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FEBRUARY 2009
Members-Only
Resource Kit
Research, Inspiration, & How-To
Improve Results
Contents
Account Info & Guarantee......................2
Topics Covered in MarketingSherpa.......3
Research Database Tips..........................4 Creative Samples Library........................5
Events & Awards Calendar.....................6
SherpaStore 10% Discount ...................7
Article Archive.........................................9
Useful Membership Contacts..............80
MarketingSherpa Members-Only Resource Kit
Account Info & Guarantee
Welcome to MarketingSherpa Membership! Your benefits include:
#1. Research -- 8566+ marketing numbers
and stats in an easy-to-search database
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3238+ Creative Samples from real-life
marketing campaigns and tests. Share
with your copy and graphics team.
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features best practices for everything
from emailing consumers to B-to-B
lead generation campaigns. Great for
training.
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Members-Only Topical Microsites
We’ve created a series of more than 50 microsites within MarketingSherpa to make your job
easier. Just click on the topic you’re most interested in, and you’ll see a complete mini-site
featuring our best resources related to just that topic. Each microsite includes: Case Studies,
Research Records, Creative Samples, and Events and Awards directly related to that topic.
Pick from this (growing) list of topical microsites:
[Topics by Industry/Target]
B-to-B Marketing - General advice
Sales lead generation
Business technology marketing
Business services marketing
Marketing with white papers and/or webinars
Marketing at trade shows
Channel marketing
Marketing by job function/industry
Marketing to small businesses
Sales Support & Collateral
Consumer Marketing
Ecommerce & eretail
Retail marketing
Automotive
Consumer packaged goods
Financial services
Travel & hospitality
Entertainment & sports
Non-profit fundraising
Real estate
Health marketing
Consumer electronics
By consumer demographic
ContentBiz/Online Publishing
Selling Subscriptions Online
Ad Sales Online
Other online content sales
Marketing by Region
International Marketing
Marketing in the UK
Marketing in Canada
Multinational Marketing
[Topics by Tactic]
Email Marketing
Email Newsletters & Alerts
Email List Growth
Email Design & Delivery
Renting Lists & Ads
Alternatives: RSS, Desktop Apps, Mobile
Search Marketing
More Online Marketing
Web Site & Landing Page Design
Viral Marketing
Online Advertising
Social Networking, Evangelism
Affiliate Marketing
PR & Fame - Tips
Blogging & Podcasting
How to Pitch Business Media
How to Pitch Marketing Media
How to Pitch Tech Media
PR & Search Marketing
Offline Marketing & Advertising
Integrated Campaigns
Direct Mail & Fax
TV, Radio Ads
Print Advertising
Telemarketing
Out-of-Home
Skills
Copywriting
Market Research
Branding
Database Marketing
Loyalty Marketing
Media Buying
Positioning
Marketing Law
Career
How to Hire Marketers
Real-life marketer career interviews
Selecting Vendors/Buyer’s Guides
Running a marketing consultancy or agency
MarketingSherpa Members-Only Resource Kit
Members-Only Research Database
Only MarketingSherpa members have access to our Research Team’s Private Database
featuring more than 8,566 records of research conducted by ourselves, our partners, plus more
than 1,439 additional organizations. It’s our goal to track and categorize every piece of useful
research out there on marketing, advertising, and PR.
Member librarian:
We recognize that combing through more than 9,000 pieces of research can be a daunting taskthat’s why we have Erin Donovan, your personal member librarian standing by to help you find
that specific Case Study, How-To or Stat available with your membership.
Erin holds a Master’s in Library and Information Studies and oversees our 3 libraries as well as
the editorial indexing site-wide. Her database team works continuously to update the Research
Database. She can be reached at: [email protected]
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Members-Only Events & Awards Calendar
Important note: MarketingSherpa’s Events calendar tracks events put on by hundreds of
organizers across the US and around the world. It’s not just for Sherpa events only (although
they’re also in there!)
Tracks 924 marketing, advertising and PR tradeshows and events you might want to attend (or
speak at.) Search easily by marketing topic, event organizer, date, and/or by geographic region. Handy info includes key speaker names, dates, location, topic and ticket prices. Great for
planning and budgeting your year. As with research and events, MarketingSherpa’s goal is to track every possible marketing-related
award you might want to enter in the coming 12 months (not just Sherpa awards, although they
are also included.) Search MarketingSherpa’s Awards Calendar easily by topic, organizer and nomination deadline. Each entry includes deadlines, categories, and a handy hotlink to the nominations info. Tracks 330 annual marketing, advertising and PR awards that you may want to nominate
yourself for.
MarketingSherpa Members-Only Resource Kit
Members-Only SherpaStore 10% Discount
As a MarketingSherpa member, you get 10% off anything and everything you purchase from
SherpaStore including Summit Tickets and Benchmark Guides*. It’s possible to recoup the
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* Note: Does not include Memberships, booths, postal mail lists or sponsorships.
Choose from the following SherpaStore resources:
Summits
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MarketingExperiments’ Landing Page Optimization
Certification Workshop, Miami FL, March 14 2009
MarketingSherpa’s Email Summit ‘09, Miami FL,
March 15-17 2009
MarketingSherpa’s Subscription Marketing Summit ‘09,
New York City, May 3-5 2009
MarketingSherpa’s Email Marketing Summit - Germany’09,
Munich, May 12-13 2009
MarketingSherpa’s B-to-B Demand Generation Summit,
San Francisco CA, September 23-25 2009
MarketingSherpa’s B-to-B Demand Generation Summit,
Boston MA, October 4-6 2009
Training
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MarketingSherpa Webinar Training - Email @utoresponder
Series - February 17, February 24, & March 3 2009
MarketingSherpa Webinar Training - Email @utoresponder
Series - Welcome Autoresponders - February 17 2009
MarketingSherpa Webinar Training - Email @utoresponder
Series - Triggered Emails - February 24 2009
MarketingSherpa Webinar Training - Email @utoresponder
Series - Transactional Email - March 3 2009
Advertising
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Selling Online Subscriptions Summit ‘08 Transcript +
Slides
Trusted Advertising Methods & Ogilvy on Advertising
Yahoo! (unofficial) Search Marketing Handbook
U.S. Moms Social Media & Online Insights Report
Benchmarks and Metrics
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MarketingSherpa’s Marketing With Video Report: Online,
TV & Mobile
MarketingSherpa’s 2009 Email Marketing Benchmark
Guide
MarketingSherpa’s Search Marketing Benchmark Guide
2009
MarketingSherpa B-to-B Lead Generation Handbook
MarketingSherpa’s 2008 Landing Page Handbook
MarketingSherpa’s 5th Annual Business Technology
Marketing Benchmark Guide 2008–09
MarketingSherpa’s 2008 Online Advertising Handbook +
Benchmarks
MarketingSherpa’s 2009 Social Media Marketing and PR:
Benchmarks and Best Practices - COMING SOON
Google Eye Tracking Study: How Searchers See & Click on Google Search Results
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Direct Marketing Quantified: The Knowledge is in the
Numbers
Jump Start Your Marketing Brain: Scientific Advice &
Practical Ideas
U.S. Moms Social Media & Online Insights Report
Business-to-business
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MarketingSherpa’s 5th Annual Business Technology
Marketing Benchmark Guide 2008–09
MarketingSherpa’s How to Sell Good Marketing to Your
CEO
MarketingSherpa’s B-to-B Web Site Homepage Design
Research Study
MarketingSherpa B-to-B Lead Generation Handbook
MarketingSherpa’s B-to-B Demand Generation Summit,
San Francisco CA, September 23-25 2009
MarketingSherpa’s B-to-B Demand Generation Summit,
Boston MA, October 4-6 2009
B2B Website Usability: Guidelines for Converting Business
Users into Leads & Customers
Email Newsletter Usability: 165 design guidelines for
subscription interfaces & newsletter content based on user
research
Certification
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ME-001: Fundamentals of Online Testing
ME-003: Landing Page Optimization for Subscriptions
ME-004: Landing Page Optimization for Ecommerce
ME-005: Email Marketing Certification Course
Consumer Marketing
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MarketingSherpa’s How to Sell Good Marketing to Your
CEO
After 50: How the Baby Boom Will Redefine the Mature
Market
Why People Buy Things They Don’t Need
Direct Marketing Quantified: The Knowledge is in the
Numbers
Marketing To American Latinos: 2 Volumes
The Kids Market & The Great Tween Buying Machine
Drilling Down Handbook: Turning Customer Data into
Profits
Trusted Advertising Methods & Ogilvy on Advertising
Jump Start Your Marketing Brain: Scientific Advice &
Practical Ideas
U.S. Moms Social Media & Online Insights Report
MarketingSherpa Members-Only Resource Kit
Choose from the following SherpaStore resources:
Content Marketing
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MarketingSherpa’s Marketing With Video Report: Online,
TV & Mobile
MarketingSherpa’s How to Sell Good Marketing to Your
CEO
MarketingSherpa’s Subscription Marketing Summit ‘09,
New York City, May 3-5 2009
MarketingSherpa’s 2008 Online Advertising Handbook +
Benchmarks
ME-001: Fundamentals of Online Testing
ME-003: Landing Page Optimization for Subscriptions.
ME-004: Landing Page Optimization for Ecommerce
U.S. Moms Social Media & Online Insights Report
Copywriting
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MarketingSherpa’s Authors: How to Get Your Business
Book Published, Newly Revised!
Step-By-Step Copywriting Course, 4th Edition
Copywriting to sell to CEOs, CFOs and CIOs
Trusted Advertising Methods & Ogilvy on Advertising
How-to Kit: Tweaking Your Site’s Copy to Get More Search
Engine Traffic
Words That Work: Copywriting to Sell to CEOs, CFOs &
CIOs; Copywriting to Sell Entrepreneurs
Teleseminar: Copywriting Tweaks to Maximize Your Search
Engine Traffic
Copywriting to Sell Entrepreneurs
Email Marketing
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MarketingSherpa’s Email Summit ‘09, Miami FL,
March 15-17 2009
MarketingSherpa’s Email Marketing Summit - Germany’09,
Munich, May 12-13 2009
MarketingSherpa’s 2009 Email Marketing Benchmark
Guide
MarketingSherpa Webinar Training - Email @utoresponder
Series - February 17, February 24, & March 3 2009
MarketingSherpa Webinar Training - Email @utoresponder
Series - Welcome Autoresponders - February 17 2009
MarketingSherpa Webinar Training - Email @utoresponder
Series - Triggered Emails - February 24 2009
MarketingSherpa Webinar Training - Email @utoresponder
Series - Transactional Email - March 3 2009
MarketingSherpa’s How to Get Your Permission Email Past
Filters - Handbook, 2 Audio CDs and Transcript of CDs
MarketingSherpa’s Best Practices in Marketing with Email
Newsletters
ME-005: Email Marketing Certification Course
Email Newsletter Usability:165 design guidelines for
subscription interfaces & newsletter content based on user
research
Drilling Down Handbook: Turning Customer Data into
Profits
Ecommerce
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MarketingSherpa’s Marketing With Video Report: Online,
TV & Mobile
ME-004: Landing Page Optimization for Ecommerce
Pricing Psychology Report
46 Ways to Raise Prices
Drilling Down Handbook: Turning Customer Data into
Profits
U.S. Moms Social Media & Online Insights Report
Market Research
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MarketingExperiments’ Professional Certification Program
MarketingExperiments’ Compendium: 24 ScientificallyProven tests to Increase Results
Jump Start Your Marketing Brain: Scientific Advice &
Practical Ideas
Drilling Down Handbook: Turning Customer Data into
Profits
U.S. Moms Social Media & Online Insights Report
PR & Fame
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MarketingSherpa’s 2008 Landing Page Handbook
Keeping the Wolves at Bay: A Media Training Manual
Press Releases From Hell & How to Fix Them (Examples,
Not Theory) 2nd Expanded Edition
How to Create & Distribute Your Own Radio Talk Show for
Fame & Profit
U.S. Moms Social Media & Online Insights Report
Search Marketing
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MarketingSherpa’s Search Marketing Benchmark Guide
2009
Google Eye Tracking Study: How Searchers See & Click on
Google Search Results
Teleseminar: Copywriting Tweaks to Maximize Your Search
Engine Traffic
Drilling Down Handbook: Turning Customer Data into
Profits
How-to Kit: Tweaking Your Site’s Copy to Get More Search
Engine Traffic
Yahoo! (unofficial) Search Marketing Handbook
MarketingSherpa’s B-to-B Web Site Homepage Design
Research Study
Web Site Technology
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MarketingSherpa’s B-to-B Web Site Homepage Design
Research Study
MarketingSherpa’s Selling Online Subscriptions Summit
‘08 Transcript + Slides
MarketingExperiments’ Landing Page Optimization
Certification Workshop, Miami FL, March 14 2009
ME-001: Fundamentals of Online Testing
ME-003: Landing Page Optimization for Subscriptions
ME-004: Landing Page Optimization for Ecommerce
ME-005: Email Marketing Certification Course
Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web
Usability
Google Eye Tracking Study: How Searchers See & Click on
Google Search Results
New, Updated Search Engine Marketing Kit, v2.0
The Usability Kit
The Web Design Business Kit, 2nd Edition
B2B Website Usability:Guidelines for Converting Business
Users into Leads & Customers
MarketingSherpa Members-Only Resource Kit
Members-Only Creative Samples Library
3238+ Creative Samples ready for you to swipe ideas from.
Need ideas? Nothing’s worse than starting with a blank piece of paper (or empty computer
screen) when you have to create new high-impact marketing creative. Use MarketingSherpa’s
Creative Samples Library as your own personal Swipe File to get started.
• Inspire your copywriters
• Share with your graphic and Web design teams
• Galvanize marketing brainstorming sessions
• Hotlinks to real-life results of the campaigns the creative was made for - so you can tell
how well it worked.
• Especially useful for Web site, landing page, and email campaign re-design sessions
Note: Yes, you can submit your own creative samples for MarketingSherpa’s Library so your
work is visible to your fellow members. See our easy submission form online. Online Advertisement
Banner Ad
Rich Media/Video
Search Ad
Overlays
Email, mobile, RSS,
podcast
Chat
Blast (includes dedicated broadcast,
sales alert)
Transactional Email
Newsletter
Viral Email-for example send to a
friend…
eCard
Autoresponder
RSS
Chat/IM/SMS
Mobile
SIG
Desktop Application
Podcast
Web, ecommerce, & blog
design/marketing
Landing Page
Home Page
Product Page
Order Form
Microsite
Sign Up/Registration
Cart
Blog
Survey
Screensaver
Web Page: other
Offline
Brochure
Flyer
Catalog
Direct Postal Mail
Radio
TV
Trade Show Booth
Logo/Packaging
Out of Home:
Press Release
Marketing Reports,
Results Report
Other forms, charts, sheets, surveys
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Article Archive
Table of Contents
B-to-B Marketing .................................................................... 10
General Advice...................................................................... 10
Sales Lead Generation.......................................................... 11
Sales Lead Generation - Trade Shows.................................. 13
Sales Lead Generation - White Papers & Webinars............ 14
Sales Lead Generation - Direct Mail & Fax.......................... 15
Sales Lead Generation - Telemarketing................................ 16
Business Technology Marketing............................................ 16
Business Services Marketing................................................ 18
Business Services Marketing - Marketing to Marketers...... 19
Marketing by Job Function/Industry..................................... 20
Marketing to Small Businesses............................................ 21
Ecommerce............................................................................ 22
Channel Marketing................................................................ 22
Sales Support & Collateral.................................................... 23
Consumer Marketing .............................................................. 23
General Advice...................................................................... 23
Ecommerce............................................................................ 24
Retail & Restaurant Marketing............................................. 28
Automotive............................................................................ 28
Consumer Electronics............................................................ 29
Consumer Packaged Goods................................................... 29
Entertainment & Sports Marketing...................................... 30
Financial Services Marketing................................................ 31
Health Marketing.................................................................. 32
NonProfit Fundraising............................................................ 33
Real Estate Marketing........................................................... 33
Travel & Hospitality Marketing............................................. 33
Loyalty................................................................................... 34
Consumer Demographic........................................................ 34
Consumer Demographic - Marketing to Women.................. 35
Consumer Demographic - Marketing to Kids, Tweens &
Teens...................................................................................... 35
Online Publishing .................................................................... 36
Subscription Marketing Online............................................. 37
Advertising Sales Online....................................................... 40
Content Sales Online............................................................. 41
Marketing by Region .............................................................. 43
Marketing in Canada............................................................. 43
Marketing in the UK.............................................................. 43
Marketing in Regions outside the USA UK and Canada....... 43
Multinational Marketing....................................................... 43
Online Marketing..................................................................... 44
Email Marketing.................................................................... 45
Email Marketing - Email Newsletters & Sales Alerts.......... 47
Email Marketing - Email List Growth.................................... 50
Email Marketing - Email Design & Delivery.......................... 52
Email Marketing - Email Rented Lists................................... 53
Email Marketing - Email Laws.............................................. 54
Search Marketing.................................................................. 54
Web Site & Landing Page Design......................................... 56
Social Networking & Evangelism.......................................... 59
Viral Marketing...................................................................... 60
Affiliate Marketing................................................................ 61
Online Advertising (Banner Ads etc.).................................... 62
Alternatives (RSS, Mobile etc.)............................................. 64
Offline Marketing & Advertising........................................... 64
Integrated Campaigns........................................................... 65
Direct Mail & Fax.................................................................. 65
Broadcast Advertising (TV & Radio)...................................... 66
Print Advertising.................................................................... 66
Out of Home.......................................................................... 66
Telemarketing........................................................................ 67
Trade Shows.......................................................................... 67
PR, Fame & Communications ................................................ 68
General PR Tips..................................................................... 68
Blogging & Podcasting.......................................................... 69
PR & Search Marketing......................................................... 70
How to Pitch Marketing Journalists..................................... 70
How to Pitch Business Journalists........................................ 72
How to Pitch Technology Journalists.................................... 73
Skills ......................................................................................... 74
Copywriting........................................................................... 74
Branding................................................................................ 74
Market Research................................................................... 75
Marketing Metrics & Marketing Tests.................................. 76
Database Marketing.............................................................. 77
Media Buying........................................................................ 78
Marketing Law...................................................................... 78
Pricing.................................................................................... 78
Testimonials........................................................................... 78
Careers ...................................................................................... 78
How to Hire Marketers.......................................................... 79
Running a Marketing Consultancy........................................ 79
Selecting Vendors & Buyer’s Guides..................................... 79
MarketingSherpa Members-Only Resource Kit
B-to-B Marketing
General Advice
Case StudyLeave ‘Em Laughing: How to Use TV Parody to Educate, Entertain, and Get Plenty of Leads
Case StudyHow to Prep Your Staff for Corporate Rebranding
Case StudyHow to Maximize Real-World Product Demos: 8 Strategies to Convert 40% More Leads
Case StudyHow to Convert 11% More Prospects in Final 72 Hours of Buying Cycle
Case StudyVideo + Humor + Viral = Lead-Gen Success for Data Backup Firm
Case StudyHow an Email Newsletter to Ultra-Busy Execs Gets up to 73% Clickthroughs (Hint: No Articles)
Case StudyHow to Get 35.8% More Downloads From Your Landing Page (& More Test Results from Monster)
Case StudyHow to Create & Use an Audio Testimonial Library to Shorten Your Sales Cycle
Case Study Coolest B-to-B Site Traffic Building Campaign of the Year (Includes Stealable Ideas)
Case StudyHow GE Healthcare Gets Email Clickthrough Rates of 7%-10% (Includes Beautiful Creative Samples)
Case StudyHow to Use Search Engines to Market Engineering Equipment (Without Paying a Cent to Google)
Case StudyHow a 10-Year-Old Newsletter Generates Half a Mill in Sales With Every Issue
Case Study Adding Audio to Your Business Web Site - Helps Sales Reps Maximize In-person Meeting Impact
Case StudyHow to Integrate Branding into a Lead Generation Campaign (Useful Creative Samples Included)
Case StudyHow to Impress C-Level Executives with Guerrilla Online Marketing (Includes Landing Page Test Results)
Case StudyHow to Cut Through the Clutter & Impress Prospects with an Emailed Flash Commercial
Case Study Email Alerts to Big Businesses vs Small Businesses - Metrics from Cintas
Case StudyOakwood Uses Advanced Web & Email Tactics to Survive the Recession on a Smaller Marketing Budget
Case StudyIndustrial Manufacturer Expands Nationally by Switching from Print Ads to Search Engine Marketing
Case StudyHigh Tech Firm Tests 3 Banners to Reach CEOs Online
Case StudyHow Grainger Gets 12% of Its $4.8 Billion Sales Online
Case Study 5 Rules for Publishing an Email Newsletter That’s “Less Torture” Than Print
Case StudyHow to Reach & Impress Big Business Purchasing Managers Online (6 Challenges to Beat)
Case Study Reaching Fortune 1000 Sales Prospects Online
Case StudyPaperExchange Gets Non-Tech Savvy Execs to Return to Its Online B-to-B Marketplace Frequently
Case StudyPall Corporation Gets Double Digit Sales Growth to Forensic Scientists with Internet Game Campaign
Case Study Action Conference Call Raises its Sales 500% Solely Through Search Engine Optimization
Case Study Brownfields.com Grows Targeted Site Visitors with a Viral Contest (That Cost Only $275)
Case Study eGreenCoffee.com Gets 200 Business Clients Around the World to Open Accounts in Less than 60 Days
Case Study AssociationCentral.com Grabs Execs’ Attention During Their Morning Commutes
Case Study Just-Auto.com Finds Serious Auto Executives Prefer Email Newsletters With a Jokey, Casual Tone
How ToLead Generation Special Report: B-to-B Insights, Strategies & Tactics to Get More Leads – 22-Page Download
How ToHow to Use Forums to Become a Thought Leader: 10 Steps to Make Your Brand Stand Out
How ToSpecial - Click Now to Get Your Complimentary Copy of Sherpa’s 2008 Wisdom Report
How ToHow to Collect Higher Impact Testimonials from Consulting Clients: 7 Practical Tips
How ToSpecial Report: B-to-B Marketing in the UK - 3 Challenges & 5 Must-Know Strategies (Hint: Anglicize Everything)
How ToSpecial Report: B-to-B Manufacturing -- 6 Industry Challenges + 9 Strategies to Reach Buyers
How ToHow to Flesh Out Your B-to-B Sales Lead Database: Better House Lists in 7 Easy Steps
How To
Business-to-Business Loyalty Marketing –- How to Stop Your Most Profitable Accounts from Deserting
How ToHow to Create Marketing Collateral B-to-B Prospects Love (Plus Get Your Sales Force to Use it Well)
How ToSpecial Report: 5 Ways Business Marketers Should Prep for 4th Quarter Now
How ToTop 3 Low-Cost, High-Impact B-to-B Online Marketing Tactics for the New Economy
How ToSkyscraper Banners Get More Clicks
How ToKey ROI Metrics B-to-B Marketers Should Use for Online Campaigns
How ToTest Results from the 5th Biggest B-to-B Online Advertiser: Network Solutions
How ToHow to Improve B-to-B Banner Clickthroughs
How ToSPECIAL REPORT: Top 10 B-to-B Internet Marketing Tactics That Worked Best in 2000
How ToHow B-to-B Marketers Can Use Email Discussion Groups to Grow Sales and Increase Customer Loyalty
How ToIDG’s Deb Goldstein Explains How to Rent a B-to-B Email List and How to Make it Perform Better for You
How ToTop 5 Tips for Making Your Company’s VerticalNet and Thomas Register Listings More Successful
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MarketingSherpa Members-Only Resource Kit
How To
B2B Marketers Don’t Always Make the Most of Online Ads
How To
Create a Site that Delights Business Executives
How ToGot a CEO Who’s a Lousy Public Speaker? Best Recommendation
InterviewHow to Market When a Crisis Strikes: 8 Strategies to Prep for Disaster
Interview
10 Things You Should Know About Improving Your Agency’s Relationship - Tips & Horror Stories
Interview
Judith Remondi Explains How B-to-B Email Marketing Is Different from Direct Mail Marketing
Interview
Charlie Buchwalter VP AdRelevance Reveals 46% of B-to-B Banners are Good for Branding Only
InterviewPopular B-to-B eMarketing Book Author Barry Silverstein’s Top Tips for Online Marketing Beginners
InterviewThomas Baker, Sr. VP Marketing Work.com, on What Business People Really Want from B-to-B Portals
InterviewHoovers’ VP Marketing Craig Lakey on Best (and Worst) Practices in B-to-B Online Marketing
InterviewOnline Marketing Tips from Business.com’s Sr VP Marketing, Chris Hylen
Interview
Common Mistakes Big Companies Make When They Go Online
InterviewShareMax’s Noelle Paschon on Using Fundamentals to Market to the Global 2000
InterviewHSR B-to-B ‘s Richard Segal on What Works for “Blue Chip” Companies Marketing Online
Interview
FolioZ’s Philip Mowris on B-to-B Email Marketing, Banners and Integrating Online and Offline Campaigns
InterviewKristin Zhivago Part II: How to Hire B-to-B Net Marketers; and, The Wireless Future
InterviewKristin Zhivago Reveals What Businesses are Doing Right -- and What They Are Doing Very, Very Wrong
InterviewVerticalNet Marketers Reveal Market Research, Integrated Marketing and Storefront Success Tips
Interview
Jim Caruso of WirelessVertical.com Tells How They Went from Zero to Light Speed in Only 30 Days
InterviewTargeting B-to-B News Junkies: Experient Technologies
InterviewWashington News Bureau’s Lane F. Cooper on B-to-B Consultative Marketing
ArticleSpecial Report: Marketing During an Economic Downturn - New Data & Key Insights
ArticleSpecial Report: Marketing During a Downturn, Part 2: 24 Real-Life Strategies Marketers Are Using to Handle the Slump
ArticleSpecial Report: How To Defend Your ’09 Marketing Budget, Part I: 5 Preparatory Tactics
ArticleSpecial Report: How To Defend Your Marketing Budget, Part II: Meeting Tips + Challenging Scenarios
ArticleNew Chart: What Are Top Priorities for Marketers at Biggest B2B Organizations in 2009?
