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During the past week, Mark Tewart shared so much great information with blog tour visitors, that I had to give people who missed him - another chance to catch up with his tour visits. If you are a sales person, a business person or if you want to learn how to relate better to other people - this is information that you should read. Mark also had a  More...
Everyone wants to know how to succeed in an online world of blogs, Twitter, and LinkedIn. The key is to understanding how your offline networking skills still apply in a social media world.  More...
The financial crisis will have a detrimental impact on our marketing and sales budgets in 2009. In this crisis, marketing leaders need to re-invent marketing not just as a functional discipline, but as the business fiber that connects prospects to companies like never before.  More...
Although the experts may disagree about whether or not we are currently in a true recession in the U.S., the fact remains: these are troubling economic times for many Americans. How does this climate of concern affect today’s B2B market?  More...
Two years after trying to build a consumer antivirus business, Microsoft has decide to throw in the towel. The software vendor said Tuesday that it will discontinue retail sales of its Windows Live OneCare product at the end of June next year, and instead offer Windows users free antivirus software, code-named Morro.  More...
One of the rules of etiquette is that intimacy has a pace and a sequence. Some things are done only after other things, and usually with a certain elapsed time. Successful salespeople know that that exactly the same rules apply in sales.  More...
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...
As a business owner, it might seem enticing to send an e-mail blast about the latest product or service your company offers to everyone on your list. However, before you do, take a few minutes to see how segmenting your customer base provides more-focused advertising, as well as more sales and marketing opportunities.  More...
Naturally, this has led many individuals, sites and businesses seeking higher rankings to employee tactics that are plausibly removed from the direct exchange of capital for links, and while link brokers and link sales still thrive, they do so in an ever-increasingly paranoid & underground realm so as not to risk discovery and devaluation. In this  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...
All managers want their employees to meet their expectations and goals. That's why it's important for managers to set clear, concise performance standards for themselves and their employees, and to know them inside and out so everybody benefits. Here's how to make this happen.  More...
Asking questions by leaving messages in people's voice mail is tough, but not impossible. These 8 rules teach you how to create brief but useful messages for prospective customers, or use a question as a teaser that leaves your prospect eager to learn more about what you can offer.  More...
Conversions come in all shapes and sizes: clicks, calls, sales, online, offline, and many, many more. The only problem with these conversions is that most advertisers still lack the ability to find out what their conversions are or where they're coming from.  More...
Business to business technology marketing has it’s own learning curve and comes with it’s own set of challenges. Likewise, the demands on having the right kind of marketing data for effectively selling specific technology based products and services also vary and a lot based on the nature of what you sell. If you sell technology to a more generic  More...
Business to business technology marketing has it’s own learning curve and comes with it’s own set of challenges. Likewise, the demands on having the right kind of marketing data for effectively selling specific technology based products and services also vary and a lot based on the nature of what you sell. If you sell technology to a more generic  More...