• 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 ...
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• 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 ...
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• Eight Ways Marketers Can Benefit From Using Alltop by Mack Collier
  In aggregating and organizing content from top sites around the Internet, Alltop goes a long way toward solving the filtering problem that many of us have. Alltop can be an invaluable tool for marketers. This article shares eight ways that ...
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• 22 Cheap or Free Web Usability Tools, Part 2 by Craig Tomlin
  In Part 1 of this series, we discussed the value of usability testing and talked about some testing tools. Here are more reviews of low-cost or no-cost usability tools.
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• 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 ...
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• Blogging From Scratch: Four Elements Your New Business Blog Must Have by Mack Collier
  You've decided to launch a blog for your business and you're busy laying the groundwork. You've selected a name for it, and you know what you want to blog about and who your bloggers will be. But do you have the ...
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• Marketing to the New Gen X by Dave Sohigian
  Most businesses are well aware of how to market to Generation Xers (those born 1961-1981) mainly because so many people in business today are part of Generation X. But as Gen Xers move into midlife (the oldest are 48, and ...
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• Email Marketing Tips for the 2009 Holiday Season by Alex Williams
  The holiday season is the most important time of year for retailers, when aggressive goals are set for increased traffic and sales, both in-store and online. Email marketing is a powerful tool that retailers can use to build their brands ...
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• Do Your Customer Surveys Measure Up?  by David Jackson
  Most companies use a crude approach to gathering vital customer data: Periodic, often annual, surveys that are disconnected in time from the events they are purporting to measure are the norm. We call them the Annual ''Do You Love Us?'' Survey, ...
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• Three Strategies for Inspired Holiday Email in Tough Times by Karen Talavera
  The pumpkins come out, the days grow shorter, the weather cools, and there's no mistaking that the holiday season is upon us, even though we're barely past the back-to-school rush. Already, it's holiday marketing time. Yet, in recessionary periods, what is normally ...
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• 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 ...
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• 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 ...
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• 'Hypey' Copy That Converts, and How to Write It by Barry Densa
  Hypey copy is like a fine wine. It has great legs, a fine body, and a rich nose. Hype excites the emotions, stimulates the buying glands, and ultimately converts better- than-dull; drab; "only the facts, Ma'am" marcom-style copy. The challenge, of course, ...
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• Seven Questions Local Businesses Should Answer Before Investing in SEO by Kenton Newby
  In the current economic climate, many local businesses are seeking more-effective ways to market. Since their potential customers are increasingly using the Web as a way (and sometimes the first and only way) to find products and services, local businesses realize ...
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• How to Run Your Own Successful Virtual Conference by Kimberly Smith
  Intrigued by the ease, broader reach, and lower cost of hosting a virtual event? Be aware that there are distinguishable differences in how online conferences are planned and carried out—and the technology is just the beginning. Here's how to effectively ...
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• Setting Performance Targets: The Ins and Outs in 10 Steps by Laura Patterson
  Despite the emphasis on and progress in marketing performance measurement and management over the past decade, research continues to show that the link between marketing and the business still needs to be stronger and clearer.
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• Cures for Eight Common Small-Marketing-Firm Ailments by Steve Adams
  Small-agency quirks don't have to be fatal. In fact, many can be fixed by applying simple technologies that provide big-business tools while allowing firms to stay true to their small-business core. The following eight cures to the common small-marketing-firm ailments ...
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• 10 Practical Tips for Creating Blockbuster E-Books by Jonathan Kranz
  Without careful planning, your e-book may become a sinkhole of confused agendas, missed opportunities, and poor distribution. Here are a few key things that might help you avoid the pains and achieve the gains.
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• 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, ...
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• Emerging Consumer Values: Why Brands Must Adjust by Claire Ratushny
  Consumer trends come and go. What else is new? Plenty. We're living in an unprecedented era when several critical elements—consumers' rising debt, higher costs for basic necessities, low savings rates, shrinking assets, and a growing awareness of environmental issues—have gradually come ...
