Posts Tagged as ‘linkedin’

May 28, 2009

Study Shows Print Advertising Drives Online Leads

Can print advertising drive online traffic? Yes, according to a study released by Telemetrics, a Toronto based company that focuses on call tracking and measurement solutions. Tracking unique URL activity in addition to call measurement demonstrated a 78% increase in overall leads in the study that measured Yellow Page print advertising. Telmetrics found that site referrals from print represented [...]

May 12, 2009

The Point is the Conversation

Social media has been spreading like a disease, except it’s not a disease. It’s the overnight sensation that’s taken about 7 years to appear overnight. Everyone, but everyone’s had a look at Social Media and formed an opinion – waste of time, waste of money, don’t understand it, can’t see the point. Maybe they’ve become [...]

April 29, 2009

The End of “Old School” Relationship Prospecting

Sales is about people. Orders get signed by people and the appointments needed to get those signatures come when a level of trust is established. If there is one single factor that determines sales success, it is a relationship.  In “Old School” relationship prospecting, salespeople would spend lots of time taking buyers to dinners, lunches, [...]

April 27, 2009

Should Your Company be on Facebook? Absolutely!

Targeting Facebook users offers an opportunity to build brand loyalty while targeting your message in a very effective manner. Facebook Pages are free and offer the best way for your company to establish a presence on Facebook. The main elements of a Facebook Page are Basic information such as location and hours of business, if relevant; [...]

April 23, 2009

Understanding Behavioral Targeting

Behavioral targeting is an advertising delivery technique used by online publishers and advertisers to increase the effectiveness of their campaigns. Behavioral marketing can be used on its own or in conjunction with other forms of targeting based on factors like geography, demographics or the surrounding content. Behavioral Targeting is based upon information collected regarding an [...]

April 9, 2009

Does Journalism Have a Collaborative Future?

The future of journalism is probably a pretty deep subject for a non-journalist like me to tackle but humor me for a few moments if you will. Here is my premise. Could a feature article be written from a flow of  “Tweets” submitted by a collection of writers? Could you envision a series of entries from multiple writers [...]

April 8, 2009

The Right Man for Our Times

“The United States has been enriched by Muslim-Americans,” he said. “Many other Americans have Muslims in their family, or have lived in a Muslim-majority country. “I know,” he said, “because I am one of them.” President Barack Obama, April 2009 I was very proud of our new President today as I read this quote in [...]

April 7, 2009

The Benefits of Webcasting and the Site Publisher’s Role

As a Marketer, you should strongly consider the benefits of webcasting to promote you your product. One of the most effective ways of creating, marketing, and delivering a webcast is to partner with a trade publisher that targets your desired market. These publishers are experts at delivering an audience and that element may be the [...]

April 20, 2008

Define Your Niche and Do it Well

Traditional B2B trade publishers are experts at defining their own niche in the market place and then delivering content that is relevant to that audience. The content community created by trade publishing has a long history of providing a service to both the reader and the sponsoring advertisers. But could trade publishing be facing a [...]

June 11, 2007

Which Click Made the Sale?

I recently read an interesting article highlighting studies made of click conversions. The question asked in the article was what site sending you a referral gets credit for creating the sales and consequently that site receiving more of your advertising dollars? The obvious assumption is that search engines create most of your sales because they [...]