The importance of content the is often put on the back burner when trying to drive business growth. This tool in your arsenal of marketing efforts should never be put behind other tools: Linkedin, new phone software, email providors, Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus etc.. You catch my drift. Every single one of these tools is [...]
There are a lot of ways to acquire leads, but there’s no determining which ones work best without testing. But what compounds the situation is that marketers don’t have the time or resources to test every potential tactic. This is why marketing leaders should look at marketing like a portfolio manager looks at a mutual [...]
The day of the pitch has passed. Best practices in email marketing demand communications that go beyond advertising, respect the customer, and speak in a familiar one-on-one style. Email is "the most personal advertising medium in history," says Seth Godin, whose book Permission Marketing set the rules that transformed email marketing into what it is [...]
The Telephone Still Works! There’s NO WAY social media should be replacing your cold calling campaigns or grass roots marketing efforts, if for nothing else, because we don’t want to lose our ability to engage in face to face conversation. There are already too many distractions, addictions, and complications with technology as it is nowadays, [...]