WebForging

20 sets of Dells Comedy Club tickets to be given away as door prizes (a $40 value - two tickets per set).

All invitees will receive one OnYourMark, LLC/WebForging door prize.

One lucky Grand Prize Winner will receive a $5,000, 3.5 minute video production package including a year of video hosting (full details available at the party).

Regards,
Keith

I’ve started a thread about the music play list for the WebForging release party at http://wismusic.com/forums/showthread.php?t=273

I’m looking forward to getting the list ready by Monday for collaboration with Music Masters Entertainment (see http://musicmastersentertainment.com/ for more info) - the mobile DJ service we’ll be using at the party.

I invite Wisconsin music lovers to start their own thread of their all-time favorites, or other playlists, at http://www.WisMusic.com in the “Reviews and Previews” Forum.

Regards,
Keith

The following from website traffic statistics are from : http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/webforging.com

Reach for Webforging.com:

Percent of global Internet users who visit this site

Yesterday	1 wk. Avg.	3 mos. Avg.	3 mos. Change
N/A*	0.00017%	.000028%	835%

Traffic Rank for Webforging.com:

Alexa traffic rank based on a combined measure of page views and users (reach)

Yesterday	1 wk. Avg.	3 mos. Avg.	3 mos. Change
N/A*	426,405	1,749,147	9,175,743

Page Views per user for Webforging.com:

The number of unique pages viewed per user per day for this site

Yesterday	1 wk. Avg.	3 mos. Avg.	3 mos. Change
N/A*	8	10	519%

Regards,
Keith

Friday, June 27.  Wisconsin Business Owners “Lunch and Learn”.  About 22 attendees.  Nearly all left with a book!

Granted, some had purchased WebForging before it was even printed.   Pre-sold copies, I’ll talk about those in another spot.

I read the weekend before in John Kremer’s 1001 Ways to Market Your Books that placing a book at the table where each attendee is seated helps increase sales.  It did.

Pictures are back and look great.  I’ll have to add those from my laptop (left at work) because the home desktop computer cd drive isn’t firing up.

Regards,
Keith

No matter how tiny (or large), please put corrections for the book here as a reply to this post.

I’ll start.  “E-Commerce spelling in the table of contents doesn’t follow the style/standard for the rest of the book.

Thanks ahead of time for your contributions.

Regards,
Keith

Picked up the book from Lithographics on Thursday evening and I’ve signed and delivered more than a dozen copies.

The first copy went to my Dad, Lloyd Reuben Klein. I visited his grave and opened the book to the dedication page and left it open there at his headstone.

The dedication reads:

This book is dedicated to my father

Lloyd Reuben Klein

He looked out for the underdog
He liked to laugh
He valued his friends
He had a vision for his work -
and the craftsmanship to execute that vision

He taught me those things,
and how to throw, catch, hit and run

And he taught me that success is that place in life where preparation
and opportunity meet, though too few recognize it because
often it comes disguised as hard work.

It’s a great journey Dad - I’m grateful and blessed to have been led on
the journey by you.

I said a prayer and left to head back to the office. If Dad were here he’d find a way to buy or cajole hundreds of copies to give to friends, to anyone, and he’d say, “You should read this, my son wrote it.” I miss you, Dad.

When I got back to the shop, I signed and gave the first signed copy to Ellen, my first officer, as I’m fond of referring to her in a Star Trek sort of way. Her work makes much of mine fruitful.

I gave my son Ryan a copy. Fitting - June 19th being his birthday. He came into my life on Fathers Day twenty years ago. He’s in the business with me, and WebForging came to be delivered on his birthday. I hope the karma continues.

On Friday I signed and gave copies to my other three children who are at home. Then I delivered signed copies to the rest of the staff who were present. We have a couple of telecommuters and part-timers who will get their copies soon. I said a few words in each. I hope they all know, kids and associates, how much they mean to me. I hope the blurbs are satisfying, and definitely hope they don’t make me sound any more conceited than I already am! Just trying to wish everyone well.

My first client copy went to Laurie at Sales and Marketing Associates during our meeting Friday afternoon. Kind of a thrill, being able to share this work with clients, too.

Today is Saturday and I’m reading the last of John Kremer’s 1001 Ways to Market Your Books. Kremer is a good read - thorough at about 900 pages.

I’m looking forward to more signings.

Regards,
Keith

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We found a couple of online lists of all of the Wisconsin Chambers of Commerce.

We’ll be contacting all of the Wisconsin Chambers of Commerce to offer presentations at chamber meetings.

We’re videotaping our first presentation on June 27th (see more info at www.WisOwners.com and at Meetup.com) and we’ll distribute that tape here to give Wisconsin Chambers of Commerce a sample of what’s available.

The video will also serve as a foundation for what we’ll make available in more in-depth WebForging workshops.

Cost? We’re thinking low-cost, maybe even no-cost for nearby chambers.

Contact Keith or Kathy at 262-820-8201 or 800-747-3399 for more information.

Regards,
Keith

Just finished the outline of the second section of my first post-publication WebForging presentation.

The presentation will be held at the Wisconsin Business Owners luncheon in Brookfield on Friday, June 27th.  More info at www.WisOwners.com and at http://networkmarket.meetup.com/1053/

#  1  Treating a web presence like literature instead of a living entity
–budget
—–$
—–time

#  2  Using a goofy email address instead of your domain name

#  3  Not answering emails in a timely manner

#  4  Not using signature files in your email

#  5  Not analyzing logs and statistics
—–then acting on the information
———missing links, entry pages, exit pages, referral sources,

#  6  Lack of complete contact information on every page
—– Email links instead of addresses

#  7  Lack of content
—–resources
—–updates
—–visuals of custom products, video
—–testimonials
—–human stuff, achievements, sponsorship, people

#  8  Lousy or no search engine optimization, registration and maintenance

#  9  Failure to maximize the places to promote your website

# 10  Using the web only to promote; not using the web to save time and expense

# 10.1  Navigation that sucks
# 10.2  Lack of a site map
# 10.3  Contact Us pages that suck
- How would you like us to reply?
- Only requiring
# 10.4  Lack of copyright, privacy, disclaimers and other info
# 10.5  Failure to engage in social networking

Regards,
Keith