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More Marketing and sales during recession for success during upturn? Do you need to increase sales and marketing efforts a recession or should you wait until the storm is over.  More...
The "lead" refers to the most important point of an article or a piece of marketing copy. In most cases, it's the main idea that leads off the article, so it's the first thing the user sees. "Burying the lead" means that articles or copy aren't presenting the lead front and center. It's something that many new journalists do with a news st  More...
The one trend we have been following consistently in business to buiness marketing technology is how it’s moving towards being able to identify prospects for your business even before you have spoken to them. Right from lead data capturing, lead nurturing to lead qualification, technology has been evolving to help automate the demand generation pr  More...
In the ongoing effort to achieve relevance in online advertising, marketers increasingly use combinations of ad exchanges and networks to gain the most efficient and successful audience targeting and reach. But innovation is opening up new pricing models and value added services.  More...
If you’ve been doing B2B Marketing for any length of time you know who Brian Carroll is. If you don’t know who he is, you should. His eBook, Eight Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation, is a must read for “lead generation specialists committed to the long-term proposition that digging for leads, educating prospects, navigating the nuance  More...
Here is an updated tutorial on Buying Business Leads containing a list of service providers offering raw materials and additional qualification services to help marketers launch and manage their lead-generation campaigns.  More...
Presents the uses for trade data. For example, the first use for trade data listed is to gain competitive intelligence of competitors supply chains, customers, and products.  More...
Google has decided that it will no longer prohibit businesses bidding for keyword searches of trade marks owned by competitors. In effect, a Google search against a household name may result in a rival business topping the results. Trade mark owners, therefore, will have to outbid competitors if they want their ads to be at the top of the search  More...
Research confirms what you've probably suspected: Buyers are deeply irrational beings. Studies show that even savvy buyers don't always make logical decisions about what they need and what's in their best interests; they often buy with their hearts first and their heads second. Here's how to effectively engage customers on an emotional level.  More...
Search engines are very difficult to completely understand. There are no complete explanations of how their ranking algorithms work. But the very fact that the average person does not intuitively know how to crack the search engine algorithms leads to all sorts of questions; Usually variations of: "How do I get my website to the top of the search  More...
In these economic down times when cost cutting is the mantra the positive effect is that it forces you to think out of the box and come up with alternative solutions to ensure you get the most out of your marketing and lead generation dollars. After having discussed this with a number of marketers and bloggers who have debated how will the recessi  More...
On Thursdays I usually discuss Google and ways to get your website ranked at the top of the search engine. Today I wanted to change course a little bit and talk about Alexa. If you’re not familiar with the company, they’ve created a ranking system to help display how popular websites are in relation to each other. For example, YoungEntrepreneur  More...
Craigslist claims that advertisers are bypassing their security measures to post thousands of ads that interferes with Craigslist's business. For a company of 25 employees, they have certainly have some muscle, hiring Perkins Coie which is a giant and pricey law firm.  More...
Obama and his team understood their target demographic/markets and how to use a mix of multi touch, multi level and multimedia platforms to reach these people where they were already hanging out. By using video game ads, Twitter, an active online community, and a list of other marketing vehicles, the Obama marketing team understood the importance  More...
One day several months ago, David Alston said to me at a conference something like this: “I just realized that there are two conferences going on here. One is in this room, and there are people with note pads writing feverishly and chatting with their neighbors. The other is out on the web, and we’re all Twittering the conversation out to others w  More...