Tag Archive | "business-to-business"

Your Website on an iPad?

Friday, April 16, 2010

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   Written by: Susan Tatum

Your Website on an iPad?

I wrote about mobile devices a few weeks ago in a post called Should Mobile Search Be on Your Radar? In my opinion mobile devices are not yet making a big impact on website traffic to non-local business-to-business sites. But the iPad may change that. We’ll be keeping an eye on it. Meanwhile, aren’t you curious to [...]

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Keyword Mania

Friday, November 6, 2009

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   Written by: Eric Gerds

Keyword Mania The concept of keywords sounds very simple.  When a person types in a word or series of words, such as ‘Power Widgets’ into the search box on Google, the search engine will find every web page which has these two words on it, even if they are not next to each other on the [...]

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12 Rules that Transform Ordinary Marketing Materials into Lead Generating Tools.

Friday, November 6, 2009

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   Written by: Susan Tatum

12 Rules that Transform Ordinary Marketing Materials into Lead Generating Tools. Nearly every time we conduct a marketing analysis for a new client, I’m reminded how easy it is to forget one basic rule of REAL marketing. That is: any and all marketing communications should contribute to your lead generation and/or lead development program. Seems simple enough, [...]

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Business Website Design: Help – Don’t Hinder – Your Visitors.

Thursday, November 5, 2009

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   Written by: Susan Tatum

Business Website Design: Help – Don’t Hinder – Your Visitors. If you’ve been following this series of articles on business website development you may have gotten the impression that I am anti-website design. That’s not true. I just think far too much emphasis is placed on visual design to the detriment of other equally important elements. I [...]

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Back away from the shiny marketing object.

Thursday, November 5, 2009

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   Written by: Susan Tatum

Back away from the shiny marketing object. Lately I seem to be getting a flood of questions from business owners who’ve fallen into a “shiny object” marketing trap. That is, they are spending money – sometimes lots of it – on award winning ad campaigns, image and branding programs and other activities that look great but [...]

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B-to-B Website Re-Design: Advance with Caution.

Thursday, November 5, 2009

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   Written by: Susan Tatum

B-to-B Website Re-Design: Advance with Caution. According to some highly reliable research I read recently but can’t put my finger on right now, a very large percentage of B2B companies are planning to update or replace their websites within the next 12 months. It’s a good thing too, since b2b buyers are basically unhappy with vendors’ [...]

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Website Extras – What Brings Visitors to Your Site?

Thursday, November 5, 2009

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   Written by: Eric Gerds

Website Extras – What Brings Visitors to Your Site? Ninth in a series of articles on SEO and website marketing appearing every Thursday. Why should people come to your website?  No seriously, what is the answer to this question? If the only answer that you can come up with is “to buy things from our company” and/or “to [...]

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The human element

Thursday, November 5, 2009

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   Written by: Eric Gerds

The human element Most of the articles so far have been about how to get Google to find and place your website higher on the search list. This is very important but another factor needs to go into creating a website and that is the human element. If you use Google Analytics you will see a statistic [...]

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Targeting Your Keywords

Thursday, November 5, 2009

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   Written by: Eric Gerds

Targeting Your Keywords Third in a series of articles on SEO and website marketing appearing every Thursday. In “Keyword Mania” we discussed how all the words on your website are keywords.  However, some of the words are the true key words that really drive people to your site.  Good website statistics programs including Google Analytics list what [...]

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SEO and Web Marketing: What is Important to Human Customers?

Thursday, November 5, 2009

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   Written by: Eric Gerds

SEO and Web Marketing: What is Important to Human Customers? Eighth in a series of articles on SEO and website marketing appearing every Thursday. We have talked about what is important for search engines but it is also important to talk about what is important to customers.  Anyone who comes to your website is a customer or [...]

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