Sales and Marketing
What’s the Problem with Demos?
Demos Sell! I was visiting a company recently, they had a full court press on doing demos. People were measured on the number of demos they were doing, they had created a contest around who…
Putting the “B” in B2B with Inbound Marketing
“If you build it, they will come.” Sorry, Kevin Costner, but in the world of online marketing and lead generation, it’s not enough to simply build a website. Yes, inbound marketing delivers a below-average cost per…
10 Effective Marketing Lessons from Sun Tzu’s “The Art of War”
Sun Tzu’s “The Art of War” was written in the second century BC. He was a high-ranking general in the Chinese military and wrote one of the most influential strategic and tactical military books in…
10 Unbelievable Mobile Marketing Statistics
Mobile marketers need to stay in touch. Mobile strategies adapt, and industry decision makers should be capable of positively impacting consumers with great benefits. A surprising amount of statistics currently support the growing mobile marketing…
The Benefits of A/B Testing Your Website
Very rarely in business do we get things right first time. Most of the products and services we use every day have been through several revisions to get to where they are today. The same…
How to Get More Opens with This Email Marketing Magic Secret
According to Invespcro, an average of 54 percent of emails received daily are promotional, and emails are believed to be 40 times more effective for drawing in new customers. This is compared with Facebook or…
15 Powerful Ways to Growth-Hack Your Social Media: Part 1
Let me start by asking you a question: How much time do you spend each week on social media? Does it amount to what you would describe as either “too much,” or “more than you’d…
What to Do When Your Business Gets a Bad Review
With the evolution of multiple online review opportunities, the power balance between businesses and their customers has shifted. Customers now have the final word, and often their comments show up front and center when someone…
What’s Wrong with Business Networking
I’m starting to realize I hate the word “networking” used as a verb, meaning—apparently—some variation on connections with people for self-serving business use. Business networking my [whatever]. I’m pretty sure people are actual living breathing human…
6 Bold Predictions for Digital Marketing in 2016
As 2015 begins to wind down, the prediction posts pontificating what the next year has in store have begun to ramp up. This has become something of an annual tradition for marketers and this season…
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