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If a consumer were to scan her inbox of retail, corporate emails right now, each one would have a subject line that is an offer. Everybody wants the consumer's money, but nobody addresses the consumer's relationship to their company, though they can. Long-term, lifecycle emails train a customer into becoming a better one, and they enhance the Read More

A post I wrote asking about how professional or unprofessional it would be to show up to meet a client with a green, red, or blue laptop. Please visit and comment if you have an opinion!! Read More

Just recently Google Trends decided to go a bit beyond the usual keyword platform and instead has adapted it a bit more towards SEOs, webmasters and site owners by launching its new feature, the Google Trends for Websites. Its a useful tool that allows you to see how popular your favorite site is, by giving you the estimate number of visitors over Read More

We recently spoke with Paul Saffo, the technology forecaster best known for his associations with the The Institute for the Future (which he left earlier this year) and The Long Now Foundation, whose mission is to replace society's "faster/cheaper mindset" with "slower/better thinking." Saffo also teaches a course on the future of engineering Read More

Whether your market is B-to-B, B-to-C, or both, testing and optimizing even a few key aspects of your landing pages can provide major gains for your lead-gen efforts. The principles of the MarketingExperiments Conversion Sequence serve as a guide to optimizing your pages and your sales or lead-gen process to improve conversion and ROI. This Read More

Overly complex legal contracts are increasingly ubiquitous, annoying—and ineffective. They increase costs, decrease productivity, and annoy the hell out of your customers and contractors. But savvy business people can choose the alternate route this article lays out. Read More

How strong is the link between our DNA and primal conditioning and our buying behavior? As it turns out, there's a stronger link than we may initially believe. Read More

Do consumers respond more positively to digital media ads (e-mail, banner ads, ads on gaming sites and social networking sites) or to ads in traditional media? The ansewr might surprise you. Read More

Forget the elevator pitch. Forget the press release. Forget the PowerPoint deck. If you were making a "Twitpitch" about your business, it would be over by now. A what? A Twitpitch forces you to tell your company's story in 140 characters (about 20 words), the maximum length of a message on Twitter, a microblogging platform that is gaining p Read More

It should be a simple thing but simply saying, "Hello, welcome to our email list", isn't the way to invite or welcome new subscribers into your database. Could not knowing what to say to new members be what is keeping most email marketers from sending welcome messages? It definitely could. Which brings me to the point: just what should an email Read More