In January we explored specific areas in the CMP Mobile Marketing Interface. You can view the edited version of this on our Viddler channel.

This month, we are back with a follow-up episode and with guest Presenter Brian Collins, one of the founding partners of CMP Development Group. Collins has been building awareness of mobile marketing with business and auto dealerships in the Philadelphia metro and suburban areas. His vision for local businesses and consumers is for them to continue using mobile communications to interact and to make purchases.

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The subject matter for this webinar will concentrate on the use of coupons codes in the CMP interface. Coupons are increasingly useful for everyone because they offer incentives to engage in business and with mobile technology you can place your incentives in the daily lives of people in your audience.

AutoConversion has teamed with CMP as an affiliate provider to offer limited benefits of its service to local dealers and businesses. By doing this, businesses participating in the AC Insider program offered by AutoConversion and its affiliates, benefit from mobile marketing initiatives managed by us.

As always, the webinar begins at 11:30 am EST Thursday March 4. We begin promptly going through a 5-minute orientation before diving into the material itself. Our webinars are typically recorded for edited versions to be published onto our Viddler channel.

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Attention all WordPress bloggers. This week’s AC Social webinar is being dedicated to StudioPress, which are the themes we specialize in. If you are looking for ways to spruce up your blog or website, check out this webinar for a guided tour of the various StudioPress themes and learn about their unique characteristics.

StudioPress was formerly known as Revolution but a little more than a year ago they changed names and at the same time introduce an entirely new set of themes for WordPress. These themes literally take WordPress to a whole new level, giving web designers and webmasters the ability to take WordPress beyond blogging by offering out-of-the-box content management systems that serve as a website, blog, or micro site.

The guys over at StudioPress run a tight shop with several purchase options and introduce some fantastic designs and functionality that give you a terrific starting point for almost any web endeavor.

StudioPress is featured on the Technology page over at BlogProAutomotive.com and by using our affiliate link to visit their site we are credited for any business you do with StudioPress.

But before you do, sit in on this week’s webinar where we will not only explore some of the themes and functionality be making a special offer only to live attendees to receive a fully customized and optimized StudioPress theme from us at an amazing price. If you can not make it, no worries. Register anyway and drop us a note that you can not but that you might be interested in our special offer for attendees. We normally record our webinars and release an edited video recording of them for you to view at your leisure.

Use the button below to register or visit our Training page and use the AC Social webinar link. Our webinars are free and there is no obligation to attend even if you register. See you there.

This week’s webinar for AC Video will be an introduction to the Brightcove online video platform, one of the world’s leading online video platforms. The webinar is Thursday at 11:30 am EST. See our training schedule for details and registration.

Brightcove was recently recognized as a leader by Forrester Research, Inc. in its report, The Forrester Wave™: U.S. Online Video Platforms, Q4 2009, which was published today. Brightcove was among the select companies that Forrester invited to participate in its Wave report, and the company received top scores across all of the major evaluation categories.

We are new to the system but have been considering Brightcove among other online video content providers for several months now. We believe the system has the innovative platform we need today, and the vision and leadership to keep pace with our ever-changing video needs.

The webinar will concentrate on 2 of the 4 core modules of Brightcove:

1. Media
2. Publishing

For the Media module we will be looking at how to upload new media and associate media with a list.

For the Publishing module we will look at how to create a project/player and, time permitting, may even go through one way to place your video on your blog or website using Hana Code Insert, a WP plug-in we commonly use on our WordPress sites.

If you are already registered for the AC Video Webinar Series then you should receive an email from GoToWebinar one day prior to the scheduled event. If you are not registered with this series then click the button below to do so now.

Remember – We have been recording most webinars for the past several months and building a recorded webinar video archive channel on Viddler. You are welcome to visit there and subscribe to our channel or add us as a friend. Also visit us on facebook and Twitter for other such communications.

Mobile marketing and text messaging are becoming more and more favored with people today which means it is becoming increasingly important to consider the mobile marketing aspect of your message and product. By doing so you will find new ways to connect with people which has its benefits. But like with everything else, you want it to create the right experience so that your business can benefit.

In our next webinar we will take a first-hand look at a specific mobile marketing interface offered by CMP Development Group. We call it DD8 Mobile Marketing because of their automotive business known as DealerDominance.com. The DD8 system is a complete mobile marketing interface that enables you to drive mobile subscribers into your buying funnel.

