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Internet Marketing Budget

How Brick And Mortar Businesses Can Budget For Online Marketing

July 6, 2011

Brick and mortar businesses are feeling the internet squeeze, the shrinking of the bottom line due to an increased cost of marketing (due to the perceived need to be “on the internet”) combined with a reduced effectiveness of the sales force. Perhaps you are seeing this as well. Most companies know they need to step-up […]

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Organizational Buy-In For The Sale Vortex

There Is No Sales Vortex Without Organizational Buy-in

April 21, 2011

Marketing leaders must sell the sales vortex to the entire company, from the top-down, because without organizational buy-in, there can be no sales vortex. The complete application of a thorough internet marketing plan requires “all hands” to be involved and supportive of the new consumer paradigm. You will find that there is no way to […]

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Campaign Planning: The Strategy That Creates A Sales Vortex

April 19, 2011

There are so many ways to drive internet traffic to your sales vortex that it is imperative that you prepare detailed campaign plans for the most important drivers to your sales vortex. A campaign plan is simply an organized vision converted into a sequence of actionable processes that must be performed in order to generate […]

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Good Keywords

Do Your Website Visitors Know Something You Don’t Know?

March 30, 2011

What people say about your business matters to you greatly, but what you say about your own business determines how many people will find you! As the third post in a series on internet marketing metrics, today we view the measurements that will allow you to determine how your customers are finding your site and […]

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Internet Marketing Metrics: Why They Will Change The Face Of Business

March 28, 2011

I once had a great platoon sergeant in the Army who continuously reminded me that “you cannot expect what you do not inspect.” Because of this, we had checklists for everything that we did, and all of our mission critical gear, personnel, and actions had an inspection protocol. This style of management is well suited […]

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Internet Buyer Stages

The 3 Stages Of The Internet Buyer

March 23, 2011

People will find your company website through many different channels and not all of them will be prospective customers for your organization. But the ones that are will arrive with various goals, and often times they will not be ready to make a buying decision. My study of the millions of visitors to my various […]

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The Convergence of Marketing, Advertising and Sales

March 18, 2011

If you are like most people, you often think of marketing and advertising as the very same thing. But historically, this has not been true. Companies often times lost control of the linkages between marketing and advertising, and to this end, lost control of the processes for delivering the most “marketing bang” for the “advertising […]

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Introducing The Internet Squeeze

March 3, 2011

I have always been a student of the game. Whether the game was football in college or tactics in the Army, I have always wanted to gain any advantage that I could by being better armed, better trained, and better informed than my competition. The same is true in business. I like to pay attention […]

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