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The ContentRobot Team hasn’t posted since we wished our readers the happiest of holidays … so, what have we been doing in the meantime?

Our new client, Nine Lives Media, wanted to take the wraps off of their two new sites — MSP Mentor and The VAR Guy — by the first week of the new year.

We worked with Nine Lives Media to:

• Install and configure WordPress and a bunch of plugins on their own host
• Create 2 unique, but related, designs that captured the essence of each brand
• Develop 2 fairly-customized WordPress themes
• Convert existing blog posts and comments
• Oh yeah, can you launch them in 5 weeks?

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Thanks to our client, Bazaarvoice, Walmart has finally added user comments and reviews to its website.

This awesome deal certainly highlights a major milestone for this growing startup. Read more about the details at TechCrunch and Reuters.

They were also recently voted as one of the Best Places to Work in Austin, TX.

Congratulations, Bazaarvoice!
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At the beginning of 2007, we helped GrokDotCom to convert their newsletter and two earlier blog attempts into one massive WordPress-based blog resource.

Jeffrey Eisenberg, in his recent post, You and I, Still Learning About Blogging remarked on its success.

The idea was that, while reintroducing Grok, we wanted our readers to be engaged in the conversation. So, we explained ourselves and kindly asked folks to resubscribe to the newsletter or RSS feed. A few baffled fan emails and comments later, we were off and running. And today, less than six months later, Technorati considers us to be one of the top 5k blogs. (GrokDotCom ranked around 42,000 six months ago.) Of course, we didn’t end the newsletter; we’ve just decided to open it up, so you can get fresh content daily, weekly, or monthly (your choice) in the form of featured articles, blog posts, and podcasts.

We are excited about Grok’s evolution and are glad to be a part of it!

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The newly, blog-enhanced, award-winning GrokDotCom was launched today. ContentRobot provided our expertise to convert their newsletter and other sources of content onto a single WordPress platform.

The GrokDotCom home page features articles and post written by Future Now authors, along with an extensive “blended” RSS feed of industry news. Readers can learn more about how to increase online conversion rates, accountable multi-channel marketing, and web analytics.

Highlights of this new blog-powered site include:

• Converting the existing newsletter content, formerly within a proprietary software package.
• Converting Movable type blog content to WordPress.
• Offering unique content on the blog by reading it at the site, subscribing to it via RSS, or receiving daily, weekly, or monthly newsletter content into their email inboxes.
• Displaying the latest articles, blog posts, announcements, and events on the home page along with “Persuasion Architect” posts and the GrokDotCom calendar.
• Implementing innovative search engine optimization techniques with Tag Warrior, SEO Title Tag, and Google Sitemaps plugins, and more.
• Offering three customized newsletters - get fresh content daily, weekly, or monthly via email.
• Automating the distribution of the various newsletters saves both time and money.

Read more about this project on our case study.

Go check out the site!

This weekend, the ContentRobot team and our families got a chance to visit our client, Farmington Valley Goldens.

Whatta treat it was to see their litter of adorable 8 week-old puppies! We had fun holding them, playing with them, watching them sleep, and them just being cute!

Click here for more photos that will make you say, “AAAAAAW!”
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Bert Decker, President of Decker Communications has signed with ContentRobot to assist him with attracting more visitors to his CEO blog (and corporate website).

We will provide consulting on BertDecker.com to:

• Perform design tweaks and enhancements to the TypePad blog
• Research and implement effective traffic-building widgets
• Develop an ongoing online marketing plan, including performing search engine optimization and site submissions
• Provide any technical support (integration, enhancements, and upgrades) where necessary

Welcome, Bert Decker! We look forward to helping him take his blog to the next level.
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ContentRobot launched the Debt Relief Companies blog-powered website today.

We developed a heavily custom-designed WordPress theme that helps Debt Relief Companies to easily add content and manage the site. ContentRobot also created a simple, but elegant company logo to set the tone for the design.

The new blog-powered website connects people with money challenges who seek some help with debt management and debt settlements. Visitors can read:

• Blog content that educates them about debt and money problems
• How to get out of debt and bankruptcy
• Questions and answers regarding tough problems
• The latest industry news

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GrokDotCom signed with ContentRobot today!

We’ll assist them in integrating their online newsletter, TypePad blog entries, and custom RSS feeds onto a single WordPress platform that easily handles and manages all their content. ContentRobot will also convert their new design into a CSS-driven theme and create three HTML newsletter templates for the project.

What is GrokDotCom? Published by Future Now, GrokDotCom contains award-winning, plain spoken, and refreshingly irreverent content that focuses on helping clients to convert their website’s traffic into leads, customers and sales by applying persuasion architecture, copywriting, usability and web analytics to design, redesign and optimize websites and other online marketing efforts.

We are excited to partner with GrokDotCom. Look for the new site to be launched in early February.

Shop.org launched its member blog today. It’s an intrablog, meaning that is currently available only to its members and is password-protected.

Shop.org is an association that is comprised of interactive executives from more than 500 nationally-recognized retail brands (both big and small). They participate to share information, lessons-learned, new perspectives, insights and intelligence about online and multichannel retailing.

To extend their diverse community online, Shop.org wanted to develop a blog where their members could write about their expertise and experiences to spur lively conversation (perhaps even a bit of a debate) that helps others to uncover best practices and solutions that work.

All Shop.org members are encouraged to write as many stories as they wish and to comment freely on others’ posts.

Features:

• A clean and stylish two column WordPress theme that compliments the Shop.org logo.
• Authors are prominently listed its contributors in the right column. They have their own RSS feeds so members can subscribe to any contributor or get the entire blog’s content RSS feed as well.
• Topics include: affiliate programs, analytics, IT, marketing & consumer trends, e-commerce, search engine marketing, web 2.0 and user generated content.
• ContentRobot worked closely with the Shop.org team to create Blogging Guidelines and specific Corporate Policies that detailed who can post, how comments would be handled, and how members join the blog.

Read more about the project in our case study.

ContentRobot is pleased to welcome our newest client, Lead Alternative. ContentRobot, along with Lead Alternative, will develop a logo and custom designed blog-powered website, called Debt Relief Companies.

The blog-powered website will connect people with money challenges who seek some help with debt management and debt settlements. Site owner, Scott Bearden, has vast experience with companies who can assist these clients in need.

The site will feature:
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