Sales and Marketing

Polish Your Online Reputation Before You Launch Your Business

Whether there are too many Facebook photos of you with red solo cups, you’ve got an ex who blogged about your relationship in detail, or you’ve publicly made some bad career moves, your poor online…

The Increasing Importance of Millennials in B2B Marketing

Yes. You read right. This post is about millennials and yes, they are growing into an increasingly important target market for all B2B verticals, especially in manufacturing, technology & business services. If you think millennials…

Are You Ready to Podcast?

According to Wikipedia a podcast is a collection of digital media files distributed over the internet using syndication feeds for playback on portable media players and personal computers. Here’s my definition. A podcast is an…

Creating Platform-Specific Content: JustFly’s Guide to Finding Your Audience

Content marketing isn’t about just writing great content and hitting ENTER. With the wave of different platforms that are out there, content needs to be tailor-made to the medium you are using to broadcast it….

Why Your Business Needs a Social Media Calendar

Social media posts can be rushed last-minute jobs. “Writer’s block” can be a problem. You might be worried about a lack of engagement, or just need a dose of guidance about what to post and…

You Need Customer Feedback to Grow Your Business

The saying that “the customer is always right” has taken a different shape in the modern age. Today the customer is not only the king, but he or she is also the measure of all…

Selling Across the Sea: 4 Essential Steps for Effective Foreign Marketing

Before you enter into a foreign market, you need to do some careful research. Lots of businesses charge headlong into markets they don’t understand fully only be to be crushed by competitors that have more…

Social Media Marketing is Disappointing Marketers

Last month, I blogged about the CMO Survey that demonstrated how few companies are able to prove the impact of their social media activities quantitatively. And, that social media contributes little to company performance. So, now what? The Leapfrog…

5 B2B Brands Who Rocked Storytelling

B2C storytelling has a long and stable history. Think Don Draper from Mad Men, whose whole thing was basically telling good stories (and acting less intoxicated than he should have been). But B2B? It’s harder to…

Google Analytics Can Reveal Your Best Opportunities

Does your small business “sort of” use Google Analytics? Maybe you’re set up with an account, but unclear on how to unravel data from the vast amount of complexity? If so, you’re not alone. Google…

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