Just received a note from Mike Mann announcing that Yield Software, a company conceived and incubated by Mike and his WashingtonVC company, raised $6 million in Series B funding. This investment was led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson and includes WPP Group, joining WashingtonVC. When I finished graduate school, my career started at Wunderman, a Direct Marketing Agency owned by WPP.
WPP is a leading marketing, advertising, interactive, and branding holding company, and they typically only invest in the best of breed. This is a big day for Mike and the folks at WashingtonVC, and congratulations are in order.
The full press release can be seen on Business Wire.
I Love Nola
Just returned from my trip to New Orleans. While I think three days is long enough to be down there (especially the French Quarter), I had a great time. Dinner last night at Arnaud’s was amazing, and it was fantastic being down there with great friends and my Dad.
I need a bit more time to recover from the Hurricanes, bourbon, tequila, Purple Haze and other unmentionables, but I will be back to normal tomorrow. I even wrote a blog post on the flight, so it will be easier to get back to the groove.
Thanks to everyone who wrote emails and posted comments. See you tomorrow!
SHOW ME YOUR……. Domains!
I won’t be blogging, moderating comments, or responding to emails for the next few days, as I am headed down to New Orleans for my bachelor party. I will be back on Sunday night, and I should be back to normal by Monday.
In the meantime, feel free to use the links on the right hand side while I am out of town.
Mining the Long Tail
I am in the process of developing a debt-related mini-site. I am writing the articles for it and would like some keyword research related to debt so I can mine the long tail and dominate the long (but high paying) keywords. I want to target some low hanging fruit keywords that others may not notice. The competition will be less, and my site will hopefully rank higher.
Can anyone recommend a place to get a large list of keywords for a good price?
Looking for a Custom WordPress Template
I am looking to have a custom (or customized) WordPress template built for me. I have about 5 domain names I would like to develop and monetize, and I would like to do it using 6-10 articles each using the WordPress platform. Since I am not very good with the technical aspect of web development, I would like someone to build a single WP template for me along with 5 custom headers for each domain name (nothing really fancy).
The template will have an Adsense skyscraper running on the sidebar of the main template, and each article will have a square Adsense box next to the article. There will also be another Adsense banner underneath the comment section of each article. I will provide the Adsense codes, and I would like the actual Adsense boxes to match the look and feel of the template. Additionally, the template will have SEO plugins and other valuable plugins included to make optimization as easy as possible.
If you are able to do this, please drop me a note with the approximate charge and timing for the template and headers.
Traveling South Again Today
I will be traveling south again today. Will be back up and running by Monday.