ArticleNew Chart: B2B Marketers’ Priorities for 2009: Part 2
ArticleNew Survey Data: B2B Marketers’ Priorities and Pain Points for 2009
ArticleNew Chart: Spending in Recessionary Economy: Travel, Contracts, Staff to Take Hits BtoB Marketing - General Advice
ArticlePodcast: New Survey Results Reveal Budget Tactics for Economic Downturn
ArticlePlease Take Our Survey: Impact of Today’s Economy on Marketing
ArticleSpecial Report: Marketing During a Downturn, Part 2: 24 Real-Life Strategies Marketers Are Using to Handle the Slump
Article
Call for Speakers: MarketingSherpa’s B-to-B Demand Generation Summit Seeks Presenters
ArticleSpecial Report: Marketing During an Economic Downturn - New Data & Key Insights
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Sales Lead Generation
Case StudyGet 1,400% ROI: 7 Steps to Integrate Unusual Theme, Gifts, Personalized Emails
Case StudyGenerate Leads with Social Media Strategy: 6 Steps to Fill Up Sales Funnel
Case StudyHow a Consultant Uses Content to Create New Revenue Stream: 4 Tactics
Case StudyLeave ‘Em Laughing: How to Use TV Parody to Educate, Entertain, and Get Plenty of Leads
Case StudyHow to Use Wikipedia Entries for Lead Gen - 6 Steps to 18% Higher Conversion Rate
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Case StudyHow to Add Widgets to Streamline Lead Generation - 4 Steps & Test Results
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Case StudyHow to Target a Tech-Savvy, Marketing-Averse Audience - 5 Steps
Case StudyHow to Launch a Service With No Ad Budget: 5 Steps to Grow Leads With Email & Blogs
Case StudyHow to Launch a Lead-Gen Campaign on a Tiny Budget: 7 Steps for Using Blogs & Social Media
Case StudySEO Tactics to Quadruple Lead Gen - Link-Building, Keyword Targeting & Landing Page Tests
Case StudyHow Self-Service Price Quote Converts 48% of Prospects Into Qualified Leads
Case StudyHow to Use Online Calculators for Lead Generation & Quadruple Conversion Rates
Case StudyHow to Qualify Leads With Targeted Online Surveys
Case StudyHow Targeted DM & Web Promo Built Buzz at Trade Show (and Doubled Customer Base)
Case StudyHow SAP Took Local Approach to Global Level for SMB Lead Generation
Case StudyHow Hoover’s Keeps Leads Hot: 5-1 ROI Test Results
Case StudyHow to Convert 11% More Prospects in Final 72 Hours of Buying Cycle
Case StudyDouble Your Qualified Leads: 4 Steps to a New Registration System
Case StudyVideo + Humor + Viral = Lead-Gen Success for Data Backup Firm
Case StudyHow to Convince Prospects Your Offering Beats the Competition Hands Down --- Clever Flash Ads
Case StudyHow to Improve Your Channel Partners’ Lead Generation Campaigns (Vastly) -- Lessons From Cisco
Case StudyHow to Lower Costs for Leads Generated via Google Search Ads (PPC)
Case StudyHow to Swipe Accounts From Competitors After M&As -- 5 Marketing Prep Steps
Case Study Emailed Video Hotlink Helps Sales Reps Land (Big) New Accounts
Case Study Must-Read Results From Online Lead Generation Campaign Tests -- Which Banners, Landing Pages & Forms Work Best
Case Study Can You Generate Qualified Senior Exec Sales Leads With Giveaway Offers Cost-Effectively?
Case Study Can Virtual B-to-B Marketers Work Better Than an In-House Marketing Team? 3 Stealable Campaigns
Case StudyGreat Email Follow-Ups to Qualify New Leads
Case StudyHow to Generate 1,000 A+ Qualified Leads in Six Months by Mixing Online Plus Offline (On a Budget)
Case StudyTwo-Minute Explainer Online Presentation Turns Confused Prospects into Eager Leads
Case Study Multiply Lead Gen Campaign Responses by Prepopulating Your Online Registration Forms
Case StudyLead Generation Site Redesign: How to Get More Big Company Execs to Call You
Case StudyOnline Marketing to CFOs of Multibillion Dollar Companies
Case Study Relentless Lead Qualification - How to Do It & How to Track Results Properly
Case StudyHow to Generate New Sales Leads with a Email Campaigns to a Third-Party Lists
Case Study Create-Your-Own-Brochure Program Lures High-Quality Leads (Idea Worth Stealing)
Case StudyHow to Create Online Demos That Technical Prospects Love
Case StudyHow to Combine Lead Generation, Search Engine Optimization, and PR in a Single Low-cost Campaign
Case StudyHow Primavera Turned Boring Brand Ads to Must-Respond Lead Gen Campaigns
Case Study 5 Best Practices to Create a High-impact Sales Lead Generation Web Site
Case StudyInteractive Registration Form Gets 300% More Completions Than Regular Sales Lead Forms
Case StudyHow to Turn a Popular Viral Campaign into a Sales Lead Generation Machine
Case Study B-to-B Direct Mail Campaign Gets 7.5% Response
Case StudyTwo-Step Landing Page Gets More Leads Than Single-Page -- Involve Prospects to Raise Responses
Case StudyHow to Impress C-Level Executives with Guerrilla Online Marketing (Includes Landing Page Test Results)
Case StudyHow to Use Site Chat to Generate Sales Leads: 4 Best Practices & Test Results
Case StudyHow Tweaking a Business Web Site’s Design Can Increase the Sales Leads it Generates by 60%
Case StudyHow to Create a Series of Automated Follow-Up Emails to Convert Average Sales Leads into Hot Leads
Case Study Buyer’s Kit Offer Generates 5,000+ Sales Leads (Works Better Than White Paper or Webinar Offers)
Case Study Cost-Estimator Spreadsheet Offer Turns Business Shoppers Online into Buyers
Case Study Clever Pre-Show Direct Mail and Web Campaign Generates Solid Leads
Case Study Email Marketing + Online Quiz Convert Business Execs into Eager Sales Prospects
Case Study Xerox Tests Three Online Sales Lead Generation Tactics -- Sweeps vs. Game vs. Product Info
Case StudyViral Marketing Danger: Online Survey to Gather Sales Leads Gets Out of Control
Case StudyHow to Get Sales Prospects to Return to Your Site Again and Again and Again -- Try a Treasure Hunt
Case StudySales Lead Generation Email Test -- Do Short Registration Forms Really Work Better Than Long Forms?
Case Study Failure! The Story of an Online B-to-B Marketing Test That Bombed
Case StudyHow to Revive Old Sales Leads: Give Them a Better Deal and Get Personal
Case Study B2B Marketer Gets High Ticket Sales Leads from a Cheap B2C Publicity Web Site
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Case StudyWebTrends’ Site Redesign Generates 65% More Six-Figure Sales Leads
Case Study Mixing Direct Mail and Email Improves Marketing Results by 27%
Case StudyHow to Double Business-to-Business Sales by Adding a ROI Calculator to Your Web Site
Case StudyHow to Use an Online Quiz to Gather Qualified Business Sales Leads
Case Study Mixing Direct Mail, Web, Email, and Telemarketing to Gather “Hot” Sales Leads
Case StudyLessons Support.com Learned About Highly Effective Web Site Design for Sales Lead Generation
Case StudyStart-Up InternetVIZ Lands $15,000 Corporate Accounts with Clever Guerrilla Tactics
Case StudyWelocalize.com’s “Free eQuote” Web Site Button Generates Sales Leads from the Global 2000
Case StudyTotaliNet Raises Conversion Rates by Prequalifying Business Sales Leads Online
Case Study CEOExpress Raises Weekly Site Registrations by 45% with Executive Toy Offer
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How ToVideo’s Role in Your Marketing: 6 Proven Tactics to Support Lead Gen, Search, Product Launches
How ToHow to Use Customer Surveys to Track Leads - 5 Tactics to Keep Them From Getting Lost
How ToHow to Get Busy Execs to Attend Your Complimentary Event - 9 Best Practices
How ToOvercoming Office Politics - 7 Strategies to Generate & Close More Leads
How ToHow National Instruments Doubled Completion Rate for Web Forms
How ToTutorial: Buying Leads, Part 2 - Resource List -- Prices, Selects & Specialties
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How ToSPECIAL: Top 10 B-to-B Lead Generation Marketing Mistakes
How ToHow UPS Links Sales & Marketing Data to Improve Lead Generation Results
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How ToTop 9 Tips for Successful Sales Support Email Newsletters
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B-to-B Marketing
Sales Lead Generation - Trade Shows
Case Study 5 Steps to Double Conference Attendance: Inject Virtual Webcast & Trade Show
Case StudyHow to Turn a Trade Show Speech Into a Podcast That Becomes a Lead Machine
Case StudyHow Simple & Inexpensive Trade Show Souvenir Got 430% ROI
Case Study APC’s Client Site Tour Program: Software Marketing Campaign Mixes Evangelism & Education
Case StudyHow to Schmooze Only the Most Qualified Prospects at a Big Trade Show
Case StudyHow to Dominate a Trade Show Floor & Garner Loads of New Sales Leads with a Clever Promo
Case StudyHow to Use a Back-stage Blog & Virtual Community Networking to Maximize Your Road Show’s Impact
Case StudyHow to Build Buzz at a Massive Trade Show on a Limited Budget: Operation Blueshock Strikes CES
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Case StudyHow to Boost Your Trade Show Booth Impact With a Clever Pre-show Mailing Campaign
Case Study Rolls-Royce’s Tradeshow Microsite Gets an Astonishing 25 Pageviews per Visitor
Case StudyHow to Get 100% of Hot Prospects to Download a White Paper: Trade Show Follow-up Email Tips
Case Study Clever Pre-Show Direct Mail and Web Campaign Generates Solid Leads
Case Study Mix Direct Mail + Web to Get More Trade Show Booth Visitors
Case StudyHow AnswerLogic Won Best of Show for Their eCRM Conference Booth
Case StudySanctum Inc. Gets “Unbelievable” Six-Figure Sales in Just 90 Days with Online Marketing
How ToWhat Boosts Lead Scores Now: 7 Tips for Surviving an Economic Downturn
How ToTutorial: How to Become a Star by Landing Coveted Speaking Gigs & Gaining New Business
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How To
A Shy Person’s Guide to Networking at Trade Shows
How ToSpecial Report: How to Improve Your Trade Show Marketing for 2003: Staff, Booth & Sales Lead Tips
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Collect Opt-Ins for Your Email Prospect List at Trade Shows
How ToShould You Exhibit at Small Regional Shows? Six Factors to Consider First
How ToTips on Using an Expert Speaker to Promote Your Product to Small Businesses
How ToStage a Successful Networking Event: Tips from BusyGirl Forum
How ToGot a CEO Who’s a Lousy Public Speaker? Best Recommendation
How ToPick Promotional Items, Freebies and Giveaway Items Internet Marketers Will Really Go For
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B-to-B Marketing
Sales Lead Generation - White Papers & Webinars
Case StudyHow to Use Fewer, More Relevant Webinars to Get Better Results: 6 Steps Lift Attendance 422%
Case StudyHow to Get Better SEO Traffic: 4 Strategies to Increase Leads 58%
Case StudyHow to Optimize Press Releases & Get Higher Search Ranking and 75% Clickthrough Rate
Case StudyHow B-to-B Trade Publisher Profits Online With New Revenue Stream
Case StudyHow to Use Social Networking Sites for Lead Generation
Case StudyHow Email Series + Personalized Landing Page Lifted Webinar’s ROI by 2000%
Case Study Marketing Collateral Adored by Reps & Prospects Alike -- PowerPoint-Style Libraries With Audio
Case StudyHow to Get 350 Positive Media Mentions for a Business Services Firm in Six Months
Case StudyHow to Improve Webinar and Email Newsletter Results with Very Simple Video
Case StudyHow to Conduct an Interactive Survey & Turn the Results into Must-Attend Webcast Content
Case Study Exclusive - Nortel Tests Virtual Tradeshow (instead of a Webinar): Tactics & Results
Case StudyHow to Use eBook Offers to Stand Out in a Sea of White Papers
Case StudyHow to Use a Podcast to Promote a White Paper That Generates New Business Sales Leads
Case StudyHow to Get Thousands More White Paper Readers & Webinar Attendees: Red Hat’s Initial Test Results
Case StudyHow to Invent & Promote White Papers that Fortune 500 Prospects Find Irresistible
Case StudyHow to Generate New Sales Leads with a Email Campaigns to a Third-Party Lists
Case StudyHow to Turn Your White Paper Promo Into a One-two Punch to Generate Better Leads
Case Study Results Data & Useful Ideas from Fairchild Semiconductor’s Seminar and Webinar Tests
Case Study Using Teleseminars to Impress Sales Leads (Cheaper and Easier to Produce Than Webinars)
Case StudyHow to Educate Your Sales Prospects by Launching an Online University They Adore
Case Study Co-op Marketing Campaign Generates 4,258 High-Quality Leads: Webcast vs Sweeps Offer Test Results
Case StudyHow to Get 100% of Hot Prospects to Download a White Paper: Trade Show Follow-up Email Tips
Case StudyHow to Market by Offering Prospects Palm & Pocket PC Tools (Low Cost & Widely Applicable)
Case StudyTrial vs White Paper Offer - Results + 5 Steps to Email Campaign Success
Case StudyWhen Traditional Software Marketing Tactics Fail, Try Adding Workshops to Your Web Site
Case Study Email Sponsorships Outperform Broadcast Campaigns to Rented Lists
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Case StudyWindows XP Chops 1/2 Hour Webcast into Six Smaller Pieces for Greater Success
Case Study CPA Online Uses Free Content to Market $40,000+ Services
Case StudyWeb Conferences Beat Road Shows in Terms of Cost, Attendees and Sales Lead “Heat”
Case StudyIntegic & Broadvision Get 75 Key Government Officials Across the Nation to Tune into a Webcast
Case StudyHow a Major Business Real Estate Firm Launched Their New Site with a Webcast
How ToSpecial Report: Webinar Buyer’s Guide -- 12 Tips + List of Key Vendors
How ToSpecial Report: How to Syndicate Your White Paper Successfully -- Comprehensive Directory of Syndicators -- Part II
How ToSpecial Report: How to Syndicate Your White Paper Successfully -- 12 Steps, 8 Mistakes & Creative Samples –- Part I
How ToHow to Sell Sponsorships to Webinars Part II: Content, Marketing & Production Tips
How ToNew Research Data: How to Title Your White Papers to Generate More Downloads From Best Prospects
How ToHow to Produce Better Webinars for Fortune 500 Exec Prospects: 7 Tactics & 3 Worksheets
How ToHow Win an Award for Your White Paper
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How ToThe Five Easy Steps to Running a Successful B-to-B Web Chat
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Best Practices in White Paper Marketing Online
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B2B Webinars Grew Exponentially in 2000; Three Quick Tips for Webinar Success in Future
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B-to-B Marketing
Sales Lead Generation - Direct Mail & Fax
Case StudyHow to Use Simple Postcard to Boost Revenue, Add Prospects for Nurturing: 6 Easy Steps
Case StudyGoing Green: How to Transition Catalog Users to Email & Lift Conversions 19%
Case StudyHow Reader’s Digest Mined Purchasing Data to Personalize Catalogs & Lift Conversions 74%
Case StudyHow to Quadruple Lead Generation Response With Job Title Segmentation and Targeted Messages
Case StudyHow Billboard-Web 2.0 Combo Grew Church Community 277%
Case Study Best B-to-B Direct Marketing Program of 2007 -- How to Combine Search + Web + Postal + Telemarketing + Email
Case Study Extreme Catalog Makeover -- How Schwan’s Turned a Dud Holiday Gift Catalog Around
Case StudyHow to Swipe Accounts From Competitors After M&As -- 5 Marketing Prep Steps
Case StudyGuerrilla Software Marketing -- Email Tactics to Turn More Trials Into Customers
Case Study Can Cool (Expensive) Direct Mail Campaigns Get a Decent ROI for Lead Gen?
Case StudyHow to Market Services to Mid-Size Businesses -- IBM Test Results
Case Study Forrester Tests Multi-part DM Campaign and Google AdWords to Promote Consulting Services
Case Study B-to-B Direct Mail Campaign Gets 7.5% Response
Case StudyHow to Boost Your Trade Show Booth Impact With a Clever Pre-show Mailing Campaign
Case StudyWhen a Failing Company Hires You as Chief Marketing Officer -- Inspirational Turnaround Story
Case StudyHP Tests Personalized Web Landing Pages for Email and Direct Mail Campaigns -- Data & Samples
Case StudyHow to Make Really Expensive Direct Mail Campaigns Pay Off -- 5 Tips on Dimensional Mailings
Case StudyGoTo.com Rolls Out a Direct Mail Campaign to Attract 10,000 Additional Advertisers
Case Study Forget White Paper PDFs -- TouchScape Offers a Print Magazine & Marketers Love It
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How ToTested DM Strategies Get Great ROI for Book Marketer
How To
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How ToHow to Buy (and Sell) Package Inserts -- Higher Conversion Rates Than You’d Expect at Decent ROI
How ToTop 12 Facts B-to-B Web Sites Need to Know To Avoid Wasting Money While Direct Mail Marketing
How ToSimple Postcards Give Big Bang for the Buck: ArtofSelfPromotion.com
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B-to-B Marketing
Sales Lead Generation - Telemarketing
Case Study Rediscover Lead Gen Gold by Reaching Exec Assistants with Telemarketing Tactics: 4 Steps
Case StudyHow to Double Renewals with Triggered Emails and Sales Reps: 6 Steps
Case StudyHow to Score Customer Loyalty: 7 Steps to Double Satisfaction Rating
Case Study Best B-to-B Direct Marketing Program of 2007 -- How to Combine Search + Web + Postal + Telemarketing + Email
Case StudyHow Click to Call Adds Muscle to Jenny Craig’s Multichannel Strategies
Case StudyHow Personalized Video & Telemarketing Viral Effort Built Really Great Buzz for Product Launch
Case StudyHow to Use Teleconferences to Turn Prospects Into Friends
Case StudyHow to Swipe Accounts From Competitors After M&As -- 5 Marketing Prep Steps
Case StudyGuerrilla Software Marketing -- Email Tactics to Turn More Trials Into Customers
How To
B-to-B Market Research --- How to Discover Why Fortune 500 Prospects Are Saying No to Your Offering
How ToHow to Pick the Best B-to-B Telemarketing Firm: Quick Buyer’s Guide
How To
Qualify Sales Leads for IT Products & Services via Telemarketing
How ToHow Verida Uses Telemarketing to Hand-Hold Farmers Online
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Exclusive Data: How Many Telemarketing Calls Does It Take to Initiate a Lead Gen Conversation? (More Than You Think)
ArticleNew Data on Best Telemarketing Tactics: 5 Tips to Improve Your Lead Gen Calls
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B-to-B Marketing
Business Technology Marketing
Case StudyHow to Use a Desktop Widget to Deliver Auditable Content: 4 Steps to Boost Subscriptions & Readership, Cut Costs, Increase Revenue
Case StudyHow to Launch a Product in Stealth Mode: 6 Steps to Generate 374% More Leads
Case Study Unconventional Tactics Lift Sales: Online Game & Giveaway for Scientists Beat Revenue Goals 278%
Case StudyHow to Turn Old Leads Into Hot Prospects: Before & After Newsletter Revamp
Case StudyHow Pay-Per-Article Option Tripled Revenue for Subscription Site
Case StudyHow to Maximize Real-World Product Demos: 8 Strategies to Convert 40% More Leads
Case Study Before & After: 4 Steps to Identify Best Redesign With Multivariate Tests & Lift Lead Gen 85.3%
Case StudyHow Self-Service Price Quote Converts 48% of Prospects Into Qualified Leads
Case StudyHow to Qualify Leads With Targeted Online Surveys
Case StudyHow Email Series + Personalized Landing Page Lifted Webinar’s ROI by 2000%
Case StudyHow to Quadruple Lead Generation Response With Job Title Segmentation and Targeted Messages
Case StudyHow Cisco Doubled Email Registration Conversions by Offering Fewer Sign-up Choices
Case StudyHow Texas Instruments Centralized Its Global Email Marketing Into One Database
Case StudyHow to Make Your Technology Brand Famous Via Podcasts, Blogs & Games: 12-Month Viral Marketing Plan
Case StudyHow IBM Used Live Webcams Plus Chat to Impress Mid-Market Prospects With Concierge-Style Marketing
Case StudyHow an Enterprise Software Company Created a Podcast Program -- 15 Useful Tips
Case Study Marketing Collateral Adored by Reps & Prospects Alike -- PowerPoint-Style Libraries With Audio
Case StudyHow to Get Bloggers to Evangelize Your Product
Case Study Can You Generate Qualified Senior Exec Sales Leads With Giveaway Offers Cost-Effectively?
