November 20th, 2009
In case you haven’t noticed this entire website has been completely reworked and redesigned thanks to my friends at Blue Sail Creative; the same folks that did the new website for my company Chess Media Group. I’m very excited with the new look and feel for the site and would love to hear what you think about it. The new website design is supposed to accomplish a few things:
- Integrate a travel section into the site to share my stories and experiences and let you share yours
- Increase the amount of interaction and comments, I really want to here more from all of you
- Make everything look and work properly, many of you may have noticed some of the design flaws on the previous design and on the back end there were definitely functional flaws
- Include more information about me and what I’m up to, such as speaking events and travel photos
- Add a speaking page for folks that are interested in having me speak at their event
There are quite a few new additions to the site so allow me to give you a quick tour:
- I added a small about section into the sidebar so people can get a quick idea of who I am and what I do
- Added upcoming events into the sidebar
- Included the book I co-wrote with Josh Peters into the sidebar
- Added a newsletter which is something new for me, I’m hoping to include both travel and social business content
- There is a new speaking page in the main navigation section
- There is also a new travel section which has slightly different features in the sidebar such as flickr photos, a list of countries I’ve visited, and upcoming travel plans
I’ve gone through many design and color change options with Blue Sail Creative and I can honestly say that I feel this design is absolutely fantastic; it does a great job of integrating both social business and travel. If you are looking to have a new site designed or developed be sure to check out Blue Sail, tell them “Jacob” sent you. So there you have it, welcome to the new JMorganMarketing.com website!
I’d love to hear your thoughts and ideas on what you think about the new site. For those of you who don’t remember what the old site looked like, here you go:
TAGS: blue sail creative, jacob morgan, jmorganmarketing, new website
October 28th, 2009
I’ve been talking about Chess Media Group a little bit over the past few weeks and some of you may have noticed that CMG is now included in my Linkedin and Twitter bio. Well, I wanted to take this opportunity to finally and officially announce the launch of Chess Media Group! Chess Media Group is a social business consultancy that was created to help companies understand the ROI and impact from their marketing investments. We look at ourselves as a business consultancy that understands the social media space. We work with clients on developing social business strategies that are clearly tied back to measurable business objects. I won’t get into the details here but I will say that we are focusing on 4 key areas in the social business space (for now):
- Strategic consulting and planning
- Accountability consulting
- Reputation Management and Monitoring
- Education and training
I formed Chess Media Group with Connie Chan (my previous partner at another consultancy) over a month ago and so far things have been great. We’ve hired our first associate which many of you may know, Sonny Gill and we’ve also recruited a stats/data/analytics wiz (who is going to remain anonymous at this point). In addition we are also working on two very exciting partnerships which we will be announcing in the coming weeks.
We still have a few small things to edit on the site and some more content to put up; but for the most part it’s done. We’ve been working on the site for over a month now but we’re finally ready to make it public to the world. The site was designed and developed by our friends over at BlueSailCreative. In fact, I’m going to have this website redesigned as well and Blue Sail is going to handle that.
It’s been pretty tough not having a website, and in fact we just received our business cards as well. I’ve had several companies that were very interested in working with us ask for a website URL or a PPT that I can send over. Well, we’re working on the PPT now but hey, at least we have our website up and running! We wanted to keep things simple yet be able to clearly showcase who we are and what we do. I think we have succeeded.
Please take a look at the website and let me know what you think. There’s a post on the Chess Media Group website introducing the company, you can leave a comment directly on there (or here).
We also created a Facebook Fan page and would love it if you became our fan!
TAGS: chess media group, connie chan, jacob morgan, social business consulting, social media consulting, sonny gill
January 2nd, 2009
Since we are beginning a new year I thought I would kick things off with a new site design. Not everything is up and running yet and there are still a few bugs that need to be fixed; but for the most part this is the new site. There are a couple of things that [...]
TAGS: 2009 site design, jacob morgan, jmorganmarketing, new site 2009, new site design
March 27th, 2008
Ok guys here’s the deal. The Search Marketing Salon launch event in San Francisco is tonight! And I’ll be very honest with everyone, it is going to be packed. We were planning to have around 60 people; we are now over 100. I have mulled over whether or not I should [...]
TAGS: , jacob morgan, search marketing salon
