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How to Avoid Deadly Marketing Distractions
If you’re like many marketers and business owners I speak with, you may be stalled in your marketing efforts because you’re not sure where to focus next. If so, this article is for you. Even if you’re not exactly standing still, distractions can consume valuable resources and kill your marketing efforts. Here’s how to avoid [...]
Continue reading...Who’s Your Ideal Prospect?
Banish fuzzy thinking Andy (Parkinson, our CEO) and I sat down yesterday over lunch at Paco’s Tacos to talk about the best market for one of our new services (more on that in a future post). At Andy’s suggestion, we first made a list of qualities a good target market for this service must have. [...]
Continue reading...When Marketing is a Waste – Part 1: Your Sales People Can’t Sell
Recently we did our job so well, we got fired. Yep. We increased leads and lowered the cost per qualified lead. We built a marketing machine that monthly delivered more than twice the number of qualified leads our client had ever received without them spending one dollar more. But something went terribly wrong. While we [...]
Continue reading...Measure Your Marketing for Big Improvements in 2010
Measure Your Marketing for Big Improvements in 2010 If I could get you to do one single marketing-related thing in 2010 it would be to start actively measuring – and acting on – the performance of your marketing program. If you’re already measuring, start holding people accountable. And if you’re already doing that, call me. [...]
Continue reading...Forget about leads – worry about traffic.
Forget about leads – worry about traffic. Lately the technology business leaders I talk with tend to be in one of two camps. They either want to generate more leads or they want to generate more traffic. The traffic guys tend to be those who sell online. Those who don’t sell online still think in [...]
Continue reading...Tech Marketing Fundamental #5: Make Sure Sales & Marketing Are Aligned
This article was first published May 30, 2008 on the Tatum Marketing blog You may think the subject of this post – the importance of aligning sales and marketing teams – is pretty obvious. After all, marketing and sales are vital parts of the same process. Cooperation should be automatic. Surprisingly, this isn’t the case [...]
Continue reading...Improving Technology Marketing Results – Taking the 1st Step.
This article first appeared January 23, 2008 in the Tatum Marketing Blog Yesterday I wrote about two strategies for using marketing to increase sales – 1) increase inbound traffic or leads and 2) improve conversion rates. (Actually I wrote about three strategies, but I’m not going to talk about adding products or services anymore. At [...]
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