Case StudyHow to Impress Conservative Fortune 100 Business Prospects by Allying With Academia
Case StudySun Microsystems Tests 3D Microsite & 3D PDF to Promote New Server Launch: Results
Case StudyHow to Use eBook Offers to Stand Out in a Sea of White Papers
Case Study Behind-the-Scenes Discoveries from HP’s Email Segmentation Tests (Response Rates Up 300%-1000%)
Case StudyHow to Get Thousands More White Paper Readers & Webinar Attendees: Red Hat’s Initial Test Results
Case StudyHow to Generate 1,000 A+ Qualified Leads in Six Months by Mixing Online Plus Offline (On a Budget)
Case StudyHow to Fix Your Marketing Messaging to Nip Common Sales Objections in the Bud
Case StudyHow to Penetrate Large Corporations with Targeted Microsites (Includes 6 Web-Audio Best Practices)
Case StudySun Microsystems Tests High-Impact Brand Revival Campaigns Online: 3 Broken Rules
Case StudyHow to Get a Bigger Marketing Budget Approved: 5 Steps in 6 Months (Includes B-to-B Search Ad Tips)
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Case Study Real-Life Story: Sales & Marketing One Happy Family & 100% of Leads Followed Up On
Case StudyHow to End Sales Lead Neglect & Make Sure Every Single Lead is Followed Up On Appropriately
Case StudyHow to Dominate a Trade Show Floor & Garner Loads of New Sales Leads with a Clever Promo
Case StudyHow to Beat a Big-Budget Business Competitor with a Clever Little Space Ad (Includes Samples)
Case StudySoftware Company President’s Blog Proves a Publicity & Search Optimization Bonanza
Case StudyHow to Use a Back-stage Blog & Virtual Community Networking to Maximize Your Road Show’s Impact
Case StudyHow to Maximize Business-to-Business Email Newsletter Results: Useful Data & Samples
Case StudyWhen a Failing Company Hires You as Chief Marketing Officer -- Inspirational Turnaround Story
Case StudyHow to Integrate Branding into a Lead Generation Campaign (Useful Creative Samples Included)
Case Study 3-Step Email Campaign Generates More Highly Qualified Sales Leads (Samples Included)
Case Study Ask the Expert Feature Enthralls Business Execs Receiving Cincom’s Promotional Email Newsletter
Case StudyHow to Get Fortune 500 Clients to Evangelize with Press, Analysts & Sales Prospects on Your Behalf
Case Study Buyer’s Kit Offer Generates 5,000+ Sales Leads (Works Better Than White Paper or Webinar Offers)
Case StudyWhen Traditional Software Marketing Tactics Fail, Try Adding Workshops to Your Web Site
Case StudyHow to Get 85% More Sales to Global 2000 Clients (with a 15% Lower Marketing Budget)
Case StudyHow to Succeed in CPA Advertising and Convert 30% of Samplers to Buyers - the TrimLife Story
Case Study Best Practices in PR - How to Go From Zilch Coverage to 200+ Tech Media Interviews in 18 Months
Case StudyHigh Tech Firm Tests 3 Banners to Reach CEOs Online
Case StudyHow to Make Really Expensive Direct Mail Campaigns Pay Off -- 5 Tips on Dimensional Mailings
Case StudyViral Marketing Danger: Online Survey to Gather Sales Leads Gets Out of Control
Case StudyHow to Influence CEOs with an Online TV Show (It’s Cheaper & More Effective Than You Think)
Case StudyHow to Keep Sales Flow Predictable by Combining Telemarketing, Direct Mail, Email & Webinars
Case StudyHow to Switch from Direct Mail to Emailed Sales Lead Generation Campaigns
Case StudyWebTrends’ Site Redesign Generates 65% More Six-Figure Sales Leads
Case StudyHow Microsoft Nurtured Sales Leads to Sell More $100,000 Software Accounts
Case Study Mixing Direct Mail and Email Improves Marketing Results by 27%
Case Study Email Sponsorships Outperform Broadcast Campaigns to Rented Lists
Case StudyOnline Marketing to Corporate Insurance Executives
Case StudySoftware Company Grows Online Sales 50% (in Just One Week) with Demographic-Focused Site Redesign
Case StudySeattle Lab Raises Sales 44% by Email Marketing to IT Professionals
Case StudyNASA Tests Internet Marketing to Gather Business Partnership Leads
Case Study EMC Gathers 60,000 Potential Sales Evangelists With a 3rd Party Email Newsletter
Case StudySoftware Company Raises Sales 25% With Simple Email Follow-Up Campaign
Case StudyWhy PeopleSoft is Shifting Up to 50% More of Its Marketing Budget to Online Efforts
Case StudyHow Oracle’s Chief Marketing Officer Transformed Their Online Marketing That “Sucked”
Case StudyHTML vs Rich Media Test Results from B-to-B Broadcast Email Campaign
Case StudyPlaceWare Web Conferencing Wins 1,500 Clients By Dividing Its Broad Marketplace into Vertical Niches
Case StudyKeyva Gains 75-80% of its ISP Clients By (Carefully) Participating in Email Discussion Groups
Case Study BMC Software Gets 50% Click Throughs From Fortune 500 Execs Via Non-Branded, Educational Sites
Case StudyIBM’s Rich Media Campaign Results Are “About Six Times Better than Traditional Direct Mail”
Case StudyHow AnswerLogic Won Best of Show for Their eCRM Conference Booth
Case StudyWeb Conferences Beat Road Shows in Terms of Cost, Attendees and Sales Lead “Heat”
Case StudySearchbutton Raises Sales by Dumping Business Magazine Ads in Favor of Highly Targeted Marketing
Case StudyWelocalize.com’s “Free eQuote” Web Site Button Generates Sales Leads from the Global 2000
Case Study Anatomy of a Really Successful B-to-B Wireless Advertising Campaign
Case StudyIBM Grows Sales by 30% a Year with Targeted Web Sites and Communications
Case StudyHow IBM.com Successfully Rebranded Itself for the Small Business Marketplace
Case Study Charrette.com Finds Email Marketing Substantially OutPerforms Direct Mail
Case Study 15% of B-to-B Sales Prospects Click On Emailed Link to Chat Online With a Sales Rep
Case StudyIntegic & Broadvision Get 75 Key Government Officials Across the Nation to Tune into a Webcast
Case Study Multicity Got 100,000+ Webmaster Customers by Maximizing Free Site Reviews
How ToHow to Get Double-Digit Response From Customer Surveys - Copywriting & Subject Line Tips
How ToHow to Drive More Traffic to Your Blog on Weekends
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How ToHow to Salvage a Lead-Gen Campaign Flooded With Incentive Seekers: 7 Damage-Control Tips
How To
Create a Software Demo Presentation That Wows Prospects: 5 Mistakes to Avoid
How ToHow Network Appliance Launched a Public C-Level Blog (Hint: Delicately)
How ToHow to Market Open Source Software: Top 3 Mistakes & 5 Useful Tactics
How ToTechnology Marketing Courage: How to Win Against Bigger Competitors
How ToSpecial Report: How to Market Technology Products & Services to Hospitals
How ToHow Unisys Uses a Survey to Retain its Most Profitable Customer Accounts
How ToHow Red Hat Has Kept its Email Newsletter Open Rates Higher Than Average for Four Years in a Row
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7 Tips on Sponsoring Interactive Games - Demographics, Effectiveness & Cost
How ToHow IBM Revamped its Site to Appeal to Customers
How ToPractical Advice on Web Sites, Email, Trade Shows & PR from Tech Marketing Trainer Diane Di Cioccio
How ToThe 8 Critical Keys to Marketing to IT Pros Online
How ToTracey-Lee Batsford of Wanted Technologies on Repositioning from B2C to B-to-B
How ToTop 5 Beta Testing Tips for Web Marketing Software and CRM Application Products
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CenterBeam: Selling Solutions to SOHOs Through Intensive Marketing at the Regional/Local Level
InterviewHow to Market With Your Enemy: 6 Strategies to Form a Profitable Partnership With a Longtime Competitor
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InterviewHow Hewlett Packard Uses Email, Online Surveys and Web Sites to Grow Customer Relations
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ArticleNew Chart: Marketers Tailoring Digital Tactics in Recessionary Economy
ArticleShare Your Video Marketing Experience: Maybe Walk Off with Wii or iPod Touch
ArticleNew Chart: Match Your Metrics to the Best Prospects in the Purchase Funnel
ArticleNew Chart: Attendees Share Webinar Turnoffs - Find Out Which Ones Top the List
ArticleNew Search Research From Sherpa: 1,928 Marketers Reveal Top Strategies to Increase Search ROI
ArticleNew Chart: Let Content Determine Podcast Length
ArticleNew Sherpa Research: 6,618 Tech Buyers Tell Us What Marketing Works & What Doesn’t (PDF Report)
ArticleNew Chart: Should Tech Marketers Hide Prices?
ArticlePlease Take Quick Technology Survey Today
ArticleNew MarketingSherpa Research: 4,658 B-to-B Technology Buyers Reveal What Works & What Doesn’t When Marketing to Them
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ArticleNew Research Helps Marketers Predict Which Business Technology Prospects Will Buy (and Which Won’t)
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ArticleIT Marketing Survey Results: 2004 Response Rate & Budgeting Data Includes Some Surprises
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ArticleTop 5 Online Marketing Mistakes Software Companies Typically Make
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Business Services Marketing
Case StudyHow to Turn a Sold-Out Event Into a Lead-Gen Webcast Bonanza
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Case StudyHow to Market Services to Mid-Size Businesses -- IBM Test Results
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Case Study Email Marketing + Online Quiz Convert Business Execs into Eager Sales Prospects
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How ToHow to Use YouTube to Generate Leads: 7 Video Posting Strategies & Tagging Tips
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B-to-B Marketing
Business Services Marketing - Marketing to Marketers
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Case StudyPlain and Simple Direct Mail Beats Heavy Graphics to Drive Traffic to Business Web Site
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Case StudyValueFlash.com Wins Big Name Clients (Like NBC) by Partnering Their Brains Out
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How ToHoward Levy Design Tests Web Directories vs. Direct Mail to Bring in New Clients
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Cracker Communications Selects Clients By Passion vs. Budget Size
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B-to-B Marketing
Marketing by Job Function/Industry
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Case Study CPA Online Uses Free Content to Market $40,000+ Services
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Case StudyHow Prime Advantage Convinced 100+ Manufacturing Plants to Try Online Procurement
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Market to Lawyers: 5 Specific Tactics (Hint: Text-only Email)
How ToHow to Market to the Government: Top 5 Challenges & Solutions
How To
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How ToSpecial Report: How to Market Technology Products & Services to Hospitals
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How ToHow to Market to HR Professionals: Top 10 Dos & Don’ts + 4 Pain Points
How ToHow to Market to CFOs: Top 3 Pain Points, Copywriting Tips & Demographic Data
How To
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How ToThe 8 Critical Keys to Marketing to IT Pros Online
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How To
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B-to-B Marketing
Marketing to Small Businesses
Case StudyStaples Tests ‘Easy’ Virtual Button Desktop Application -- Results Atypical
Case Study After Email Campaigns Fail -- Unusual Banner Ad Generates Loads of SMB Sales Leads for McAfee
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How ToTerri Lonier’s Advice (and Warnings) on Marketing to the Growing SOHO Marketplace
How ToHow to Market to the Millions of Independent Professionals (Hint: Don’t Call Them Small Businesses!)
How To
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How ToTips on Using an Expert Speaker to Promote Your Product to Small Businesses
How ToHow inc.com Drives Traffic with Integrated Online/Offline Marketing
How ToSmallBusinessDepot.com Co-Founder Don Mazzella’s Tactics For Success in the Small Biz Marketplace
How ToIBM’s Top Six Tips for Marketing To Women-Owned Small Businesses
How To
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How ToTed Ganchiff of GiveMeTalk.com On Using Webcasting To Reach Small Business
InterviewTom Antion Warns Big Business not to Overestimate Small Business People’s Internet Savvy
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John Warrillow Reveals the Top 5 Reasons Small Business Owners Don’t Shop Online
InterviewHow the Web Has Profoundly Changed the Ways Big Business Markets to Small Business
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Analyst Stuart Feil Reveals Four Key Trends in Marketing to Small Businesses Online
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InterviewGuru.com’s VP Marketing Reveals Their Marketing Strategy
Interview
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B-to-B Marketing
Ecommerce
Case StudyHow to Position Landing Pages to Gain Brand Differentiation
Case StudyStaples Tests ‘Easy’ Virtual Button Desktop Application -- Results Atypical
Case StudyHow to Run an Online Focus Group to Discover What Business Prospects Really Want (+ Tips on Launching an Ecommerce Web Site)
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Case StudyHow Grainger Gets 12% of Its $4.8 Billion Sales Online
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Case Study B2B eretailer Grows Sales 85% by Launching Second, Complimentary Site
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Case Study Alco Ventures Uses Discounts to Lure 70% of its Building Contractor Clients Online
Case StudyHow e-Steel Used Pre-Launch Marketing and PR Tactics to Get Their “Feet on the Street”
How ToHow to Collect Higher Impact Testimonials from Consulting Clients: 7 Practical Tips
How ToTwo Proven Ways to Raise B-to-B Sales Online
InterviewLiquidation.com Has Tested Almost Every Online Marketing Tactic -- Here’s What Worked
ArticleNew Chart: Weak Dollar Means Time Is Right to Chase Overseas Revenue
ArticleNew Chart: Should Tech Marketers Hide Prices?
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B-to-B Marketing
Channel Marketing
Case Study Revamped Online University Increases Reseller Rep Participation 50% : How to Educate Sales Reps
Case StudyHow to Get VIP Businesspeople to Attend an In-Person Sales Pitch Event
Case Study Best of Breed: How Ingram Micro Helps Resellers Grow Their Businesses
Case StudyHow GE Access Distribution Got Resellers to Follow-Up With 58% More Leads
Case StudySoftware Marketers -- How to Boost Reseller Sales by 40%
Case StudyShell Oil Tests Email to Influence Distributors, Truckers & Farmers: Uses 5 Best Practices Rules
Case StudyHow to Get Your Distributors to Double Sales by Marketing to Their Sales Reps
Case StudyHow GM Goodwrench Uses an Advertising Extranet to Help Dealerships Stick to Approved Branding
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Case StudyInsureZone Surpasses a Million in Sales to Small Businesses by Partnering with Banks and Portals
Case Study AMSOIL’s Web Site Strengthens Dealer Relationships and Gets a 20-Times Return on Investment
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How ToSpecial Report: B-to-B Channel Marketing in Crisis -- Top Three Pain Points
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InterviewDunkin’ Donuts Brand Marketing Tips and Partnership Tactics
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B-to-B Marketing
Sales Support & Collateral
Case StudyHow to Score Customer Loyalty: 7 Steps to Double Satisfaction Rating
Case StudySuper-Persuasive Email Campaign to Motivate Doctors, Busy Execs & Rev Enthusiasm for Product Line or Long Project
How ToNew Research: How to Improve Your Customer Reference Program -- 2 New Data Charts Plus Sample Slides
Consumer Marketing
General Advice
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Case StudyHow to Turn Video Contest Into a Viral Extravaganza & Get Millions of Views on YouTube
Case StudyHow Video Message Gets Viewed by 59% of Target Audience
Case StudyHow Eretailer Tripled Conversions With Internal Search Changes
Case StudyHow DRTV Achieved Double-Digit Annual Growth for Insurance Firm
Case StudyTest Results -- PETCO Tries Adding Customer Reviews to Email Blasts
Case StudyHow Chocolate Manufacturer Brings Powerful Personal Touch to Generate 5X More Sales
Case StudyHow to Track TV Commercials to Offline ROI & Coupon Redemption
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Case StudyTravel Marketing Online -- Lead Generation & Email Campaign Test Results
Case StudyHow to Turn Your Print Ads Into a Truly Cool Microsite -- Keds’ Mischa Barton Revamp
Case StudyHow to Collect More Email Opt-Ins From Your Ecommerce Site: B-to-B versus B-to-C Test Results
Case StudyHow to Improve Search Marketing ROI: Real-Life Tactics From Charles Schwab’s CyberTrader Marketers
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Case Study Results from Six Tested Tactics to Increase Sales Conversions at Binoculars.com
Case Study Restaurant Email Loyalty Program Brings in Bigger Spending Diners
Case Study Marketing Services to Consumers Online: How Clearwater Landscapes Profits by Breaking 5 Rules
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How ToSpecial Report: How to Market to the Super Rich -- 4 Challenges and 8 Must-Know Strategies
How ToHow John Deere Increased Mass Consumer Market Share by Revamping its Market Research Tactics
How ToING DIRECT’s Banner Secrets & Samples: How to Acquire New Customers from Low-cost Banner Ads
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Automotive Ads Online: How to Get Consumers to Sign Up to Take Test Drives at Their Dealership
How ToTop 7 Tips for Launching a New Brand from MINI Cooper’s Marketer
How ToHow hpshopping.com Improved Email Results 30% by Revamping its Customer Database
How ToIrv Mermelstein on Creating Content That Online Investors Find Compelling
InterviewNike’s ‘Katalyst’ Discusses Overcoming Marketing Challenges
ArticleSpecial Report: Marketing During a Downturn, Part 2: 24 Real-Life Strategies Marketers Are Using to Handle the Slump
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Consumer Marketing
Ecommerce
Case StudyTest Content to Create Best Layout to Boost Email Revenue, Conversions, CTRs
Case StudyOnline ‘Haggling’ Button Sends Sales Soaring – 3 Steps to 685% Growth
Case StudyTest Shows Promotional Content Beats Informational: 89% More CTRs; 5 Times More Revenue
Case Study Repurpose Website Content to Triple Leads, Double Conversions: 7 Steps
Case Study Cross-Sells on Product Pages Boost Revenue 70%: 3 Easy Steps
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Case Study Automated Chat Saves Abandoned Shopping Carts: 5 Simple Steps to Get 10% Lift
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Case Study Quick Fix of Red X Email Images Lifts Revenue 379%
Case Study 4 Simple Steps to Tweak Site Search Box & Lift Conversions 20%
Case StudyHow to Double Leads With a Video Landing Page
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Case StudyHow Product Return System Lifted Conversions (Surprise) 26%
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Case StudyHow to Raise Average Order Value 61% - 5 Simple Steps
Case StudyHow Peer Analysis Led to Navigation Changes & 31% Lift in Conversions - Before & After
Case StudyShopping Cart Design Tests - Color & Size Lift Results 44.11%
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Case StudyHow Eretailer Tripled Conversions With Internal Search Changes
Case StudyHow Internal Search Tool Lifts Conversions 16%
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Case StudyTest Results -- PETCO Tries Adding Customer Reviews to Email Blasts
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Case StudyHow to Use Auto-Emails to Lower Abandoned Shopping Cart Rates
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Case Study Results from CafePress.com Tagging Test -- Clicks & Conversions Increase
Case StudyHow to Measure Search Campaign ROI -- 4 Stunning Lessons Learned From Motorola’s New SEM Scoring System
Case StudyHow to Market Toys for Adult Women Online (If You Know What We Mean)
Case Study Blog Marketing for Ecommerce Sites -- 7 Rules & Lessons Learned
Case StudyTravel Marketing Online -- Lead Generation & Email Campaign Test Results
Case StudyPersonable ‘About Us’ Page Lifts Ecommerce Conversions 30%
Case Study Running Ads in Google Local vs Main Google Search -- Disappointing Results (So Far)
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Case StudyHow World Wrestling Entertainment’s Online Store Increased Conversions 200% in One Year
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Case StudyHow Scholastic Doubled eCommerce Revenues with a Site Survey
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Case Study Eretail Merchandise Page Design – Before & After Cross-Selling Test Results
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Case Study Makeover Case Study: From Print Publisher to Web eCommerce Powerhouse
Case StudyDouble Campaign Results by Sending Emails to At-Work & At-Home Email Addresses on Different Days
Case Study Exclusive Results Data from VistaPrint’s Top 10 Marketing Tests
Case StudyHow to Convert More Online Shoppers with Live Chat Invites: Test Data From Earthlink
Case StudyHow to Reduce Email Unsubscribes by 35% & Boost Holiday Sales
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Case StudyHow to Use Segmentation to Convert More Site Visitors to Buyers
Case Study Using an In-House Multichannel Sweeps to Grow Your House List - Two Surprising Results
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Case StudyHow Dirt Devil’s Site Gets Unusually High Sales (Includes Check Out Process Test Results)
Case StudyHow to Redesign Your Site to Lift Conversions (Exponentially) with Persona-based Copy & Navigation
