Archive for May, 2008

Collaborative mediocrity: trading links with webmasters

May 29th, 2008

Link building — so essential, and yet so many options. All those SEO tactics are roads pointing in different directions. How do I know that the road I choose will pay off in the long run?

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Circumstantial Profit: Playing Superhero to the Customer in Distress

May 27th, 2008

By solving a problem in addition to the sale of a product, the storeowner has an opportunity to create a truly profitable solution.

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Email Marketing - When “No” Means “No Way In Hell”

May 25th, 2008

Email marketing has always worked very well. That’s precisely why you should make plans for new methods to engage consumers.

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Should my blog steal the show?

May 23rd, 2008

It’s time to evolve your marketing communications, and finally start that company blog. But how do you do it without devaluing your existing company website?

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Talk “green” marketing until you’re blue in the face!

May 21st, 2008

There’s a lot of buzz about “green” products, and at Clicksharp, we couldn’t agree more. It’s about time our consumer society underwent a paradigm shift, and understood that a world with unlimited resources is a mirage.

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2B or not 2B like B2C

May 20th, 2008

B2B marketing can be a little more ambiguous in the digital space. But the activities of marketing departments at corporations of all shapes and sizes indicate that B2B is following the patterns of B2C.

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Click Fraud: Smoking Gun, or Smoke & Mirrors?

May 16th, 2008

There’s a possibility that your competitor may be out there clicking on your ads, ringing up charges on your account and killing your ad campaign’s ROI (return on investment). But is this really a threat to your digital marketing agenda?

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Volumes and Profits: The Yin & Yang of Marketing

May 13th, 2008

A well-diversified business has different revenue streams with different profitability profiles. Is your marketing department flexible enough to mix and match?

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Metrics That Matter: Bounce Rate

May 11th, 2008

Bounce rate will help you answer: Is my home page scaring people away? Am I attracting qualified traffic to my site? Do any of my marketing campaigns have a poor ROI?

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Hawaiian-style micromarketing: a case study of jams shorts

May 9th, 2008

“It’s May 2008. Do you know where your jams are? Do they know where you are?”

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Overheard in the marketing department: “It’s good to be the king.”

May 6th, 2008

“What if marketing could become as refined a science as dentistry?”

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Cross-sectioning SEO: the fibers of a comprehensive campaign

May 4th, 2008

“Some pictures are worth 1,000 words. But who’s got time to sift through 1,000 words?”

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