NET500.CG http://net500.com Thu, 14 Jun 2007 03:44:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 en Permission Push: Widgets http://net500.com/2007/06/13/widgets-spring/ http://net500.com/2007/06/13/widgets-spring/#comments Thu, 14 Jun 2007 03:44:25 +0000 net500cg http://net500.com/2007/06/13/widgets-spring/ Seth Godin [1] [2] wrote about the power of marketing when you seek the permission first, of you intended market, in his book, Permission Marketing. The theme of his informative and ground-breaking book, was to ask first, then market to friendly receptors. The likelyhood of success is greatly increased. The reality, it increases in many ways. Not the least of which is the willingness of the market to recieve your jingle the next time around.
Just when you think you’ve seen the latest coolness, a blast from a fresh cool breeze zips by your consciousness and the constantly evolving web produces another wonder for us. Today I stumbled upon the cool do-it-yourself Widget site called, SpringWidgets, while investigating another, totally unrelated site.
Widgets are those little programs most often written in FLASH or Javascript, that are made up of portable chunks of code, easily installed and executed within any separate HTML-based web page. Widgets are simple programming requiring no additional compilation by the user. They are just plain cool!
Widgets are known by a number of ‘other names’ as well: gadget, badge, module, capsule, snippet, mini and even… flake.
Though the web widget is used for personal web enhancement, or for the pleasure and ease of those who visit our web publications, businesses are just now beginning to see them as valuable tools in their marketing and education plans.
Spring Widgets allow you build your own widgets using several templates.
Take a look at SpringWidgets and get to pumping up your web presence with these steroidial web experiences.
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]]> http://net500.com/2007/06/13/widgets-spring/feed/ New Media Marketing: The Wave is Rolling http://net500.com/2007/05/14/new-media-marketing/ http://net500.com/2007/05/14/new-media-marketing/#comments Mon, 14 May 2007 13:58:35 +0000 net500cg http://net500.com/2007/05/14/uncle-james-house/ New Media Marketing is a storm that has been brewing and anticipated for a number of years now. Many of us looked and dabbled in the early ripples of the bloodpool - back in the early ’90s. We were just a bit early; the market wasn’t mature enough to appreciate. That is no longer the situation.

With over 70% penetration, computers-in-the-home, are now a ubiquitos part of our daily environment. Add to this the nearly 40% broadband usage - in private homes alone, in the U.S., the use of high-bandwidth media such as audio and video, are now primed for distribution. In light of the massive promotion of ‘video online’ by such sites as YouTube, YahooVideo, AOL Video, Google Video, SoapBox, Grouper, Photobucket, Webshots, Ning, iFilm, MetaCafe, DailyMotion, GoFish, Dave.tv and many more [1] trying to cash-in on the market, there is no end to the marketing possibilities.

The wave is rolling. Will you be there to catch it? Or, will you stand in ‘first-wave-shock’ as it rolls right over you, crushing you and your market opportunity? The choice … is YOURS.

Catch the Wave!

Background: This houe in this video belonged to my wife’s, now deceased, Uncle James Burton; of Lexington, KY. The house will go on Estate Auction on Saturday May 26, in Lexington, KY. The house has been completely restored and renovated. James’ son Terry and daughter Vicki had the work done. It’s a nice property on the edge of an older neighborhood that is now being sought for redevelopment. It will make someone a very nice residence.

The Online Market: This video produced by, or for, Gooch Realestate, in Lexington, KY; the handler of the estate sale; is indicative of the new use of Internet video to present products and services to a wider range of audience and market. It is obvious when viewing the video that is it both amateurish and ‘homegrown’, but it is none-the-less effective. And that is the point. If the production brings a sale or increases the profit element of a product, then it was produced ‘well’.

Update: The house sold, before the day of the auction, for nearly $10K more than expected!  The quick move on the sale was due, in part, to the interest generated by the online video.


]]> http://net500.com/2007/05/14/new-media-marketing/feed/ Release is still future … http://net500.com/2007/04/05/release-is-still-future/ http://net500.com/2007/04/05/release-is-still-future/#comments Thu, 05 Apr 2007 19:21:59 +0000 net500cg http://net500.com/?p=3 Getting a blog or website - or for that matter - any online presence you really care about, ready for release is a long and involved process.

NET500.CG is working on over 30 projects at the same time.  That’s our style.  Our areas of expertise are quite varied and our interests exceed even those boundaries!  So, we are working, though it seems at a snail’s pace to get to a point of ‘ready for Prime Time’.

You will begin noticing the SIDEBAR filling up with information. More BLOGROLL links will begin to appear.  And you will begin to see other snippets of information appear in new categories and Pages.

We are looking forward to our new release and getting up-to-speed with out productions.

Thanks for watching and checking back.

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]]> http://net500.com/2007/04/05/release-is-still-future/feed/ Greetings! NET500.CG is COMING http://net500.com/2007/02/12/hello-world/ http://net500.com/2007/02/12/hello-world/#comments Tue, 13 Feb 2007 04:07:32 +0000 net500cg NET500.CG is, today, one month away from formal release.  Incremental releases will begin next week.  So, please… watch for us.

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