• VARs: Be YourselvesStrategy
  A value-added reseller's identity is not just about the vendors it keeps. In a tough economy and an ever-changing business environment, smart solution providers are working hard to promote their own brand, apart from their vendor affiliations. "In the past, many VARs stressed their own vendor certifications first and foremost ... more
• Somebody's Watching MeStrategy
  In March 2008, Amber Duick began receiving email messages from a criminal fugitive who identified himself as Sebastian Fowler. "Amber, mate!" read one missive. "Coming 2 Los Angeles. Gonna lay low at your place for a bit till it all blows over." Over the course of five days, he advised ... more
• So Hot You're Cool, So Cool You're HotStrategy
  "A hot brand ends up in one of two different ways," writes Laura Ries at the Ries' Pieces blog. "It burns bright too fast and fizzles. Brands like this are known as fads. Or a brand burns hot then continues at a steady simmer. Brands like this are known as ... more
• Why? Because I Can!Strategy
  "Give a man a hammer," says Lori Feldman at The Database Diva blog, "and everything looks like a nail. Email marketing campaign software often has the same effect on novice email marketers. They forget how much they hate advertising mail when they start sending it out themselves." It's a hazardous mindset—and ... more
• Marketing-Performance Measurement Yields Competitive AdvantageStrategy
  Companies that have fully embraced marketing-performance have marketing organizations that make a more positive impact on business—and are more likely to be market leaders—according to a study conducted by CMG Partners and Chadwick Martin Bailey. more
• Don't Forget Those News GuysStrategy
  Last month, we offered a bunch of options for optimizing your local search advertising. Well, here's a way to extend your local search marketing options even further: through your good-old local news guys. In a recent article at Search Engine Land, KeyRelevance's Chris Silver Smith suggests three ways to optimize ... more
• [Your Name Here]Strategy
  Marketing messages with personalized subject lines usually fail to impress DJ Waldow. "[Most] of those emails use my first name as the 'hook' to get me to open," he writes in a recent post at the Email Experience Council blog. "This never works for me. Never. I know it's fake. ... more
• Fear Not, NumerophobicsStrategy
  Speculate all you want about how successful an online marketing campaign has been. But once someone brings hard data to the table, all bets are off: The answers are plain to see. Surprisingly, however, the average company doesn't make marketing decisions based on data. Why? Some companies explain that they ... more
• Wonder-Twin Powers, Activate!Strategy
  Inactive subscribers are a conundrum for email marketers. Although they treat your messages with apparent indifference, they never opt out; as a result, you continue to send messages that they continue to ignore. You naturally want to reactivate these recipients so you can revive relationships and make future sales.  Now here's ... more
• Come Tweet With MeStrategy
  Hoping to position Lufthansa as bigger than just a German airline, digital agency Profero has helped it create MySkyStatus—a tool that has brought Lufthansa's branding catch-phrase, "passion for precision," to life in a hands-on way. "Communications needs to have a use," explains Profero's Wayne Arnold in a recent article at Adweek. "Saying ... more
• Tip Your Hat to the Tried-and-TrueStrategy
  "Too often, we are looking for silver-bullet systems or recipes for success, while ignoring the basics," says Bill Rice in a post at the Better Closer blog. "In my experience, 90 percent of big sales improvement comes from getting back to the basics." What are the tried-and-true basics of B2B marketing—those ... more
• Glamp It UpStrategy
  Warren Katz uses a post at the Elephant Bites blog to discuss the recession-driven microtrend of "glamping"—a freshly coined portmanteau for glamorous camping. In essence, its proponents want the low-budget benefit of a holiday in the great outdoors, but don't care to leave all the luxuries of home behind. "So, who ... more
• Is Murdoch Going Off the Grid?Strategy
  Google and other sites may soon be prevented from searching and indexing News Corp. content, Rupert Murdoch recently said. Whether content can live (profitably) off the Google grid remains to be seen. more
• Who Invited You?Strategy
  Last summer, Morgan Stewart of ExactTarget quizzed 2,400 people on their attitudes toward marketing and made an interesting discovery. "70% of consumers who visit Facebook at least once a month and are a 'fan' of at least one company or brand, don't believe they have given those companies permission to ... more
• Getting Hot, Hot, HotterStrategy
  Does the URL to your Web page sizzle? In a recent Bloggapedia post, online marketer Bill Hartzer reports on the Alexa Toolbar's popular Alexa Hot URLs list. According to Hartzer, the list presents "the hottest Web pages on the Internet right now," and it's updated every five minutes! That should ... more
• Outside the Box, Inside the PocketStrategy
