The Art of Clients Falling in Love

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Yesterday, on the way to work, I was listening to Dave Ramsey speak to Joe Beam, author of The Art of Falling in Love. Joe said that there were 3 key elements to falling in love… commitment, intimacy and passion. The conversation really stuck with me – so much so that I made a voice memo about what I heard to write a post later. I was also discussing it with Troy Burk, co-founder and CEO of Right On Interactive. … Continue reading

Infographic: 10 Ways to Increase Sales in 2012

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It’s always great to see an infographic that simply spurs some ideas… and this one does just that. There are so many strategies to increase sales out there but marketers are the ones stuck with the decision of which way to turn. Rarely do we have the convenience of doing it all. I always encourage clients to adopt a technology that’s on the rise – in this case both mobile and marketing automation are tactics that I’d deploy because of … Continue reading

PIPA/SOPA: How Free Content Might Kill Us

PIPA SOPA

Many companies are blacking out their sites in an effort to fight the Protect IP (PIPA)/SOPA Act that’s under review here in the United States. Rather than climbing onboard the wagon and shutting down my site, I thought it would be more constructive to share my reaction with you. We have over 2,500 blog posts that promote technology that assists agencies and marketers throughout the world. We’ve never charged for any of our content, nor would we. When we are … Continue reading

Which End of the Sales Funnel?

Online Sales Funnel

Marketing strategies are often designed to find more leads or upsell current customers. One of the issues we often find with clients is that they’re often working on the wrong end of the sales funnel. Many companies get less visitors a month to their website than they would like… but if they were able to convert twice as many of those visitors they have, they’d be very successful. Many of the technologies we work with are built to shorten the … Continue reading

Brian Goffman of Optify on MTB Radio

We are happy to announce that we will be having Brian Goffman, CEO of Optify, on the Marketing Tech Blog Radio Show this Friday, January 6, at 3 p.m. EST. On our show, we will be talking about the buyer’s journey, B2B content marketing, and Brian’s 2012 predictions regarding marketing automation and social CRM. Brian Goffman is CEO and co-founder at Optify. Brian brings more than a 15 years of experience as an Internet entrepreneur and venture capitalist to Optify. … Continue reading

Right On Interactive Named Leader in Marketing Automation

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Before you read this, I’ll fully disclose that I’m friends with Troy Burk and Amol Dalvi and quite a few of the other employees at Right On Interactive (ROI). And – we’re proud to announce that we’ll be working with Right On Interactive to provide marketing automation posts here on the Marketing Technology blog! They’re officially a partner as of yesterday! So how cool is it that the day we’re going to announce the partnership, that Gleanster, a marketing research … Continue reading

Infographic: How Small Businesses Use Software to Manage Contacts

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With over 90% of small businesses using some digital form of data management to store contacts, it seems apparent that small businesses have plunged into the digital age. But, we wanted to know what these small businesses are doing with the contact data. What we discovered may surprise you. You can find the full survey results at the AddressTwo University.