Thursday, December 15, 2005

Terrence Ou is a Busy Man, Brings on More Zunch Employees

Our own Terrence Ou, APAC Director of Business Development for Zunch, has been a busy guy since he left for China a month ago. He's brought on several new employees (welcome Luke and Andy!) and signed on Zunch's first Chinese clients all in a matter of a few weeks.

To read Terrence's latest update, head over to the Zunchina blog. Keep up the good work Terrence!

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Thursday, December 08, 2005

Warmin' up

We're back from Chicago! Well, most of us anyway. Jeff will be back anytime now, his flight left a bit earlier. After a long night to recoup some lost sleep and an interesting taxi ride home through the somewhat icy Dallas streets (I know, icy and Dallas don't go together - tell me about it!) we're back to work at our Dallas headquarters. While the city thaws, we're just getting warmed up after a great Search Engine Strategies conference!

We got to talk to some very interesting people while there, and I realized that is still alot of confusion out there about SEO. For those of you I talked to at the booth (I was the long-haired hippy freak, as they love to call me around the office, hah), I hope you found some of our presentations interesting and had a chance to gain a little bit of insight into how our practices & products combine to really help acheive some great results on the web. Thanks for helping make this a great show for Zünch! Also, thanks to the Zünch team who made all this happen: John, Jesse, Rachel, Jeff, & Dan all worked dillegently to pull off a great show without any hiccups.

If you weren't in Chicago this week, it's okay. You'll have a chance to meet some of the team in February at Search Engine Strategies in New York City. By then we'll have some even cooler things to show off, including a really rockin' site-search ZMS module and an AJAX based administrative interface for the new version of ZMS. We're closing 2005 with some awesome progress, and we're starting the year off right with some very exciting new things in the world of website development & interactive marketing.

Hear that sizzle? That's a big 'ole slab of Zünch. Yup, we're on fire :-)

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Tuesday, December 06, 2005

Zunch Named #1 for Organic Search (Again)

Topseos.com has announced their December rankings for organic search engine optimization firms with Zunch in the #1 spot- again!

In a news release sent out yesterday topseos.com said, “We continually strive to pick the cream of the crop organizations in our top 30 list in the organic optimization category,” says Bill Peden of topseos.com. He adds, “Our December winners for this year are the strongest companies we have identified in the market today.”

Way to go SEO team!

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Tuesday, December 06, 2005

Zunch Communications, Inc. Launches New Competitive Intelligence Services Today

Leading Interactive Agency Ups the Ante with New Suite of Services for Monitoring Competitors Online Marketing Activities

Dallas, TX (PRWEB) December 6, 2005 – Does your business know what your competitors are up to? Ever want to know what search engine keywords your competitors are buying, what they’re spending or which affiliates are driving their business? Competitive intelligence is an activity of increasing importance in today’s business world. Zunch Communications, Inc. (http://www.zunch.com/) is pleased to announce today the launch of Zunch Recon, competitive intelligence services for analysis of a competitor’s online marketing strategies, spending and activities.

Zunch Recon competitive intelligence services (http://www.zunch.com/competitive_intelligence.cfm) now available from Zunch Communications, Inc. gives a business, large or small, the chance to increase the impact of its online performance by utilizing the data of its competitors. Competitive reporting on search marketing, online advertising, affiliate marketing and more give any business the competitive edge they need to stay at the top of their industry.

“Competitive analysis is an essential part of any online marketing activity,” said Zunch Chairman & CEO John Sanchez. “It’s not enough in most cases to conduct a pay-per-click advertising campaign or optimize your website with search engine keywords without doing the research on your competitor’s strategy as well.”

As part of a suite of competitive intelligence services, Zunch offers reports on Benchmarking Reconnaissance, Organic and Paid Search, Competitive Keyword Rankings and Affiliate/Linking activities. With one or all of the reports, marketers can evaluate their own strategies and budgets for search engine optimization and marketing campaigns or learn what keywords, affiliates or search engines are driving traffic to a competitor’s website.

“Most people don’t have the time or the resources to conduct this research on their own, said Sanchez. “This information, the kind only available through Zunch Recon, is crucial to any business operating on the Web.”

More information on Zunch’s new Competitive Reconnaissance services can be found at http://www.zunch.com/competitive_intelligence.cfm

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Tuesday, December 06, 2005

Zunch Communications, Inc. Launches Next-Generation Content Management System

Leading Interactive Agency Debuts System with Newly Developed Corporate Website for Leading Texas-Based Company
Dallas, TX (PRWEB) December 6, 2005 – Zunch Communications, Inc. (http://www.zunch.com) announced today the launch of their next-generation content management system built by the Zunch team and written in the Microsoft .NET Framework. The updated system was first used on the recently launched corporate website for a leading North American business-to-business services provider.

“The new system remains simple and user-friendly with its WYSIWYG editor, but features code updates to significantly increase performance,” said Zunch Chairman & CEO John Sanchez. “It allows someone with little or no knowledge of programming to edit a website as they choose and have a fast-loading, high-performance website at the same time.”

The new content management system allows for administrative updating of content and “click and drag” of all navigational elements. It also permits the addition or deletion of pages on-the-fly and is controlled by a rich text WYSIWYG (what-you-see-is-what-you-get) editor. New aspects of the system also include improved performance and speed, with complex pages often loading in less than one-tenth of a second. A fast data-catching layer allows page details to be stored in memory for more efficient look-up.

“We put a lot of thought into what changes we needed to make to our content management system and into what we hoped to achieve with the updates,” said Sanchez.

Continue reading this release...

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Monday, December 05, 2005

SES Update: Lookout Chi-town!

John, Todd, and I arrived at Midway yesterday morning. The hotel we're at is real nice, and the weather is cooold! Not very much to report thus far - right now we're strategizing for tomorrow's opening of the conference hall. A bit later, we'll be attending some of the speaking sessions going on today. Meanwhile, I'll be watching the progress of the booth assembly. The temperature should get down to 9 degrees tonight! We miss Texas :-) Attached is a great picture of downtown Chicago that I took from my hotel room last night just after sunset. It's cold here, but a very nice place.

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