The fact that there is a huge gap between the percentage of time consumers spend online (it’s high) and the amount of money major marketers spend advertising online (it’s relatively low) drives executives at Facebook, Yahoo, AOL, the New York Times and every ad-supported startup out there completely nuts. At conferences and panels, these web execs like to blame the problem on poorly educated... 

To create a goals program for both yourself and your salespeople, start with this plan of action which contains these key elements: Starting point, Written goals, A plan, How to deal with roadblocks and setbacks, Checkpoints, Scorecard, Reward system, Review Starting Point Before deciding where you want to go, see where you are. Get yourself a three-ring binder, plenty of paper, a pencil and a large... 

Your customers are looking for you. Can they find you? When potential customers have a problem and need somewhere to go, they search for it. They head to their favorite search engine, type what they want and are presented with a list of results Google promises can help them. If you don’t appear in those results, you don’t exist. You miss out on the sale, the branding opportunity and the ability... 

Ambush marketing as a situation in which a company or product seeks to ride on the publicity values of a major event without having to finance the event through sponsorship. It is a marketing campaign that takes place around an event but does not involve payment of a sponsorship fee to the event. It occurs when a company signs on to sponsor an event as official sponsor, and a rival hijacks the mind... 

For the networking rock stars of the world, networking tends to be very fruitful. They get qualified referrals from their network on a regular basis. They constantly are connecting with a steady stream of targeted prospects. Why? – Because their networking is typically very strategic and very well executed. In Malcolm Gladwell’s “The Tipping Point”, he introduces the concept of “connectors”... 

Since text messaging first became available in 1996 it has a mass market communication platform and a cultural phenomenon of the 21st Century. The use of SMS will continue to grow as companies turn the service into a critical business function. Text messaging’s ability to immediately reach a customer anywhere and its low cost offer the ability to reach customers (external and internal) with a...