Mike Duncan provides strategies for effective e-commerce, including driving traffic through search engine optimization, paid search, shopping networks, and social media. He recommends personalizing the customer experience through customer reviews, personalized recommendations, segmentation, and mobile optimization. Key tactics include on-page SEO, link building, site navigation, buying guides, loyalty programs, and international expansion.
Internet Marketing Strategies for Ecommerce WebsitesHubSpot
Learn how to increase traffic quantity and quality, improve your conversion of visitors to sales, and measure the whole process with inbound marketing strategies.
Social media is a popular tool for public relations and customer service, but what about using it to drive sales? In this session, we will explore how different social channels can be used to (1) target qualified users and (2) drive sale online. Specifically, we will cover:
1. Social Media for SEO: search delivers the highest ROI online, and the right blend of (1) social content strategy, and (2) social news optimization can help your brand rank on targeted keywords.
2. Facebook for Ecommerce: brands can now integrate their inventory into their Facebook Page and drive sales directly from Facebook; learn about this functionality and its best practices.
3. Facebook Ads: advertising on Facebook allows brands to “hyper-target” users according to demographics, as well as leverage their social graph / personal network to increase conversions.
Case study: Square Meal - How to use Intelligent Data to Implement Successful...Emarsys
This slide share presents the benefits of using intelligent data to implement successful recommendation campaigns. Looking specifically at email and web recommendations highlighting the benefits personalisation can provide when delivering the right message to the right person at the right time.
Internet Marketing Strategies for Ecommerce WebsitesHubSpot
Learn how to increase traffic quantity and quality, improve your conversion of visitors to sales, and measure the whole process with inbound marketing strategies.
Social media is a popular tool for public relations and customer service, but what about using it to drive sales? In this session, we will explore how different social channels can be used to (1) target qualified users and (2) drive sale online. Specifically, we will cover:
1. Social Media for SEO: search delivers the highest ROI online, and the right blend of (1) social content strategy, and (2) social news optimization can help your brand rank on targeted keywords.
2. Facebook for Ecommerce: brands can now integrate their inventory into their Facebook Page and drive sales directly from Facebook; learn about this functionality and its best practices.
3. Facebook Ads: advertising on Facebook allows brands to “hyper-target” users according to demographics, as well as leverage their social graph / personal network to increase conversions.
Case study: Square Meal - How to use Intelligent Data to Implement Successful...Emarsys
This slide share presents the benefits of using intelligent data to implement successful recommendation campaigns. Looking specifically at email and web recommendations highlighting the benefits personalisation can provide when delivering the right message to the right person at the right time.
Building Customer Relationships with UGC & Lifecycle MarketingWhatConts
Learn how to build customer relationships by weaving User Generated Content into your existing Lifecycle Campaigns to help retain customers, grow revenue, and acquire new ones.
Digital Differentiation: Using Interactivity to Separate Your Brand From the ...ion interactive
With everyone churning out more and more content, how will your story be the one that stands out? How will you be the one that’s attended to? Remembered? And acted upon? You’ll learn how unique interactivity can separate your brand and story from the pack. And you’ll see examples and inspiration of other brands making it happen.
Social Media’s Next Big Shift: From Shoppable to BuyableCatalyst
Originally presented by Kieley Taylor (Head of Social, Catalyst) at WPP's Checkout Event in February 2017, this presentation addresses social media's shift from shoppable to buyable, including strategies for driving business results through social programs.
Is Web Traffic Decreasing? Make More of What You Get. Everyone’s investing heavily in content marketing, while industry pundits are chattering about the content overload problem. Marketing apps can solve this by leveraging trends around Youtility to make static content useful and valuable. Find out how to put your content to work in interactive marketing apps that engage visitors, collect valuable user data and ultimately increase conversion rates.
Scaling Your Amazon 3P Business to be Acquisition-Ready: The Top Signals Buye...Tinuiti
n this webinar, we team up with acquisition experts, Thrasio, to help you best position your Amazon business for acquisition.
We’ll discuss the metrics and thresholds that are most attractive to potential buyers and the state of the market - for buyers and sellers - after the changes of the last year, and the levers you can pull to ensure your success.
An effective digital strategy will help you take the right decisions to make a company successful online. A strategy process model provides a framework that gives a logical sequence to follow to ensure inclusion of all key activities of strategy development and implementation. We recommend the SOSTAC planning approach.
Google Wildfire For Automotive Social Media Advertising Brian Pasch
Learn why social media advertising is a new opportunity for car dealers especially since Google Wildfire presents consumers with device independent landing pages increasing engagement.