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Case StudyGourmet Tea Shop Cracks $1 Million in Online Sales Using 5 eRetail Best Practices
Case StudyHow CafePress.com Lowered Its Shopping Cart Abandonment Rate Dramatically
Case Study eretailer Doubles Sales by Posting Totally Uncensored Customer Feedback on its Home Page
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Case Study Fredericks of Hollywood Tests PPC Campaigns & Landing Pages
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Case Study Manufacturer Tests Launching 3 Different Sites & PPC Ads to Improve Circuit Board Sales
Case StudySix E-Retail Survival Tips for Low-Margin Markets: How CDconnection.com Has Profited for 13 Years
Case Study Results from Six Tested Tactics to Increase Sales Conversions at Binoculars.com
Case Study 5 Steps to Finding the Best Performance Marketing Partners - How Lobster Gram Got Top Affiliates
Case StudyHow a Niche eretailer Gets a 25% Visitor-to-Buyer Conversion Rate: Crew Tags
Case Study 9 Tactics eretail Site Used to Nearly Double Sales Conversions in the Past 6 Months
Case StudyHow Barewalls.com Grew its Visitor-to-Buyer Conversion Rate by 20% - Improving Site Search
Case StudyHow JohnnyCarson.com Converts 5-7% of Visitors to Buyers
Case StudyDo Co-Branded Sites with Partners Really Work? Altrec.com Discovers Some Hard Truths
Case StudyHow CARFAX.com Grew Visitor Sales by 50% Over the Past Year
Case StudyLocal Retail Chain Doubles Sales Online -- The Story of Bare Necessities
Case Study eretailer Uses Metrics to Grow Sales More Than 100% Year After Year
Case StudyNational Geographic and National Public Radio Microsite Landing Pages Increase E-Retail Sales by 40%
Case StudyHow BabyCenter Gets 60% of Online Store Sales from Registered Members
Case StudyLands’ End Discovers Stories Work Better Than Sales Pitches in Its Weekly Email Newsletter
Case Study Multi-Channel Selling: How a Gorgeous Email Newsletter Grows Catalog, Web, & Store Sales
Case StudyHow TopBulb Grew its Customers by 30% with Search Engine Marketing and a (Very) Clever Pop-Up Box
Case StudyOverstock.com Hits $100 Million Profitably with Email Marketing
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Case Study iGive.com Signs Up 250,000 Online Shoppers via 16,000 Local Charity Viral Campaigns
Case Study Marketing Secrets of a Profitable, Multimillion Dollar eretailer You Probably Never Heard of
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Case StudyHow Kmart’s BlueLight.com Integrates Online and Offline Marketing
Case StudySelling to Teen Girls on the Internet -- The Graffiti Online Story
Case Study eBags Raises Sales Conversion Rates 150% By Focusing on Testing, Testing, Testing
Case StudyHow Apparel Cataloger Chadwick’s of Boston Grew Online Sales Far Above Budgeted Expectations
Case Study 10thAvenue.com Learns How to Sell Expensive Gifts to Older Women Online
Case StudyGeerlings & Wade Raises Profits by Integrating Online and Offline Marketing and Sales Channels
Case Study RightStart.com Grows Sales 148% With Direct Response TV and Radio Spots to Mommies
Case Study AlwaysInStyle.com Integrates Print Catalogs and Email Marketing To Drive Traffic
How ToSharpen Your Autoresponder Program to Retain Customers, Boost Revenue
How To
Borders’ ‘Magic Shelf’ Mimics In-Store Browsing Online; Conversion Rate 62%
How ToHow Circuit City Uses How-To Videos to Boost Customer Loyalty
How ToLanding Page Rules: Made to be Broken? Customized Strategy Boosts Paid Search: 4 Key Steps
How ToTailor List to Reach ‘Exec Moms’ - Bump Online Revenue 60%: 8 Strategies & Tips
How ToHow to Measure Website Engagement: Calculate Scores for Every Visitor
How ToHow to Profit from Speedy Replies to Customer Inquiries: 6 Tactics to Lift Revenue 10%
How ToHow to Create an Online Video: Step-by-Step Guide to Make It Easy on You (and Your Budget)
How To
Marketing to Tweens: Data, Spending Habits + Dos & Don’ts to Reach This Fickle Age Group
How To
5 Ways to Market Products Faster With an Online Strategy That Doesn’t Wait on Print
How ToHow to Mine Your Customer Service Department for Nuggets of Marketing Gold
How ToHow to Mine Your Customer Service Department for Nuggets of Marketing Gold
How ToHow to Get Double-Digit Response From Customer Surveys - Copywriting & Subject Line Tips
How ToData Overload? Segmentation, Strategy Tests Increase ROI 377%
How ToHow to Use Personas to Lift Revenue 500% in 7 Easy-to-Follow Steps
How ToHow to Use Niche Keywords to Boost Search Traffic: 5 Steps to a 20% Lift
How ToHow Sony Ericsson Markets (In)directly to Consumers: Secrets Behind Their Online Strategy
How ToHow to Build Your Own Analytics System: 6 Steps to Get Data You Can Trust
How To
Follow 5 Simple Steps to Quadruple Conversions by Targeting Repeat Customers
How ToHow to Get a Domain Name Owned by Someone Else: Tips to Assess the Value & Negotiate the Deal
How To
Etail Speech Take II: Three Ways to Lower Shopping Cart Abandons Based on MarketingSherpa Research
How ToHow Avon Added Personalized Web Pages for Customers & Back-End Support for Reps
How ToHow a Test to Meld Online, Offline Made In-Store Experiences Extra Special & Increased Order Sizes
How ToHow Sephora Coordinates Marketing Across Web, Print Catalog and 127 Retail Stores -- 4 Practical Tactics
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5 Tips to Avoid Cross-Channel Conflict From General Nutrition Centers’ Ecommerce Director
How ToSPECIAL REPORT: How to Market to India Online -- 4 Challenges and 22 Helpful Hotlinks
How ToSearch Marketing Crisis: How to Cope When Your Organic Rankings Plummet & PPC Gets Expensive
How ToHow to Build Traffic Virally: 3 Buzzworthy Tips
How ToSPECIAL REPORT: How to Market to Canadians Online – Advice, Data, Legal Info and Useful Hotlinks
How To
Five Quick Tests to Raise Ecommerce Sales by 5% in Just 6 Weeks
How ToHow hpshopping.com Increases Gross Margins While Winning Marketing Awards -- Four Specific Tactics
How To
5 Practical Tactics eToys Uses to Sell More Toys Online
How To
Brooks Brothers Email Test Results -- Letterhead Style Wins
How ToLessons From (Possibly) The World’s Most Effective Ecommerce Site
How ToNew Email Test Results & Tactics from Apparel Retailer J. Jill
How To
Celebrity Fashion Ecommerce: How to Improve Conversions - 7 Test Results
How ToHow to Change Your Web Site to Appeal to Busy Moms Shopping Online: Survey Results From Gymboree
How ToHow to Run an Aggressive Affiliate Program While Protecting Your Brand: Oakley Reveals 5 Tactics
How ToHow to Avoid Retail vs. eRetail Channel Conflict: 5 Tactics Danskin Uses
How To
Five Specific Tactics Omaha Steaks Uses to Increase Online Sales
How ToHow to Market to Online Buyers During Major Life Events - Such as Weddings
How To
Are Visitor-to-Buyer Conversion Metrics Outdated? How $600 Million+ JCPenney.com Measures Success
How ToVictoria’s Secret Direct on the Future of Web Analytics -- 3 Steps & Biggest Challenge
How To
8 Search Marketing Tactics Vintage Tub & Bath Uses to Make $8 Million
How To
Avon’s Advanced Email Tactics (How to Keep Both Sales Reps and Customers Happy)
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How ToHow Pier 1 Integrates Online & Offline Branding, Staffing, & Marketing Budgets
How To
Folksy Email Newsletter to Dog-Lovers Gets 96% Open Rate & Outstanding Sales: Tactics You Can Copy
How To
Creating Superlative Customer Experience - Bluefly CEO Details Five Tactics
How ToTop 9 Search Marketing Tactics eBags Uses to Drive Online Sales Profitably
How ToHow A&E’s Online Store raised Conversion Rates by 50%
How ToHow Crutchfield’s Award-winning Site Makes a Bewildering Array of Products Easy to Shop
How ToHow Patagonia Uses Word of Mouth Marketing (Instead of Traditional Campaigns): Seven Steps
How ToHow ice.com Sells Jewelry Online: Tips to Build Consumer Trust on the Web
How ToHow to Get Shoppers to Actually Use the Web Kiosks in Your Retail Store: 5 Tactics
How To
1-800-FLOWERS.COM Reveals Four Tactics to Keeping Affiliate & Partner Sales Strong
How ToHow to ‘Wow’ Online Shoppers - 3 Tactics Zappos Is Using to Raise Sales From $32-$65 Million in 2003
How To
Four Ways Dell Quadrupled Home & Home Office Online Sales Conversion Rates
How To
Five Key Tactics Overstock.com Used to Quadruple Affiliate Revenues
How ToKeep Your House List Open Rate Above 50%: Lessons from Winery Email Campaigns
How ToPaul Miller, VP ecommerce, Williams-Sonoma Reveals Four Keys to Multichannel Success
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Multi-Channel Marketing - How Bombay Company Combines Retail Stores, Catalogs, Web, and Email
How To
5 Steps to Boosting Your Marketing Creativity - How art.com Raised Poster Sales 800%
How To
6 eretail Lessons from Quixtar’s $1 Billion Online Sales
How ToHow Aubuchon Hardware Doubled Online Sales by Improving Search Engine Optimization: 5 Specific Tips
How ToPrep Your Site for Holiday Shoppers: 35 Tips to Raise Sales
How To
eretailers Losing Billions Due to Useless Site Search Functions: Top 7 Tools for Your Web Site
How ToHannalore Schmidt, Reflect.com’s Consumer Delight & Loyalty Director on Retaining Online Customers
How ToHow VistaPrint Gained 30,000+ Small Biz Customers with Free Business Card Offers Online
How ToHow Ybag.com Launched Successfully with a Moderate Marketing Budget (and No TV ads)
How ToHow to Rescue Troubled British eCommerce Firms
InterviewHow Zappos.com Grew So Big So Fast - 10 Strategies Behind Their Success
InterviewSecret Behind Office Depot’s Online Success (Hint: They Listen to Their Customers. Yes, Really)
InterviewKatrina Lane, VP Channel Marketing, Harrah’s Entertainment Advice on Multichannel Basics
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A Behind the Scenes Look at Lillian Vernon’s Multichannel Challenges
Interview
Four Basic Tactics Behind Office Depot Online Success: $3.1 Billion Expected for 2004
Interview
CafePress.com Reveals Which Content Sites Make Ancillary Profits Selling T-Shirts, Mugs & Mousepads
InterviewOnline Merchandising Tips from Top Consultant Lauren Freedman of the e-tailing group
InterviewSelfCare.com Reduces Customer Acquisition Costs with Savvy Marketing Tactics
InterviewPowell’s: Portrait of an Independent Bookstore Flourishing Online
InterviewStart-Up Campaign Plans for ThinkNatural.com
ArticleSpecial Report: Marketing During an Economic Downturn - New Data & Key Insights
ArticleNew Chart: Fending Off ‘Banner Blindness’ - Make Some Simple Changes to Your Advertising
ArticleNew Chart: Service Tops Price for Customer Loyalty
ArticleSpecial Report: Primer on Marketing to Canadians - Part II: Website Design, Advertising, Email, Search and Direct-Mail Strategies
ArticleSpecial Report: Marketing to Canadians: How to Deal with Language, Cultural, Location and Regulation Differences
ArticleNew Chart: Shoppers Choose Different Routes to Purchase Your Products & Search for Information
ArticleSpecial Report: Marketing During an Economic Downturn - New Data & Key Insights
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Adding Customer Reviews Increases Conversions -- Dramatically
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MarketingSherpa Ecommerce Search Marketing Presentation: Top Marketing Opportunities for 2007
ArticleSherpa Ecommerce Study Results 2007: 1,913 Marketers & 2,449 Consumers Surveyed -- 8 Charts & New Eyetracking Heatmap
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Best Tests: 6 Marketers Reveal What Worked & Lessons Learned
ArticleStudy Data: 1,120 Online Shoppers Say Why They Abandon Ecommerce Sites
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MarketingSherpa Ecommerce Study Data 2006 Highlights: PDF Download Hotlink
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Email Test Royalty Share Hard-won Test Results: joann.com
ArticleHow Amazon Developed a Flash Demo to Help Confused Shoppers
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eTail 2003 Show Wrap-Up Report: Metrics, Search Marketing & Targeted Email Raise Sales 27%
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4th Quarter Online Merchandising Research Results: 100 Online Retailers Reviewed
ArticleTwo Quick Tips on Women Online Shoppers - Cost Consciousness Varies
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Consumer Marketing
Retail & Restaurant Marketing
Case StudyHow to Grow an Email List From Nothing to 2 Million Loyal Fans in 2 Years (Hint: Give Them Something They Enjoy)
Case Study Quiznos’ Make-Your-Own Coupon Test Results
Case StudyHow to Convert Thousands of Online Leads to In-Store Buyers Each Week
Case StudyHow User-Generated Content Drives In-Store Sales for Grocery Chain
Case StudyHow a Restaurant Chain’s Simple Email Test Raised Conversions 10.3%
Case StudyHow Click to Call Adds Muscle to Jenny Craig’s Multichannel Strategies
Case StudyHow to Sell Thousands of Gift Certificates to Consumers Who Didn’t Know They Wanted Them
Case StudyInspiration -- How a Neighborhood Retailer Created a Newsletter Customers Adore
Case Study Revamped Online University Increases Reseller Rep Participation 50% : How to Educate Sales Reps
Case StudyOlive Garden Radically Revamps Email Newsletter Format & Gains 57,000 Customer Referrals in 90 Days
Case StudyGoody’s Chain Store Tests Emailed Coupons
Case Study McDonald’s Chipotle Restaurants Revamp Site & Email Campaigns to Maximize Viral Pass-Along
Case StudyHow a New Loyalty Program Raised Sales 30% for a Florida Retail and Restaurant Group (in August!)
Case StudyShoe Store Uses Emailed Postcards to Raise Sales Dramatically (Fun Creative Samples Included)
Case StudyNational Retail Chain Asks Franchise Owners to Test Local Email Newsletters -- 3 Success Stories
Case StudyHow to Create an Email Newsletter Your Customers Love -- Tips and Tactics from Taco Talk
Case Study Restaurant Email Loyalty Program Brings in Bigger Spending Diners
Case StudyLa-Z-Boy to Make $5 Million Retail Sales with Interactive
Case StudyHow Click and Mortar Sur La Table Doubled Online Sales with Low-Cost Integrated Marketing
Case Study Brick-and-Mortar Retailer Dramatically Raises Foot Traffic and Sales With Weekly Web Site Updates
Case StudyDrexel Heritage Uses Email to Drive High-End Furniture Buyers to Brick and Mortar Stores
Case StudySouthern LINC Uses Rich Media Banners to Raise Brick & Mortar Store Traffic
How To
5 Tips to Avoid Cross-Channel Conflict From General Nutrition Centers’ Ecommerce Director
How ToTwo Ways Bath & Body Works Uses the Internet to Drive Brick-and-Mortar Sales
How ToGap Inc’s Top 10 Rules to Create a Successful Customer Loyalty Program
How To
57% of Consumers Will Give Email Addresses to a Local Retailer -- How to Take Advantage of That Fact
How To
4 Tactics REI Uses to Drive Web Surfers to Brick-and-Mortar Retail Stores
How ToTower Records Combines Print Catalog Plus Email Marketing: Sales Boost from 8% to 11%
How ToSuccessful Apparel Entrepreneur Liz Lange’s 8 Steps to Build Brand Equity (On a Shoestring)
How ToGrow Retail Store Foot Traffic with Internet Marketing: The Five Basic Steps
InterviewHow Wholesaler Lifted Orders 13% With Newsletter - 12 Tips & Strategies
InterviewHard Rock Cafe’s Chief Marketing Officer Reveals Three Lessons Learned from His Big September Re-Launch
InterviewDunkin’ Donuts Brand Marketing Tips and Partnership Tactics
ArticleTop 4 Retail Marketing Trends for 2006: Surprise Weekly Newspapers Are In Again
ArticleHow CircuitCity.com Gets 50%+ of Online Buyers to Choose (Far More Profitable) In-store Pick-up
Consumer Marketing
Automotive
Case StudyHow Auto Dealer Tripled Leads - 6 Steps to Coordinate Email & Search
Case StudyHow Automated Alerts Increased Qualified Leads 52% & Doubled Conversions
Case Study Automotive Lead Generation & Follow-Up -- How to Combine Email and Mobile Messaging for High ROI
Case StudyGeneral Motors Tests Kiosks to Gather Car Buyer Leads: 7 Lessons Learned (Plus Results Data)
Case StudyHow Audi’s Site Revamp Increased Leads Generated to Dealerships by 325%
Case Study Chrysler Tests Combining Radio Plus Fun Web Quiz to Drive Car Shoppers to Dealerships
Case Study Edmunds.com Tests Paid Search to Drive Traffic: Discover Their Results
Case StudyNissan Tests TV Commercial Creative with Both Online & Offline Study Panels -- Will Results Match?
Case StudySoutheast Toyota Beats Sales Goals with Web Plus Street Team Launch Campaign (No Traditional Media)
Case StudyGo RVing Integrated Online/Offline Ads Rank in Top 10% of All Campaigns Measured for Effectiveness
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Case Study Budget Rent a Car Gets 5.6% Conversions from Email Promotions
Case StudyHow Flexcar Gets a 72% Marketing Email Newsletter Open Rate
Case StudyHow CARFAX.com Grew Visitor Sales by 50% Over the Past Year
Case StudyHow to Sell More Online Ads and Please Partners: Kelley Blue Book Uses Site Metrics to Raise Profits
Case Study Ford Explorer Rich Media Ad Gets Half a Million Clicks by Dominating Yahoo!’s Home Page for 24 Hours
Case Study yourautochoice.com Uses Prize Draw to Entice 50% of Site Visitors to Join its Opt In List
Case StudyHow Direct Line’s jamjar.com Became a Top Three Car Site in Just Three Months
Case StudyHow Interactive SUPERSTITIAL Ads Generated Sales Leads for Nissan USA
How ToData Overload? Segmentation, Strategy Tests Increase ROI 377%
How To
Five Key Tactics Audi Uses to Generate Leads
How ToInside Hyundai’s Online Advertising Tactics: What Works for Behavioral and Launch Campaigns
How ToHow FordDirect Helped Dealers Sell 210,000 Vehicles in 2004 (5 Lessons From the President and COO)
How To
7 Tactics Mitsubishi Motors Uses to Gain Consumer Trust & Grow Its Ranks of Brand Evangelists
How To
Automotive Ads Online: How to Get Consumers to Sign Up to Take Test Drives at Their Dealership
How ToTop 7 Tips for Launching a New Brand from MINI Cooper’s Marketer
ArticleHow Autobytel Ramped Up to 150,000 PPC Search Campaigns : Five Best Practices in Campaign Management
Article
Marketer’s Diary Part III: What You Can Learn From (Highly) Successful Offline CRM Tools
Article
Marketing Diary Part II: 9 Lessons in Using CRM to Sell to Real People
Article
Marketing Diary: What an Online Marketer Learned by Taking a Job in Offline Sales
Consumer Marketing
Consumer Electronics
Case StudyHow Multivariate Test on Banner Ads Boosted Clicks 50.4%
Case StudyHow Sony Electronics Reoriented Its Marketing to Attract Both Genders
Case StudyHow to Convert More Sales from Shopping Comparison Site Traffic (Even When Your Price is Higher Than Competitors)
Case StudyHow Dirt Devil’s Site Gets Unusually High Sales (Includes Check Out Process Test Results)
Case StudyKodak’s Award-winning Online Launch Campaign (Great Creative on a Tight Budget)
Case StudyStreamed TV Commercial Helps Site Sales Conversions Rise Above 30%
Case StudyNokia Tests Viral Marketing Via Bloggers to Launch New Phone
Case StudyHow to Increase Online Store Profits with Database Marketing - How PC Mall Does It
Case StudyPalm Launches New Product with 5-Step Email Campaign
Case StudySharper Image Tests European eretail Launch
Case Study Motorola Gets 5.4% Click Through Rate on Emailed Valentines Day Offer
How ToHow Sony Ericsson Markets (In)directly to Consumers: Secrets Behind Their Online Strategy
How ToSony Ericsson on What Works for Multinational Email Programs -- USA, Europe, China & Beyond
How ToHow Intuit Uses Customer-Generated Content & Community Online: 5 Tactics
How ToHow Nextel Used Customer Analytics to Reduce Account Churn by More Than 30%
How ToHow to Switch Brand Names Without Confusing Your Marketplace: palmOne’s Successful 4-Step Process
How ToVirgin Mobile’s Research on Six Critical Attributes of 15-24 Year-Olds & How to Market to Them
How To
Beyond Brand Marketing -- How Nextel Collects Invaluable Data from Sports Advergame Players
How ToHow hpshopping.com Improved Email Results 30% by Revamping its Customer Database
How ToHow Gateway Created an In-House Model to Predict the PC Marketplace
How ToPanasonic’s 5 Tips to Guerrilla Marketing Partnerships That Work
Interview
Q&A With Motorola’s Global Web Marketer on Viral Campaigns, Search, & Online/Offline Integration
InterviewPalm’s Ken Wirt Discusses Integrated Campaigns, Wireless Ads, Online Partnerships & Low Cost Tactics
Interview
AT&T’s Consumer Product Launch Expert Katherine Bagin Shares Her Tips & Tactics
Consumer Marketing
Consumer Packaged Goods
Case StudyHomepage Product Launch Test Produces Some Surprising Results: 2 Tests
Case StudyHow CPG Marketer’s Guerrilla Campaign Landed Coveted Space on Whole Foods’ Shelves
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Case StudyHow to Track TV Commercials to Offline ROI & Coupon Redemption
Case StudyHow Annies Homegrown Uses the Web to Generate Consumer Passion for Boxes of Macaroni
Case Study Calvin Klein’s Team on How to Make Your Times Square Billboard Stand Out (Only Semi-Impossible)
Case StudyOnline Ad Results: NIVEA FOR MEN Tests Smaller Niche Demographic Sites vs Sports Sites
Case StudyLee’s National Denim Day Grows Online Sign-ups from 46-72% to Fight Breast Cancer
Case StudyHormel’s SPAM Tests Email Marketing
Case StudyHow TABASCO Markets With Screensavers -- 600,000+ Downloads and Counting
Case StudyHow to Use Online Ads to Build a Groundswell of Consumer Support (and Get Stocked in Wal-Mart)
Case StudyThree eCouponing Case Histories: Land O’ Lakes, Act II, and Krispy Kreme
Case Study Johnson & Johnson Tests Moving TV Ads Online
Case StudyKellogg’s Tests Instant Messaging RecipeBuddie to Drive Consumer Brand Interaction Online
Case StudyNew Beer Uses Pre-Launch Viral Email Vote to Turn Consumers into Evangelists
Case StudyHow Jacob’s Creek Winery Used Screen Savers to Boost Brand Awareness and Retention -- 11 Tips
Case Study Clif Bar Defies Typical Online CPG Strategies to Deliver Personalized Customer Service
Case StudyHow to Sell Soup Online with Free Samples
