Originally created for print, two in a series of adverts done for tutor match-making company Tutoring Match can still be found on their website (which we also did).  Keeping it simple but clever.

To promote Cellcom’s First Love branded content project of 150 Israeli teenagers’ love stories, McCann Erickson, Tel Aviv, commandeers the URL address bar on participating websites. Visitors to these sites could view short love letters right inside the browser’s address bar which in turn led them to the First Love website simply by pressing enter. From a tech POV, this is kinda cool. From a marketing POV, it effectively raised Cellcom above the banner ad din and yielded a 1.86% Click Through Rate (CTR), 37 times higher than the average CTR in Israel. My only real issue is this “refreshing” of the URL clogs up the browser’s history rendering the back button useless.

This is the complementary slideshow to my 10 minute presentation on Facebook basics I gave at a small business networking group (BNI) in Stamford. It is actually an “encore” presentation to one given earlier in the year about Facebook advertising ROI. Despite Facebook’s latest boast of having over 750 million active users worldwide, many small businesses are simply overwhelmed with all the social media hype. So this presentation focuses on just getting started with the current Facebook. Feel free to share and download.

For a limited time Google is offering $75 to get started with Google AdWords. Obviously, $75 is not much of an ad spend but if you were curious about AdWords, it is a safe way to try it without costing anything. Google allows you to run ads until the $75 is spent, no need to supply a credit card.

Here is the SlideShare from a 10 minute presentation on Facebook advertising I gave at last week’s BNI meeting. Feel free to share and download.

It was already October when the owners of Greenwich Pool Service approached us with the idea to sell kiln dried firewood strictly through the Web as a means to offset their Summer business. Fortunately, it has been a warm start to autumn and because their target market for firewood was the same as for pool services, coming late to the game had little or no impact. Still, we had to design a logo and build an ecommerce website in record time (we opted to use Google Checkout for the ecommerce). Within two weeks Fire It Up Firewood was online and open for business!

To help spread the word, we did an email and a direct mail invitation to the company’s existing customers as well as an ongoing Google AdWords Pay-Per-Click (PPC) campaign that has already yielded high conversion rates. In addition, our smart approach to organic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) has placed Fire It Up Firewood at the top of search engine results pages for highly coveted key phrases like kiln dried firewood and firewood delivery within a week of launch. Needless to say, we hit this one out of the park and our client was pretty impressed. We aim to impress.

H&L Air Systems’ website gets a much needed redesign. And with every website we build (or rebuild) you automatically get Search Engine Optimization or SEO (of course). In addition, the owner wanted to promote the relaunch with a new radio spot (for Carrier), “No Quacks” IAQ online ad, and “Fall Cool Cash” Flash ad (all featured on the website) and track conversion via Google Analytics and CrazyEgg.

{Ed. Note 4/18/10: H&L Air Systems changed its name to T&H Mechanical Systems earlier this year, requiring us to update all the copy and graphical elements (including the Flash animations). We also did a little bit of SEO magic to push the new name out to the search engines. At the moment, a full-blown redesign is pending budgetary approval but given that three years have past, a face-lift is warranted.}

Decided to post the inline Flash promo I did for Doctors Foster and Smith (pet supplies) that never saw the light of day. Plush Halloween characters for that special canine in your life.