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Cultivating Brand Loyalty

Cultivating Brand Loyalty

CEOs must consider a number of strategies for growing their companies.  Should they diversify into new markets?  Develop new products?  Grow through acquisition?  Making the Read More

3 Big Email Marketing Mistakes that Make Your Sales Leads Laugh at You…click, click…and Goodbye!

3 Big Email Marketing Mistakes that Make Your Sales Leads Laugh at You…click, click…and Goodbye!

Do you ever wish you could be the proverbial “fly on the wall” to see how people respond to your emails?  After all, you spent Read More

John Gerzema Fridays with Vistage Webinar Summary:  How the Post Crisis Values Revolution is Changing the Way We Buy, Sell, and Live

John Gerzema Fridays with Vistage Webinar Summary: How the Post Crisis Values Revolution is Changing the Way We Buy, Sell, and Live

There are five shifting values and consumer behaviors currently remaking America and the world. What are they and what do they mean to you as Read More

The Importance of Building Your Company’s Brand

The Importance of Building Your Company’s Brand

Do you recognize any of these company names: BackRub? Blue Ribbon Sports? Or Computing Tabulating Recording Corporation?

Probably not, but I bet you’ll recognize their Read More

5 Minute Google Marketing Tip That Will Save Your Company Thousands in 2013

5 Minute Google Marketing Tip That Will Save Your Company Thousands in 2013

The new year is well underway and Google has been the subject of a lot of recent news having just penalized the powerhouse UK flower Read More

Is Your Company Set Up Correctly to Win the Google Game?

Is Your Company Set Up Correctly to Win the Google Game?

If someone is looking to do business with you, where do they find you?

If you’re the owner and your response is anything other than Read More

Ride Your Elevator Pitch To The Top

Ride Your Elevator Pitch To The Top

Every businessperson has had the experience of being asked, “what does your company do?”  Sometimes we’re expecting this question and we’re ready to pounce with Read More

Anatomy of a Product Failure

Anatomy of a Product Failure

At the end of 2012, I was drawn to an article, “The Worst Product Flops of 2012”.   There were some hugely successful product Read More

10 Secrets To Blogging That Drives Leads For Your Business

10 Secrets To Blogging That Drives Leads For Your Business

There’s a reason the new experts in marketing are so high on blogging and that’s because it contributes to a lead generating inbound marketing effort Read More

The N reasons you should read this blog post

The N reasons you should read this blog post

I read an article this week about the best and worst run states in America.  I, like everyone else, have opportunities to read many Read More

Cancellation Rates in SaaS Business Models

Cancellation Rates in SaaS Business Models

This post was originally published at Blog.ASmartBear.com. Jason Cohen has shared this with Vistage to help members in the Software as a Service understand Read More

Top Google Plus Tip of 2012 -Your Picture on Page One of Google in 5 Minutes

Top Google Plus Tip of 2012 -Your Picture on Page One of Google in 5 Minutes

2012 has been a ridiculous year for the internet marketing industry. Pinterest has entered the picture as perhaps one of the greatest traffic generating social Read More

A Case Study in Content Marketing with Infographics

A Case Study in Content Marketing with Infographics

As I have discussed on other recent blogs the lines between digital marketing and traditional marketing and PR are blurring rapidly.  In some cases, such Read More

How to Combine SEO & Social Media to Form a Super Brand

How to Combine SEO & Social Media to Form a Super Brand

2012 has been a big year for Google’s search platform. Search relevancy drastically improved for users, but rich search result pages containing videos, news and Read More

8 Social SEO Strategies Your Business Can’t Ignore

8 Social SEO Strategies Your Business Can’t Ignore

It has become obvious that the line between social media and search engine optimization hasn’t just become blurred, it has vanished.  Most business owners and Read More

The Importance of Multi-Channel Attribution for Online Marketing Mix Modeling

The Importance of Multi-Channel Attribution for Online Marketing Mix Modeling

Marketing mix modeling artfully presents statistical analysis from sales and marketing data. It can be used for determining the impact that various marketing efforts have Read More

Your Competitors Might Be Stealing Your Leads

Your Competitors Might Be Stealing Your Leads

Lead theft is occurring every day on every single website. It is happening to you and your company, whether you know it or not. How Read More

Thought Leadership “Links” to SEO: Gain Powerful Natural Links Through Respect & Reputation

Thought Leadership “Links” to SEO: Gain Powerful Natural Links Through Respect & Reputation

Thought Leadership Defined

Today’s brands can no longer rely on push marketing and traditional advertising.  Consumers demand transparency and seek brands that prove themselves as Read More

Marketing in the Round

Marketing in the Round

Gini Dietrich and Geoff Livingston look really happy don’t they?  Well, they should be happy.  They are proud co-authors of one of the few marketing Read More

Is Your USP Truly Unique?

Is Your USP Truly Unique?

In my travels I routinely ask CEOs to identify their “Unique Selling Propositions”.  Most often, the response I hear is “superior customer service”. To provide Read More

4 Strategies for Localized Marketing Made Easy

4 Strategies for Localized Marketing Made Easy

Marketing to a location is one of the most effective methods for making a national brand immediately relevant. Unfortunately, the practice is often expensive, cumbersome Read More

Six Things Web Marketers Can Learn from Steve Jobs

Six Things Web Marketers Can Learn from Steve Jobs

The Steve Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson is a must read. Jobs’ accomplishments are beyond amazing. When reading it you will see that Jobs followed Read More

[Podcast] Appealing to the Emotional Side of Customers

[Podcast] Appealing to the Emotional Side of Customers

Jonah Lehrer is the best-selling author of the book “How We Decide,” a columnist for Wired Magazine and has also been a contributor to the Read More

Rebranding-8 Steps for Refreshing your Brand

Rebranding-8 Steps for Refreshing your Brand

One must contemplate the distinction between branding and rebranding. Rebranding is often miscast as an exercise in repairing one’s reputation. Some rebranding efforts focus on Read More

Chris Brogan Webinar: Online Marketing Trends to Grow Your Business

Chris Brogan Webinar: Online Marketing Trends to Grow Your Business

In our most recent Fridays with Vistage webinar, Chris Brogan discussed web tools for reaching new and existing customers in his presentation, “Online Marketing Read More