Sales and Marketing

Are You Really Different?

We know the importance of differentiating ourselves in attempting to win business. We try to do this at our web sites, often posting comparisons and charts showing how we have more features and functions than…

Is Your Brand a 50’s Housewife or Free Spirit?

The days of poodle skirts, greased back hair and Mary Jane’s may be gone but is the prim and proper image of the time not as far gone as we may think? Despite the times…

9 Advanced Content Marketing Strategies for Small Businesses

Starting a small business can seem like a huge gamble, but the biggest emphasis on your small business is not always the initial or ongoing investment. Your largest influence will be the content marketing strategies…

5 Free and Easy Ways to Promote Your Small Business Today

TWENTY MINUTES. THAT’S ALL YOU NEED. Ten minutes to read this blog. Ten minutes to carry out one of the five actions below. Time: twenty minutes. Cost: zero. Not too much to promote your business…

Why Trade Shows Are Still Relevant

Marketers have a tendency to claim that rival fields are dying, and this has certainly been the case when writing about event marketing in recent years. With the rapid growth of digital marketing over the…

Sometimes Nothing is Better

There is a required critical mass in terms of marketing. Sometimes it’s actually better to do nothing as opposed to underfunding an effort. In this conversation underfunding could mean not having enough money but it…

7 Ways You Can Significantly Increase Your Email Subscribers

Email marketing is the best way to deliver your promotional messages right into the inbox of the web user or customer (prospective or otherwise). A study and survey recently revealed that around 77% of customers…

Are You Commoditizing Your Customers?

Everyone understands the challenges of selling commoditized products. They are perceived as undifferentiated. In the customers’ and markets’ eyes, there is no difference between these products, regardless the supplier. To win with commoditized products, we…

3 Most Successful Email Tactics are the Most Difficult

You’ve likely heard the saying: “Nothing worth having comes easy.” For most of us, this resonates with truth. Now there’s a new study that proves that hard work pays off for email marketing list growth. After…

User Testing the SERPS: How Do Your Customers Really Search?

How do you know what your customers are searching for online? Most SEOs scream: MONTHLY SEARCH VOLUME Don’t worry, it isn’t their fault; even Google thinks SEO research is synonymous with Keyword research (The top 10 results for…

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