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Stop Shouting and Start Listening: Your Customers Are Talking.

Stop shouting at me--I'm not deaf! (small cow)

It used to be that your marketing efforts had to find a way to INTERRUPT what the customer was doing— reading a magazine, watching a movie—and then convince them to pay attention to your message. Good luck with that these days. Today’s consumers and business people are distracted and perpetually multi-tasking. The DVD and streaming video services have put them in control of their own programming.

But today, customers are TELLING YOU what they need, when they need it, and how they want to hear from you. If you start LISTENING, you will be able to create marketing strategies that are more targeted, more relevant and more effective than any push-marketing initiative you’ve ever seen. Read →

44% of B2B Marketers Say Social Media Has Improved their Search Performance

BtoB and Business.com have released a study, “The Impact of Social Media on Search,” based on an online survey of 464 b2b marketers conducted July 1-16, 2010, designed to find out how marketers are integrating social media with search marketing. According to the survey, 29% of marketers plan to increase  their budgets for social media this [...] Read →

Careful what you email, post, upload and tweet: businesses implement agressive monitoring policies

According to a survey released today by e-mail security firm Proofpoint, 33 % of U.S. companies with more than 1,000 employees have people on staff whose primary or exclusive job is to read or otherwise analyze outgoing e-mail messages. 18 % investigated the exposure of confidential company information via video or audio posted to a [...] Read →

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