  Mobile marketing isn't the unicorn it used to be. Most folks in your demo probably have a real, live phone within immediate reach for most of their waking days. And the rising popularity of iPhone and Google's Android platform and other Internet-ready smartphones are making it simple these days to ... more
• Reports of Email's Death ExaggeratedStrategy
  While some believe that the rise of Twitter and Facebook has sounded email's death knell, Jordan Cohen, writing at the Pivotal Veracity blog, disagrees. He takes issue with statements like this one from the Wall Street Journal: "Email has had a good run as [the] king of communications. But its ... more
• Successful Selling: Hitting the TrifectaStrategy
  There are three elements to selling: access, influence and delivery. Whether you work in sales or marketing, whatever you do must impact one of those elements—that is, give you access to your customers, help you influence those customers and help you deliver on what you promise. So advises sales expert Jim ... more
• Want Spam With That Spam?Strategy
  A few years ago, Neil Schwartzman downloaded—but never used—the trial version of an anti-spam software program. "It turned out it was Windows-only," he explains at his blog, "so I never installed it, as I use a Mac. Have done since 1986." Following the download, he received the customary follow-up—one email to ... more
• Enjoy Some Good Holiday CheeseStrategy
  As the goblins and ghouls out there munch away on their Halloween bounty, fond memories arise of one apparition we saw a lot of this season—the Monster Mash JibJab "sendable." The e-card uses facial-recognition technology to seamlessly attach the faces of your friends or family to the body of a monster. ... more
• So, the Recession Is a Good Thing?Strategy
  While acknowledging the damage this recession has done to the personal and professional lives of so many people, Freddie Laker also argues that our dark economic cloud has brought with it a significant silver lining for marketers. "I think this might be the best thing that has happened to our industry ... more
• Polish Your Brand With Co-CreationStrategy
  "A revolution in both marketing thought and practice is at hand," say three researchers in an interesting new report on brand marketing. In their research, these authors examined "consumer co-creation in an empirical context"—specifically, creative consumer behavior in nine brand communities across a wide array of products, including Apple Newton (a ... more
• I Prefer a Smooth BlendStrategy
  To be free or not to be free? That is the question many content providers are asking these days. Says SEO Book author Aaron Wall in a Search Engine Land article: "Free content can spread far and get many links, but it won't produce any revenue directly. If it is paid, ... more
• Mind the Big Three Be'sStrategy
  Fun fact: Only 13% of the mobile market has an iPhone. That sounds like plenty when you consider how long the phone's been available, but it merits remembering that the vast majority of users—and possibly many in your demo—still don't have one. So how to wiggle into the pockets of non-iPhoners ... more
• Why Salespeople Fail Strategy
  "It's a battle of the plans, and the person with the stronger plan wins," says Steven Kraner at Hightechguru.com, and it's the main reason why high-tech salespeople fail. Technology buyers are often formally trained to manage salespeople, extract as much information as possible and maintain control over the sales process. ... more

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Strategy articles by the best and brightest in the field

• Start Smart: A 10-Step Social Media Guide for B2B Marketers by Christina "CK" Kerley
  There's no escaping it, marketers: Amid a flurry of headlines, bestsellers, and reports documenting social media's meteoric rise... the future has arrived. But for a B2B executive tasked with making sense of it all, wouldn't it be nice if the future came with a road map? Follow this 10-step guide. more
• Yes, Facebook Is a Business Tool by Paul Chaney
  Is Facebook really a tool for business? Paul Chaney says yes. Much the same way a power company connects homes and businesses with electricity, Facebook is a "social utility" designed to facilitate connections between people as well as businesses. Accordingly, it can be highly useful as a business tool. This article ... more
• Mobile Coupons: Your Message on the Move by Bob Bentz
  Ask most US consumers whether they want to receive mobile-marketing messages on their cell phones, and they will usually answer with a resounding "No." Consumers worry they'll start receiving unwanted Viagra ads and messages from a prince in Kenya. Nothing could be further from the truth. more
• The Surprising Evolution of Online Marketing in Software Sales by Jayson Gehri
  Online marketing is nothing new for software marketers. It's only natural that the software industry and computer-software users migrated to the Internet early on. So although the idea of online marketing isn't new, how software is marketed online continues to evolve. more
• Is Anybody Following Your Thought Leadership? Five Best-Practices by Paul McKeon
