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  • This morning I typed into Google the search VoIP (which stands for Voice over Internet Protocol) and I got 64 Million responses. 64 Million!! How archaic is Does Google have any idea how long would it take me to go through 64 Million responses? One day we are going to look back at the days of

  • As communications experts, we should find it easy to convey the value of our services to the business managers in our organizations. Yet many public relations professionals struggle with expressing results in a way that allows senior executives to easily recognize the impact that PR has on the success of the business.

  • Sometimes doing a little more for your email subscribers can make a huge difference. Tafford Uniforms of North Wales, Pa., faced a challenge to engage email subscribers because of two common but seemingly incongruent realities.

  • It's a challenge faced by hundreds of small companies: how to get the CXO of a Fortune 1000 company to consider its product. One effective strategy that helped get companies such as Citrix and VMware off the ground is to align closely with a major partner. Building a strong channel, even with just one or two partners, can be much more effective and easier to leverage than trying to develop your own sales team and customer relationships. The following five tips can help B2B companies maintain strong channel partnerships.

  • How much do you know about your customers right now, at this moment? A lot of companies can show you composite profiles that describe their target customers, including job titles, needs, obligations, and goals. No doubt about it: It's important to know those things. But relying solely on such information to connect with customers is like trying to strike up a conversation with a cardboard cutout. It just isn't enough.

  • Have you heard about the Denny's ? What about the Denny's Creature ' campaign? No? That's okay; I didn't either. It's probably a sign of the times that I am too old to appreciate staying up until 2AM and heading to Denny's for some grub after a night That said, I do remember trips to Denny's

  • What's the definition of a great website? What's the secret to better business lead generation? And what's the first step to building a site that delivers the kind of results you need—when you want them?

  • So I have just finished co-authoring a book called Facebook Marketing for (Wiley) due out this summer. It was a very eye opening experience to say the least. But the one thing it taught me was a profound respect for the Facebook What you are about to see is a number of ideas I have about

  • When you joined MarketingProfs did you ever consider yourself to be part of a community of over 320,000 marketers? Well, you are! I know it's a huge number of nameless, faceless people to think about, but as you know, with more people embracing social media tools and how we all seem to know another marketer by

  • At the MarketingProfs B2B Forum earlier this month, keynote Barry Schwartz, a psychologist and author, explained the concept of Practical Wisdom: the idea that individuals can (and should) hone their judgment to "do the right thing."

  • I first heard the skating analogy from Evan Grossman, an old friend and former client. Evan was a founder of HookMedia back in the late 90s, a pioneer in online advertising. He used the analogy to compare the then-nascent field of digital media planning to traditional media. It went something like Figure skating is like planning

  • Ther term "social media advertising" is, to some, an oxymoron. They will tell you it doesn't work for the simple reason that people don't visit social networks to view advertising, but to interact with their community. It's a mindset You may be familiar with the recent report by Knowledge , which found that less than five

  • This week, we introduced a new home page at . Go check it out. I'll You back? Good. We made the changes to reflect two the increasing "daily-ness" of our site, and new regular home for Premium Here's what you see, MarketingProfs has replaced the rotator in top left column with another box featuring all of

  • Nearly 4 in 10 Blackberry and other smartphone users (38%) would switch to Apple's iPhone as their next smartphone purchase, but only 14% of non-Blackberry smartphone users would switch to a Blackberry.

  • Here are 10 essentials of software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution marketing.

  • Contextual ads, whether delivered by Google, Yahoo, or any other company, are not standalone ads in the way that a newspaper classified ad is. In fact, your pay-per-click ad is simply the connector between a desired keyword or phrase and a destination landing page. So while you may have some wonderful things to say about your products or services, your PPC ad is not the place to try to cram your latest sales message into 95 characters.

  • There are five keys to making a relevance-centered approach a reality in your direct digital marketing programs(such as email, websites, mobile, and so on).

  • As marketers, we are all looking to reach "nirvana": targeting the right person with the right message at the right time. It's the clear path to driving conversion rates that exceed expectations. The days of blasting promotion messages to all are dead and gone. The conversation has changed. We must put ourselves in customers' shoes and target them individually as best we can through data-driven strategies.

  • It's safe to say the first batch of post-dot-com-bubble brands have come into their own. Brands like Google, eBay, and Amazon. The one thing that sets them apart? They became successful without the support of television advertising to help launch them.

  • Nothing gets your attention like a catchy title. A recent Forbes magazine I Took Over The Company From " sure got mine. I read the entire piece, which is short and very directly written by Todd Wille, the man who took over ailing Unify , teetering on the edge of collapse in 2000, hardly taking a