Grow Your Business through Digital Marketing - Presentation by Maureen Storey of Virtuoso Digital Marketing and Sarah Weightman of Glow Creative. Delivered to participants at the Business Exchange North East Exhibition at The Sage, Gateshead in March 2011.
Class Activity done with data accumulation from various internet websites and database sources for better understanding of e-commerce models functioning at present and their uses in Indian scenario.
Building Customer Relationships with UGC & Lifecycle MarketingWhatConts
Learn how to build customer relationships by weaving User Generated Content into your existing Lifecycle Campaigns to help retain customers, grow revenue, and acquire new ones.
Digital Differentiation: Using Interactivity to Separate Your Brand From the ...ion interactive
With everyone churning out more and more content, how will your story be the one that stands out? How will you be the one that’s attended to? Remembered? And acted upon? You’ll learn how unique interactivity can separate your brand and story from the pack. And you’ll see examples and inspiration of other brands making it happen.
Social Media’s Next Big Shift: From Shoppable to BuyableCatalyst
Originally presented by Kieley Taylor (Head of Social, Catalyst) at WPP's Checkout Event in February 2017, this presentation addresses social media's shift from shoppable to buyable, including strategies for driving business results through social programs.
Is Web Traffic Decreasing? Make More of What You Get. Everyone’s investing heavily in content marketing, while industry pundits are chattering about the content overload problem. Marketing apps can solve this by leveraging trends around Youtility to make static content useful and valuable. Find out how to put your content to work in interactive marketing apps that engage visitors, collect valuable user data and ultimately increase conversion rates.
Scaling Your Amazon 3P Business to be Acquisition-Ready: The Top Signals Buye...Tinuiti
n this webinar, we team up with acquisition experts, Thrasio, to help you best position your Amazon business for acquisition.
We’ll discuss the metrics and thresholds that are most attractive to potential buyers and the state of the market - for buyers and sellers - after the changes of the last year, and the levers you can pull to ensure your success.
An effective digital strategy will help you take the right decisions to make a company successful online. A strategy process model provides a framework that gives a logical sequence to follow to ensure inclusion of all key activities of strategy development and implementation. We recommend the SOSTAC planning approach.
Google Wildfire For Automotive Social Media Advertising Brian Pasch
Learn why social media advertising is a new opportunity for car dealers especially since Google Wildfire presents consumers with device independent landing pages increasing engagement.
Grow Your Business through Digital Marketing - Presentation by Maureen Storey of Virtuoso Digital Marketing and Sarah Weightman of Glow Creative. Delivered to participants at the Business Exchange North East Exhibition at The Sage, Gateshead in March 2011.
Class Activity done with data accumulation from various internet websites and database sources for better understanding of e-commerce models functioning at present and their uses in Indian scenario.
This slideshow covers some of the major elements of what it takes to become competitive in eCommerce in 2015. Many of these are broad topics but it is a great overview of what you might want to think about as a small, mid, or even enterprise eCommerce business.
A successful eCommerce site requires upfront investment of time and effort for research and planning. In this Strategy In-a-Box, you will follow a proven methodology - a consistent step-by-step approach that combines industry best practices to guide your eCommerce site development.
The customer journey, digital transformation, and youJason Bloomberg
Digital marketers focus on the customer journey -- all the interactions a customer has with a company, from anonymous prospect to new customer to existing customer. As companies become software-driven organizations, these interactions increasingly become digital moments, as customers interact with companies via technology touchpoints.
From the perspective of the business analyst or business process specialist, this laser focus on the customer journey changes the game for understanding customer requirements, as customers are more interested in experiences than applications, digital moments over software-based capabilities.
Kickstart Your Social Strategy - Ecommerce and Social MediaFastPivot
The industry treats “social media” as if it were a simple plugin for the online store. A social strategy is much more than simply acquiring Twitter and Facebook accounts. Social strategy is about real relationships with real people. In this upcoming webinar presented by social media experts from SingleFeed & FastPivot you’ll learn how to kick start your social media strategy.
At this year’s Yahoo! Merchant Summit, Matthew Ledford, President of FastPivot, shared with his audience inside-information on how specifically social media has worked miracles for many FastPivot clients. Take for example, WorldSoccerShop.com’s 147,000 Facebook fans and YouthMinistry.com’s unique balance of commerce and online community. In this webinar, Ledford will again reveal how exactly merchants should use these new social strategies to increase sales and improve ecommerce store ranking on Google and other search engine results.
