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Susan Gilbert

Lead Generation Plus Sales Funnel Equals Sales – Here’s How

Lead Generation  + Sales Funnel = Sales Your business thrives when the bottom line is producing a harvest. One of the most important ingredients to making a sale starts with successful lead generation strategies. Knowing how to do this well can mean the difference between going out of business or staying ahead of the competition.…


Susan Gilbert

Get Inside Your Customer’s Emotions through Psychographic Marketing

What is Psychographic Marketing? While demographics, age, career, and more are all essential data, your marketing is further enhanced by gaining insight into their emotions and needs which is called psychographics. Would you like to better understand your business’s target market? The age of psychographic research is upon us as social media has transformed the…


Jan Gordon

8 Ways of Putting Social Listening To Work For You

By Michael Brito All the hours you spend focusing on brand positioning don’t matter if everyone else feels different about it. And all the media in the world can’t change brand perception if your product doesn’t deliver value or your customer service sucks. Brands are built by having good products. They are built when they…


Jan Gordon

Why Smart Companies Put People Before Profits

By Greg Satell In the go-go eighties, “Chainsaw” Al Dunlap’s enthusiasm for aggressive cost cutting and massive layoffs made him a corporate superhero.  His subsequent indictment and conviction on fraud charges led business people to question his character, but not necessarily his methods. Poor Al would never survive as a CEO today.  Social media would…


Jan Gordon

Competitive Analysis: The Key To Success In The Digital Age

By Lee Traupel There’s an old Gypsy saying heard around the campfire: “speed can be a friend or your enemy.” This is so applicable to small to mid sized companies today. Rapid change and global markets are defining how business grow and compete. Competitive Analysis is Critical in the High Speed Digital Age It’s truly…


Jan Gordon

How to Find Keywords Your Competitors Don’t Know About

By Barry Feldman Winning at SEO calls for outmaneuvering the field. Let’s examine how to find keywords your competitors aren’t using—with tactics they don’t even know about.  “Keywords don’t matter much anymore.” You find it written everywhere lately. I asked a friend who eats analytics for breakfast and snacks on SEO all day long, “Whatcha’ think…


Jennifer Hanford

Do You Need Video Marketing?

Can you believe YouTube is 10 years old already? It’s true. YouTube was officially launched on February 14th, 2005 by three former PayPal employees. As verified by Wikipedia, Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim “activated the Internet domain name “YouTube.com” and started to create a video-sharing website on which users could upload, share, and view videos.”…


Susan Gilbert

Drive Visitors to Your Business with Groups

When someone arrives at your website landing page for the first time this is considered a ‘cold lead,’ with the next step capturing their information with an inviting optin form. While this is an important element to your business, you can also create a ‘warm lead’ by joining and interacting with professional groups on social…


Jan Gordon

Here’s How to Identify and Grow Your Social Media Audience

By Robert Caruso One of the biggest mistakes made in social media marketing is building the wrong communities. What we mean by that is that many brands and marketers build followings of their peers, competitors or incorrect prospects, rather than their target audience. Subsequently, the time spent on social networks engaging, creating and posting content…


Jan Gordon

Here’s How To Win The Battle For Customer Attention

By Michael Brenner Today’s consumer is bombarded with thousands of marketing messages every single day. In order to stand apart from the noise, many brands are shifting their marketing budgets out of paid advertising (that we all ignore at staggering rates) and into content programs. These branded content marketing hubs are creating owned media properties…


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