If you enjoy the subject matter of this blog, but you’d prefer a little more interaction and perhaps specifics on how YOU can implement some of these ideas on your own Web site, blog or email newsletter, I’ve got good news. (Assuming you live with in driving distance of Portland, Maine.)

I’ll be teaching a course called Web Marketing for Entrepreneurs and Small Businesses at the University of Southern Maine this month as part of their Center for Continuing Education.

We’ll be talking search engine optimization, email marketing, blogs, podcasts, viral marketing, e-commerce, home page strategies and more. Last time we got into wikis.

The course will be Wednesday evenings from 6:30 – 8:30pm, October 18th – November 8th. For more information and to register online check out the Web marketing course page on the USM Web site.

Not sure if this class will help? Here’s an unsolicited thank you email I received:

Rich,

Thanks to applying what I learned from you to my new site, in the last month I have zoomed up in the Search rankings (when any part of my name or ‘Maine’ is included with key terms, I get at least three listings on first page), increased the amount of time people are spending on the site, increased my new visitors to 25% of my traffic and tripled the rate of new subscribers to the ezine. 

Chris Trout

OK, enough self-love. Hope to see you there.

Rich Brooks
Maine Web Marketing