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7Dec/110

“Leader Board” Vital Wall Sample

Here is a Vital Wall "Leader Board" created with our wordpress plugin - Shows live "score" of your top posts for the day, week or time frame of your choice.  Great for getting real time feed back on your blog or store.

You can view it live here - http://vitalwall.com/wall/benblog

It's easy to set up your own wall in seconds, go to vitalwall.com and set up a free account.

 

 

 

 

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13Nov/110

New WordPress Plugin to use Vital Wall to track your Blog

I have released a new wordpress plugin today that you can use to set up a wordpress blog to work with one of your Vital Walls.  All you need to do is set up a wall and then download the plugin and install it on your blog, add the wall id in the options and your wall will begin showing blog titles live when they are visited.

Download and Install Plugin

You can download the plugin at:

http://vitalwall.com/wp_plugin/vitalwall_wp.zip

Now, unzip the file into the /wp-content/plugins/ directory of your blog.  Then go to the plugins page of your admin panel and activate the plugin.  Once activated, you can go to the Vital Wall options under the Settings menu and enter your wall id.

That's it!  When someone visits a post on your blog, the title will show up on your wall.

Here is the wall for my blog, BenENewton.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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3Nov/110

Add your Vital Wall to your Facebook Page

It's not hard to add one of your walls to your Facebook Page.  With the new iframe tabs they allow you to add, it's rather simple.

So what can you do with a vital wall on your Facebook Page?

  • Have a Live Top List of Products on your site
  • Put a "Window" in your shop and show the images of viewed products as they are viewed by other customers or as they are added to a cart.
  • Have a top list of the last # hour's top blog posts viewed.
I will put up a video shortly of how to add a vital wall to your facebook page.
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27Oct/110

Window Shopping – Create a Live Feed of Hot Items on Your Front Page

When you walk into a store and you see a crowd around a shelf, you're going to go see what they are looking at.  You want the same thing to happen when people visit your website?  Then put a vital wall on your front page that shows a live feed of currently viewed items.  This will enable vistors to see what is being viewed live.  If there is a hot item, people entering your store are going to see it.

Take a look at the front page of silverbullet.com.  You will see a "Hot Items" section on the right.  This shows all the items being viewed, live!

It's quick an easy to install.

Quick Install

First, set up a wall in your account.

Then, go to your product page in your site.  At the bottom of the page, insert the following code.

<script type="text/javascript">
 
var vitaldata='<div><div id="manufacturer"><%=rs("manufacturer_short_name")%></div><a href="LINK_TO_ITEM"><img src="LINK_TO_IMAGE"></a></div>';
 
var wall_id='YOUR_WALL_ID';
 
</script>
 
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.vitalwall.com/vitaldata.js"></script>

Of course, you can pass whatever you like in the vitaldata variable. This is just a format I used when writing silverbullet.com. Now, when your product page is visited, the data for that item is passed to your vitalwall and is available for your wall.

Include Your Wall

To include the wall on your front page, insert the following code in your page. Put the div with the id of results where you want your wall.

<div id="results"></div>

Then, towards the bottom of the page, insert the following code.

<script type="text/javascript">
var wall_id='YOUR_WALL_ID';
var div_id='results';
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://vitalwall.com/include_wall.js"></script>

Use CSS to customize your wall

You can use CSS to customize the look of your wall. Add borders, colors, margins etc.

That's it. You now have a live view of what is being viewed in your ecommerce store, and better yet, so do your customers.

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7Jul/110

Include Your Vital Wall in Any Page

You can now include your Vital Wall in any webpage.  With a few lines of javascipt, turn any div into your vital wall.  I will be posting examples up soon how to add a live window so to speak into your ecommerce site.  I have added it to a bigcommerce.com site and it works great.  You can allow customers to see what other customers are browsing live.  Imagine if there is a popular item in your store, now your customers can see the "crowd" in that aisle.  Watch for more details and examples.

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3Jul/110

Set Up Your First Wall

In this lesson, you will set up your first wall with VitalWall.

 

Log in to your account

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Enter your email and password to go to your accounts main page.

Click New Wall

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Click "New Wall"

Fill In Wall Name

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Fill in the name of the Wall. This will be used in the <title> tag when viewing your wall.

Select Wall Type

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Select Wall Type. (More options coming very soon)

Enter Link Text

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Enter text to be used in the link to your wall.

Click Add Wall

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Click "Add Wall"

Copy Code to insert into your page

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Copy the code to your clipboard. This is the code you will insert into your web page where you want to track data.

Insert Code Into Your Page

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Use your favorite web page or text editor and load the page you want to track. Insert the code on your clipboard to your code before the end </body> tag in your page.

Change the 'DATA TO PASS TO WALL' to your data.

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This is the most important step. Change the String 'DATA TO PASS TO WALL' to whatever you want to pass to the wall. Make sure you leave the quotes. And that's it. Your wall will start collecting data.

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3Jul/110

Welcome to the VitalWall Blog

Welcome to VitalWall.com's Blog.  Over the coming weeks we will introduce you to more features and new ways to display your walls.

What is VitalWall?

VitalWall.com makes it simple for you to track what you need to track from your website on a daily basis.  Google Analytics is great to see how you have done over the last week, month or year, but you need to know what is happening now.  If a product on your e-commerce site is suddenly the most popular thing on the web or an article on your site is mentioned somewhere and is now being read very minute, you need to know.

Right now, you can set up a wall to do any of these things in minutes by copying a couple of lines of code to your site.  It's just like installing google analytics.  Set up a wall to show what products are being looked at on your site as it happens.  Set up a wall to view articles read on your blog as they happen.  You can view this wall in your browser, share the link with co-workers, or better yet, put it on a big screen in your office or department so everybody can see it.

This is just the beginning.  In the coming weeks, we will be adding many new features to make walls from other sources and cusomtize the walls.  There are too many plans to go into right now, but watch this blog for all the updates.

To set up a wall now, sign up for a free account now while we are in beta.  If you have any feedback or suggestions, don't hesitate to share them here.

See a Wall in Action

Here is a link to one of the first walls set up.  This wall shows products on valorcorp.com as the public views them.  They have walls to show customers as they log in, cities as they log in and search terms as they are entered.  This gives them a real feeling of what is going on and who is on their website without having to decipher charts and reports.  This wall is created in early beta, so by the time you see this, there will likely be more options available than are seen here.

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