The previous post addressed keys to preparing and promoting a webinar. In preparation for your webinar, you have clearly defined your goals, built lists of targets, sent the invitees well-constructed promotional emails and made it easy for them to register to attend. Now it’s nearly show time. The following are four additional keys to producing an effective webinar. [Read more…] about Keys to an Effective Webinar — Part II
Lead Generation
Keys to an Effective Webinar – Part I
A webinar can be a very effective marketing vehicle for generating leads, cultivating prospects and transforming customers into evangelists. Producing a successful webinar requires that you make the right planning choices and execute well. The following are keys to preparing for and promoting an effective webinar. [Read more…] about Keys to an Effective Webinar — Part I
3 Tools to Improve Your Email Marketing Campaigns
The ad:tech Conference was recently held in San Francisco. The show, which bills itself as “The Event for Digital Marketing,” was filled with companies promoting their digital ad networks and marketplaces, ad campaign management tools and services, affiliate marketing programs and payment solutions. Email marketing vendors were also at the show. This post highlights three email solutions that caught my attention for their abilities to help improve the effectiveness of email marketing campaigns. [Read more…] about 3 Tools to Improve Your Email Marketing Campaigns
Online Ad Campaigns Not Reaching Target Audiences
Online advertising has been touted as one of the best ways for advertisers to reach the specific target markets they are after. Ad networks and publishers promote to advertisers that they have multiple methods of helping them get to the precise prospects and customers they are seeking, whether it be via demographics, geography, behavioral, contextual or other targeting techniques.
But findings released last week by Nielsen call these claims into question. Nielsen’s research is showing that the targeting capabilities of online ad campaigns are typically no more precise than targeting results achieved by traditional TV campaigns. [Read more…] about Online Ad Campaigns Not Reaching Target Audiences
Five Steps to Take Before Refreshing a Website
Many small businesses have so much to do to keep their operations humming that before they know it a few years have gone by and their websites are out-of-date.
Whether the website’s content is stale, its navigation is clunky or its look and functionality are from before the social media era, the site is likely not helping the brand’s appeal and may even be tainting the company’s all-so-important first impression.
It’s true that refreshing a website can seem like a daunting undertaking. But don’t fall victim to website paralysis. Rest assured that a few straightforward preliminary steps can put the project on the right path. [Read more…] about Five Steps to Take Before Refreshing a Website