The system comes with the ability to create graphic-based mobile websites, build web scripts to capture mobile numbers, and manage keyword campaigns with dynamic coupon codes and groups to architect a comprehensive mobile marketing process in your business.

We also will be utilizing the AC wiki for part of this experiment which offers a simple and practical use of the wiki for mobile interfacing. Be ready with cell phone in hand for this webinar so you can test drive the system live with us.

As always, the webinar begins at 11:30 am EST on Thursday January 21. We begin promptly going through a 5-minute orientation before diving into the material itself.

Register using the button below. If you are already registered with this series then you need not register again.

Contact Form 7 is a highly useful WordPress plug-in created by iDeasilo that we make available by default to all blog and websites on the AutoBurst WPMU system. This short video tutorial shows where and how to specify which file types you want to permit for upload into your site using this plug-in.

To access the configuration settings for this plug-in, log in to your AutoBurst account and look for the menu labeled, “Contact” just beneath the Settings menu. If you do not see this menu option then you may need to activate the plug-in. To do that, go to the Plug-ins menu and activate the plug-in called Contact Form 7.

Once you are in the configuration settings for the form permitting the file upload capability, look for the form field specific to the upload capability. You should see the file types permitted for uploaded separated with the pipe “|” character. Use this area to specify the types of files you are willing to accept.

Be sure to save your settings once you make changes by hitting the save button at bottom right. Be sure also to include the form field name in the File Attachments field. If you fail to do this then the files people attach will not be delivered.

For questions or assistance with this you may leave your comments here on this post. Alternatively you may visit our knowledge base on AC Assist where you can post questions or submit a support ticket.

Our next webinar is for AC Social and will be held on Thursday January 7 at 11:30 am EST. You can register for this webinar series from the training page or by clicking this link. Remember that we run 3 webinar series so although you may be registered for one series does not mean you are registered for this one. You can read more information about this from the training page.

The exercise for this webinar will be on how to create a custom page on your Facebook Fan Page using the Static FBML application. The Static FBML application enables you to add advanced functionality to your Fan Page using HTML or FBML, like we did this year for our special holiday offer to create our fans and customers a custom page for their Fan Page. The webinar should be short and sweet, probably around 20-30 minutes.

FBML stands for Facebook Markup Language which is exactly what it says, a markup language specific to Facebook. We will not be getting into the use of this markup language, only showing how to add it to your Fan Page and then how to insert HTML into it to create your custom page.

To utilize this application, click on the Applications tab that appears at the bottom left corner of your browser when logged in to your Facebook account. You will most likely also have to select to “Browse more Applications”. From there, do a search for ‘fbml’ in the search box above the application category types. Now you should see the static FBML application. Click that and then from there look for a blue box labeled “Go to Application”. Once you click that then you will be propositioned to “allow” this application on your Fan Page. Once that is done then go to your Page admin and “edit” the application by inserting your code and you are done.

You can visit the Static FBML application page on Facebook for more information or to become a Fan. We will be recording this webinar so after it is complete and we polish up the recording we will then notify everyone who was registered when it is available on our Viddler group.

Some time ago we started on a website for AutoBurst – our Internet Marketing Software program.  We were not able to complete the project and so it had been sitting up on the web in a state of disarray since this time. Today however we are pleased to introduce www.autoburstwebs.com.

AutoBurst Webs is meant to be a product showcase that shares what we do and what is available to small businesses and marketing agencies.

The services we provide include email marketing, search marketing, website design, and other Internet-specific things people and businesses do on the web.

The solutions we offer are the software systems we use that provide people and businesses with either stand-alone tools or tool kits if you will for Internet marketing. We offer voice solutions such as our call tracking system AdTrack™ and our call review service CallRevu™ which is beyond just tracking and listening to phone calls. It’s about reporting, analysis, and making adjustments. We also offer video hosting and streaming, coupon creation and management software, list-building software and more. The software behind these things requires training, support, and and understanding of the technology. The software is meant to solve specific and common business problems which is why we classify them as solutions.