Also, during this webinar, Brian Smith, CEO of SingleFeed, will be walking through the various options for selling products through Facebook. SingleFeed has created a simple way for merchants to leverage their Facebook fanpages to sell products. All you need is a Facebook fanpage, a Google Merchant Center data feed, and 5 minutes.
Mike Duncan will be speaking at Board Retailers Certification Program, Survival of the Fittest, in Orlando, Florida on January 5th from 10:00 am – 5:00 pm for the Retail Finance and Retail Technology Courses. In its second year, Survival of the Fittest is designed to provide retail attendees an in-depth look at Retail Finance and Retail Technology, two areas of significance in today’s retail environment. For more info on this series please visit Board Retailers Association.
E-Commerce Strategies that Produce Results
Mike Duncan, CEO Sage Island
Your website is a vital extension of your business, so it’s crucial to have a marketing plan behind it that maximizes your investment. In this seminar Mike Duncan, CEO of Sage Island teaches effective strategies that help fine tune an ecommerce site into a profitable sales generating machine. As featured on CNNMoney.com, Mike speaks to the digital age of customer service in specialty retail and the necessity of a well designed website. By skillfully integrating Internet Marketing, social media, product recommendations, Live Chat, and more, Mike knows the successful e-Commerce strategies that make conversions and increase your bottom line.
Acquisition, Conversion and Retention – Getting the Most Out of Your Magento ...Nosto
Here are the presentations for PushON, Peer1, dotMailer, and Nosto which were presented at the PushON Magento Event '' Acquisition, conversion and retention – getting the most out of your Magento website'' that took place in Manchester on 8th of July 2014 at the Hive.
The event covered all the key questions facing eTailers in just a morning.
The following topics were discussed during the event:
* How to increase conversions and boost revenues with personalised recommendations
*How to grow your business online using SEO and PPC
*Why speed matters- a walk through the process of the ideal Magento hosting environment
*Using email marketing to humanise the online purchase journey and maximise the return on relationship
BizTech - Strengthening Your Web Site’s Presence through an Integrated Market...Sage Island
We are excited to be a part of this special event featuring the area’s most successful people in business and technology, including our very own Mike Duncan. The expo, held at the new Wilmington Convention Center will include keynote speakers, seminars, and over 100 exhibitors. The event will help connect employees with new customers and will include an all start line up of educational internet marketing seminars.
Mike is scheduled to speak on the 14th from 9:45 – 10:45 a.m. His seminar “Strengthening Your Web Site’s Presence through an Integrated Marketing Plan” will teach business owners the tactics behind growing an online brand.
Strengthening Your Website through an Integrated Marketing PlanSage Island
Your website is a critical component of your business. At a time when online competition has never been so fierce, it’s crucial to ensure that qualified traffic is coming to your site. This seminar, presented my Mike Duncan, CEO of Sage Island addresses the necessity of a well designed, innovative website, and how to properly market it through a hands on approach of planning, analysis, and optimization. Mike speaks to the art of SEO and PPC tactics, successful eCommerce strategies, and how to properly utilize social media platforms to drive results and maximize your bottom line.
Ektron London Conference: Cross Channel Personalisation and Behavioural Marke...Ektron
Simon Annicchiarico, Chairman -Appius and Simon Lye, Partner Manager EMEA -SilverPop
Learn how your Ektron website can leverage Silverpop’s Behavioural Marketing Database in real time to treat each visitor as a person.
Working your Retail Ecommerce Store for Conversions - BlueclawBlueclaw
These slides were first used in a presentation by Blueclaw Media, a SEO and Conversion Optimisation Agency based in Leeds, UK on the 11th November 2010. The presentation was part of a series of events for Leeds Digital Festival.
For more information, please visit http://www.blueclaw.co.uk and get in touch!
Digital Marketing Depot - Personalized Local Content: Frightful or Insightful?Rio SEO
In this webinar Mary Bowling of Ignitor Digital, Brandon Fleming of Protection1/ADT and Cynthia Sener of Rio SEO provide best practices and insights into how brands can connect with local consumers through more personalized, meaningful website content. Learn how to make your website more accessible to search engines, and how to take your SEO to even higher performance levels with Consumer Generated Content.
Getting prospective students to a website is one thing, but marketing strategies can't stop there. Learn how to use Google Analytics, a free but feature-rich tool, to understand and optimize the website experience. Topics to be covered include understanding basic web analytics metrics, understanding and using conversion goals and tips for measuring ROI.