Case Study Minute Maid Tests an Integrated Online/Offline Product Launch Campaign
Case Study Bombay Sapphire Tests Online Brand Building
Case StudySoBe Beverages Wins Rabid Fans’ Hearts By Canning Its Stagnant Old Site
Case StudyHow Oil of Olay Gets Thousands of Women to Request New Product Samples Online
How ToHow to Mine Your Customer Service Department for Nuggets of Marketing Gold
How ToHow to Mine Your Customer Service Department for Nuggets of Marketing Gold
How ToHow to Build an Astounding ‘Contact Us’ Page: 7 Customer Service Tips From Unilever
How ToTV & Web Integration -- Lessons Learned from Just for Men Haircolor
How To
Results Data: Crest Toothpaste Tests TV-to-Web Contest Campaign to Involve Consumers
How ToHow Pabst Blue Ribbon Reversed a 20-Year Sales Decline With Underdog Event Marketing
How To
Brand Marketing & Rock & Roll: How T-Mobile, Coke, Bank One & Rolling Rock Beer Use Concerts
How ToHow Krispy Kreme Uses 7,000 Monthly Customer Stories to Whip Up Internal Brand Enthusiasm
How ToPersuade Consumer Packaged Goods Execs to Do More Online Advertising
How ToSpecial Report: Online Coupons 101 - Redemption Data, Vendors, & How to Fight Fraud
How ToHow Snapple Brings a Powerful Personal Touch to Mass Consumer Marketing
How ToHow to Become Chief Marketing Officer for a Major Consumer Packaged Goods Company
How ToKeep Your House List Open Rate Above 50%: Lessons from Winery Email Campaigns
How ToHow to Triple Consumer Brand Sales Through Clever Marketing Partnerships with Non-Profits
How ToHow to Get Word-of-Mouth Buzz Among Teens -- Tips from Procter & Gamble
How ToNestle Purina’s 6 Steps to Raising Grocery Store Category Sales Through Research
How ToHow Aveda Keeps Online and Offline Brand Images Consistent: Top 7 Tips for Packaged Goods Marketers
How ToHow SKYY Vodka Doubled Brand Awareness with Entertainment- Based Marketing: 8 Steps
How ToHow Miller Brewing Measures the Results of PR Campaigns
How ToHershey’s Reveals 6 Ways to Grow Supermarket Sales
InterviewLabel Design Primer: 13 Tips to Help Your Product Get Noticed on Store Shelves
Interview
CMO Interview: Success In and Beyond the Consumer Packaged Goods World
InterviewPR Career Tips: Making Upper Management Appreciate Your Work
InterviewTurning Hawaii’s Beloved Mauna Loa Nut Brand from a Money-Loser into a Profit Center
InterviewProcter & Gamble Reveals How a New Focus Group Tactic Solved Four Flaws in Their R&D Process
InterviewKraft Food’s VP Internet & E-Marketing Kathy Olvany-Riordan Discusses What Works Online
InterviewGeneral Mills’ Jeff Peterson on Best Practices in Consumer Packaged Goods Promotions Marketing
ArticleWhat Herb Sorensen Learned by Studying 60,000 Shoppers’ Paths Through a Supermarket
Consumer Marketing
Entertainment & Sports Marketing
Case StudyHow to Fix Your Email Deliverability - 4 Easy Strategies to Lift Deliverability 20.4% & Sales 143%
Case StudyHow to Create the Best Leads for Your Eretail Partners - Newsletter & Targeting Tips
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Case StudyHow the Georgia Aquarium Sells Nearly 10,000 Tickets Per Day via Ecommerce
Case StudyHow Cirque du Soleil Uses Email to Sell Out Shows at Local Cities
Case StudyGive Away Free Basic Memberships, Send Paid Subscriptions Skyrocketing: How It Worked for Linden Lab
Case StudyHow to Build a Rabid Fan Community to Help Market a Product That Doesn’t Exist (Yet)
Case StudyHow to Turn Entertainment Fans into Active Evangelists (Responsibly)
Case StudySteve Winwood Doubles US Album Sales with Free File Sharing Plus Joint TV & Web Ads
Case StudyHBO Rich Media Email Campaign
Case StudyViral Rich Media Email Campaign - 5 Practical Tips, Samples, and Useful Data
Case Study Usability Lab Results - LEGO Tests Site Revamp Ideas to Please Both Parents and Kids
Case Study Regional Marketing on the Internet: How GoldStar Events Sells Entertainment Tickets in California
Case Study Rollerblade’s Email Test Results - Rich Media vs HTML Email Blasts
Case Study Making Consumers Pay to Join a Loyalty Program; Golf Course Marketing Test Results
Case StudyHow to Convert 5 Times More Site Registrants into Paying Customers - William Hill’s Email Tests
Case StudyHow the Boston Symphony Orchestra Mixes DM, Radio, Taxi-Tops, Web Ads, & Email to Sell More Tickets
Case StudySelling Subscriptions to Fan Club Sites: Tips from RollingStones.com & DavidBowie.com
Case Study Museum Tests 5 Online and Email Marketing Tactics to Drive $20 Ticket Sales -- Results Revealed
Case StudyThe Nine Rules of Viral Marketing -- Hitman 2 Videogame Promoters Reveal Their Tactics
Case StudyTicket City Measures Print Newspaper vs Ezine Ads
Case StudyOnline Ad Helps ‘Band of Brothers’ Become HBO’s “Most Watched Original Program”
Case Study Fantasy Football Site Mingles Ad & Subscription Sales for Profits
Case StudyNHL Hockey Team Gets 12.5% Ticket-Purchase Rate Via Wireless Advertising
Case StudyGot Any Mutant Friends? Fox Uses Clever Viral Campaign to Sell X-Men Movie to UK Audiences
How ToHow ESPN.com Doubled Number of Paid Subscribers
How ToGuerrilla Marketing Tactics of 3 Top Gambling Web Sites (Industry Revenues Top $9 Billion per Year)
How ToSeven Text-Messaging Campaign Tips from American Idol Producers
How ToSix Best Practices for Text Messaging Campaigns: Warner Bros. Tests IM, SMS and Email
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Almost 40% of Kelly Clarkson CD Buyers Sign Up for Content Sent to Their Desktop (Bypassing Email)
How ToNew Line Cinema’s Results Data for Merchandise Sales Campaigns via Email
How To
xXx - Zac Eller on Sony’s Wireless Ad Campaign That Worked (Yes, in America)
How ToDC Comics’ Joel Ehrlich on Promotional Partnerships with Batman and Superman
InterviewHow to Win Over Sports Fans: 6 Insights from Online Gurus
InterviewPROFILE: Newly Merged IGN/GameSpy’s Aggressive Content Sales Plans
Interview
Marketer Bobby Markowitz Reveals How sports.com Became the #1 Site for European Sports Fans
ArticleHow Mike Shatzkin Rules the Online Content Business for Sports Junkies
Consumer Marketing
Financial Services Marketing
Case StudyHow to Double Subscriptions & New Business - 5 Lead-Gen Strategies
Case StudyHow Text Messaging Helps Financial Services Marketer Target College Students
Case StudyHow DRTV Achieved Double-Digit Annual Growth for Insurance Firm
Case StudyHow Motley Fool Took Their Email List From Double Opt-in to Single Opt-in &Thrived
Case StudyHow to Get a High Conversion Rate for Financial Services New Account Marketing (Hint: 48 Landing Pages)
Case StudyHow to Use Internal Site Search Data to Revamp Your Home Page: People’s Bank
Case StudyHow JG Wentworth Fixed Blah Online Marketing Results (Web Now 49% Lower Cost Per Lead Generated Than TV Ads)
Case StudyHow to Improve Search Marketing ROI: Real-Life Tactics From Charles Schwab’s CyberTrader Marketers
Case StudyHow to Generate Thousands of Qualified New Home Buyer Leads Each Week
Case StudyTesting Landing Pages for Search Ad vs Banner Clicks
Case StudyLoyalty Marketing to Independent Sales Reps -- How to Convince Them to Keep Pushing Your Offerings
Case StudyHow People’s Bank Uses Internal Search Analytics to Turn More Browsers into Customers
Case StudyDentalPlans.com Gets 20% of New Customers via PPC Search Marketing: Top 10 Tips & Data Revealed
Case StudySchwab Research Reveals Email Alert Subscribers Place Five Times More Trades
Case StudyHow a Regional Bank Grew Beyond its Boundaries by Offering Online Wealth Management Services
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Case Study Fleet Tests Cheap Banners vs. Expensive SUPERSTITIALs to Grow Home Equity Loan Applications Online
Case StudyNetBank Achieves 12 Profitable Quarters By Obsessively Tracking Marketing Metrics
Case StudySafeway SELECT Banks Use Aggressive In-Store Customer Associates to Grow Online Accounts
Case StudyHow U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray Builds Buzz and “Great Feedback from Very High Net Worth Clients”
Case Study ESL Credit Union Uses Advanced Data Mining to Increase Campaign Responses by 50%
Case StudySmall Community Bank Uses Traditional Offline Marketing to Grow Online Accounts
Case StudyThe FinancialCafe.com Leverages the Power of the Word
Case StudyPrudential Securities Increases Banner Campaign Profitability
Case Study Quote.com Grows Long-Term Personal Investor Traffic by Adding Community to its Site
Case Study justrightbank.com’s Integrated Radio and Banner Ad Campaigns Increase Online Banking Users 120%
Case Study Money.net Increases Repeat Visits by 118% with @hoc Toolbar
Case StudyNetBank Doubles Brand Awareness In Just One Month
Case Study Moneyextra.com Increases Advertising Revenue by 300% with Punchy & Provocative Campaign
How ToHow Wells Fargo Made Web 2.0, Virtual Worlds Educational (and Fun) - 5 Tactics
How ToSpecial Report: How to Market to the Super Rich -- 4 Challenges and 8 Must-Know Strategies
How To
E-LOAN Improved Search Marketing ROI by Testing Landing Pages
How ToHow Citigroup’s Brand Police Make Cross-Media Campaigns More Effective: Five Tips
How ToHow to Use Segmented Marketing to Lower Banking Customer Attrition Rates
How To
Market to Banks & Credit Unions (Chances Are You’re Doing it Wrong)
How ToHow to Market Financial Services to Older Teens & College Students: Research & Tactics from Bank of America
How ToHow AFLAC Raised Its Consumer Brand Awareness From Almost Zero to 92%
How ToHow Morgan Stanley Uses Database Marketing Tactics to Avoid the Customer Attrition Death Spiral
How ToING DIRECT’s Banner Secrets & Samples: How to Acquire New Customers from Low-cost Banner Ads
How ToHow to Set Clear Rules for Your Company Logo: 3 Steps Goldman Sachs Used to Solve Branding Problems
How To
Cross-Media Metrics: How Radio Ads Affect Site & Search Marketing Results - Data from esurance
How To
19 Quick Creative Tips for SUPERSTITIAL(R) Ads
How To
Research Results on How to Target the Most Profitable Online Bank and Brokerage Customers
How ToIrv Mermelstein on Creating Content That Online Investors Find Compelling
How To
eFinance 2001 Outlook & Internet Marketing Trends Report
How ToWhat Financial Marketers Can Learn from Infogate, the Stickiest Site on the Web-at-Work
Interview
Retail 2.0: Behind the Scenes at the Best Marketed Bank in America
InterviewTips from Visa USA’s Market Research Expert Michael Marx
Interview
Arthur Andersen ecommerce Experts Say Partnerships and eCRM Critical for eFinance Sales Success
Interview
Chief Marketing Officer Anil Singh Discusses Paytrust’s Growth Strategy
InterviewLou Tosto, General Manager, Explains the Differences Between SmartMoney.com and Its Print Sibling
InterviewNina Castro Owens of Cap Gemini Ernst & Young on the Electronic Financial Services Marketing Wars
InterviewDatamonitor Predicts eFinance Industry Will Grow by $30 Billion
Interview
Financial Services Branding Expert Maria Lilly Predicts Continued Consolidation and Globalization
InterviewLowerMyBills.com Reaches Female Consumers Through 100% Online Marketing
Article
Best Tests: 6 Marketers Reveal What Worked & Lessons Learned
Consumer Marketing
Health Marketing
Case Study Bank on Quality to Get Your Product or Service to Stand Out: 10 Steps to Get Started
Case StudyHow to Get More Site Visitors on the Phone (So You Can Convert Them)
Case StudyHow to Market High-Ticket Seminars to Female Consumers
Case Study 7 Site & Email Tactics Turn Health & Wellness Product Site Into Conversion Machine
Case StudyHow to Ultra-Segment Your List to Increase Response Rates, Lifetime Value, and Offline Sales
Case StudyHow to Use Online Ads to Build a Groundswell of Consumer Support (and Get Stocked in Wal-Mart)
Case StudyHow to Succeed in CPA Advertising and Convert 30% of Samplers to Buyers - the TrimLife Story
Case Study eDiets Profitably Sells Millions of $65 Diet Counseling Subscriptions Online
How ToHow a Simple Text-Only Email Converted Dead Leads Into 36% More Customers
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How ToThree of the Best Pharmaceutical Web Sites: Why They Work and Which Ideas You Should Steal from Them
How ToHow Nutrio.com’s Leaders Use Expert Content and 24/7 Community to Appeal to Women on the Web
Consumer Marketing
NonProfit Fundraising
Case Study Email vs Postal Mail Test: How One Organization Lifted ROI 30%
Case StudyHow NPR Affiliate Raised $122K Online in One Day
Case StudyHow Video Message Gets Viewed by 59% of Target Audience
Case StudyHow Public Radio Gets Over-Saturated Members to Respond to Emailed Fundraising Drives
Case StudyGuerrilla Marketing to Aid Katrina Victims
Case Study Can Direct Response TV Commercials Work Online? 77% of Viewers Vote Yes
Case StudyLee’s National Denim Day Grows Online Sign-ups from 46-72% to Fight Breast Cancer
Case Study Foster Parents Plan Tests Four Very Different Online Ads to Gain $396 Donors: Results & Samples
Case StudyIrish Hospital Boosts Donation Site Visitors 300% With Low-Cost/High Impact Tactics
Case StudyHow the United Way of Greater Toronto Grows Online Donations
How ToHow UNICEF Doubled Video Exposure With Social Media
How ToStarter Kit for Grassroots Campaigning: 5 Tactics to Improve Results With Web 2.0, Email & Mobile
How To
10 Best Practices to Increase Email Response Rates for Fundraising
How ToHow to Land Fundraising Partnerships: 12 Dos & 3 Don’ts
ArticleTop 7 Mistakes Made by US Political Campaign Web Sites
Consumer Marketing
Real Estate Marketing
Case StudyHow to Convert Old Leads Into 11.07% New Sales
Case StudyHow Microsite & Video Lift Consumer Leads 13.54% for Home Builder
Case StudyHow to Get 34% More Consumers to Register Online With You
Case Study 7 Practical Tactics to Turn Your Blog Into a Sales Machine
Case StudyLanding Page Test Results - How to Get Consumers to Register as Phone Sales Leads Online
Case StudyOakwood Uses Advanced Web & Email Tactics to Survive the Recession on a Smaller Marketing Budget
Case StudyHow a Florida Realtor Gets 400-500 Sales Leads a Day from a Simple, High-Impact Web Site
Case Study Adding Site Audio to Engage Young Adult Shoppers
Case StudyHow a Major Business Real Estate Firm Launched Their New Site with a Webcast
InterviewHow to Market Subscriptions During a Down Economy: 6 Strategies That Will Bring Double-Digit Growth
ArticleSpecial Report: Online Strategies from Real Estate Marketers: Tactics to Survive a Struggling Economy
ArticleSpecial Report II: Online Strategies from Real Estate Marketers – Try Blogs, SEO, Social Media
ArticleSpecial Report II: Online Strategies from Real Estate Marketers - Try Blogs, SEO, Social Media
ArticleSpecial Report: Online Strategies from Real Estate Marketers: Tactics to Survive a Struggling Economy
Consumer Marketing
Travel & Hospitality Marketing
Case StudyHow to Build Viral Buzz With ‘Revolutionary’ Web 2.0 Community
Case StudyHow to Add Widgets to Streamline Lead Generation - 4 Steps & Test Results
Case StudyHow Long Copy & a Clean Landing Page Got 12.5% Opt-ins in Less Than a Month
Case StudyHow Travel Site Enticed Consumers to Pay for Digital Content Downloads
Case StudyTravel Marketing Online -- Lead Generation & Email Campaign Test Results
Case StudyHow to Market to Tourists in Three Languages With a Slimmed-Down Site
Case StudyIntegrated Ad Campaign Results -- Podcast Plus Avatar Banners Plus NYC Bar Coasters
Case Study JetBlue Tests Adding Mini-Booker Form to Email Creative (Insanely Successful Results)
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Case Study Re-Email Campaign to Prospects Who Clicked But Didn’t Buy: 125 Hotel Nights Sold at $600 a Pop
Case StudyTravel Marketing Online: How Hard Rock Hotel Vegas Uses Web Cams & Viral Games to Increase Bookings
Case StudyIntegrated Ad Campaign Results - Podcast + Avatar Banners + NYC Bar Coasters
Case StudyHow Southwest Airlines Sold $1.5 Million in Tickets by Posting Four Press Releases Online
Case StudyPersonalized, Permission-based Banners Get 4-11% Click Rates for Only $20 CPM
Case StudyHow to Create a Clever Desktop Application That Consumers Will Download, Adore, & Use to Say Yes to Your Offers
Case Study Rich Media vs Standard Gifs: Air New Zealand’s Online Ad Test Results
Case Study Best Email Landing Page of the Year - San Francisco’s Incredibly Clickable Day Planner
Case Study Continental Improves Online Sales 90% by Launching a Best-Customer-Pleasing Site Redesign
Case StudyHow British Airways Integrates Online & Offline Advertising Campaigns for Greater Impact
Case StudyHow to Collect More Email Names for Your List by Asking Brick-and-Mortar Customers for Them Offline
Case StudyHow a Travel Site Raised Sales Conversions 30% With 26 Little Site Design Tweaks
Case Study Budget Rent a Car Gets 5.6% Conversions from Email Promotions
Case StudySingapore Airlines Tests Viral eCard Campaign
Case StudyWhy Orbitz “Never” Rents Travel Email Lists
How ToHow Landing Page Optimization Boosts DRTV Responses: Key Steps, Tests, Takeaways
How ToHow to Target European Customers: 5 Tips on Subject Lines, Content, Translation, ISPs
How ToHow to Use Web 2.0 to Promote Your Content & Lift Revenue 200%
How ToHow to Use Niche Keywords to Boost Search Traffic: 5 Steps to a 20% Lift
How ToHow to Get a Domain Name Owned by Someone Else: Tips to Assess the Value & Negotiate the Deal
How ToHow JetBlue Allocates Their Search Budget (Hint: Don’t Try to Be No. 1 All the Time)
How ToSpecial Report: How to Market to the Super Rich -- 4 Challenges and 8 Must-Know Strategies
How ToSPECIAL REPORT: How to Market to India Online -- 4 Challenges and 22 Helpful Hotlinks
How ToHow Intrawest Resorts Get 2-3 Times Higher Response Rates to House List Emailings
How ToLocal Online Advertising that Works -- MLT Vacations’ 6 Tips (& Creative Samples)
How To
BizTravel.com Email Newsletter Gets Highest Clicks with Humor
Interview
JetBlue Airways’ VP Marketing Reveals Her Five Budget Marketing Lessons
Interview
Exclusive Travelocity Interview Part II - Opt-Ins, Metrics & Vendors
InterviewWhat Travelocity’s Learned From Sending Two Million Email Marketing Messages per Day: Part I
Consumer Marketing
Loyalty
Case StudyHow to Grow an Email List From Nothing to 2 Million Loyal Fans in 2 Years (Hint: Give Them Something They Enjoy)
Case StudyHow User-Generated Content Drives In-Store Sales for Grocery Chain
Case StudyHow to Rev Value for Loyalty Program - 4 Strategies From NASCAR
Case StudyHow to Get Teens to Pay for Virtual Content
How To
Coca-Cola’s Top 5 Strategies to Build a Successful Rewards Program
How ToHow to Assess Your Loyalty Program - 6 Steps
How ToGap Inc’s Top 10 Rules to Create a Successful Customer Loyalty Program
Consumer Marketing
Consumer Demographic
Case StudyHow to Target Asian Americans Through Integrated Online/Offline Marketing
Case Study Adding Site Audio to Engage Young Adult Shoppers
Case Study eMarketing to the Upper Classes
Case Study ChristianityToday.com: How a Free Content Site Became Even More Profitable After a Redesign
Case Study Rainbow Network Grows Site Membership Cost Effectively by Guerrilla Marketing at Festivals
Case StudyTargeting the ‘Lads’ Online with Controversial Creative: Breathe.com’s Blow Up Doll
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How ToSpecial Report: How to Market to the Super Rich -- 4 Challenges and 8 Must-Know Strategies
How ToHow to Market to New Parents - Tips from Baby Einstein Founder Julie Aigner-Clark
How To
Marketing to the US Hispanics Online: 8 Tips, 6 Creative Samples, & Useful Links
How ToSpecial Report Part II: Emailing to Seniors
How ToSpecial Report Part I: Emailing Aging Boomers vs. Seniors
ArticleNew Survey Reveals Interactive Game Players Wish Game Makers Would Email Them More
ArticleGiftsforbirds.com Targets Lads Who Hate Shopping with Print Media Ads... and Free Beer!
Consumer Marketing
Consumer Demographic - Marketing to Women
Case StudyHow to Combine Local PR and Goodwill Email for High ROI and Media Exposure
Case StudyHow to Market High-Ticket Seminars to Female Consumers
Case Study eCard Site Grows Traffic from Women 300% While Reducing its Marketing Budget by 20%
Case StudyHow Oil of Olay Gets Thousands of Women to Request New Product Samples Online
Case Study RightStart.com Grows Sales 148% With Direct Response TV and Radio Spots to Mommies
Case StudyHow ShopTalk.com Signed Up 400,000 Ultra-Busy Moms in Just Five Months
How ToHow to Cope with a Shrinking Budget: 11 Steps for Going Frugal
How ToHow Avon Added Personalized Web Pages for Customers & Back-End Support for Reps
How ToHow a Test to Meld Online, Offline Made In-Store Experiences Extra Special & Increased Order Sizes
How ToHow to Change Your Web Site to Appeal to Busy Moms Shopping Online: Survey Results From Gymboree
How ToWomen Begin to Dominate Online Shopping: Top 3 Tactics to Sell to Them
How To
Emode.com Attracts Three Million Monthly Unique Visitors By Emailing Just 400 People Viral Quizzes
How To
Market Your Products to Female Entrepreneurs Online
How ToIBM’s Top Six Tips for Marketing To Women-Owned Small Businesses
How ToScottishBusinessWomen.com’s Top 10 Creative Brief CheckList
How ToSpecial Report Part I: Creating Online Sweepstakes Campaigns to Attract Women
How To
Reach Women Through Offline Sponsorships
Interview
Marketing to Women Via Email -- 4 Key Factors to Improve Your Results (Hint: Pink’s Not One of Them)
Interview
Mary Lou Quinlan of Just Ask a Woman Explains What Marketers Need to Know About Women
Interview
BabyGear.com’s Preston Bealle on Targeted Media Buying and Why Branding is an “Evil” Word
Interview
Faith Popcorn on Marketing to Women
ArticleNew Study Data: Moms Spend 13.2 Hours Per Week Online (vs 7.6 Watching TV)
ArticleTwo Quick Tips on Women Online Shoppers - Cost Consciousness Varies
ArticlePew Study Reveals Three Types of Sites That Women Frequent More Than Men
ArticleOxygen’s Tank Tour Soars Across America
ArticleWhere Do Women Spend Time and Money Online?
