowledge shared through
learning. Learning is
offered in the form of videos, articles,
help texts, tutorials,
member sharing and seminars/workshops.
Content Desk membership fees
go right back into development of
new software and tools so
that members are always on the
cutting-edge and far ahead
of all the "point-and-click" site
builders out there.
Cyber-brains behind the
Content Desk scene are the “Power Trio;”
Jack Humphrey, Mark
Braunstein, and Peter Lenkefi. These three
renowned visionaries found
themselves smack dab in the middle of
the emerging, fledgling web
publishing industry.
MARDI GRAS
To help others learn more
and earn more, Content Desk is hosting
a 3-day seminar / workshop
in New Orleans from Sept. 9-11, 2005,
with a full year of support
follow up afterwards. The focus is,
“How To Triple Your Income
With Irresistible New Content
Publishing, Traffic Building
and Sales Conversion Techniques -
The Three Proven Keys To
Internet Success."
"Son of a gun, we're
gonna have big fun, on the bayou…”
For more information, visit
Mardi Gras
http://presssuccess.com/MardiGras
. To learn more about Content
Desk and check on the availability
of limited openings at Content
Site Builder, visit http://presssuccess.com/csb . Join
hundreds
of publishers and writers in
creating and syndicating your
content at Content
Propulsion Lab http://presssuccess.com/cpl
.
Visit http://www.contentdesk.com for help.
* According to investment bank U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray;
“Jupiter Research Launches
Search Service,” by Brian Morrissey;
May 27, 2003; ClickZ News.
** “Search Engine Marketing Industry Snapshot,” BizResearchä
2005.
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By Diana Barnum, president
of
http://movingaheadcommunications.com
and CEO of
http://ohiohelp.net . For more help with
marketing, public
relations and writing,
email mailto:diana@ohiohelp.net
or
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