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Pushing One-to-One Marketing Beyond Emailby R.J. Talyor
You get it. Email needs to be relevant, timely, and personalized, and it has to arrive in the inbox—not the spam folder. When an email renders, it should load images perfectly, guide the eye through stunning, effective design that drives ...
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Advice to Out-of-Workers: Read This Before You 'Network' With Meby Lori Feldman
Before you ask me to go to work for you, go to work for yourself. When you've implemented the suggestions above, I'm more receptive to helping you connect with your next job opportunity. But I don't have time or inclination ...
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Boost Your Site Traffic (Part 2): 10 Tips for Getting High-Quality Links and Visitors
by Kimberly SmithLinking strategy is about doing whatever it takes—buying, swapping, going after as many reciprocals as possible—to maximize your presence on the vast expanse that is the World Wide Web, all of which will ultimately lead to increased site traffic and ...
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Effective Online Marketing in a Recessionby Adam Boyden
Marketers navigating these tricky economic waters need to stay focused on profitable expansion rather than contraction. If you can grow, even in these times, you will emerge on the other side of the economic crisis ahead of the competition.
Creativity, combined ...
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MarketingProfs Podcast: All About Marketing Automation and Web Analyticsby John Wall, Christopher Penn
What is marketing automation? What are the four methods of measuring Web site traffic?
Find out in the latest episode of Marketing Over Coffee, a weekly audio program sponsored by MarketingProfs that covers classic marketing tactics and what's new on the ...
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Social Media Starter Kit: The Tools You Needby Chris Brogan
Work of any kind requires an understanding of the appropriate tools for the job, and social media is no different.
Here are some suggestions for a starter set of social media tools. The actual applications will change, over time, because technology ...
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MarketingProfs Video: RSS—REALLY Simplifiedby Matt Dickman
Marketers may be from Venus and IT might be from Mars, but marketers nonetheless need to understand what the IT guys are talking about.
In a new series of short videos, Matt Dickman simplifies technobabble into a framework that marketers ...
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Eight Easy Ways to Grow Your Blogby Mack Collier
The social media landscape over the last year or so has changed dramatically. Companies that were once skeptical about tools such as blogs are now blogging or considering starting one. Unfortunately, many companies that do so still have little idea ...
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Five Critical Keys to Reaching the Boomer Consumer
by Mary FurlongAs more businesses become aware of the unprecedented number of people around the world who are approaching age 60, more of them are getting serious about reaching Boomers. Call it the new Silver and Gold Rush.
Smart businesses understand that the ...
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The Top Five Reasons Why It's 'RSS or DIE'
by James Clark"RSS" stands for "Really Simple Syndication." In a nutshell, it is the technology that is enabling blogs, podcasts, and all major online news rooms. RSS is rapidly displacing email and Web sites as the preferred method for distributing online content.
However, ...
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Call off the Funeral, the Press Release Is Alive and Wellby Chris Parente
The press release is certainly not dead, as some PR people may have you believe. Yes, it's been loaded up with jargon. Weighed down with buzzwords. Scrubbed clean of any meaningful executive quotes.
But, in spite of it all, the ...
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RSS: What's in It for Marketers? (Part 2)by Eric Frenchman
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RSS: What's in It for Marketers?by Eric Frenchman
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How Web Feeds Link Publishers and Subscribersby Brent Hill
There's an invasion of little orange buttons on Web sites, and it has nothing to do with a new marketing campaign from Home Depot.
Often labeled "XML," "RSS," or more recently "Subscribe," feeds are playing a leading role in the user-controlled ...
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RSS: What's in It for Marketers? (Part 2)by Eric Frenchman
RSS may not ever replace email as a delivery tool. But nonetheless, it will move Web site traffic, because people can use RSS readers to receive content without having to visit a site.
Here's part two of a primer on RSS, ...
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RSS: What's in It for Marketers?by Eric Frenchman
RSS may not ever replace email as a delivery tool. But nonetheless, it will move Web site traffic, because people can use RSS readers to receive content without having to visit a site.
Here's a primer on RSS, and why ...
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10 Tips to Help Your Blog Soar in the Search Engines (Part 1 of 2)
by Stephan SpencerBlogging is one of the hottest trends on the Web. Whether yours is an individual blog, a group blog, a character blog, or a CEO blog, there's no doubt that, done right, a blog can position you as a thought ...
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Marketing Challenge: What RSS Can Do for Marketingby Hank Stroll
Do your customers prefer to get information from email newsletters? Web sites? Blogs? Feeds? A mix?
A growing number of users are relying on RSS feeds to satisfy their hunger for information.
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Making the Most out of Google as a Research Tool (Part 1 of 2)
by Stephan SpencerIf you're like most of us, you use Google almost daily as a search tool. But Google is capable of so much more than simple search. You'd be surprised at what Google can do to make your work life more ...
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The Full Circle of RSS Marketing Powerby Rok Hrastnik
RSS is getting much media coverage. But very little is being said about the full circle of RSS marketing power. The truth is that RSS goes far beyond "simple" blogging or news delivery.
RSS can be fully integrated in most ...