Beyond digital to grow your building products brandLeigh Simpson
Covering why technology and the internet have changed buyer behaviour, what the strategic risks and opportunities and what you need to do as a business to thrive during this period of digital shift
Inside eCommerce - Micksgarage Masterclass - April 15th 2014.John Walsh
April 15th 2014 - Dublin
www.insideecommerce.ie
@insideecommerce
Inside eCommerce has partnered with online retailers, MicksGarage.com, to share their experiences in Building for Scale Internationally.
This one day event will provide invaluable insights into the strategy, innovation and technical implementation behind creating a successful eCommerce offering. Six speakers from the company’s top management team including the two founders will give masterclass sessions focusing on key areas of the business. Attendees will learn over the course of the day how all these functions fit together to form a well oiled machine.
MicksGarage, car parts experts and now one of Irelands leading “eTailers”, was started 10 years ago in the bedroom of company founder, Mick Crean. Mick and his brother, Ciaran, now ship over 1000 products daily to more than 70 countries worldwide and employ 48 people in their Dublin headquarters.
How can you transform your visitors into happy customers ?
1- Users must care
--> Be unique
--> Define your excitement features
--> Understand your users
2- Users must test
--> Increase trust
--> Reduce fears
--> Trigger an action
3- Users must use
--> Define the final goal
--> Determine the Aha moment
--> Define the mandatory steps
--> Guide users to avoid empty spaces
4- Users must pay
--> Transform free users into premium users
--> Define your prices
--> Display your prices correctly
--> Make payment easier
Wilmington Area Hospitality Association - WAHA 2018 april luncheon Digital Ma...Sage Island
April 11, 2018 - WAHA Luncheon at one of the newer Breweries in Wilmington Area- Waterman's Brewing! Our topic is not one to miss...Mike Duncan of Sage Island will discuss Digital Marketing! We believe this topic is highly-relatable to any of our members and are excited to learn more about how digital marketing can grow our member's business and Wilmington's Hospitality/Tourism Industry as a whole.
2017 Surf Expo Search Engine Optimization Strategies to Boost Your Ecommerce ...Sage Island
Search Engine Optimization Strategies to Boost Your Ecommerce Business.
Mike Duncan, CEO, Sage Island Marketing
Give your business a boost with smart SEO strategies. These proven techniques are an effective way to increase revenue and visibility by helping your business land on the first page of search results. In this presentation Mike Duncan, online retailer and CEO of Sage Island, a digital marketing agency, will share real life examples that work and ideas you can employ immediately. By the end of this session, you’ll have new tips, tricks, and tools to grow your business in the digital age.
Amazon And You: How to Maximize the PartnershipSage Island
Amazon is a behemoth, there’s no doubt about it. So instead of working against it, put it to work for you. Discover how you can use it to sell to millions of customers, significantly increase sales, and acquire loyal shoppers for your business. In this session, Sage Island CEO Mike Duncan will show you to how expertly navigate the world of Amazon and to use it as a tool to build your business. Mike Duncan is the CEO and Creative Director of Sage Island Digital Marketing, an agency which has spent the last 20 years at the forefront of internet marketing. An innovative thinker and entrepreneur with expertise in start-ups, turnaround, and rapid growth, Mike’s ability to analyze key business drivers and develop compelling strategies has produced countless success stories.
Surf Expo - Social Media 101: From Zero to HeroSage Island
Building a strong social presence for your business is no longer an option – it’s essential. During this session, Sage Island CEO Mike Duncan will discuss how to help your business thrive socially and beyond. He will share the top 10 tips to make your company stand out on the top platforms and reveal how to turn them into business drivers. Mike Duncan is the CEO and Creative Director of Sage Island Digital Marketing, an agency which has spent the last 20 years at the forefront of internet marketing. An innovative thinker and entrepreneur with expertise in start-ups, turnaround, and rapid growth, Mike’s ability to analyze key business drivers and develop compelling strategies has produced countless success stories.
Video Marketing for Retailers - Video TipsSage Island
Video is taking over the internet, but it’s not as simple as pointing, shooting, and uploading. In this presentation, learn video marketing strategies that will help retailers connect with customers, increase brand awareness, and sell products.
