With revenue slumping for many companies due to the economic downturn, many marketing and sales executives are realizing taking steps to avoid being too slow to respond to the interest of a prospective buyer. The traditional industry guidelines have suggested 24 to 48 hours was an acceptable response time for web leads, but many companies are now
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Soft Economy Renews Emphasis On Optimizing Lead Response Times
Posted by rupalik under Online MarketingFrom http://www.demandgenreport.com 5841 days ago
Made Hot by: on November 26, 2008 1:52 am
YouTube - Guy Kingston Interview pt 2
Posted by Empica under Self-DevelopmentFrom http://www.youtube.com 5844 days ago
Made Hot by: on November 25, 2008 5:56 pm
Continued from Part 1. Internet entrepreneur and business adviser Guy Kingston talks engagingly and frankly about his journey to entrepreneurship, his time in Russia and his current passion for passing on his knowledge and wisdom
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Do you understand how sales intimacy really works?
Posted by d2kd3k under SalesFrom http://trustedadvisor.com 5845 days ago
Made Hot by: on November 21, 2008 7:32 pm
One of the rules of etiquette is that intimacy has a pace and a sequence. Some things are done only after other things, and usually with a certain elapsed time. Successful salespeople know that that exactly the same rules apply in sales.
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How to Avoid Marketing Failures
Posted by rupalik under MarketingFrom http://blog.oneims.com 5845 days ago
Made Hot by: on November 21, 2008 7:33 pm
While we are all eager to launch a new campaign and wait for the conversions to come rolling in, it's not a bad idea to make sure you aren't making some of the most common mistakes people make. Make sure to make a mental note of this and avoid them at all costs.
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How Does Your Company Stack Up Against the Fortune 500? Better Than You'd Think.
Posted by mona19 under MarketingFrom http://blog.hubspot.com 5845 days ago
The idea is not new that small companies are more nimble and can move quicker than big companies in just about every operational area: bringing new products or services to market, recruiting and hiring, and of course, marketing.
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8 Ways to Buy Links Without 'buying links'
Posted by himangim under Online MarketingFrom http://www.seomoz.org 5845 days ago
Made Hot by: on November 24, 2008 2:37 am
Naturally, this has led many individuals, sites and businesses seeking higher rankings to employee tactics that are plausibly removed from the direct exchange of capital for links, and while link brokers and link sales still thrive, they do so in an ever-increasingly paranoid & underground realm so as not to risk discovery and devaluation. In this
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Motrin teaches us the good and the bad side of Viral
Posted by 77Lab under Online MarketingFrom http://lab.77agency.com 5846 days ago
Made Hot by: on November 21, 2008 7:40 pm
Let the Motrin ad backlash be a lesson to those who think 'viral' is always a good thing.
Viral equals a positive message. There can be good viral campaigns and bad viral campaigns. The reputation crisis which detonated this past weekend which was witnessed by just about every single mom-blogger existent in the blogosphere gives us the bad vers
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Google rolls out the Search-based keyword tool
Posted by 77Lab under Online MarketingFrom http://lab.77agency.com 5846 days ago
Made Hot by: on November 21, 2008 7:37 pm
Let Google help you. The new tool recently launched by Google, the Search-based keyword tool(beta), basically helps advertisers spot the 'unused' keywords consumers enter when conducting a search for their products. In other words, it prevents marketers from overlooking certain terms and suggests them to be added into their search campaign.
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7 Things To Look For In A Small Business Bank
Posted by mattr under StartupsFrom http://www.yfncg.com 5846 days ago
Made Hot by: on November 21, 2008 5:26 am
What makes one business checking account stand out from the others? Here are 7 things to look for...along with my pick.
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Google's New Search-Based Keyword Tool Tells You What Keywords You're Missing
Posted by mona19 under MarketingFrom http://searchengineland.com 5846 days ago
Made Hot by: on November 20, 2008 7:16 am
Beyond the advertisers point of view, you can use this as a nice competitive analysis tool. You can see data about which keywords are relevant to any site on the Internet — so, if you are getting into a new line of business and want keyword data, just plug in the site's domain and click go.
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