Comments on: Marketing Geek Show#47 http://marketinggeek.tv/Pages/2008/08/05/marketing-geek-show47/ Mon, 03 May 2010 19:00:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Funkygorilla http://marketinggeek.tv/Pages/2008/08/05/marketing-geek-show47/comment-page-1/#comment-259 Funkygorilla Sat, 09 Aug 2008 12:30:50 +0000 http://marketinggeek.tv/Pages/?p=82#comment-259 This is really off the topic of the podcast, but it could be a great subject for the future. I read an article a couple of days ago that 59% of enquires made to Australian websites were not answered in a week. This is really bad, and as marketinggeeks we should be looking to try to fix this. I don't want to clutter up your comments too much so I have put something in my blog at http://simongriffiths.name/?p=54 which includes my thoughts. This is really off the topic of the podcast, but it could be a great subject for the future. I read an article a couple of days ago that 59% of enquires made to Australian websites were not answered in a week. This is really bad, and as marketinggeeks we should be looking to try to fix this.
I don’t want to clutter up your comments too much so I have put something in my blog at http://simongriffiths.name/?p=54 which includes my thoughts.

]]> By: Funkygorilla http://marketinggeek.tv/Pages/2008/08/05/marketing-geek-show47/comment-page-1/#comment-258 Funkygorilla Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:48:34 +0000 http://marketinggeek.tv/Pages/?p=82#comment-258 I thought I could also tell you of a bit of a bodgy workaround sort of using cloud computing we have just implemented. I have just added a plugin form2excel to one of my sites that collects form data as a Excel form and send you an email of the info every time the form is completed. This is a great time saver if you use Excel for analysis or as a mini database, as obviously there is no retyping. However what we found was that the emails could not get through our corporate firewall as they are sent from the same address as they are going to. Obviously any reasonable firewall will spot this and stop it dead. What we did as a workaround was to send it to gmail and have gmail automatically forward it to an address behind our firewall. The added bonuses are that we don't need to open our firewall up, we have a backup of all enquiries, we get great spam filtering and the enquiries are much more searchable in gmail if we need to go back through them. I thought I could also tell you of a bit of a bodgy workaround sort of using cloud computing we have just implemented.

I have just added a plugin form2excel to one of my sites that collects form data as a Excel form and send you an email of the info every time the form is completed. This is a great time saver if you use Excel for analysis or as a mini database, as obviously there is no retyping.

However what we found was that the emails could not get through our corporate firewall as they are sent from the same address as they are going to. Obviously any reasonable firewall will spot this and stop it dead. What we did as a workaround was to send it to gmail and have gmail automatically forward it to an address behind our firewall. The added bonuses are that we don’t need to open our firewall up, we have a backup of all enquiries, we get great spam filtering and the enquiries are much more searchable in gmail if we need to go back through them.

]]> By: Funkygorilla http://marketinggeek.tv/Pages/2008/08/05/marketing-geek-show47/comment-page-1/#comment-257 Funkygorilla Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:39:18 +0000 http://marketinggeek.tv/Pages/?p=82#comment-257 Thought you might be interested that Dell are trying to trademark the term 'cloud computing' in the US! They had near final approval, but thankfully the US Patents office is now reviewing. Thought you might be interested that Dell are trying to trademark the term ‘cloud computing’ in the US! They had near final approval, but thankfully the US Patents office is now reviewing.

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