SEO Multi-Channel Ecommerce and ShippingSage Island
Presented at Surf Expo on Thursday, January 14, 2016 in Orlando FL by Mike Duncan. It’s no longer enough to build a beautiful website and wait for sales to roll in. In order to succeed, your business needs to take advantage of multiple channels, such as mobile, social, and PPC, in order to attract the traffic you need to succeed. In this session, we’ll discuss effective strategies, creative tactics, and shipping solutions to help your business stand out across every channel.
Presented at Surf Expo Saturday, January 16, 2016 in Orlando, FL. Social media is an excellent way to build a community around your brand, contribute to larger conversations, and have a little fun. In this session, we’ll talk about the latest social media platforms, such as Twitter, Instagram, and SnapChat, discuss how brands are successfully using them, and offering ideas for incorporating these tools into your marketing strategy.
Optimize Your Online Presence for the 2015 Digital LandscapeSage Island
For most companies, establishing a digital presence starts with a website, and that opens the door to a much broader array of digital marketing tools which, used properly, can have a profound, positive effect on sales, profits, branding, customer experience, and more. Find out which tactics and tools you need to be focusing on to get the most out of today’s digital landscape.
Surf Expo - Digital Content Marketing for Brick & Mortar RetailersSage Island
Quality customer service and extensive product knowledge are important pieces of a brick & mortar business. It's what truly sets specialty retailers apart from the pack. Customers today require an online experience that matches the energy and attentiveness they receive in person, but how do you work this into your marketing strategy? In this seminar you’ll learn how to build your community efficiently and effectively through social media strategies, Pay Per Click advertising, and original content to enhance your SEO tactics. You will leave with easy steps to streamline your processes and maintain a strong presence on the right platforms.
Content strategy - Navigating the Business of Social MediaSage Island
Social media has transformed the face of business by engaging customers. This session will explore social media and how to use it for your business. Developing a voice for your brand through social media helps engage customers online. It creates a unique opportunity for customers to interface and communicate with businesses directly, resulting in a strong community of fans and sustaining brand loyalty. Possessing an understanding of how to craft a social media strategy using Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and others is crucial to increasing visibility and knowing what your customers want. This session will demonstrate how brands are leveraging these networks to maintain and grow their businesses.
ASR August 14, 2010 - Ten Ways for Retailers to Improve Website PresenceSage Island
Presented by: Mike Duncan, Sage Island Marketing Agency
In the ever changing world of retail, competition has never been more fierce. Your website is a critical component of your business. This seminar teaches a fully integrated marketing approach leading you through the basics of a well designed, innovative site, and how to properly utilize e-commerce solutions. Learn how to build and expand your presence on the web to drive sales and maximize your bottom line.
ASR August 14, 1020 - Leveraging the Power of Social MediaSage Island
Presented by: Mike Duncan, Sage Island Marketing Agency and Danny Keith, Santa Cruz Skate and Surf Shop
Over the last few years, social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter have gone from college networking sites to marketing powerhouses. Businesses today tap into Facebook to reach their audience in more targeted, local, and efficient ways than ever before. This seminar, presented by Danny Keith, owner of the Santa Cruz Skate and Surf Shop, and Mike Duncan CEO of Sage Island, teaches the latest tactics and applications that elevate social media from self promotion sites to professional lead generating tools.
Learning The World Of Pay Per Click AdvertisingSage Island
PPC Advertising isn’t just about sponsored search listings anymore. In this seminar, you’ll learn about emerging pay-per-click methods, including product feeds for shopping search engines like Google Base, affiliate marketing techniques, and more. You’ll also learn tried and true methods for getting your business at the top of the search results in Google, Yahoo, and Bing instantly with sponsored listings. Get instant visibility and measurable results for your business with these tips and tricks.
Today's retail operations include more venues than ever before. As websites compete with brick and mortar stores and catalogs, new media marketing channels such as blogs, Facebook, and Twitter are rapidly growing to compete with traditional advertising. In this seminar, you'll learn to utilize all of these marketing channels to drive traffic to your retail store. You'll learn new ways to grow your retail business and reach new customers now. From the basics of driving web traffic through search engine marketing to landing page optimization, this seminar will prepare you to navigate the new retail marketing landscape to maximize your reach.
This seminar will give you tips to improve your website's promotional strategy through blogging, social marketing, and Web 2.0 results. Learn to utilize the social web to connect with your client base, improve customer service, and generate sales leads. Streamline your blogging and social media marketing methods with the latest tools, techniques, and innovation. You will leave the seminar with actionable tactics you can use to make money NOW.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
3. Sage Island
• Birthday - February 10, 1997 (Google Sept 1998)
• 24 Full Time Employees
• Full-Service Interactive Marketing Agency
• Startups to Fortune 500 Companies Worldwide
Me
• Geek (computer, design, MBA)
• Surfer / Vert - Pool Skater / Cycle
• Vintage Auto Racer
4.
