It seems to me that in the evolution of business over the years that we should be beyond this. Right? Marketing should be talking to sales and sales should be talking to marketing. I mean duh. The reality is that sales and marketing often still don’t talk. They don’t strategize; they don’t tell each other what […]
There are questions that every PPC campaign manager should ask when designing a program. I mean, they should ask them if they want to be successful. The thing is, Google is not going to ask you if you’ve done your homework. They will ask you for payment though, and if you haven’t asked yourself the following […]
If we’ve seemed a little quiet lately that’s because we’ve been busy on a whole lot of fronts. We’ve got some fantastic new clients, some great work we’ve been busy with, and we’ve been building a new website. Take a look around… we’ve made our blog and all of its content more of a focus. […]
While there are some traditional brands that have leapt into social media with success – Ford comes to mind – there are many others that don’t see the benefit. Or perhaps it’s more than likely that they view social media as beneath them or not a viable medium for their brand message. Well check out […]
I was recently reading a blog on ReadWriteWeb that highlights Matt Cutts’ video that discusses the importance of good content over SEO. He goes on to say that they try to make it so that “sites don’t have to do SEO” and that there’s “no bonus for having good SEO.” I certainly believe that content now more […]
I recently read Wendy Montes de Oca’s blog over at Target Marketing entitled, Is Blogging the Online Dinosaur? Before I could even imagine what she was thinking my eyes read down to the short third paragraph that said, “I beg to differ.” Phew! The argument for the dinosaur comment really couldn’t be further from the truth… “that with […]
So recently, as we all know, Google announced that Google+ content will now be displayed in search results. Is anyone really surprised by this? Twitter is up in arms, claiming that Twitter breaks more news than Google+ and yet it’s being squeezed out of search results entirely. Anyone really surprised by this? Google’s latest development […]
I’ve worked the better part of the last 15 years with B2B technology companies that sell products with lengthy sales cycles and high price tags; million dollar plus software or hardware solutions that take on average 6-9 months to close. Throughout the course of my career I’ve seen organizations that think it’s enough to simply […]
So most of the talk lately has been whether Google+ will challenge Facebook in the consumer social media network space. Not going to happen! But… I would ask whether Facebook could potentially challenge Amazon in the consumer online retail space. Now there’s a battle I’d like to see. With just over $34 billion in online sales last year, a […]
Google continues to make changes to their search algorithm that effect the way that small and medium sized businesses rank. While their changes make it difficult for SMB’s to compete for search engine ranking share there’s also an opportunity for those SMB’s that think strategically, and aren’t afraid of creating unique, custom content. Google’s Panda update […]
