Archive for the ‘Tutorials’ Category

Reaching Your Full Revenue Potential

Thursday, March 26th, 2009

It appears that lack of existing customer insight and the tools to leverage that insight is creating a revenue roadblock for many marketers.

Despite the critical need to leverage current customer knowledge, especially during this recessionary period, many marketers are throwing up their own obstacles to reaching solid, ready-and-waiting opportunities.

Instead of concentrating on and maximizing their existing customer potential, too many marketers are spending their limited resources on acquiring new customers, while allowing their existing customers to fall by the roadside. What a huge waste. (more…)

The Unthinkable Community Driven Marketing

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

Clay Shirky’s latest essay, that encourages us to ‘think the unthinkable’, set me wondering about what the marketing industry could be like.  The part of Shirky’s ‘unthinkable scenario’ that leapt out for me was the suggestion that, ‘people would resist being educated to act against their own desires’.

Shirky is, of course, saying that one effect of a networked world is that people have less faith in the lessons being handed out on Madison Avenue.  Now it’s quite clear that media is still the dominant force in the brand and marketing business, which despite tough times, remains a trillion dollar global industry. (more…)

Setting Marketing Focus On Your Landing Page

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

Here are several excerpts from an article by Jennifer Moline, Landing Pages Made Simple And Profitable:

Landing pages are ideal for marketing strategies in order to find out which campaigns are being read and encouraging potential customers to click on links for more information. You can find out what about your marketing made someone act.

As you get started or improve your landing pages, here are 10 best practices to keep in mind from Sitewire Marketplace Solutions: (more…)

Developing Marketing Relationships During A Recession

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

Search marketing has been known as recession resistant because so many companies shift or increase internet marketing budgets there in good times and in bad.  When other marketing and advertising channels don’t hold up to ROI scruitiny, tactics like SEO hold up rather well.  Sage advice on how to execute on this insight can be found at “Recession Proof Search Engine Optimization Tips“. (more…)