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Tjallamalla.com vs Swedishfresh.com

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Posted 04 Nov 2010 — by admin
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School has been amazingly hectic. Besides starting our own company and trying to get our own marketing strategy for Swedishfresh.com implemented, we have both been assigned to work on new projects 3 days a week, as part of our new module.

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The new client is Tjallamalla.com – a Stockholm Söder hipster brand. The site was built by Hyper Island Digitial Media students a year ago. Although the site is aesthetically pleasing, it is poorly optimized for SEO/SEM marketing. We’re going to have to create a whole lot of new pages/url’s to support our ambitions in this area and come up with a whole new strategy for the site. Plus implement an offsite seo strategy, migrate some of their social profiles & create a campaign surrounding this. And not to mention create a email marketing strategy for their site as well. So much to do in 3 weeks – thank goodness there are 5 other classmates in the project team!

I have responsibility for the PPC  and onsite SEO for the site. I’m quite excited about it, as I feel that this was the area I could definitely improve on, then translate the findings to Swedishfresh.com and other projects I am working on right now. Tjallamalla.com has a lot of potential – especially when looking at the potential of low cost, high traffic keywords… exciting!

t’s exciting to work with a fashion site – as it is such a competitive market. Yet it’s still a difficult task to juggle both our personal company and the clients site. But like with everything in Hyper Island – it is more than just the “What”  of the process, and with a schedule like this – one really does need to think about prioritization of one’s values and time. Which is of course a most valuable lesson for any entrepreneur.

As a side note, for your viewing pleasure – a short clip of our latest announcement from Swedishfresh.com. Enjoy & don’t forget to come and visit us!

Inspiration from Jonathan Briggs

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Posted 31 Aug 2010 — by admin
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Today’s lecture by Jonathan Briggs, was inspiring, motivating and captivating. In short, all of what I have been looking for at Hyper Island. His breadth of experience and his ease to jump from heavy technical to savvy marketing all left us spell-bound, at one of the founder’s of the school.

It was difficult to hold a critical eye to this particular futuristic sermon. The way in which he tests new techniques on his personal enterprise and creates case studies from these tests to sell to his more orthodox clients, is simple, effective and something to adopt immediately (unless you do already, in which case – bravo to you).

Two favorite topics were “app thinking” – the deconstruction of the websites as we know it, and the implementation of multiple mobile app-like solutions i.e. separate site (“app”) for customer service, location, and e-commerce solution. (A topic which Zynga founder Mark Pincus discusses in more detail as an “app economy”.)

The continual rise of Ad Networks and the dominance of the 4 big players – Google, Facebook, Apple and Twitter. The first three are obvious, and it will be interesting to see how Twitter roles out a favorable monetary solution in this arena.

Other topics of note can be viewed below:

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On a side note, my favorite quotes were “Spend 50% out of your comfort zone” and ”Eat your own dog food” – two sound activities which I resolve to participate in, with a vengeance icon smile Inspiration from Jonathan Briggs