Our Approach to Teaching Search Marketing

We now have a three course, hands-on program in search marketing. In this post, I lay out the strategy and rationale for all three. Read the full post here.

Bringing 11,000 New Monthly Visitors to the Non-Profit Energy Action Coalition

The Energy Action Coalition was already making extremely effective use of social media. Our students complemented that with specific, well-targeted search marketing campaigns that netted an additional 11,000 visitors per month. Read the full post here.

Bringing 14,000 New Visitors per Month to the Non-Profit Making It to the Finish Line

Making It to the Finish Line already had well-targeted programs and products. Student teams helped them dramatically increase their reach with locally and nationally targeted AdWords campaigns. Read the full post here.

Increasing Engagement with the Organization for Bat Conservation by over 400%

Our year of working with the Organization for Bat Conservation on pay per click advertising and landing page optimization has coincided with their best revenue year. Read the full post here.

A New Landing Page for 7000 Monthly Visitors to the Non-Profit Dance Marathon

The Dance Marathon at the University of Michigan raised $388,000 in 2009 for pediatric rehabilitation. Our students helped them define and reach out to a significant new segment of stakeholders. Read the full post here.

Why I started a landing page optimization course focused on non-profits

You need to consider both ends of the equation: (1) Getting visitors to your door; (2) Satisfying their needs once they get there. Read the full post here.

Coming up to Milestone 2 in IS379: Landing Page Optimization

This course presents a conceptual and technical challenge to students which comes to a head in Milestone 2. Read the full post here.

AdWords performance secret: Tightly focused ad groups

Effective AdWords ad groups are built around tightly focused keywords and ads that offer searchers using those keywords what they are looking for. Read the full post here.

When Non-Profit Pay Per Click Campaigns Go Stratospheric

I begin a series of posts on how one non-profit is effectively using AdWords with help from students at Eastern Michigan University. Read the full post here.

So, we have a student blog for fall courses

We'll be doing student blogging this year on typepad. Read the full post here.
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