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As the financial world imploded last week (my 401k is now a 200.5k), I sat in Florida at my company's client summit listening to industry experts and national advertisers trading best practices and tactics for prospering in an increasingly complex local media world. Read More

It's the perfect storm — tough economic times — budget scrutiny — the Q4 numbers chase — budget planning for 2009. As Reachforce CEO Suaad Sait says, this Fall is a marketers 'oh-crap' moment when we start asking ourselves if there is enough fuel (or money to provide the fuel) in the lead generation engine to fulfill current year sales needs and f Read More

Your content is great and deserving of links. The problem? No one knows about it. Let's explore some often overlooked methods to promote your content for exposure, traffic, and link building. I commonly hear from people that their site has great content and others should be linking to it, but it isn't happening. Why? First, the Web already has Read More

Building your brand has both short and long term effects. In the short term, you'll forge stronger relationships with the people that know you and love you. In the long term, you'll have a healthier, more focused brand and be better equipped to take advantage when the economy turns upward again (and yes, it will). Read More

Niche searchers dig deeper on the Web to find landing pages with the most relevant results. Use long-phrase searches from your log files to optimize results for any search. Read More

You can, within the limits of ethics and accuracy, represent yourself any way that you want on the Internet. Your landing page isn't written on stone tablets; it's the most ethereal of objects -- a set of bits that reside on a computer hard disk and are accessible to the world. Read More

Inbound marketing refers to permission-based marketing strategies (e.g. blogging, social networking, search engine optimization) in which you connect with consumers online when they are actively looking for what you offer. The result is a more measurable, efficient and effective lead-generation system, powered by social media relationships, Web Read More

I confess it's been hard to cut through the myriad messages of alarm and preoccupation coming from every which way in the last couple of weeks, and think rationally. As a human who is highly invested in relationships, how all of the recent events are connected has impacted me to varying degrees. Read More

I was looking through my supplies in preparation of launching my pirate ship, and I came across a whole bunch of excuses that I wasn't using any longer. I'm not sure where I got some of them, because they sure don't look familiar to me. Being one to share, I wanted to make sure you had the opportunity to take these excuses and use them yourself, i Read More

Right now, classic demographics, such as 'Men aged 18-24,' just won't cut it anymore. I've asked MarketingSherpa's research team to conduct a formal study examining the changing demographics of our fair nation in the face of this seemingly endless series of economic crises. You can expect new demographic reports to appear in future Sherpa new Read More