Consumer Marketing
Consumer Demographic - Marketing to Kids, Tweens & Teens
Case StudyHow Teen Eretailer Tripled Revenue by Allowing Consumers to Select What Email Content They Really Want
Case StudyHow to Get Teens to Pay for Virtual Content
Case Study Reality Marketing Story Part III: 4 Unexpected Lessons of Marketing to Teens and Tweens
Case Study Reality Marketing Story Part II: Four Lessons on Branding, Logo Creation, and PR
Case Study Usability Lab Results - LEGO Tests Site Revamp Ideas to Please Both Parents and Kids
Case StudyTeens Send 25 Million Messages to Warner Bros. Records Instant Messaging Ad Campaign
Case StudySelling to Teen Girls on the Internet -- The Graffiti Online Story
How To
Marketing to Tweens: Data, Spending Habits + Dos & Don’ts to Reach This Fickle Age Group
How ToHow to Build an Online Street Team to Create Viral Buzz
How To
5 Step-Campaign to Influence Tweens (Kids Aged 9-13); Plus Useful Tween Data
How ToVirgin Mobile’s Research on Six Critical Attributes of 15-24 Year-Olds & How to Market to Them
How To
Email Marketing to Tweens ( Kids Ages 8-12): COPPA Loopholes, Demographics, Creative Samples
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How To
Email Marketing to America’s 32 Million Teenagers: 5 Key Steps
How ToHow to Get Word-of-Mouth Buzz Among Teens -- Tips from Procter & Gamble
How ToPlanit4kids.com’s Katja Ayling on Successfully Appealing to Children and Families Online
How ToHow gURL.com Drives Teen Traffic with Yahoo! Chats
ArticleSpecial Report: Marketing to Moms, Part I: Use Blogs, Events to Conquer the Mommy Market
ArticleHow to Market in Virtual Worlds
Article
Results from Nickelodeon’s Groundbreaking Multicultural Kids Research Study
Online Publishing
Case StudyHow to Use a Desktop Widget to Deliver Auditable Content: 4 Steps to Boost Subscriptions & Readership, Cut Costs, Increase Revenue
Case StudyHow Credit Card Processing Fix Lifts Autorenewals: 6 Steps for 98% Success
Case StudyHow to Boost Subscribers 33% With Simple Database Marketing Tactics
Case StudyHow Online Video Series Lifted Subscriptions 40%
Case StudyHow Hachette Filipacchi Created Mobile Content from Scratch: 9 Strategies to Get 15% Monthly Growth
Case Study Reorganize for Growth: How CMP’s Content Changes Boosted Market Share & Web Traffic
Case StudyHow B-to-B Trade Publisher Profits Online With New Revenue Stream
Case Study Before & After: How to Redesign News Site for Old and New Readers
Case StudyHow to Launch New Web Publications in 2 Weeks - 5 Steps to React Faster to Audience Demand
Case StudyHow Sharing Your Content With Partner Sites Revs Online Subscription Growth
Case StudyHow to Get Tons of Publicity on a Tiny Budget
Case StudySimple Email Cancellation Reminder Lifts Trial Registrations 16.4%
Case StudyHow Site Raised Subscription Rates 60% -- Yet Achieved 18.8% Lift
Case StudyHow to Get Teens to Pay for Virtual Content
Case StudyHow to Offer a Slice of Your Database to Convert Buyers to the Full Product
Case StudyHow a Top Photo-Sharing Site Gained Traffic & Revenues: 12-Month Attack Plan
Case StudyHow to Get on the Wall Street Journal’s Best-Seller List Via Online-Only Marketing & Distribution
Case StudyHow Motley Fool Doubled Email Registrations with Multivariable Tests (Includes Before-and-After)
Case Study Makeover Case Study: From Print Publisher to Web eCommerce Powerhouse
Case StudyHow to Raise Online Classified Sales with a Site Redesign
Case StudyPrint Newsletter Publisher Cuts Back on Direct Mail Because Internet Sales Are Booming
Case StudyHow to Stem Email Opt-in List Shrinkage: BLR Grows Email Lists by 6% in 8 Weeks
Case StudyDailyCandy - How a Simple Viral Newsletter Has Blown Away the Consumer Lifestyle Publishing World
Case StudyHow SmartBrief Launched a Profitable Email Newsletter Business
Case StudyHow SitePoint Mixes Revenue Streams to Stay More Profitable than Competing Publishers
Case StudySelling eBooks & Subscriptions to Consumers Online: Hard Lessons from a Get-Rich-Quick Publisher
Case Study 5 Marketing Tactics Briefing.com Tested to Sell Subscriptions to Individual Investors Online
Case Study 4 Ways SFGate Sells More Local Online Ads (Without a Sales Team)
Case StudyWhy Content Price Testing is Really, Really Smart (How to Profit by Selling Single Articles Online)
Case StudyThe Challenges and Rewards of Publishing a Local Email Newsletter for Profit
Case StudySix Tactics NYTimes.com Used to Convince Media Buyers to Test a New Online Ad Unit
Case Study Fantasy Football Site Mingles Ad & Subscription Sales for Profits
Case Study Reader’s Digest Grows Online Sales by Adding a Console-Style Pre-Home Page
Case StudySAM Magazine Tests Online Contest to Generate Qualified Subscribers
Case StudySecrets Behind RedHerring.com’s Major Syndication Deals (Hint: Editorial Contacts)
How ToSherpa Kit: How Subscription Marketers Can Monetize Web 2.0
How ToHow to Transform Your Subscription Site into a Paid Social Network – 6 Launch Tactics
How ToHow to Build a Social Networking Site That Complements Your Subscription Business - 6 Strategies
How ToSpecial - Click Now to Get Your Complimentary Copy of Sherpa’s 2008 Wisdom Report
How ToHow to Add Web 2.0 Features to Your Publishing Site: 5 Best Practices
How ToSocial Networking: How to Build a Publication That Relies on Readers for High-Value Content
How ToHow Mochila Created an iTunes-Like Marketplace for Editors
How ToThe New Rules of Publishing: 6 Action Items to Jumpstart Traffic With Web 2.0
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How ToInterview: How to Create Data That Your Subscribers Can’t Live Without
How ToInterview: How to Stop Plagiarists From Taking & Using Your Valuable Content as Their Own
How To
Business-to-Business Publishers Can Jack Up Online Profits
How ToHow to Market Your Business Book (Your Publisher Probably Won’t)
How To
M&A Special: Evaluate Traditional Publications Online Potential
How To
Buying & Selling Online Media Properties -- Your Quick Guide Part I: Seller’s Side
How ToOnline Content Industry Growth Predictions for 2001: Books, Magazines, Newsletters and Newspapers
How ToHow inc.com Drives Traffic with Integrated Online/Offline Marketing
How ToPackagingInsider.com Maximizes Traffic with a Trade Publishing Partnership
InterviewWebsite Redesign From Hell - Lessons Learned, ROI Tips & Practical Advice
InterviewHow LexisNexis Added Blog Search to Content Lineup
InterviewSportingNews.com General Manager Reveals (Some) Online Business Data
Interview
Exclusive Interview: Salon.com’s COO Reveals Behind-the-Scenes Business Details
Interview
internet.com’s Phillip Won Discusses M&As and Valuations for Web-Only Publishers
InterviewHow iPipe Built a Multimillion Dollar Content Distribution Business
Interview
COMTEX’s Charles Terry on Broadband, ecommerce & For-Fee Content
Interview
COMTEX’s CEO Charles Terry on Rising Profits and New Competitors
InterviewWhy iSyndicate’s Prices are Going Up for Publishers: Interview with Brian McCracken
Interview
Rob Runnett of the NNA Details How Newspapers are Partnering and Marketing Online
InterviewSecrets from Michael Feldstein of BoardRoom Reports
ArticleSpecial Report: Group Subscriptions to Online Content: New Data and Tips on Top Strategies
ArticleSpecial Report: New Data for Online Publishers - Which Subscription Tactics Work Best?
ArticlePodcast: How Content Publishers Are Monetizing Web 2.0
ArticlePodcast: How Subscription Sites Are Monetizing Web 2.0
ArticleNew Chart: Online Publishers Feel Effects of Economic Downturn
ArticlePlease Help With Quick Subscription Content Survey
ArticleSpecial Report: New Data on Converting Traffic Into Trial Memberships - Observational Study of 50 Subscription Sites
ArticleVideo Surges While Search Lags - 5 Trends to Watch in the Online Content Industry
ArticleSherpa Seeks Subscription Summit Speaking Proposals
ArticleWhy eContent Sites Must Worry About Credit Card Fraud -- Hidden Costs
ArticleIDG Stops Deeplinking from Competitors Including TechTarget -- Behind-the-Scenes Business Details
Article
UK’s Online Editorial Bureau Changes Course to Compete vs. Americans iSyndicate & ScreamingMedia
Online Publishing
Subscription Marketing Online
Case StudyKeep Users Tied to Your Website while Driving Traffic to Ad Partners: Win-Win Tactics
Case StudyHow to Turn Subscribers Into Affiliates With Widgets & Viral Marketing
Case Study Best Day to Convert Trial Signups: Test Results
Case Study 6 Subscription Strategies to Increase Renewal Rates
Case StudyHow to Convert 225% More Trial Subscriptions - Multivariate Test Results
Case StudyHow Niche Publisher Cut Subscriber Acquisition Costs in Half
Case StudyHow Hearst Grew Subscriptions 50% With Online Games That Complement Their Brand
Case StudyHow Hoover’s Keeps Leads Hot: 5-1 ROI Test Results
Case Study Multivariate Test Lifts Subscription Site’s Revenue 697% - Before & After
Case StudyHow Site Raised Subscription Rates 60% -- Yet Achieved 18.8% Lift
Case Study Zagat.com’s Web 2.0 Efforts Get Double-Digit Subscriber Growth
Case StudyHow to Generate 10X More Subscriptions From Your Email List
Case StudyHow Two SEO Experts Launched a Paid Sub Site With No Advertising
Case StudyHow a Print Subscription Publisher Revamped Search Landing Pages to Increase Conversions
Case StudyWhat Playboy Has Learned From Constant Tests to Improve Online Subscription Revenues
Case StudyHow Scientific American Grows Print Subs 15% Via Online Marketing
Case StudyHow to Offer a Slice of Your Database to Convert Buyers to the Full Product
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Case Study Boosting B-to-B Newsletter Subscriptions: How NHI Breaks From the Ranks & Succeeds By Using Free Trials
Case StudyHow to Convince People to Pay for Local News Online: Give Away the Archives, says Our-Hometown.com
Case StudyGive Away Free Basic Memberships, Send Paid Subscriptions Skyrocketing: How It Worked for Linden Lab
Case StudyHow to Grow Paid Subscriptions 20% Every Year, Despite Loads of Lower-Priced Competitors
Case StudyHow to Sell Online Subscriptions to (Very Old) Newspaper Archives
Case StudySimply Audiobook’s Online Subscription Marketing Test Results
Case StudyHow ConsumerReports.org Gains New Subscribers via Affiliate Partnerships
Case StudyHow to Sell More Print Magazine Subscriptions By Combining Web Plus Email
Case StudyHow a Niche B-to-B Database Publisher Sells Online Subscriptions With a Free Web Site
Case Study Can Late-Night Cable TV Ads Sell Online Subscriptions? Mixed Results
Case StudyPrint Newsletter Publisher Tests Launching Two Paid Subscription Email Newsletters -- Mixed Results
Case Study Ancestry.com Reveals Results of Landing Pages Tests That Raised Revenues by $500,000
Case StudyHow to Launch a Profitable Paid Email Newsletter (Look Ma - No Ads)
Case StudyHow to Create a Sub Site Business Execs Love So Much That Raising the Price Doesn’t Cause a Blip
Case Study 5 Ways NASCAR.COM Keeps Paid Member Churn Rate at Just 15% Despite Doubling Prices
Case Study Match.com Tests Rich Media Email to Convert Site Skimmers into Paid Members
Case StudySelling Subscription Renewals via Emailed Transactional Forms -- Hopeful Test Results
Case StudyHow to Convert Free Newsletter Readers into Pricey Paid Content Buyers -- Step by Step
Case StudyHow Economy.com Turned an Unprofitable Spin-0ff Site into a $1.3M Cash Cow
Case StudyHow Friendfinder Network Reached 1 Million Paid Subscribers by Breaking the Rules
Case StudyHow to Sell $300 Online Subscriptions to Consumers -- StreetAuthority’s Low-Cost Tactics
Case Study 82% of Audible Revenues Now From Subscriptions; Audible Emulates HBO
Case Study uclick Tests Selling Subscriptions to Comics and Puzzles on the Web: Results Revealed
Case Study Can Email Newsletters Sell Subscriptions to Print Newsletters? HCPro’s Tests & Results
Case StudyHow Zacks.com Profits by Selling 3rd Party Subscriptions and Online Advertising
Case StudyOnline Directory Publishing - How to Sell Subscriptions to Both Listees and Users
Case StudySelling Subscriptions to Fan Club Sites: Tips from RollingStones.com & DavidBowie.com
Case StudyHow Economist.com Juggles Ad and Content Sales: A Big Lesson About Paid Barrier Visibility
Case StudyTest Results from Weatherbug’s Pro-Version Subscription Sales Campaigns
Case Study FT.com Tests Selling Subscriptions
Case StudySelling eBooks & Subscriptions to Consumers Online: Hard Lessons from a Get-Rich-Quick Publisher
Case Study 5 Marketing Tactics Briefing.com Tested to Sell Subscriptions to Individual Investors Online
Case StudyHundreds of Ford Thunderbird Fans Join New Membership Site
Case StudyNewsletter Publisher Uses $1 Teleseminar Offer to Sell $19.95 Monthly Auto-Renew Subscriptions
Case StudyDaily Biz Email Catches 10% Free-to-Paid Conversion: The Story of The Wave
Case Study Britannica.com Tests Paid Subscriptions Online
Case Study 3-Tiered Subscription Service Maximizes Profits for InvestmentHouse.com
Case StudyProfessional News Site Switches from Free to Paid
Case StudyNewsletter Gets 80% Paid Renewal Rate with a Four-Part Email Campaign
Case Study CQ Daily Gains $200k Subscription Sales By Switching from Print to Email Delivery
Case StudySearchEngineWatch - Story of a Profitable Paid Subscription Web Site
Case StudyHow Classmates Got 1.5 Million Paid $29 Subscribers
Case Study Free Computer Newsletter Publisher Generates 40% of Revenue from Archives Sales
Case Study eDiets Profitably Sells Millions of $65 Diet Counseling Subscriptions Online
Case Study Ancestry.com Doubles Paid Subscribers to 400,000 While Cutting CPA by 75%
Case Study CinemaNow Proves Lots of Men Love Streamed Video Online
Case StudyVersusLaw Gains Paid Online Subscribers with Low-Cost Guerrilla Marketing Tactics
Case StudyInside Washington Publishers Boost Print Revenues with Subscription Web Sites
Case Study FanTeamLink(R) Email News Sells Tens of Thousands of Sports Fans $29 Year Subscriptions
Case Study Books24x7 Sells 200,000 Subscriptions to a Database of Business Books Online
Case StudyStyle Made Simple Gains 100 Paid Subscribers via Online Guerrilla Marketing Techniques Costing Less
Case Study 10,000 Subscribers Pay $10 Each for “PLUS” Edition of the Free LangaList Email Newsletter
Case StudyHow SellYourBrainFood.com Got 1,200 Online Subscribers to Pay $19.95 a Month
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Case Study Business Model as a Moving Target -- ScienceWise Goes from Fee to Free, to Fee, to Free, to Fee
Case StudyPreachingToday.com - The Story of a Profitable Subscription Site
Case Study Cabot Heritage Has “Unbelievable Success” Selling Email Subscriptions Through Email Newsletter Ads
Case StudyThe Atlanta Journal Constitution Develops New Content Revenue Streams to Profit Online
Case Study getAbstract Uses Four Classic Tactics to Sell $299 Online Subscriptions to Businesspeople
Case Study United Communications Group Uses Free Email Discussion Groups to Grow Paid Subscription Sales
Case Study Consumer Reports Online “Within Shouting Distance” of Half a Million Paid Subscribers
Case StudyWall Street Journal Online Sells Subscription
Case StudySecrets Behind RedHerring.com’s Major Syndication Deals (Hint: Editorial Contacts)
Case StudyHow Trade Publisher Profits From 7 Vertical Sites
How ToTime Inc. Subscription Service: 8 Steps from Concept to Beta Launch
How To
6 Steps: Simple Referral Process Keeps Surge in Registrations Coming for UGC Site
How ToShould You Position Your Blog Behind a Subscription Barrier? 5 Guidelines
How To
Make Testimonials, Reviews Work for You: 6 Tips that Boost Subscribers
How To
Angie’s List Thrives on Trust: 6 Strategies that Attract Paid Subscribers
How ToHow to Find Your Social Media Fit: 6 Tips to Optimize Your Strategy
How ToHow to Piggyback User-Generated Content Onto Site Redesign & Triple Revenue - Before & After
How ToTest Results: Will Reminder Date in Subject Line Increase Article Readership?
How ToHow Taunton Press Built ROI, Customer Loyalty With Video, Slideshow for Sub Site
How ToSeven Lessons in Selling B-to-B Subscriptions from Hoover’s
How To
12 Lessons from MyStockOptions.com on Selling Subscriptions, Site Licenses, & Print-to-Online
How ToHow AmericanGreetings.com et al. Engage New Opt-Ins in One Day (or Sooner)
How To
M&A Special Part II: Tips for Evaluating a Subscription Site’s Potential
How ToSelling US Subscriptions to Wireless Content: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at MatchMobile
How ToHow Match.com Gains Nearly 50,000 New Paid Subscribers per Month
How ToTop 4 Subscription Marketing Lessons from the Adult Content Industry for Mainstream Sites
How ToHow to Raise Subscription Site Conversions and Lifetime Value Rates (Checks Rule Over Cards)
How ToHow eDiets Keeps 13 Million Email Opt-Ins Reading, Clicking & Buying from Daily Emails
How To
Credit Card Processing for Subscription Sites: Paymentech’s Michael Clark Reveals Invaluable Tips
How To
RealNetworks Hits 1,000,000 Paid Subscribers: Top 10 Questions Potential Partners Should Ask
How To
Credit Card Processing Woes & Solutions for Online Subscription Sellers
How ToHow to Avoid the Top 5 Subscription Marketing Mistakes
How To
Reader’s Digest’s Advice on Growing Magazine Subscriptions with Online Co-Registration Ads
How To
Five Rules for Selling Subscriptions to Web Sites and Email Newsletters
How ToGuru Elaine Tyson’s Five Tips for Growing Online Subscription Sales
How To
A Market Research Expert’s Advice on Online Subscription Price Testing (Hint: Don’t)
How ToKlocke Uses Guerrilla Web Tactics to Market Print Newsletters
How To
Bill Myers Explains How to Target, Price and Market a Subscription Site
How ToHow Ancestry.com Grew to 300,000 Paid Online Subscribers
How To
Aaron O’Sullivan On How ipoints.co.uk Gained 250,000 Members, 85% of Whom Actively Shop Online
How To
Content Licensing Deals to International Web Sites Are Profitable - But Harder Than You Think
InterviewHow Spider-Man Got on the Web: Inside Peek at Marvel Comics’ Online Subscription Service
InterviewHow to Market Subscriptions During a Down Economy: 6 Strategies That Will Bring Double-Digit Growth
InterviewHow Marketer Grows Subs 22% With a Limited Ad Budget - 3 PR Secrets & Other Tips
Interview
Can You Turn a Book into a Bestselling Subscription Site? 7 Criteria
Interview
Company Profile: How Netflix Rents 3 Million DVDs a Week to 2.2 Million Paid Subscribers
InterviewProfile: How NetContent Inc. Profits by Reselling Aggregated Content for Email and Web Use
InterviewPROFILE: Newly Merged IGN/GameSpy’s Aggressive Content Sales Plans
Interview
Exclusive: Consumer Reports’ Advice on Email Marketing, Spam and Privacy
InterviewSea Change: How INT Media is Lowering its Dependence on Online Ad Sales
Interview
Belo Interactive VP Sales Reveals 2002 Budget Plans for Ad and Subscription Sales Online
Interview
25% of MessageFriends.com Service Convert from Free to Paid
Interview
RedBooks.com Gets 500 Paying Subscribers Averaging $829 Each
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Interview
F---Company.com Reveals Subscription Sales Figures
Interview
Marketing Print Magazine Subscriptions Online -- Tips from eNews
InterviewHow a Baptist Pastor Became an Online Publishing Pioneer: The Story of Dr. Ralph Wilson
Interview
Factiva’s CEO Clare Hart Reveals How Free Web Content Has Affected the Corporate Enterprise Market
InterviewWhat the Wall Street Journal Online Has Learned from Banner Advertising Tests
InterviewDave Evans of Content Site Nerve.com Reveals How They’ve Come Close to Achieving Profitability
InterviewSecrets from Michael Feldstein of BoardRoom Reports
ArticleSpecial Report: How Subscription Sites Use Email to Convert Trial Offers - 18-Page PDF Download
ArticleSpecial Report: New Data on Converting Traffic Into Trial Memberships - Observational Study of 50 Subscription Sites
ArticleHow Subscription Sites Can Wage War Against Fraudulent Chargebacks ($90 Million for 2006)
Article
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ArticleShould Subscription Sites Push Amex (vs. Mastercard & Visa) to Lower Declines & Raise Profits?
ArticleLessiter Publications Surprised at Popularity of Email Newsletter for Farmers
ArticleHow Mike Shatzkin Rules the Online Content Business for Sports Junkies
Article
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ArticleThomas Register’s For-Fee Print Editions Still Sell Despite 100% Free Online Editions
ArticleThe Little Subject Line That Could: Phillips Publishing’s Email Campaign for Michael Murphy
Online Publishing
Advertising Sales Online
Case StudyHow to Get Teens to Pay for Virtual Content
Case StudyHow to Sell In-Text Ads
Case StudyHow to Sell 32% More Ads on Wikis, Blogs and Discussion Groups
Case StudyHow to Sell Sponsorships to Ebooks (More Profitable Than You May Think)
Case StudyHow to Raise Online Classified Sales with a Site Redesign
Case StudyHow to Succeed by Turning Down Banner Ads -- RetailWire’s Unusual Content & Sponsorship Model
Case Study Allrecipes Uses Metrics Tracking to Increase Ad Sales 40%
Case Study Behind-the-Scenes at Weatherbug: Ad Sales Tactics That Work
Case StudyHow FT.com Kept Ad Sales Strong in 2002
Case StudyHow iVillage is Positioning Itself to Profit (As Soon as the Economy Gets a Little Better)
Case StudyTechWeb’s New Links Listings Generate $150k More Ad Sales in 45 Days
Case StudyHow to Make Money in Directory Publishing Online -- KnowledgeStorm’s Evolving Business Model
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How ToOnline Publishers Made an Estimated $1 Billion Plus From Google AdSense in 2005: Get Your Share
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How ToOnline Ad Sales: How to Win More Insertion Orders in 2004
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Case Study 6 Subscription Strategies to Increase Renewal Rates
Case StudyWhy It’s Best to Test Your Own Email Practices - Delivery & Subject Line Tests Results
Case StudyHow to Launch a Service With No Ad Budget: 5 Steps to Grow Leads With Email & Blogs
Case StudyHow Rearranging Newsletter Ads (a little) Increases ROI (a lot)
Case StudyHow to Add Video to Email on a Shoestring Budget & Double Conversions: 6 Steps + 6 Lessons Learned
Case StudySecurity Logo in Email Lifts Average Order Value 28.3%
Case StudyHow Niche Publisher Cut Subscriber Acquisition Costs in Half
Case StudyGoing Green: How to Transition Catalog Users to Email & Lift Conversions 19%
Case StudyHTML vs Text Email: Which Works Better in a Short Conversion Cycle?
