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They say, “A picture is worth a thousand words,” so a demo must be worth at least 2,500 words or more! Right?

Buyer challenges are becoming more complex. Demonstrating the solution is an effective way to “show” how you can address those challenges. But in today’s sales environment, putting a demo in the hands of the wrong sales people is like an updated version of the old feature/benefit – put me to sleep – death where is thy sting – type of sale Read More

Lately I’ve been working with clients on automating their marketing tasks, specifically their emails. The more I work in this channel, the more I realize how wide-open a frontier - with a huge upside - it is for cross-channel merchants Read More

Choose designers who specifically know the mail order market. Catalogs/mailers accustomed to generating sales via mail/internet ordering are a very different animal from a branding vehicle. They may look similar, but companies that create mail order catalogs and direct mail know exactly how to leverage creative that not only builds their brands, but also sells product. What looks simple is actually highly specialized and technical Read More

The old ChrisSimpson.info blog got killed in a freak hard drive failure and it's taken me a good while to get round to starting to blog back up again. Why? Well, instead of posting what I've been doing related to Internet Marketing I've been busy doing it. But now I've finally installed WordPress on... Read More

This is my first podcast interview on Blog Talk Radio. John Cox is a painter, cartoonist, and illustrator. I will update this post with show notes, links, etc Read More

When advertising on search engines (yes, there are more choices than Google) you’ll be buying advertising space on a “pay-for-performance” basis. This means you only pay if someone clicks on your ad when it shows up in search results you care about. Pay per click. Sounds pretty good right Read More

Both your personal development and your professional development are your responsibility. Studying both your success and your failures can help you to identify the principles that enable success, as well as the actions and behaviors that will produce better outcomes. Writing your own personal case studies is powerful and effective way to improve quickly and to produce better results faster Read More

Getting traffic to your website is likely one of the biggest challenges small business owners face online. You know that there is a great deal o Read More

When you have a small business in Melbourne, marketing will be one of the most important activities that you take part in Read More

The news that IBM will be opening a technology support center here in central Missouri, creating more than 800 jobs with an average salary of $55,000 each, is certainly great news for our regio Read More