The new year represents fresh beginnings. For a business, fresh beginnings do not happen automatically, but the perspective your team brings to the game, does help inspire, restore and renew. Additionally, updating brand assets help inspire employees, partners, customers and leads. One area we...
Why are landing pages important for lead generation? Most business people view no more than one web page after clicking an advertisement online. Usually, if a prospect doesn't like what they immediately see, they click away. For this reason, B2B marketing teams need to be familiar with landing page...
As we begin the year, a couple of trends stand out that marketers should consider in their practices. By now, it is fairly obvious (maybe cliché) to say that marketing is undergoing a constant state of disruption, but it is true. Taking note of evolutions in technology, practices, and user behavior...
Marketers often use key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure the effectiveness of their efforts. KPIs are metrics that help analyze and report on website and marketing campaign performance. Leads and sales are deep KPIs that also demonstrate a return on investment. When determining whether you...
People have different reading habits online than they do offline. Online, people tend to scan. They scroll through an article quickly and form an impression. Looking for words, highlighted concepts, photos and commitment level, readers decide whether they need to commit time or if anything "grabs"...
B2B marketers cannot rely on interruption marketing. As B2B organizations focus more heavily on digital marketing, there will be a trend of crafting their websites to be central to their marketing efforts. These 3 tips can greatly improve the performance and effectiveness of a website for a B2B...
Social media marketing is all about participation within a community. And, within the community, it is best to play by community rules. Many brands, as they begin utilizing social media as a marketing channel, may only post content that relates directly to a sales message. This sole tactic may...
Many brands and businesses (including non-profits) should adopt the traits of a media company. By being like a media company, your brand can take a more inbound approach to marketing. See why non-profits should blog About eight years ago Tom Foremski (of the tech blog Silicon Valley Watcher) began...
WordPress is the world's most popular content management system. The CMS powers websites of all shapes and sizes. Although WordPress was originally designed to be a CMS for blogs, the system has evolved into a general-purpose tool--helping enterprises, non-profits, individuals and corporations...
Telecom companies can use social media to engage new B2B contacts and energize existing customers. As a starting point it is a good idea to do an initial influencer analysis to understand the key themes of the industry's online conversation in social media and search. An influencer analysis will...