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  1. Meg Tilly: Actress, Author, and Now, Blogger

    Sometime this summer, a friend did me a big favor by referring Meg Tilly to Hop Studios to build a website. Meg — yes, that Meg Tilly — as written several books and the newest one was due to come out in September. Over the phone Meg told me that she wasn’t sure why she needed a website, but…

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  2. Ann Packer’s New Website

    Songs Without Words Book CoverHop Studios has done a number of book and author websites in the past year, and we’ve really enjoyed them. Authors are great to work with, and boy do they have excellent content!

    Our latest client is Ann Packer, whose novel The Dive from Clausen’s Pier spent a long-time on the New York…

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  3. Help Our Blogging Panel Get Picked by SXSW

    Susie’s gone and done it again.  She’s trying to get her panel into the lineup at the SXSW Interactive Festival in March 2008.  Her panel, “Blogging Tool Death Match!” seems like it’ll be well attended and feiry, to boot!  Here’s the nitty gritty…

    Level:  Beginner; Description:  “Every…

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  4. Find-A-Sweetheart and the Lovely Popup

    Pop quiz: Let me describe a site to you, and you tell me if it should have a pop-up. Here’s the scenario:

  5. The site’s email newsletter is a significant driver of sales (you’re measuring this, right?)

  6. The site tends to get a lot of one-time visitors from search engines because it has good…

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  8. Talking at SFU

    Friday, I spent a nice morning talking to a class at Simon Fraser University.  I was asked to join Monique Trottier, who was leading a class called “Marketing Magazines Online.”

    Despite my own initial confusion about which classroom it was in, I had luckily planned for at least 60 minutes…

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