  A big part of making market leadership pay off is an ability to convey and promote thought leadership. Thought leadership is the outward expression of market leadership. It conveys your views on where your market-space is heading (or should be heading), and by communicating in that way, you show confidence ... more
• Marketing: Beware of 'Outkicking the Coverage' by Laura Patterson
  Although football metaphors abound in business, this article explores the idea of "outkicking your coverage," which is when an overly strong player can actually be harmful to a team's performance. "Outkicking" refers to when an exceptional punter kicks the ball so far down the field that the runner for the receiving ... more
• Transforming Customers Into a Community by Adam Boyden
  When your customers feel that they are part of a community, they visit your website more often, provide feedback, and recommend your products and services to people they know. They do so because they now have a significant relationship with your company that surpasses brand awareness; they are now your ... more
• Advertising Is the Price You Pay for Not Being Creative by John Rooks
  We are at a unique place and time. The crossroads of environmental and economic crises provide agile companies with the ability to capture market share in a down market by cutting their media buys and engaging their fan base in new ways. more
• 11 Tips for Challenging Government-Marketing Myths and Reaching Buyers by Becky Sheetz-Runkle
  Just as selling to government is different from selling to any other industry, marketing to government requires a distinct approach. Although there is no shortage of ways to reach government buyers, some ways are better than others. To help shatter myths and guide you to a sound strategy, compiled below ... more
• Top 5 Elements of an Annual Business Plan by Donna Bletzinger
  It's that time again: the end of another fiscal year. Time to assess this year's successes and start planning for next year. What does that mean? It means it's time to write your business plan. A business plan can be hundreds of pages or just a few. Whatever the volume, however, ... more
• Your Website's Missing Ingredient by Jerry Bader
  When websites fail, most often it's because they do not function effectively as your primary communication tool. The Web is overcrowded with options, and unless you're prepared to deliver a compelling, differentiating presentation you will be quickly dismissed as irrelevant. Let's face it: Business is tough, probably tougher than it's ... more
• Five Social Media Tools You Can't Afford to Ignore by Mack Collier
  Sure, social media is big. But even if your company doesn't have the resources for a dedicated social media strategy, here are five social media sites and tools you can't afford to ignore. more
• Live Together, Suffer Alone: Understanding the Cross-Channel Mix (and Why Yours May Not Be Working) by Keith Kochberg
  Today's marketers are challenged to implement multiple techniques—from search to affiliate to media advertising and more—to achieve different results. Each channel has its own set of rules, its own potential results, even its own manager (whether outsourced or in-house) to keep things running smoothly. Although, in theory, each channel can operate ... more
• Problem Solved: How Do You Convince the Boss That It's Time to Go Social? by Claire Coyne
  There's nothing we love more than solutions—top-notch insights from top-of-the-line experts that help solve common marketing problems. Here's this week's solution, featuring SAS, which offers us a solution to the following problem: How does Marketing convince the CEO that it's time to embrace social media? more
• Retail Price and the Impact of Commodity-Price Inflation by Joy Joseph
  In the past year, the most fundamental of the 4 Ps of marketing (price) has rapidly risen to prominence. In a way, that is an inevitable outcome of the recent media focus on macro factors that determine the economics of demand and supply—inflation, employment, and income, to name a few. Not surprisingly, ... more
• Social Media Reality-Check by Brandon Walsh
  Is the social-media explosion a "big bang" that's creating a whole new brand-communications paradigm, or is it part of an ongoing evolution whereby focused brand-building principles are not only still relevant but more important than ever? more
• How To Generate Blogger Buzz: Eight Proven Tips by Kimberly Smith
  For those accustomed to traditional PR, the blogosphere seems an entirely different beast—but one that has the potential to turn your message into a viral sensation. The following eight tips will help you capture the right kind of attention from bloggers. more
• A Corporate Field Guide to Social-Media Policy Development by Kimberly Smith
  Your employees are already on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and the like... so isn't it high time for companies to acknowledge that activity and implement a protective framework that will assist them in mitigating the risks related to employee productivity, confidentiality, brand representation, and company reputation? more
• Online Lead Generation: A Good Way to Sell a Lead—but No Way to Sell a Car by Scott Painter