Case StudyHow Email Series + Personalized Landing Page Lifted Webinar’s ROI by 2000%
Case StudyHow a Single Email Led to the Best Product Launch Ever - Test Results
Case Study Email vs Postal Mail Test: How One Organization Lifted ROI 30%
Case StudyHow Automated Alerts Increased Qualified Leads 52% & Doubled Conversions
Case StudyHow Adding Two Buttons Can Make Your Newsletter Much More Profitable - Test Results
Case StudyHow Long Copy & a Clean Landing Page Got 12.5% Opt-ins in Less Than a Month
Case StudyHow Teen Eretailer Tripled Revenue by Allowing Consumers to Select What Email Content They Really Want
Case StudyHow to Convert 11% More Prospects in Final 72 Hours of Buying Cycle
Case StudyHow NPR Affiliate Raised $122K Online in One Day
Case StudyHow Video Message Gets Viewed by 59% of Target Audience
Case StudyHow a Restaurant Chain’s Simple Email Test Raised Conversions 10.3%
Case StudySimple Animated Gif in Email Lifts Conversions 49% - Test Results
Case StudySuper-Persuasive Email Campaign to Motivate Doctors, Busy Execs & Rev Enthusiasm for Product Line or Long Project
Case Study Automotive Lead Generation & Follow-Up -- How to Combine Email and Mobile Messaging for High ROI
Case StudyHow to Segment Best Customers & Raise Conversions 300%
Case StudyHow Email, Video Turned Book Into a Best-Seller - 4 Strategies for Success
Case StudyHow a Luxury Retailer Mines Customer Base to Improve ROI With Limited Analytics
Case StudyHow to Raise Response With 4 Persuasive Auto-Email Programs
Case StudyHow to Use Easy Automated Emails to Turn Prospects Into Sales-Ready Leads (Two Real-Life Examples)
Case StudyHow to Run a Complex Auto-Email Program to Reduce Abandoned Carts for High Consideration Purchases
Case StudyHow to Raise Email Newsletter Clickthroughs by Testing Content Types
Case StudyHow to Get Thousands of Prospects to Examine New Products -- the Split Second You Launch
Case StudyTravel Marketing Online -- Lead Generation & Email Campaign Test Results
Case Study Emailed Video Hotlink Helps Sales Reps Land (Big) New Accounts
Case StudyHow the Georgia Aquarium Sells Nearly 10,000 Tickets Per Day via Ecommerce
Case Study Before & After Story -- Email Redesign Increases Loyalty Plan Activation
Case StudyHow to Use Email Autoresponders to Convert Skeptical Consumers (+ Delivery Test Results)
Case StudyHow to Improve Webinar and Email Newsletter Results with Very Simple Video
Case StudyHow to Create Email Newsletters Busy Execs Will Consistently Open, Read & Click On (Year after Year)
Case StudyHow Cirque du Soleil Uses Email to Sell Out Shows at Local Cities
Case StudyInspiration -- How a Neighborhood Retailer Created a Newsletter Customers Adore
Case StudyHow to Supplement Your Regular Weekly Newsletter With Personalized Specials
Case Study JetBlue Tests Adding Mini-Booker Form to Email Creative (Insanely Successful Results)
Case StudyHow to Get VIP Businesspeople to Attend an In-Person Sales Pitch Event
Case Study Re-Email Campaign to Prospects Who Clicked But Didn’t Buy: 125 Hotel Nights Sold at $600 a Pop
Case StudyNew Test Results -- Should You Re-Send Your Email Newsletter to Non-Openers?
Case StudyHow Public Radio Gets Over-Saturated Members to Respond to Emailed Fundraising Drives
Case Study Behind-the-Scenes Discoveries from HP’s Email Segmentation Tests (Response Rates Up 300%-1000%)
Case Study B-to-B Marketer Jettisons Routine Newsletters in Favor of Irregular Email Broadcasts
Case StudyPrint Newsletter Publisher Tests Launching Two Paid Subscription Email Newsletters -- Mixed Results
Case StudyHow GE Healthcare Gets Email Clickthrough Rates of 7%-10% (Includes Beautiful Creative Samples)
Case StudyDouble Campaign Results by Sending Emails to At-Work & At-Home Email Addresses on Different Days
Case StudyVideo Newsletter Gets High Viral Pass-Along & Unusually Strong Clicks
Case StudyDo Duplicate Email Sends Pay Off? Test Results of Compelling Email Offer Sent to Same List Twice
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Case StudyHow a 10-Year-Old Newsletter Generates Half a Mill in Sales With Every Issue
Case Study Match.com Tests Rich Media Email to Convert Site Skimmers into Paid Members
Case StudyHow to Maximize Business-to-Business Email Newsletter Results: Useful Data & Samples
Case StudySelling Subscription Renewals via Emailed Transactional Forms -- Hopeful Test Results
Case Study Business Marketer Tests Sending Email Campaign with 800-Phone Number in Subject Line
Case StudyShell Oil Tests Email to Influence Distributors, Truckers & Farmers: Uses 5 Best Practices Rules
Case Study Business Consultant Gets New Clients by Radically Revamping Her Newsletter and Prospect List
Case StudyHow Vancouver Won the 2010 Winter Olympics: Gorgeous Multi-Step Email Campaigns to VIPs
Case StudyHow to Create a Series of Automated Follow-Up Emails to Convert Average Sales Leads into Hot Leads
Case Study Ask the Expert Feature Enthralls Business Execs Receiving Cincom’s Promotional Email Newsletter
Case StudyHow to Cut Through the Clutter & Impress Prospects with an Emailed Flash Commercial
Case Study Museum Tests 5 Online and Email Marketing Tactics to Drive $20 Ticket Sales -- Results Revealed
Case StudyHow SmartBrief Launched a Profitable Email Newsletter Business
Case Study Email Alerts to Big Businesses vs Small Businesses - Metrics from Cintas
Case StudyGoody’s Chain Store Tests Emailed Coupons
Case StudyHow Flexcar Gets a 72% Marketing Email Newsletter Open Rate
Case Study Email Marketing + Online Quiz Convert Business Execs into Eager Sales Prospects
Case StudyShoe Store Uses Emailed Postcards to Raise Sales Dramatically (Fun Creative Samples Included)
Case StudyNational Retail Chain Asks Franchise Owners to Test Local Email Newsletters -- 3 Success Stories
Case StudyHow to Create an Email Newsletter Your Customers Love -- Tips and Tactics from Taco Talk
Case Study 5 Rules for Publishing an Email Newsletter That’s “Less Torture” Than Print
Case StudyThe Challenges and Rewards of Publishing a Local Email Newsletter for Profit
Case Study Restaurant Email Loyalty Program Brings in Bigger Spending Diners
Case StudyTwo Ways to Use Email Newsletters to Support Field Sales Reps
Case StudyPalm Launches New Product with 5-Step Email Campaign
Case StudyHow to Upsell Business Services Clients with an Email Newsletter
Case StudyOverstock.com Hits $100 Million Profitably with Email Marketing
Case Study Marketing Services to Consumers Online: How Clearwater Landscapes Profits by Breaking 5 Rules
Case Study Franklin Covey Gets Fortune 500 Sales Leads With Viral-Only Personalized Email Newsletter
Case StudyPowerful Email Marketing to Sell and Retain Small Business Customers
Case Study EMC Gathers 60,000 Potential Sales Evangelists With a 3rd Party Email Newsletter
Case Study FanTeamLink(R) Email News Sells Tens of Thousands of Sports Fans $29 Year Subscriptions
Case StudyPaperExchange Gets Non-Tech Savvy Execs to Return to Its Online B-to-B Marketplace Frequently
Case Study 10,000 Subscribers Pay $10 Each for “PLUS” Edition of the Free LangaList Email Newsletter
Case Study Motorola Gets 5.4% Click Through Rate on Emailed Valentines Day Offer
Case Study Marcia Yudkin Calls Her Marketing Minute Email Newsletter “A Method of Minting Money”
Case Study farmbid.com gets 15-20% Response Rates on Email Campaigns to Farmers
Case Study 15% of B-to-B Sales Prospects Click On Emailed Link to Chat Online With a Sales Rep
Case StudyHow Print Book Publisher FEDweek Makes 70% of Sales via Email Marketing
Case Study AIS Surprised by Email Newsletter Pass-Along Readership Revealed in Survey
Case Study Just-Auto.com Finds Serious Auto Executives Prefer Email Newsletters With a Jokey, Casual Tone
Case Study FT Energy Uses Free Email Editorial to Sell High-Priced “Power” Report
Case StudyHow AIS, a Traditional For-Fee Publisher, is Profiting With Free Email Newsletters
How ToSharpen Your Autoresponder Program to Retain Customers, Boost Revenue
How To
4 Takeaways from MarketingSherpa’s Newsletter Subject-Line Analysis
How ToTest Results: Will Reminder Date in Subject Line Increase Article Readership?
How To
Coca-Cola’s Top 5 Strategies to Build a Successful Rewards Program
How ToHow to Get Double-Digit Response From Customer Surveys - Copywriting & Subject Line Tips
How ToHow a Simple Text-Only Email Converted Dead Leads Into 36% More Customers
How To
10 Best Practices to Increase Email Response Rates for Fundraising
How ToSpecial Report: How to Conduct Email Surveys - Tips to Lift Response & Write Subject Lines
How ToSpecial Report: How to Add Web 2.0 to Your Email Newsletter
How To
Use Email & Postal Mail to Create a Really Powerful One-Two Punch
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How ToTest Results: Small Email Newsletter Template Design Change Raises Clicks 28%
How To
5 Tips to Avoid Cross-Channel Conflict From General Nutrition Centers’ Ecommerce Director
How ToKNOW-HOW: Why (and How) You Should Redesign Your Email Templates for Outlook, Hotmail & Yahoo Immediately
How ToKnow-How: How to Make Your Email Enticing in AutoPreview & Mobile -- 16 Samples of Best & Worst Tactics
How ToSony Ericsson on What Works for Multinational Email Programs -- USA, Europe, China & Beyond
How ToHow Intrawest Resorts Get 2-3 Times Higher Response Rates to House List Emailings
How ToWelcome Messages Get Highest Open Rates of All Email Campaigns: How to Improve Yours
How To
Folksy Email Newsletter to Dog-Lovers Gets 96% Open Rate & Outstanding Sales: Tactics You Can Copy
How ToHow AmericanGreetings.com et al. Engage New Opt-Ins in One Day (or Sooner)
How ToKeep Your House List Open Rate Above 50%: Lessons from Winery Email Campaigns
How ToHow eDiets Keeps 13 Million Email Opt-Ins Reading, Clicking & Buying from Daily Emails
How ToHow Red Hat Has Kept its Email Newsletter Open Rates Higher Than Average for Four Years in a Row
How ToTower Records Combines Print Catalog Plus Email Marketing: Sales Boost from 8% to 11%
How ToTop 10 Tips on Outsourcing Email Newsletters
How To
BizTravel.com Email Newsletter Gets Highest Clicks with Humor
How ToSchmooze Sales Prospects With a Free eCourse
How ToTop 9 Tips for Successful Sales Support Email Newsletters
InterviewHow Wholesaler Lifted Orders 13% With Newsletter - 12 Tips & Strategies
Interview
Big List, Big Profits - 7 Tactics for a Killer Newsletter
Interview
Email 2.0: Travelocity Takes It Up a Notch --Improvements & Results
InterviewTips for Newsletter Success: Exclusive Interview with Michael Katz
InterviewWhat Travelocity’s Learned From Sending Two Million Email Marketing Messages per Day: Part I
Interview
Exclusive: Consumer Reports’ Advice on Email Marketing, Spam and Privacy
Interview
BeNOW’s Andy Cutler Says ‘Too Many People Get Permission and Then Turn on the Electronic Megaphone’
InterviewSecrets from Michael Feldstein of BoardRoom Reports
Article
Email Marketing Summit Transcript 2008
ArticleNew Chart: Transactional Emails - a Missed Opportunity
ArticleNew Chart: Transactional Emails - a Missed Opportunity
ArticleNew Eyetracking Test Results: Email Campaign Click Patterns Surprise for Designers
Article
Email Test Royalty Share Hard-won Test Results: joann.com
ArticlePodcast: New Test Results for Email Send Times: 3 Major Takeaways
Online Marketing
Email Marketing - Email List Growth
Case Study Recover Subscribers with Single Email: 3 Steps to Clear Up Technical Snafu
Case Study Focusing on Referrals, Abandons Helps Eretailer Grow List, Bolster Sales
Case StudyStop Bounces with Sales Receipts, Build List 71%
Case StudyHow to Grow an Email List From Nothing to 2 Million Loyal Fans in 2 Years (Hint: Give Them Something They Enjoy)
Case StudyHow to Grow Lists & Lift Response With Better Segmentation: 5 Simple Tactics
Case StudyHow to Fix Your Email Deliverability - 4 Easy Strategies to Lift Deliverability 20.4% & Sales 143%
Case StudyHow Cisco Doubled Email Registration Conversions by Offering Fewer Sign-up Choices
Case StudyHow to Generate 10X More Subscriptions From Your Email List
Case StudyHow Texas Instruments Centralized Its Global Email Marketing Into One Database
Case StudyHow to Grow Your Email List With Incentives and Ease Blacklist Concerns
Case StudyHow Motley Fool Took Their Email List From Double Opt-in to Single Opt-in &Thrived
Case StudyHow Video, Viral Tactics Built Email Leads for Golf-Club Manufacturer
Case StudyHow to Keep Your Colleagues *and* Subscribers Happy With Your Emails
Case StudyHow to Grow Your List to 2 Million Opt-Ins -- and Which Tactics Give You Higher Quality Names
Case StudyHow to Get More Opt-Ins (Plus Great Demographic Info From Visitors) With a Super-Personalized Email
Case StudyHow to Collect More Email Opt-Ins from Your Contact Us Form -- Seven Tactics
Case StudyHow Motley Fool Doubled Email Registrations with Multivariable Tests (Includes Before-and-After)
Case Study Clever Tactics to Update Bad Addresses on Your Email List More Easily (Slashes Your Bounce Rate)
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Case StudyHow to Reduce Email Unsubscribes by 35% & Boost Holiday Sales
Case Study Using an In-House Multichannel Sweeps to Grow Your House List - Two Surprising Results
Case StudyHow to Stem Email Opt-in List Shrinkage: BLR Grows Email Lists by 6% in 8 Weeks
Case Study Business Consultant Gets New Clients by Radically Revamping Her Newsletter and Prospect List
Case StudyHow to Collect More Email Names for Your List by Asking Brick-and-Mortar Customers for Them Offline
Case Study Using a Viral Game to Get Email Newsletter Subscribers
Case Study yourautochoice.com Uses Prize Draw to Entice 50% of Site Visitors to Join its Opt In List
Case Study Free eBook Offers Boost Email Newsletter Subscriptions
Case StudyHow MarketingSherpa Grew from a List of 1,000 Friends to 90,000 Weekly Readers
Case StudySmallBusinessDepot.com’s Grows Opt-In Email Database by Giving Airline Travelers Print Newsletters
How ToHow to Optimize Your Email for Mobile Subscribers: 3 Simple Tactics, 2 Tips
How ToOverwhelmed by Opt-in Typos? 4 Ways to Fix Misspelled Email Addresses
How ToHow to Get Back Opt-Outs: 7 Steps to Retain More Customers
How ToNew Co-Registration Test Data: 7 Lessons to Improve Your Opt-in Rates & Grow Your List
How To
Average Email Marketing List Size Growing by 40% Per Year: Four Steps to Optimize Response
How ToHow to Get (And Track) a High Volume of New Opt-Ins: Lessons From USAToday.com’s Email Newsletters
How To
Email Co-Registration 201: Advanced Tactics to Gain New Customers (Cheaper Than Search & It Works)
How To
Update: The State of the Free Email Industry - Action Points for Marketers
How ToSix Tactics MyPoints Uses to Halve Email Bounce & Nondelivery Rates for its List of 10 Million
How To
57% of Consumers Will Give Email Addresses to a Local Retailer -- How to Take Advantage of That Fact
How ToHow Ebates Converts 20-40% of Its First-time Visitors into Email Sign-ups
How ToHow to Persuade People to Join Your Email List: 7 Copywriting Samples You Should Steal Ideas From
How To
Email List Hygiene 101 - How to Clean Your List, Plus 7 Ways to Stop Names From Going Bad
How To
Four Steps Sun Microsystems Uses to Gather Prospects’ Emails and Raise Sales
How To
Email List Owner Alert: Top 7 Preventative Measures to Stop Up to 70% of Your List From Going Bad
How To
Another Klez Warning: Why Some AOL 8.0 Suggested Workarounds Are Bad Ideas
How ToSPECIAL REPORT PART II: When a Spammer Steals Your List -- What You Can (and Can’t) Do About It
How ToSPECIAL REPORT: Is Your Email List ‘Really’ Secure? What We Learned When Ours Was Stolen Recently
How ToWhat Makes an Opt-In Email Name High Quality and Why Should You Care Anyway?
How To
ContentBiz Warning: How to Protect Your Email Newsletter List from Klez attacks
How To
Co-Registration Know-How Part III: How to Profit Selling Co-Regs Online
How To
Co-Registration Know-How Part II: Tips for Email Newsletters
How To
Reader’s Digest’s Advice on Growing Magazine Subscriptions with Online Co-Registration Ads
How ToSPECIAL REPORT: Spam & Privacy Information for Marketers
How To
32% of Your Email Opt-Ins Will Move This Year: Here’s How to Follow Them
How To
Major Consumer Brands Test Online Co-Registration; Top 3 Tips to Do it Safely
How To
Collect Opt-Ins for Your Email Prospect List at Trade Shows
How ToGrowing Your Own Opt-In List: Part II of Our Special Report on Making Email Marketing Work
Interview
Best Practices in Email List & Web Site Privacy Tactics
Article
Email Marketing Summit Transcript 2008
ArticleThree Reasons Business Email Addresses Alone are Worthless
Article
Media Industry Shamed: Whose Email Lists Are Growing Fastest (and Whose Are Not)
ArticleNew Data: Yahoo Mail & Google’s Gmail Gain Personal Use MarketShare; Hotmail & AOL Losing Ground
ArticleSpecial Report on Google Gmail: Six Concerns & Three Solutions for Emailers
Article
1.4% Email Double Opt-ins Click AOL Spam Complaint Button
ArticleSince You Can-Spam Now, Why Follow Opt-in? Why Permission Practices Remain Critical
Article
Comcast’s Transition Plans for @attbi Email Addresses Change in List Owners’ Favor
Article
Frederiksen Group Convinces Direct Response TV Marketers to Spend the Extra Buck and Ask for Emails
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Email Marketing - Email Design & Delivery
Case StudyOvernight Send Time for Email Lifts Open Rate, CTR, Registrations
Case Study Recover Subscribers with Single Email: 3 Steps to Clear Up Technical Snafu
Case Study Quick Fix of Red X Email Images Lifts Revenue 379%
Case StudyWhen’s the Best Time to Send Email to Target Consumers at Work? Test Results
Case StudyWhy It’s Best to Test Your Own Email Practices - Delivery & Subject Line Tests Results
Case StudyHow a Simple Newsletter Design Tweak Turned Red Xs Into an Asset
Case StudySubject Line Tests Help eDiets Pass Filters: Tips to Improve Deliverability
Case Study Easy Newsletter Layout Tweak Lifts Clicks 190% - Just Add 1 Extra Button to Your Email
Case StudyHow to Improve Email Deliverability: 3 Steps Tested by Real-Life Mailer
Case Study 16 Tests (and Results) to Improve Email Response Rates
Case StudyHow Motley Fool Took Their Email List From Double Opt-in to Single Opt-in &Thrived
Case StudySierra Club Tests Radical Email Newsletter Redesign to Improve Preview Pane Viewing
Case StudyVary Email Creative by Region for Higher Response
How ToHow to Optimize Your Email for Mobile Subscribers: 3 Simple Tactics, 2 Tips
How To
Email Design 101: 6 Strategies for Your Swipe File That Really Work
How To
EMAIL UPDATE: Yahoo!’s Message-Blocking Filters: 4 Steps to Get Your Email Delivered
How ToHow to Target European Customers: 5 Tips on Subject Lines, Content, Translation, ISPs
How ToSpecial Report: iPhones & Email Marketing - 10 Pros & Cons
How To
Cheat Sheet: How to Get Your Email Address Into More Address Books - Tips & Rules for Top 10 Receivers + BlackBerry Users
How ToTest Results: Simple Word Change in Email Hyperlink Raises Clicks 8.53%
How ToDeliverability Cheat Sheet - 27 Action Points to Fix Your Email Reputation Now
How To
Exclusive: New Research Shows 53% of Email Subject Lines Broken + How to Fix Yours
How ToGrow Your Opt-In List More Quickly & Easily
How ToHow to Keep Your Email Landing Page From Getting Blocked
How To
ALERT: How to Lift Response Rates for Email Newsletter Ads
How ToKNOW-HOW: Why (and How) You Should Redesign Your Email Templates for Outlook, Hotmail & Yahoo Immediately
How ToKnow-How: How to Make Your Email Enticing in AutoPreview & Mobile -- 16 Samples of Best & Worst Tactics
How To
71% of Big Companies Use Email Marketing But Many Make HTML Mistakes: Five Charts
How ToHotmail Now Requires Email Sender IDs: Useful FAQs & Instructional Booklet for Emailers
How ToDesign & Copywrite Email Postcards for Maximum Results: Tips for B-to-B and B-to-C Marketers
How To
3 Before-and-After HTML Email Design Makeovers; Results and Samples + 10 Critical Design Tips
How ToHTML Email Campaign Best Practices: 12 Design Rules & 5 Copywriting Tips
How ToText-Only Email Design Pitfalls & Guidelines: More Critical Than Ever (Especially for AOL Mailers)
How ToTips on AOL Email Delivery Challenges: Blocked Sites & Dynamic Blocking Increase False Positives
How ToHandle Challenge Response Filters Affecting Up to 10% of Your List
How ToWhy Your FROM: Email Address & Name Should Never Change:7 Rules plus AOL 9.0 & Outlook 2003 Visuals
How ToWhy Every Mass Emailer Should Get Their Own IP Address: Call Your Broadcast Firm Today
How To
Make Your Email Graphics Compulsively Viewable: Inspirational Samples
How To
Exclusive Excerpt: The Permission Emailer’s Guide to Avoiding Filters
How To
4 Steps to Make Sure Your Email Campaigns & Newsletters Aren’t Filtered
How ToOuch -- AOL 9.0 is bad news for emailers. Here are some solutions …
How ToVirus-Attack Advisory for Major Emailers: Four-Step Checklist
How To
Adding IM Reply Option to Email Campaigns: Results Metrics, 5 Tips & 6 Vendors
How To
5 Painful Lessons on Picking and Switching to a New Email Broadcast Service
How To
Big Threats for Emailers Part II: False Positives & Offers Sent to Junk Lists in Your Name
How ToThe Anti-Spam Battle is Joined and Permission Emailers are Caught in the Crossfire: 7 Tips to Help
How ToTop 10 Checklist: What You Need to Do the Minute After You Switch List Hosts
How To
Emailer’s Guide to the Top 3 Avoid-Being-Filtered Services: Trusted Sender, Habeas and IronPort
How ToWhy You Shouldn’t Get Excited About the NAI’s Email Service Provider Coalition (Yet)
How ToLotus Notes Users Can’t Read Your HTML Email (Even When You Include a Text-Version)
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How ToHow to Get Hotmail Users to Whitelist Your Email: Smarter Living’s Test Results
How ToTop 16 Mistakes You Probably Made When You Chose Your List Host or Email Broadcast Service
How To
3 Steps if You’re Blacklisted by SpamCop - How to Fix it
How To
4 Ways to Avoid Email Filters & Why Spam Gets Through When Your Campaigns Sometimes Don’t
How To
Refer-a-friend from Plain-Text Email? Yessiree!
How ToWhen an Email Spammer Uses Your Brand Name: How to Salvage Your Reputation (& Stay Off Blacklists)
How To
Refer-a-friend from Plain-Text Email? Help Us Test!
