- Google Instant 101Search Engine Marketing
Still wondering how Google Instant—the new enhancement that shows results as you type—changes search marketing?
Well, Google promises to shave 2.5 seconds off each user's search, with the end result ...
- Four Ways to Optimize Your Digital Marketing Spend High-Tech Mktg & Sales
The recession has provided even more momentum to the ongoing shift to digital. Tech marketers are expected to increase their marketing budgets on average 3.7% in 2010, according to IDC. ...
- How Tippex Scored a YouTube HitSocial Media
In August, correction-tape brand Tippex launched an attention-grabbing YouTube campaign. Colorfully labeled "NSFW. A hunter shoots a bear!," it shows footage of a reluctant hunter faced with shooting a bear ...
- Four Ways to Go B2B-Social on TwitterB2B Marketing
"For some B2B marketers, Twitter isn't intuitive," notes Ardath Albee in a recent post at the Marketing Interactions blog. "I could come up with a list of reasons why not, ...
- Three Ways to Market Nostalgia in Social CommunitiesCustomer Insight
You've no doubt noticed it: Products from the past are making a comeback. Coke and Pepsi have recently introduced throwback versions of their soft drinks. Mrs. Butterworth, Strawberry Shortcake, Atari ...
- Email Marketing in the Age of the 'Ultra Managed Inbox'Email Marketing
For years, writes Stephanie Miller at the Deliverability blog, marketers have enjoyed the linear nature of the email inbox—your newsletters and offers sitting cheek-by-jowl with personal correspondence from a subscriber's ...
- Ask an Imprecise Question, Get an Imprecise AnswerMarketing Analytics
When you write survey questions, it's important to ensure the information it elicits will produce meaningful analysis. "Data from mixed-mode questions are hard, if not impossible, to interpret accurately," explains ...
- Protect Profitability: Start Each Day With a Mission StatementSmall Business
"Many business owners have dutifully written their vision and mission statements, working hard to craft statements with impact and importance," writes Marla Tabaka at Inc. "But what happens to those ...
- How to Outbid Bigger Competitors on Google AdWordsSearch Engine Marketing
You might think that your small business—say, one with an annual Google AdWords budget of $50,000—has no chance when bidding against larger companies with much deeper pockets. Happily, that just isn't ...
- Leads: Quality or Quantity? Depends Where They Are in the Sales Cycle.Lead Generation
As a marketer, you might have noticed a certain ebb and flow in the requests you get from your sales department. "At the beginning of the year when the funnel ...
- Five Easy Tools for Long-Distance CollaborationSocial Media
New media's about discovering savvier ways of communicating—not just with your target, but with your team as well. After all, the closer you collaborate, the better equipped you are to produce winning ...
- Four B2B Marketing Engines to Fire Up Right NowB2B Marketing
In a recent post at the Reputation to Revenue blog, Rob Leavitt questions the value of B2B firms' putting so much energy into "advertising and collateral"—and stresses the need for ...
- How to Ensure Your Messages Render CorrectlyEmail Marketing
You might think you've done your rendering homework, but that might not be the case. "Don't assume that the custom template you tested several months ago is still rendering correctly ...
- How to Become a NewsmakerSmall Business
When you're ready to position yourself as a media resource, says blogger Nettie Hartsock, you can hire publicists who pitch your expertise to journalists—or you can start making news at ...
- Four Steps to SEO-Friendly ContentSearch Engine Marketing
"You have a great website. It has beautiful images, a compelling theme and intuitive navigation, all designed to take eager visitors to complete descriptions of your proprietary products and services," ...
- Three Ways to Engage Prospects in a Buyer-Controlled Sales Cycle High-Tech Mktg & Sales
With vast Web-based resources now available to evaluate products and services, tech buyers are no longer dependent on Sales for information about purchases. Buyers don't want or need to engage ...
- How to Use Twitter to Boost Buzz, Sales and EngagementSocial Media
In September, UNIQLO UK launched Lucky Counter, a piece of marketing genius that compelled users to Tweet about the company's products. Each time they did, the products got more appealing.
How? Lucky ...
- Four Ways to Revive a Comatose B2B BlogB2B Marketing
Blogging ain't easy, folks. Anyone who's tried to maintain a vital B2B blog knows that. And in down times, when marketers are scrambling to meet profit goals, the task becomes ...
- Tips From 'The Office' on Social-Media Customer EngagementCustomer Insight
The hit TV sitcom The Office has extended its brand reach and consumer appeal through clever uses of social media. "Although there are only around 23 episodes [per year] ... ...
- A Four-Step Plan to Re-Engage Inactive SubscribersEmail Marketing
"Your email database might show big numbers," writes Loren McDonald at Silverpop, "but 25 percent to 40 percent of your subscribers, or more, could be inactive without showing any obvious ...
- Present Your Data, Encourage ActionMarketing Analytics
"The hardest nut to crack in any type of analytics is getting our decision makers (bosses, leaders, marketers) to take action based on data," writes Avinash Kaushik at Occam's Razor. ...
- Thoughts About Being a Thought LeaderSmall Business
Don't make the mistake of assuming thought leadership springs automatically from content marketing. "Thought leadership is not created with one, two or three pieces of content," writes Ardath Albee at ...
- Five Ways Deep Links Help SEOSearch Engine Marketing
Worried that your website's inbound deep links—links to site pages other than your homepage or other top-level pages—are distracting visitors from your main advertising or branding page? Or that visitors ...
- Track the Pulse of Top iPhone and iPad AppsMobile Marketing
One of the most frustrating things about the iTunes store is its unintuitive search function. That's why folks have invented new apps like AppsFire for iPhone. It's an application that ...
- How to Nurture Your Leads' EmotionsLead Generation
More than ever, your lead-generation program must include a strong nurturing component. A DemandGen survey, notes Cheryl Goldberg at the High-Tech Communicator blog, found that nurtured leads produce a 20-percent ...