Archive for January, 2008
OK, so your website isn’t brand-new, but it’s not that old, either. It’s not ugly, your sales people don’t complain about it, it’s consistent with your current branding and accurately presents your business strategy, products and services.
Problem is, your traffic isn’t even close to what you feel it should be. Plus you keep […]
Continue Reading January 31st, 2008
Many B2Bs consider it some sort of badge of honor to “bring their search engine marketing (SEM) in-house” …as though it were a checkmark item on some master business goal sheet. But if your business is drug discovery, or developing test-suite generation software for SQA, or anything not intimately related to search engines – […]
Continue Reading January 24th, 2008
The folks at Enquiro Search Solutions have released an update of their landmark 2004 survey of how companies use online vehicles in researching their purchase decisions. With responses from over 1,000 people involved in their companies’ buying decisions, it has a confidence level of +/- 2.5%. Because the study has obvious implications for […]
Continue Reading January 17th, 2008
All the recent headlines seem pretty bleak: stock markets sliding, housing and financials in distress, signs of softness in the overall economy.
But despite all of that, B-to-B marketers plan to increase their marketing budgets next year, predominantly for online, events and direct, according to B2B, The Magazine for Marketing Strategists. Their “2008 Marketing […]
Continue Reading January 11th, 2008
ClickZ’s Kevin Newcomb has provided a nice summary of early results from the annual search market survey by the Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization (SEMPO).
One of the more dramatic year-to-year changes involves the attention being given to search marketing by senior executives. In the 2005 survey, under half of senior management respondents said they […]
Continue Reading January 8th, 2008