by Richard Fouts | February 13, 2011 | Submit a Comment
How much do you typically spend to generate a few million impressions, connections, email signups or leads? What do you spend to generate a thousand click-thrus? Well – put your check book away, because the CEO of Overdrive interactive, a digital marketing company, has a cost avoidance technique. Many of you already know about it [...]
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by Richard Fouts | April 19, 2010 | 8 Comments
Automating the management of customer references is an emerging software category whose time has come. Companies like Boulder Logic, Point of Reference, References-Online and Metia all see how complex it can be to not only recruit customers to act as references, but to manage them as well. When customers act as references, they put their reputations [...]
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by Richard Fouts | April 2, 2010 | 2 Comments
The Boss would take issue with marketing and communications people that include “exceed customer expectations” in their mission statements (or those lists of core values you see hanging in company cafeterias). Why? “Because I want them to come to my next concert,” he replied when a pesky reporter called him “ungenerous and almost stingy when [...]
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by Richard Fouts | May 8, 2009 | 2 Comments
This blog is for people in technology marketing and sales. However, many of the things we discuss apply to marketers in any industry. For example: You’ve just spun off a piece of the company … that will now operate as a wholly operated subsidieary. Or you’ve started a new company that you need to brand. [...]
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by Richard Fouts | April 22, 2009 | 1 Comment
This blog is for marketers and salespeople. Although we focus on those who market and sell technology solutions, many of the things we discuss apply to any marketer. For example, how can you improve response rates when it comes to marketing copy? Studies show that people have a distinct hierarchy when they pick up any [...]
Category: Brand awareness Marketing communications Personal selling Public relations Tags: Brand awareness, Marketing communications, Public relations, response rates
