Email marketing, done properly, is an unbelievable tool. Effective and cheap.
Email marketing, done properly, can have a huge Return on Investment. Take for example, an email/fax campaign I was recently involved in. Last year, the company spent about $5,000 on a direct mail blitz that netted them (from what I heard) just about nothing.
I’m a little late to the game with this, but if you haven’t heard already, Tuesday’s Cleveland Web Standards Meetup was a rootin’ tootin’ good time.
Plenty of new faces as well as most of the now familiar ones, and once again I was struck with the diversity of talent and experience.
Over at Refresh Cleveland David Mead asks “What would you like to see as the standard that Cleveland web firms put out?“
In my few years here in the Cleveland web scene, I’ve been on one side of the table or the other dealing with a fair amount of Cleveland web firms, many of them “award winning.” Most of them were more interested in locking customers into their outdated (and sometimes just plain re-branded open source) Content Management Systems than selling the benefits of standards.
Not doing anything tonight? You should definately check out the new & improved Cleveland Web Standards Meetup.
Designers, developers, marketers, uh… COBOLers, and more all together in one convenient centralized location (sunny Independence Ohio!). Talking all things web standards.
Well, here it is. Finally buckled down and got this thing finished. While the distractions and roadblocks were legion, I trudged through the code and the late nights and the frustrations and finally, actually, sorta completed a new site.
I say “sorta,” because, well, I actually started redesigning this site in November of last year. Since then I have:
Brendan Cullen is a web designer, web adventurer and all-around good guy currently living in Cleveland, Ohio.