Our products, of which you will see only 3 are listed – AC Video™, AC Social™, and AC List Builder™ – are unique combinations of these services and solutions fused together to achieve certain goals and objectives. We offer these products and a variety of combinations at different budgets based on your organization’s exact needs. Ultimately this is what we sell and so we classify them as products.

So take a look around the new site. There are some minor loose ends still being addressed at time of this writing but hopefully you get a better idea of what we are all about and how we go about doing what we do. There are two new pages that have been added which we plan to enhance which shows the technology behind what we do and the businesses contributing to our product by providing solutions and services.

Thank you to everyone that has been a part of this long journey to get the site where it is today. It was your feedback and input that helped shape and form this representation and I hope (and am confident) that where it is at now will more effectively communicate what AutoConversion is all about when it comes to meeting the needs of small businesses. It may appear like we do everything in the world but reality is that these are but only some of the primary essential tools business need to market themselves on the web.

Email marketing continues to be one of the most effective and cost effective means for communicating your message to an audience. The best way to improve upon the ROI of your email marketing is by instituting a double opt-in sign up process. By doing so you can expect to see your response rates increase to 20, 40, or even 60% or more.

Setting up a double opt-in mailing list on your blog or website is not the most difficult thing to do, but there are some details to consider as well as some techniques that can be applied to enhance the customer experience. This includes things like having verification pages, auto responses, subject lines, etc.

Each of these elements plays an important role in initiating the customer experience so you want to be sure that the process and information you prepare is accurate, in tact, and effective. These are the technicalities behind permission-based email marketing that have a lasting effect for people, so it is worth learning this and putting in the time required.

In this week’s List Builder webinar we will be covering some of the basics for setting up a double opt-in sign up process as described. In this webinar we complete the following exercises:

• Create verification pages on your blog
• Configure your list in AWeber
• Apply form code using Hana Code Insert
• Testing the process

Clearly you can see the added training in here for use of AWeber and Hana Code Insert. AWeber is list-building software that we use; Hana Code Insert is a WordPress plug-in that we have standard on our WPMU systems.

Theoretically we could hold a webinar for each of these three processes because they can be so involved, but in this instance we will be glossing over all three to provide comprehensive coverage of the entire double opt-in process.

Join us Thursday December 17 at 11:30 am EST for this extensive and highly technical live GoToWebinar. If you can not make it but are interested in the material, then sign up anyhow and we will add you to the AC Webinars archives on Viddler.com where you can view this (when it becomes available) and past live webinars featured on our website.

With the roll out of our new video product for auto dealers we ended up starting a channel on YouTube to publish the videos. The videos include content specific for auto shoppers which does not mix well with our video content on Viddler.com, so we it worked out that this content would appear on a YouTube channel.

With the advent of this new video channel we are dedicating this next webinar to give members a tour of the new channel.

The webinar will be short and sweet. We will spend the first few minutes going over our webinar training program for those new to our webinars. We then will jump right in to showing the new YouTube channel and what auto dealers and shoppers can expect from the channel.

To register for this webinar, click here (or the button below) for the AC Video series, fill in the required information and then expect to receive instructions for connecting to the webinar at 11:30 am EST on Thursday December 3. By registering you will automatically be included on all future AC Video webinars (about every 6 weeks) plus you will receive access to our webinars archive where you can watch and listen to past webinars at your leisure.

This month for our AC List Builder Webinar we are shifting focus to the latest announcements by Google and Microsoft about including Twitter and Facebook fodder into their search results. This is major news in the online marketing realm because it effects every business and online marketer pursuing a search marketing and social media strategy, so we have decided to dedicate this week’s webinar to this topic.

Earlier this week we posted a video about this to our blog which you may want to watch as well. It’s in the post labeled A Big Bang for SEO and Social Media.

For the webinar we will start by going through a slide show that was put together by Peter Caputa over at HubSpot. It’s a short slide show so we will also journey through his commentary of the subject on the HubSpot blog. All-in-all we expect our webinar to last about 20-30 minutes but we may open it up for discussion if there are not too many people attending.

To register for this webinar, click here (or the button below) for the AC List Builder series, fill in the required information and then expect to receive instructions for connecting to the webinar at 11:30 am EST on Thursday November 12. By registering you will automatically be included on all future AC List Builder/Social webinars (once a month) plus you will receive access to our webinars archive where you can watch and listen to past webinars at your leisure.