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Pink: When Business Is Bare
When my 15 year old daughter came home with a Victoria Secret bag in her hand I almost had a stroke. I welcome all the comments in this post about how terrible a father I must be and that I should better monitor my daughter’s buying habits. Honestly, I didn’t think there was any reason for her to shop at…
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Marketing Infographics
What is Search Engine Spam?
We’ve been on a pretty big kick lately warning you about search engine optimization techniques that are going to get you in trouble. Even if your site isn’t suffering today, Google continues to modify it’s algorithms and test new ones that will catch you tomorrow. Don’t be tempted to spam the search engines… it will catch up with you. This…
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Deciding new Products, Services or Features
This week I received Tuned In from Pragmatic Marketing. I’m about a third of the way through the book right now and enjoying it. There are a lot of hands-on examples of how business hubris has lead them down the path of poor decisions because they weren’t ‘Tuned In’ to their prospects. By not figuring out what their prospects needed,…
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Content Marketing
How to Select a Web Designer
A friend of mine asked me in an email, can you recommend a web designer for me? I paused for a minute… I know a ton of web designers – everything from brand experts, to local graphic designers, to content management systems developers, to social networking experts, to complex integration, enterprise and architecture developers. I responded, “What are you trying…
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Marketing & Sales Videos
Social Media and Enterprise
The folks at Get Satisfaction have released a new Infographic on Social Media and the Enterprise, called Let’s Get Down to Social Business. From the infographic: By 2014, the market for social enterprise tools, software and services is predicted to reach $4.6 billion worldwide. This new generation of technologies is rising up to meet a growing demand for connectivity and…
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Content Marketing
My Facebook Usability Rant
I’m afraid I have no new information to share with the readers of the Martech Zone, just a plea for your help. After watching the video below, please either: Tell me if there is some work-around to this that I’ve missed, or… Retweet this status update until your fingers bleed so that it gets someone’s attention at Facebook. [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5G-90bZXVjw]
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Content Marketing
Don’t Blame WordPress
90,000 hackers are trying to get into your WordPress installation right now. That’s a ridiculous statistic but also points to the popularity of the world’s most popular content management system. While we’re fairly agnostic about content management systems, we have a deep respect for WordPress and support most of our clients’ installations on it. I don’t necessarily agree with the…
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Content Marketing
Hold Companies Accountable
I could share some great horror stories with you on my history with banks and credit cards. Some of it has admittedly been my fault but most of it is the ridiculous actions of banks. I wonder how these guys sleep at night… massive profits, bailouts, executive bonuses and ridiculous overage fees haven’t even budged them to improve their systems.…
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Sales Enablement, Automation, and Performance
Online Marketing: How Easy Is It To Do Business With You Online?
When’s the last time you tested your website to ensure every means of contact or conversion worked seamlessly? This week, I was trying to make contact with a company I wanted to do business with. Their site had only one option, a form on their contact page. Unbeknownst to them, though, the form tool they used was just an empty…