New mobile component for AC List Builder

Hey folks. This week’s webinar for AC Mobile Webinar was not advertised because we are doing something that is product-specific, thus we are not opening it up to the public.  We are recording it so once we have completed the edited version then we will be releasing a public version that will be used primarily for demonstration purposes.

The topic for this private webinar is on the new mobile component we have been building in to the AC List Builder program. Specifically we will be looking at:

  • The new email auto response with mobile opt-in information and link to mobile site
  • The new mobile site options
  • Pricing for the new mobile component
  • Upgrade options to full mobile version
  • How we are incorporating the new mobile component into AC List Builder

You can see there is much to cover and will likely require more than an hour to run through, thus another reason it is not open to the public because it is too much information for one sessions.

Some of you may have received an email communication from GoToWebinar about the AC Spotlight Series going on tomorrow. That communication was a mistake and has been corrected. The next AC Spotlight session is set for May 6.

We have updated the training schedule on our website so please check there for now. You can see that we are implementing a new theme at the moment for this website so please bare with us on any discombobulated pages.

To join the AC Mobile Webinar Series you may click here or the button below. By registering you will receive an email notification from GoToWebinar reminding you of each webinar within this series. If you are not able to or are not interested in attending a specific webinar within that series then there is no obligation to attend. You can disregard the notification.

Click here to register for the AC Social Webinar Series

Brightcove Publishes, Distributes and Monetizes web video for iPad and other Apple devices

iPhone Blue CubeLast month Brighcove announced Brightcove Experience for HTML5, a framework for publishing and delivering high quality, interactive and advertising-supported Web video experiences for HTML5-compatible devices.

The new solution enables you to easily expand the reach of your online video initiatives to popular consumer devices including the Apple iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch.

The Brightcove Experience for HTML5 provides support for intelligent device detection, playlist rendering, and playback of H.264 encoded video content. Over the course of this year, Brightcove will expand the Brightcove Experience for HTML5 to include full support for customization and branding of the player environment, advertising, analytics, social sharing, and other capabilities currently found in Brightcove experience solutions for other platforms.

The Brightcove Experience for HTML5 is provided at no charge to customers with subscriptions to Brightcove Professional, Enterprise, and Express $499 editions. An early version of the automatic device detection and HTML5 player template are available in the Brightcove Developer Center.

As Brightcove customers, we are pleased with this announcement for a couple reasons.

  1. It demonstrates Brightcove’s commitment to innovation, something which played a big part in our decision recently to Brightcove’s video hosting & streaming platform.
  2. It gives credence to the direction Apple is headed on the web by abandoning Flash and counting on web developers and software makers to adapt.

Brightcove is a Web-based platform that makes it easy to deliver professional-quality video experiences through your website. Unlike free video sharing sites, Brightcove gives you complete control over the video experience you put on your site. Organizations of all sizes choose Brightcove for its ease of use and its power to scale from the simplest project to the most complex

For more information about this and similar topics, visit our website at www.autoburstwebs.com

A guided tour of StudioPress themes for WordPress

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.

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Introducing partner coupons for local businesses

The landscape of the Web is constantly changing. Businesses have access to progressive technology and so too do customers. Everyone is a customer when it comes down to it.

At AutoConversion we constantly seek ways to innovate our efforts. Often times we do this with little mention of it to our members. Today we have an announcement about the new use of partner coupons in our monthly marketing campaigns for AC List Builder customers, and we are excited about the opportunities this change brings for our customers as well as our local Philadelphia-area businesses.

Starting this month, customers on the AC List Builder program who receive an email blast to their list each month will be promoting a special offer from one of our network partners. The coupon sample below gives an idea what a basic coupon may look like.

Local coupon promotion

The lists we manage for our dealership customers have hundreds of subscribers each. In effort to enhance the experience and benefits for recipients we will be able to not only deliver coupon incentives from our dealerships, but also from other local businesses now too.

Our new network of local businesses will offer a variety of special offers each month that will appear in the emails going out to the subscriber lists. With the cooperation of these local businesses and our network of dealerships, these dealer lists will help bring added value to the recipients of each list. This also provides free advertising for the local businesses involved. Everybody wins!

If you are a local business owner interested in participating in this new program, please contact us.

Coupon management service now available

Despite the stunning text-based coupons and incentives that were created for your automated follow-up campaigns, we are introducing a new coupon management utility for you to create and manage your own visually appealing coupons and incentives to appear on your blog or website. With this new service you can now direct people to a page on your blog to print the coupons and incentives that presently appear in your campaign messages as text.

With the software program used to manage your coupons, called Create!, you can “create” as many coupons and coupon templates as you like and set start and end dates for each to appear on your site. The software also has stock images built into it for you to use at your discretion and of course you can supply your own graphic material.

For List Builder subscribers this will serve quite handy. There is no additional cost to for the service but is restricted to just your AutoBurst blog. If you are not a List Builder subscriber and/or wish to utilize the service outside your AutoBurst blog you can pay a a small monthly service fee per domain.

For questions regarding this new service please contact us. Alternatively you may respond below or visit AC Assist.

We will be holding occasional webinars related to this service so please visit our Webinar Events page to see if anything is scheduled.