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• Wonder-Twin Powers, Activate!
  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 ...
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• Is He a Searcher or a Sleaze?
  As B2B companies boost their search-marketing efforts, SEO experts are in greater demand. And why not? With search one of the few bright spots in advertising these days, it stands ...
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• It's All in the Presentation
  At this time of year, food merchants—from purveyors of gourmet treats to large-scale grocers—are focused on one goal: getting customers to add more items to their shopping carts. 'Tis the ...
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• Don't Be Guilty by Association
  You have a squeaky-clean opt-in list of subscribers who love the content you send—including highly relevant offers from your partners. But if you're using third-party content and templates (their HTML ...
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• Death by Email: A Quick How-to
  There are infinite ways to destroy an email marketing program. And in a recent humorous post at the Deliverability.com blog, Andrew Kordek explains how to ruin your reputation in nine ...
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• STAMP Out the Ad Noise
  Across all demographics—and yes, we mean all demographics—social networks are where the traffic's at. Because barriers to entry are low and engagement is high, this is perfect turf for marketers who ...
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• OK, OK, so I Screwed Up
  Despite your commitment to following best practices, you might still commit minor email-marketing sins on occasion. Well, take heart: You are not alone. In a post at the Email Experience ...
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• Color Me Beautiful
  If we asked you to name the company associated with the term "Big Blue" you'd probably reply "IBM" without a moment's hesitation. And in an article at MarketingProfs, William Arruda ...
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• You Make It Easy to Stay Friends
  When your company generates revenue from annual subscriptions or memberships, renewal rates are critical to your bottom line. To keep them high, Winston Bowden recommends email programs that use date-based ...
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• It Doesn't Have to Be Either-Or
  A question many small businesses face when money is tight is whether to invest in pay-per-click (PPC) search marketing or search engine optimization (SEO). The answer, says Claudia Bruemmer in ...
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• Oh, No You Don't!
  When David Meerman Scott signed up for email alerts about launches and events at the Kennedy Space Center, he didn't expect getaway offers from Delaware North Companies Parks & Resorts, ...
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• Tried-and-True or Just Plain Blah?
  Everywhere we look, ever since we can remember, we see that price ending: .99. But does using this just-below-a-round-number pricing system always produce optimum results for merchants? Might other pricing ...
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• Hey! Is This a Bait-and-Switch?
  In a post at the FutureNow blog, Bryan Eisenberg recalls an email from Nikon that caught his attention with the subject line "My Picturetown—20GB for just a few cents a ...
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• Time to Turn This Ship Around!
  "Reality dictates that business turnarounds require economic rebounds," says John Baldoni in a post at Harvard Business Online. "No leader can tweak his operation into success; you need customers to ...
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• Find Out What It Means to Me
  In a post at Deliverability.com, Andrew Kordek acknowledges the ongoing push for relevant email campaigns—sending the right message to the right person at the right time. But despite these discussions, ...
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• Refocus That Focus
  Sad but true: The use of focus groups to determine consumer preferences has lost favor in recent years. Why? Because "consumers have clear cognitive models of what to do when ...
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• Fight the Killer Phrases
  "You feel a little jittery," says Paul Williams in a post at the Daily Fix blog. "Is it the presentation? Or the pot of coffee you drank this morning while ...
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• 'Fine' Might Not Mean 'Fine'
  Ask the typical teenager how his day went and you'll probably get a vague response like "Fine," or "Okay." Follow up with a specific question about a science test, however, ...
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• Stop Blaming the Recession
  In recent months, argues Lisa Barone in a post at the Outspoken Media blog, we've had a ready and convenient excuse when things don't go our way. It doesn't really ...
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• How's This for Passing the Buck?
  One year ago, Lynda Partner wrote—but did not publish—a blog post that eviscerated a software company for taking liberties with her email address, and then treating her complaint with stunning ...
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