Our clients are constantly asking us to recommend the marketing programs that are most effective so that they can achieve their goals. They want us to put together programs that use their limited dollars most efficiently and get their highest ROI.
While we know what works best for our existing clients, we wanted to validate this [...]
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Our clients and prospects regularly ask what marketing method delivers the best ROI. Of course, this can be tough to answer without first discussing their goals — whether they are branding, research, website traffic, lead generation, etc. Once we’ve identified their goals, we reference what we’ve come to expect based on past and current program [...]
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I was recently forwarded an excellent report by Idealware that compared four of the leading open source content management systems: WordPress, Joomla, Drupal and Plone. Idealware is a nonprofit that provides reviews and articles on software for nonprofit organizations. You are required to provide your contact info in order to download the report, but doing [...]
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Now’s the time to register for tomorrow’s (Tuesday, May 19, from 12 PM-1 PM EST) complimentary one-hour webinar, “Website Optimization for Demand Generation and High ROI.”
Led by my colleague, Justin Barton, a fellow Creative Director at Nowspeed, this webinar will be based on the content of Justin’s exciting, new eBook, “Is Your Website Optimized for [...]
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On Wednesday of this week (April 29), our own Dave Reske will be participating in a panel discussion led by Chris Brogan on “Innovative Marketing Programs Using New Media” at the Inbound Marketing Summit in San Francisco, California.
In his presentation, Dave plans to talk about how you can leverage new media tools to develop and execute innovating marketing [...]
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You once had first page placement, maybe even the number one spot…but now all of a sudden you don’t. So what happened? Does Google hate you? No, probably not. Here are five reasons why you may have lost your ranking, including a few quick-fix steps to getting back in the game.
1. New Competition- It’s entirely possible a new [...]
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The management aspects of an Internet marketing campaign can often be daunting. With campaigns that often have hundreds, if not thousands, of keywords to oversee, report on and manage, it can become an effort-intensive endeavor. There are, however, several tools available to the individual who knows where to look and how to decipher the information objectively, [...]
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Generating leads today in a slow economy is not an easy task. Business budgets are on hold or have been cut back and marketing departments all over are working amidst an air of uncertainty. As marketers are having to do more with less, there is an increasing demand for PPC programs to deliver more and more leads. [...]
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On Friday, January 23, I had the pleasure of sitting in on “Making Sense of Social Media for Your Business,” a webinar presented by Alf Brand and Jenna Jantsch of VerticalResponse.
It was time well spent, yes, but what I particularly enjoyed about the hour-long event was using Twitter to share live updates with our network of [...]
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Your landing pages should be exceptional. Why? Because they’re where your marketing dollars become real ROI as leads or transactions, or don’t. This may seem like an obvious truism, but I’m constantly finding landing pages that just don’t cut it. What’s going wrong is a fundamental misunderstanding of what landing pages can do well and what [...]