  The Internet was expected to dramatically change the way we buy and sell new cars by offering consumers better information and the opportunity to be in control of the process, and, by extension, giving dealers a more effective, targeted channel for finding buyers. But what's emerged instead is quite different. It's ... more
• Put Crowdsourcing to Work for You: Five Tips for Getting Started by Kimberly Smith
  Some companies are finding that their customers have a truer understanding of their own motivators and needs than even the most-qualified Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), and (what's more) that an outsider perspective may be just what their organizations need. It's called crowdsourcing, and within are some real-world examples and tips for ... more
• Irresponsible Corporate Responsibility: Doing Good Isn't Always Done Well by Alyssa Dver
  If you are going to implement a corporate social responsibility program, do so responsibly. A poorly executed program can negatively affect the business in many ways. It takes one missing element, one arrogant blogger, or one angry ex-employee to publicly point out the failings of the good works that the ... more
• Jump-Start Marketing Accountability: Three Ideas for Giving CFOs and CMOs Something Better in Common by Kevin Clancy, Peter Krieg
  We're five or so years into the "Era of Accountability," and what do we have to show for it? Is marketing any closer to demonstrating to CEOs and CFOs what they're getting for their money? Are we marketers more comfortable in our own skins, confident of our ability to measure ... more
• Five Essential Strategies for Measuring Marketing Effectiveness by Ram Krishnamurthy, Brad Ewald
  To drive response and determine the appropriate marketing mix in this new digital paradigm, marketers must adopt a fresh approach to understand how to influence prospects and customers. By doing so, marketers can maximize marketing spend and generate stronger return on investment. more
• Brand-Building: The Limits of Engagement by Joel Rubinson
  Suppose you learned that most of your brand's buyers are switchers: that only 15% of your customers are highly loyal to your brand and account for maybe half of sales. The harsh reality is that that's a typical pattern for many grocery brands. So how do you build a marketing ... more
• Software Sales: How to Do More With Less by Tim Keyes
  "Do more with less." That is the challenge for software marketers today: to get better results from their marketing programs on increasingly smaller budgets. It's important for software marketers to analyze the effectiveness of their programs and determine their return on investment (ROI), because a careful look will reveal that some ... more

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Strategy case studies, deconstructing real life examples and illustrating lessons learned

• How a Small Company Went Global (Without Breaking the Bank)Lingo24.com
  CASE STUDY: In the age of globalization and the Internet, extending your reach beyond you home market is easier than ever... if you put some strategic thinking behind it. more
• How Domino's Managed a Viral Video NightmareDomino's Pizza
  CASE STUDY: What do you do when potentially devastating information about your company goes hyper-viral online, reaching millions of people essentially overnight? more
• How IBM Offset the Impact of a Down Economy on Event AttendanceIBM
  CASE STUDY: How can you confront today's economic headwinds? See how IBM avoided a looming disaster and reached safe harbor with the help of customers and partners. more
• How One Website Doubled Its Ad RevenuePlanningFamily.com
  CASE STUDY: Even in the midst of a recession, when advertising spend has been drying up, this website doubled its ad revenue. How, exactly? Take a gander... more
• How a New, Low-Cost Offline Channel Generated Surprisingly Stellar Results for SamsungSamsung Electronics Canada
  CASE STUDY: When your product competes with the iPhone, you have to get creative. Which is just what Samsung did. more
• A Facebook Experiment in Ad TargetingOne Day, One Job
  CASE STUDY: Here's how One Day, One Job—an online company that helps college students find entry-level jobs—grew its Web traffic and visibility via targeted ads on the social network. more
• How Low-Cost Conversation Starters Built Community, Generated LeadsOpen Kernel Labs
  CASE STUDY: How do you build a thousand-strong online community when your entire global audience is just 20,000 people? Easy! (Not really, but it's possible.) more
• How to Spark Fanatical Engagement and Advocacy by Heroically Tapping Into User InterestsCisco Systems
  CASE STUDY: Forget the norms. For Cisco Systems, reinvigorating its security line and authenticating its leadership spot meant something truly heroic. more
• Twitter + Coffee = A Delicious Elixir for Customer Acquisition and SalesCoffee Groundz
  CASE STUDY: The Houston-area coffee shop was just one among many, until it found Twitter. Today, the Coffee Groundz is ground zero among local social-media fans—and sales have soared. more
• A Fresh Way to Use Email as an Interactive ToolGarden Fresh Restaurant Corp.