5. Amazon.com Conversion Experts
• 2009 Sales of $24.51B (+28%)
• 275M visitors/mo (56.5m unique)
• Converts 9.6%
• Avg. Sale $170
Traffic Comes from:
• Search Engines (32%)
• New Shoppers (30%)
• Return Shoppers (70%)
6. Amazon.com Formula
• Low prices + Great Selection
• Free Shipping Offers
• Amazon loyalty
• Personalization to highest degree
• Combination of account history and behavioral
learning to convert
• Combines multiple merchants
13. Keyword Research
Have a Strategy, Careful keyword selection is the heart of any campaign!
Create a robust keyword portfolio of relevant keyword phrases that are
searched on by potential customers.
www.keyworddiscovery.com
www.wordtracker.com
Google Adwords Keyword Tool
www.seobook.com
www.seomoz.org
18. SEO On-Page Optimization
• Use keyword research to determine how customers search
• Inject keywords into body copy, titles, and images
• User friendly and search engine friendly site.
Ranking factors:
www.seomoz.org/article/search-ranking-factors
www.vaughns-1-pagers.com/internet/google-ranking-factors.htm
19.
20. Meta Data
<TITLE>Skateboards - Warehouse Skateboards offers Complete Skateboards,
Skateboard Decks, Trucks, Wheels & Much More!</TITLE>
<META NAME="Description" CONTENT="Biggest selection of skateboards,
skateboard decks, complete skateboards, skateboard wheels, skateboard trucks,
skateboards delivered right to your door!">
<META NAME="Keywords" CONTENT="skateboards,skateboard,complete
skateboards,skateboard decks,skateboard wheels,skateboard trucks,skate
decks,warehouse skateboards">
Mike Duncan’s Best Practices
h"p://www.sageisland.com/SEO-‐best.pdf
21.
22. Sitemap Submission
Google WebMaster Tools - www.google.com/webmasters/tools/
Bing (MSN) WebMaster Tools - www.bing.com/webmasters
Yahoo! Site Explorer - http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com
Create a Sitemap
www.gsitecrawler.com
Do you have a Robots.txt file?
www.yourdomain.com/robots.txt
User-agent: *
Disallow: /my-dirty-photos
Sitemap: http://www.domain.com/sitemap.xml
25. Quality/Quantity external links is
what you are after!
What is a Quality link?
Answer:
Good Google Page Rank (3+)
Relevant
Great! How do I get them Duncan?
(yes, I’m a mind reader)
64. Yes you need all this
Return Policy
Shipping Rates
Order Tracking
Contact Info
...and then some!
65.
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69. Consumer Reviews
• 70% of shoppers trust consumer reviews on products.
(Nielson)
• Provide reviews, to encourage consumers to trust your
products/brand.
74. Buying Guides Work
• Video Library
• Featured Articles
• Involve Customers
• Help & Advise
• Great Images
• SEO Advantage
• TIP - Social Media!
75.
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78. Personalization (You, Your)
• Welcome, Mike Duncan
• Recommendations for You (behavioral learning)
• Your Browsing History (cookies & account
registration)
• Rate these items (social, reason to return)
• Your Communities (social)
• Want to see Today's Deals? (conversion)
• Individual Treatment Creates (Loyalty)
79.
80. Segmentation & Behavioral Profiles
• Market Individually
• Create Email Alerts
• Convert Later (Social, wishlist)
• Compile Profile
• Record Everything
• Convert Now (you may also like)
• Tip - Segment Emails
81. • Personalization
• Sync with Account
• Payment Integrated
• Product Reviews
• Price Shopping
• Conversion
Mobile E-Commerce
82.
83. E-Commerce Strategies to Implement
Basic
Site Navigation
Integrate Social Media
Segment Customers
Add Shopping Guides
Create Best Sellers
More Visual Approach
Create Videos
Add Live Help
Advanced
Personalization
Account Registration
Enhanced Search / Nav
Mobile Application
Cross Sell
Email Alerts
Loyalty Program
International
84. Search Engine Optimization – Kristopher Jones
Get to the top on Google – David Viney
Landing Page Optimization – Tim Ash
Building Findable Websites – Aarron Walter
M I K E D U N C A N
mduncan@sageisland.com
twitter.com/MikeADuncan
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