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  • Email Efficiencies Best Practices

    174 days ago by in ( Email )

    Best practices for being more efficient with email:

    • Experiment with three-sentence emails for a better response rate.
    • Start with action-oriented steps, don't leave them at the bottom of the email.
    • Market your subject lines--make them an advertisement to open and read the email.
    • Take disagreements offline.
    • Don't "reply all" unless everyone needs to be involved.
    • Use numbers for reference in back-and-forth correspondence to reduce redundancy and length.
      Watch the email efficiencies video.

  • Marketing Automation Consulting

    242 days ago by in ( B2B )

    Marketing Automation is the practice of automatically managing the segmentation, timing, and content of marketing messages in response to a lead's online behavior. Some key features of marketing automation are:

    • Demand generation
    • Lead Scoring
    • Lead Nurturing
    • Lead Qualification & Routing
    • Lead Management
    • Lead Generation
    • Drip Marketing & Drip Campaigns
    • Email Marketing, triggers and delivery
    • Campaign Analysis & Reporting
     

    Marketing Automation Consulting

    There are a few marketing automation consulting companies (and marketing automation agencies and freelancers) that do great work. One of them is Lead Lizard, which I recommend highly. Marketing automation consulting can range from marketing automation vendor analysis, to marketing automation optimization and strategy, to daily marketing automation tasks. Another great thing about marketing automation consulting is that it is generally cheaper than hiring a marketing automation employee or even contractor. Plus, you're getting someone who really knows what he or she is doing, and has experience with marketo, eloqua, hubspot, pardot, neolane, aprimo or any of the other marketing automation vendors.

  • Lead Management Consulting

    350 days ago by in ( Uncategorized )

    Lead Management Consulting is an incredibly important business-to-business (B2B) function. Here are some aspects of lead management: Marketing automation. Marketing automation is a broad description or category name for a set of features and/or technology which help reduce repetitive, high value tasks associated with marketing processes. Lead Nurturing. Lead nurturing is the process of engaging prospects or customers using relevant and timely communications to build a trusted relationship, generate interest, and raise awareness until they are ready to speak with sales. In summary, it’s the process of realigning the timing of sellers and buyers. For a Lead Management Consultant, make sure they understand lead nurturing, lead qualification, lead scoring, marketing automation, progressive profiling, lead generation, and all the other important aspects of a successful lead management campaign.

  • Web Server Log Files

    424 days ago by in ( Analytics )

    Web Server Log Files

    To understand how web server log files work you first have to understand how information passes from a server to a web page. read more

  • What is Web Analytics?

    424 days ago by in ( Analytics )

    What is Web Analytics?

    The goal of web analytics is to understand client use of an organization's online channels for the purposes of optimizing those channels as well as the overall business. A web analyst will collect, measure, analyze and gain business insight from Internet data. read more

  • Web Analytics Quotes

    437 days ago by in ( Analytics )

    Below is a short compilation of quotes on the topic of web analytics.  

    Every believer in Web Analytics 2.0 knows that awesomeness comes not from answering just the ‘What’ question but from also answering the ‘Why’ question.
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  • Mobile Marketing Trends in 2011

    454 days ago by in ( Mobile )

    Before getting into the mobile marketing trends for 2011, take a look at some of the data projections for mobile for this year. read more

  • The Difference Between Dimensions and Measures

    457 days ago by in ( Analytics )

    What's the difference between a "dimension" and a "measure?" It's a question I get asked all the time. For marketing analytics, here's the easiest way to think about it: read more

  • What is New Media?

    464 days ago by in ( Uncategorized )

    New Media Definition

    New media is the fusion of traditional media and communications with Internet technology. More than what it is, new media defines itself by what it is not. It is not traditional media: radio, television, print and film. Instead, new media is digital. It's interactive. It's on your computer, your phone, your next new gadget. read more

  • How to Estimate your Revenue from SEO

    471 days ago by in ( Organic Search )

    A friend recently asked me if SEO is really worth the time. My response: “depends.” But there is a pretty easy way to determine if SEO is worth your time. read more

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