  CASE STUDY: Garden Fresh had more than half a million customers on its email list. But it wanted customers to do more than print out coupons. It sought to build customer loyalty by using email as an interactive tool. more
• Generating Serious B2B Buzz With Dead Bugs... and VideoGrasshopper.com
  CASE STUDY: Entrepreneurs, by definition, don't play it too safe. So for a company that serves startups and small businesses, what better way to launch a rebranding campaign and generate buzz than doing something novel and risky—but being wicked smart about it. Which is where the bugs come in. more
• How an Interactive Game Stimulated Product Awareness and SalesSony United
  CASE STUDY: To differentiate itself in a crowded consumer-electronics market, Sony Electronics leveraged a bond—James Bond—with sister company Sony Pictures. A Bond-themed interactive game and sweepstakes resulted in 45,000 clickthroughs to product pages—and a 12-15% increase in sales of those products. more
• Tips From Microsoft on Cultivating Customer Satisfaction & Loyalty on a Global ScaleMicrosoft Corporation
  CASE STUDY: With millions of customers in more than 90 countries, Microsoft has its hands full keeping customers satisfied and loyal. But it has found a way to do so—by using Web-monitoring tools, social-media analytics, and the energy of influencers. Read on for valuable insights. more
• Three Small (Biz) Steps to Increased Product & Service Sales, Recession EditionPaul Hyland Salon & Day Spa
  CASE STUDY: Sales of luxury products and services have been suffering in the current economy—all the more so for small businesses. But email, coupons, and new-client referral and member-rewards programs have helped this small business beat the recession blues. See how. more
• Using Video to Reel in Record High Traffic and ConversionsKinaxis
  CASE STUDY: Supply-chain software provider Kinaxis needed to reel in more customers, so it created a comedy video series, which soon became its most popular online content. The videos drew record site traffic and conversions, as well as doubling RSS subscriptions to the company blog within the first month. more
• Harnessing Web 3.0 to Pump Up Brand Preference and LoyaltyASUS (North America) and Intel
  CASE STUDY: In this new age of conversation between corporation and consumer, chip-maker Intel and PC-maker ASUS have embraced "crowdsourcing." Allowing consumers to design the ideal PC, they are gaining valuable consumer insight and in the process building not just a PC but customer loyalty. more
• How Good Karma Mixed With Moxy and Social Media Created Close to $1 Million in RevenueHelp A Reporter Out
  CASE STUDY: How does helping out a friend, or a friend of a friend, become a million-dollar business... with not a penny spent on advertising? When those little favors are in huge demand—and word-of-mouth and social media spread the good news like wildfire. more
• How a Single Voice Recording Scored Immediate Ticket Sales for Boston CollegeBoston College Athletics
  CASE STUDY: Boston College had just two weeks to inspire alumni and fans to make a last-minute trip to Florida after the school's football team secured its first conference title game. An enticing voice-marketing campaign quickly generated 5,000 ticket sales, netting $200,000. more
• How Mobile Text Marketing Is Increasing Ancillary Revenues, Room Upgrades, and Customer LoyaltyDays for Business Alliance (Days Inn)
  CASE STUDY: Cutting-edge customer service that relies on mobile texting has helped an alliance of hotels to retain customers among the thinning number of business travelers—and avoid disaster during the economic downturn. Read on to see how. more
• How a Facebook Game Attracted 10 Times the Traffic, New Fans, Real SalesAdobe Systems, Inc.
  CASE STUDY: Here's how a single Facebook game application attracted more than 11,500 plays, 10 times the usual traffic, 5,500 new fans, and more.... more

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