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I collect marketing experiences. I love hearing stories about what works for companies, and what doesn’t, because everything’s changing so rapidly today that the list of “marketing must-haves” is quite a moving target ...
Allocating more budget to content creation . A friend began a marketing automation campaign, installed the software, was ready to go, and came to a screeching stop. “I didn’t realize,” he said to me later, “how much ...
Webcasts and custom eblasts are at the top for lead generation. Our agency buys all types of online and offline lead generation programs – banners, various email ads, directory programs, etc. However, two programs ...
Remarketing Banners ! Forget what I said in the previous blog post. There is one area where banners still generate a response, and that’s the relatively new technique of remarketing banners. These are banners that are ...
Think outside the boombox. We all know that banners aren’t the click machines they used to be. In fact, we don’t even buy top of the page leaderboard banners any longer because they’re just not noticed. But we do apply ...
More data on our customers . We can’t market to people based solely on name, company, and industry. We mentioned earlier that bulk blasting isn’t relevant or helpful enough to be noticed. We need to know more about ...
Conversations, not campaigns . We mentioned previously that response rates for bulk email blasts were declining. We also commented on the growth of social media for driving search. Those two concepts come together with ...