How ToIs Your Broadcast Email Being Filtered Before People See It? Top 5 Ways to Avoid Filters
How ToTips on Avoiding Spam Filters: How to Make Sure Friend-Get-a-Friend Viral Emails Get Delivered
How ToSwitching Your Newsletter From Text-Only to HTML: Advice and Tactics From a Marketer Who Just Did It
How ToStop Your Email Campaigns and Newsletters From Being Filtered Out
How ToPublishers: Stop AOL, Hotmail & Yahoo from Putting Newsletters into
ArticlePodcast: Don’t Fear Using Halloween Tie-Ins to Market Your Products
Article
Exclusive Data: How to Design Your Newsletters - 5 New Action Charts
ArticleNew Data: 6 Actions to Lift Open, Clickthrough Rates
ArticleThe Horrible Truth About Mobile Email
Article
Action Item: Use Text-Only if You’re Emailing BellSouth Names
ArticleNew MarketingSherpa Study Data: One Out of Four Consumers Uses Preview Panes; 59% Block Email Images
Article
54% of Permission Emailers Are Filtered as Spammers: Including AOL News, Wal-Mart, IBM and the Feds
Article
Alarming Research Results: Average Email Open Time is 15-20 Seconds -- Recommendations for Emailers
Article
EXCLUSIVE: New Email Stats Reveal Monday is Best Day to Send Campaigns (Charts & Graphs Included)
ArticleHow Microsoft’s Deal with Ironport’s Bonded Sender Affects Bulk Emailers
Article
EXCLUSIVE: AOL Sources Confirm Existence of New Enhanced White List
Article
Are Bounces Lying to You? Beware: New Email Filter Tactic May Slash Good Names from Your List
ArticleThe List of Shame Continues: 25 Legitimate Brands Email Our Junk Box
ArticleSurprising Results from HTML Newsletter Tests: Now it’s Safe to Use Cascading Style Sheets
ArticleSherpa Filter Test Results Show 4% Mail Filtered, Possibly More
Article
Cloudmark Test Results Disturbing for Permission Emailers
Article
MarketingSherpa’s List of Words That Will Get You Filtered
Article
Broadcast Emailer Alert: Your Message Links Expire in Hotmail in Just Five Minutes
Article
ALERT: Hotmail Link Fix Might Be Temporary - Tips for Broadcast Emailers and Email Advertisers
ArticleThe Myth of the Email Sniffer Debunked
Article
Big Business Employees May Not Receive HTML Email
Article
Email Marketing Summit Transcript 2008
Article
CAN-SPAM Update: Have You Complied With the New Rules Yet?
Online Marketing
Email Marketing - Email Rented Lists
Case StudyHow to Generate New Sales Leads with a Email Campaigns to a Third-Party Lists
Case Study 3-Step Email Campaign Generates More Highly Qualified Sales Leads (Samples Included)
Case StudyDeloitte & Touche Uses Clever Radio Ads & Email Newsletter Sponsorships to Get New Clients
Case StudyTicket City Measures Print Newspaper vs Ezine Ads
Case StudyHow to Switch from Direct Mail to Emailed Sales Lead Generation Campaigns
Case Study Email Sponsorships Outperform Broadcast Campaigns to Rented Lists
Case Study “Let’s All Blame the Marketing Director”: How to Win New Clients by Feeling Their Pain
Case StudySeattle Lab Raises Sales 44% by Email Marketing to IT Professionals
Case StudyHTML vs Rich Media Test Results from B-to-B Broadcast Email Campaign
Case StudySento Corp Doubles Email Marketing Response Rates by Switching to a B-to-B Specialty List Broker
Case Study Cabot Heritage Has “Unbelievable Success” Selling Email Subscriptions Through Email Newsletter Ads
Case Study Charrette.com Finds Email Marketing Substantially OutPerforms Direct Mail
Case StudyOffice.com Beats Goals by Almost 300% with a Streaming Video Email Campaign
Case Study Jam Agency Gathers 400+ New Account Leads Through Text Ads in Email Newsletters
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Case StudyTop Four Lessons netgenShopper Learned From Email Marketing Tests
Case StudyHow Aquent Scored 3,400+ Web Professional Resumes With a Clever Email Campaign
How ToTutorial: Renting Email Lists - Costs, Deliverability & Targeting - Part I
How To
Buy Ads in Email Newsletters: Five Steps for Better Performing Campaigns
How ToTop 5 Email Sponsorship Ad Mistakes: Which Do You Make?
How ToHow to Rent Email Lists -- Without Fear (Or Shame)
How To
Anne’s Marketing Column: How to Sell Your List - Part I
How ToWorried About Renting Email Lists? Ask Your Broker to Sign a ‘Affidavit of Performance’
How ToTop 10 Email List Rental Tips (Watch Out for Hidden Charges!)
How To
Myth Exploded: Yes You Can Merge/Purge Rented Email Lists. Here’s How
How ToIDG’s Deb Goldstein Explains How to Rent a B-to-B Email List and How to Make it Perform Better for You
Article
Email Marketing Summit Transcript 2008
ArticleIs it OK to Rent an Email List? Top 10 Rules of Thumb
Article
READER RESPONSE: Tom Kraemer of CMP Media on Opt-In vs. Opt-Out Email Permissions for Rentals
ArticleTrouble Ahead as Trade Magazines Prefer Opt-Out to Gather Email Rental “Permissions”
ArticleNetReality Questions Whether Name-Brand B-to-B Email Newsletters Are Worth Higher Ad Rates
ArticleSurvey Reveals Email Newsletter Ads Outperform Banners by More Than Double
ArticleWhy You Should Do Different Email Blasts for Different Industries -- Even If Your Offer is the Same
Online Marketing
Email Marketing - Email Laws
How To
Yipes! What to Do When the Patent Owners Contact You About Your Email Marketing Program
How ToSpam Laws Affecting US Marketers Emailing Canadians, Europeans, Brits, & Aussies + 21 Useful Links
How To
Use a Do Not Email List for Protection from CAN-SPAM Lawsuits - Part II: Vendors Profiled
How ToHow to Create, Manage, & Use a Do Not Email List for Protection from CAN-SPAM Lawsuits - Part I
How To
CAN-SPAM Update: 3 Precautions Many Marketers Are Overlooking
How ToHow to Avoid Lawsuits Over Your Email: Tips from a Mailer Who’s Fighting One Currently
InterviewPodcast: How New CAN-SPAM Rules Will Affect Marketers
Article
Alert: How New Michigan & Utah Email Laws Affect You (Perhaps More Than You Think)
Article
CAN-SPAM 2005 Reality-Check: How the FTC’s Newly Finalized Definitions Really Affect Emailers
Article
Update Memo: CAN-SPAM Good News & Bad, Bad, Bad, Bad News
Article
Urgent Memo: How CAN-SPAM May Affect Permission Email Marketers & Publishers
Article
CAN-SPAM Update: Have You Complied With the New Rules Yet?
Online Marketing
Search Marketing
Case StudyInterdepartmental Campaign Takes Optimization to the Max – Prospects Soar
Case StudyHow to Switch to SEO, PPC Strategies to Increase Leads: 10 Steps to Triple-Digit Lifts
Case Study Case Study: Optimize Keyword Bids to Boost Conversions to 17% and Multiply Revenue Stream: 5 Steps
Case StudyHomepage Offer vs. Product Landing Page - Search Test Results
Case Study 4 Steps to Automate Keywords, Cut Costs & Lift ROI
Case StudyHow to Increase SEM Conversions 280% - Landing Page Test Results
Case StudySEO Tactics to Quadruple Lead Gen - Link-Building, Keyword Targeting & Landing Page Tests
Case StudyHow Macys.com Lifted Conversions 17% With Easy Landing Page, Nav Tweaks
Case Study Best B-to-B Direct Marketing Program of 2007 -- How to Combine Search + Web + Postal + Telemarketing + Email
Case StudyHow to Lower Costs for Leads Generated via Google Search Ads (PPC)
Case StudyHow to Sell Thousands of Gift Certificates to Consumers Who Didn’t Know They Wanted Them
Case Study Results from CafePress.com Tagging Test -- Clicks & Conversions Increase
Case StudyHow to Measure Search Campaign ROI -- 4 Stunning Lessons Learned From Motorola’s New SEM Scoring System
Case Study Running Ads in Google Local vs Main Google Search -- Disappointing Results (So Far)
Case StudyHow to Improve Search Marketing ROI: Real-Life Tactics From Charles Schwab’s CyberTrader Marketers
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Case StudyHow to Get a Bigger Marketing Budget Approved: 5 Steps in 6 Months (Includes B-to-B Search Ad Tips)
Case StudyHow to Use Search Engines to Market Engineering Equipment (Without Paying a Cent to Google)
Case StudyHow to Convert More Sales from Shopping Comparison Site Traffic (Even When Your Price is Higher Than Competitors)
Case StudyPrint Newsletter Publisher Cuts Back on Direct Mail Because Internet Sales Are Booming
Case StudyHow to Stop Click Fraud (Or at Least Get a Refund)
Case Study Edmunds.com Tests Paid Search to Drive Traffic: Discover Their Results
Case StudyHow to Combine Lead Generation, Search Engine Optimization, and PR in a Single Low-cost Campaign
Case StudyLanding Page Redesign Helps Search Marketing Campaign Convert 139% More Consumers into Sales Leads
Case StudyProof: Targeting Landing Pages by Keyword Improves Paid Search Conversion Rates Dramatically
Case StudyWhy Didn’t You Buy? Survey Helps Search Marketing Clicks, Trials & Conversions Soar
Case Study Manufacturer Tests Launching 3 Different Sites & PPC Ads to Improve Circuit Board Sales
Case Study Cut Online Ad Costs by 90% & Raise Sales - 5 Tips for Search Marketing
Case StudyIndustrial Manufacturer Expands Nationally by Switching from Print Ads to Search Engine Marketing
Case StudyHow World Book Grew Online Sales 66% with an In-Store Sweeps and Search Engine Marketing
Case StudyHow TopBulb Grew its Customers by 30% with Search Engine Marketing and a (Very) Clever Pop-Up Box
Case StudyHow Moreover Got 10.21% Click Through on Ads Driving Traffic to News Coverage Online
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Case StudySearch Engine Keyword Buys Beat Small Business Site Banners for MyCorporation.com
Case StudyHow to Get Site Traffic from SuperBowl Ads … Without Spending a Penny: AdCritic.com
How ToHow to Use Social Media to Boost SEO: 5 Strategies
How ToOptimize PPC Campaigns with Geotargeting: 5 Strategies to Focus on Searchers’ Location
How To
Rethink Your Search Marketing Budget for ‘09: 5 Tactics to Defend Requests, Add Flexibility, Boost ROI
How ToHow to Coordinate Multiple Campaigns Without Competing Against Yourself: 5 Ways to Avoid Pitfalls
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7 No-Cost SEO Tools to Help You Increase Your Website Traffic
How ToHow HP Manages Global Search, Staffing & Budget -- 10 Tactics
How ToHow JetBlue Allocates Their Search Budget (Hint: Don’t Try to Be No. 1 All the Time)
How ToSearch Marketing Crisis: How to Cope When Your Organic Rankings Plummet & PPC Gets Expensive
How To
E-LOAN Improved Search Marketing ROI by Testing Landing Pages
How ToTier B Search Marketing: Pay-Per-Call, Local, Shopping Engines & the Minor League Search Networks
How ToHow to (Really) Gain Link Popularity: 5 Mistakes and 3 Proven Tactics
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Four Tactical Tips from a Million Term Search Marketer
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Copywriting & Bidding Tips to Improve Your Overture Campaign Results (Note: Different From Google)
How ToHow Much Should You Budget for Search Marketing in 2005? (Paid Ads vs Site Optimization)
How ToIs Your Yellow Pages Ad Working? Top 4 Most Common Advertiser Mistakes
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8 Search Marketing Tactics Vintage Tub & Bath Uses to Make $8 Million
How ToTop 10 Stupid Email Mistakes for 2004
How ToTop 9 Search Marketing Tactics eBags Uses to Drive Online Sales Profitably
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How ToSurvey Results on Google’s New ‘Content Targeted’ Ads: Low Clicks, Iffy Conversions
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Five Myths That Stop Companies From Hiring Search Engine Optimization Experts They Desperately Need
How ToWARNING: Search Engines Often Ignore Sites Using Flash -- What You Need to Tell Your Web Designer
How ToTop 3 Things North American Businesses Must Know About International Internet Marketing
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Anthony Muller’s Top Five Tactics for Getting Higher Search Engine Rankings
How ToHow to Avoid the Most Common Myths and Blunders of Search Engine Optimization
How ToHow gURL.com Drives Teen Traffic with Yahoo! Chats
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Marketing to Electronics Engineers Online - Search Traffic Works Best
InterviewPR Interview: 13 No-Cost Press Release Distribution Sites Reviewed: Get High SEO Rankings on a Budget
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InterviewInitial Test Results From Pay Per Phone Call Search Ads
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Exclusive Roundtable: 12 Search Marketing Experts Answer MarketingSherpa Questions for 2006
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InterviewTop Seven Search Engine Marketing Q&As with Fredrick Marckini (Includes Paid vs. Non-Paid Metrics)
ArticleNew Chart: Paid Search Tops List of Marketing Tactics for Viral Success
ArticleNew Chart: Paid Search Tops List of Marketing Tactics for Viral Success
ArticleNew Chart: Optimize All Your Web Pages for Niche Searchers Seeking Relevant Results
ArticleLong-Tail Keywords Dead? We Answer This Question and 14 Others on SEO
ArticleSpecial Report: Missing Links? 7 Traffic-Building Tips to Boost SEO ArticleNew Chart: Is Paid Search Getting Too Expensive?
ArticleNew MarketingSherpa Research: 3,186 Search Marketers Reveal What Tactics Work & What Don’t in SEM
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MarketingSherpa Ecommerce Search Marketing Presentation: Top Marketing Opportunities for 2007
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ArticleSpecial Report: State of the Search Marketing Agency Industry 2006 -- 10 New Charts
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Maddening Truth Behind Click Fraud Numbers -- How Big is Fraud Really?
ArticleSearch Engine Marketing: Top Five Eye-Tracking Laboratory Test Results
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MarketingSherpa Study Results: 3,271 Marketers Reveal Search Marketing Costs, Clicks & Conversions
ArticleNEW RESEARCH: Search Marketing Agencies Still a Cottage Industry: Stats from MarketingSherpa
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ArticleNew Chart: What Search Marketers Don’t Pay Attention to ... But Should
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Online Marketing
Web Site & Landing Page Design
Case Study 5 Steps to Double Conference Attendance: Inject Virtual Webcast & Trade Show
Case Study 6 Steps to Optimize Website Conversions: 43% Boost
Case StudyHomepage Product Launch Test Produces Some Surprising Results: 2 Tests
Case StudyHow to Get Your Preference Center CAN-SPAM Compliant: Our 3-Step Fix
Case Study Repurpose Website Content to Triple Leads, Double Conversions: 7 Steps
Case StudyHow School Doubled Enrollment With Multichannel & Lead Nurturing Program
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Case StudyPersuading Management Your Website Needs Fixing Pronto: 4 Steps & Great Results
Case Study 4 Simple Steps to Tweak Site Search Box & Lift Conversions 20%
Case StudyHow to Double Leads With a Video Landing Page
Case StudyHow to Increase SEM Conversions 280% - Landing Page Test Results
Case Study Before & After: 4 Steps to Identify Best Redesign With Multivariate Tests & Lift Lead Gen 85.3%
Case StudyHow to Use Widgets to Spread Your Message & Lift Donations 20.1%
Case StudyHow to Convert Thousands of Online Leads to In-Store Buyers Each Week
Case StudyHow Peer Analysis Led to Navigation Changes & 31% Lift in Conversions - Before & After
Case StudyShopping Cart Design Tests - Color & Size Lift Results 44.11%
Case StudyHow Microsite & Video Lift Consumer Leads 13.54% for Home Builder
Case StudyDouble Your Qualified Leads: 4 Steps to a New Registration System
Case Study Multivariate Test Lifts Subscription Site’s Revenue 697% - Before & After
Case StudyHow Site Raised Subscription Rates 60% -- Yet Achieved 18.8% Lift
Case StudyHow Eretailer Tripled Conversions With Internal Search Changes
Case StudyHow Macys.com Lifted Conversions 17% With Easy Landing Page, Nav Tweaks
Case StudyHow Internal Search Tool Lifts Conversions 16%
Case Study Recommendations Lift Site Conversions - Test Results
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Case StudyHow to Get 35.8% More Downloads From Your Landing Page (& More Test Results from Monster)
Case StudyHow to Get More Site Visitors on the Phone (So You Can Convert Them)
Case Study Raise Manufacturing Sales with Five Tactics to Turn a Stagnant Web Site into a Starbucks Experience
Case StudyHow Scholastic Doubled eCommerce Revenues with a Site Survey
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Case StudyHow to Use Internal Site Search Data to Revamp Your Home Page: People’s Bank
Case StudySun Microsystems Tests 3D Microsite & 3D PDF to Promote New Server Launch: Results
Case StudyHow Whirlpool Raised Customer Loyalty by 68% by Revamping its Site Using Persona-Based Design
Case StudyHow to Market High-Ticket Seminars to Female Consumers
Case StudyHow to Turn Your Print Ads Into a Truly Cool Microsite -- Keds’ Mischa Barton Revamp
Case StudyHow Audi’s Site Revamp Increased Leads Generated to Dealerships by 325%
Case StudyTravel Marketing Online: How Hard Rock Hotel Vegas Uses Web Cams & Viral Games to Increase Bookings
Case StudyHow to Penetrate Large Corporations with Targeted Microsites (Includes 6 Web-Audio Best Practices)
Case StudyTwo-Minute Explainer Online Presentation Turns Confused Prospects into Eager Leads
Case StudyHow to Convert More Online Shoppers with Live Chat Invites: Test Data From Earthlink
Case StudyLead Generation Site Redesign: How to Get More Big Company Execs to Call You
Case StudyHow to Convert Your CEO to a Landing Page Testing Fan
Case StudyTesting Landing Pages for Search Ad vs Banner Clicks
Case Study Ancestry.com Reveals Results of Landing Pages Tests That Raised Revenues by $500,000
Case StudyHow to Redesign Your Site to Lift Conversions (Exponentially) with Persona-based Copy & Navigation
Case StudyHow GoToMyPC Tested Landing Pages to Raise Conversion Rates by 400% (Useful Creative Samples)
Case Study Create-Your-Own-Brochure Program Lures High-Quality Leads (Idea Worth Stealing)
Case StudyPalo Alto Software Raises Online Sales 41.3% by Testing Counterintuitive Site Design Tweaks
Case StudyHome Page Revamp Helps eSylvan Double Initial Sales (Includes Before & After Screenshots)
Case StudyHow Can You Turn Web Site Metrics Data Into Truly Useful Info? Avaya Tests Floating Feedback Link
Case StudyLanding Page Test Results - How to Get Consumers to Register as Phone Sales Leads Online
Case StudyHow TABASCO Markets With Screensavers -- 600,000+ Downloads and Counting
Case Study 5 Best Practices to Create a High-impact Sales Lead Generation Web Site
Case StudyInteractive Registration Form Gets 300% More Completions Than Regular Sales Lead Forms
Case StudyLanding Page Redesign Helps Search Marketing Campaign Convert 139% More Consumers into Sales Leads
Case Study Adding Audio to Your Business Web Site - Helps Sales Reps Maximize In-person Meeting Impact
Case StudyPalo Alto Software Raises its Sales Conversion Rates from 1.01 to 2.39 with Site Design Tweaks
Case StudyProof: Targeting Landing Pages by Keyword Improves Paid Search Conversion Rates Dramatically
Case StudyPhoneHog Tests 100 Online Registration Form Variations to Improve Conversion Rates 38%
Case StudyStreamed TV Commercial Helps Site Sales Conversions Rise Above 30%
Case StudyHP Tests Personalized Web Landing Pages for Email and Direct Mail Campaigns -- Data & Samples
Case Study Usability Lab Results - LEGO Tests Site Revamp Ideas to Please Both Parents and Kids
Case Study Rolls-Royce’s Tradeshow Microsite Gets an Astonishing 25 Pageviews per Visitor
Case Study Continental Improves Online Sales 90% by Launching a Best-Customer-Pleasing Site Redesign
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Case Study Cool Talking Head vs Standard Flash Intro: Xerox’s Surprising Landing Page Test Results
Case StudyHow Tweaking a Business Web Site’s Design Can Increase the Sales Leads it Generates by 60%
Case StudyHow a Travel Site Raised Sales Conversions 30% With 26 Little Site Design Tweaks
Case Study Manufacturer Tests Launching 3 Different Sites & PPC Ads to Improve Circuit Board Sales
Case StudyOakwood Uses Advanced Web & Email Tactics to Survive the Recession on a Smaller Marketing Budget
Case StudyHow Grainger Gets 12% of Its $4.8 Billion Sales Online
Case StudySales Lead Generation Email Test -- Do Short Registration Forms Really Work Better Than Long Forms?
Case Study Are First Time Visitors Confused by Your Site Navigation? Measure Satisfaction with ACSI Metrics
Case StudyHow Verizon Revamped its Site to Garner a Million Consumer Online Registrations
Case StudyWebTrends’ Site Redesign Generates 65% More Six-Figure Sales Leads
Case StudyHow to Reach & Impress Big Business Purchasing Managers Online (6 Challenges to Beat)
Case StudyHow to Support Field Sales and Telesales with Your Web Site
Case Study Raise Offline Sales by Adding Interactive Tools for Buyers to Your Web Site
Case StudyLa-Z-Boy to Make $5 Million Retail Sales with Interactive
Case Study Reader’s Digest Grows Online Sales by Adding a Console-Style Pre-Home Page
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Case StudySoftware Company Grows Online Sales 50% (in Just One Week) with Demographic-Focused Site Redesign
Case Study From Brochureware to Global eMarketing -- Otis Grows Sales and Lowers Marketing Costs in 52 Nations
Case StudyProposalKit.com Grows Online Sales 50% by Revising its Landing Page Design
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Case StudyNASA Tests Internet Marketing to Gather Business Partnership Leads
Case StudySoBe Beverages Wins Rabid Fans’ Hearts By Canning Its Stagnant Old Site
Case StudyLessons Support.com Learned About Highly Effective Web Site Design for Sales Lead Generation
Case Study Brick-and-Mortar Retailer Dramatically Raises Foot Traffic and Sales With Weekly Web Site Updates
Case Study BMC Software Gets 50% Click Throughs From Fortune 500 Execs Via Non-Branded, Educational Sites
Case Study workz.com Grows Traffic 20% Monthly by Focusing on Visitor-Centric Design
Case StudyWelocalize.com’s “Free eQuote” Web Site Button Generates Sales Leads from the Global 2000
Case Study UPS.com Raises Visitor Return Rates By Fine-Tuning Site Navigation
Case StudyIBM Grows Sales by 30% a Year with Targeted Web Sites and Communications
Case StudyHow FairMeasures.Com Grew Content and Training Sales by Changing Its Home Page
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Borders’ ‘Magic Shelf’ Mimics In-Store Browsing Online; Conversion Rate 62%
How ToHow to Optimize Video Content for SEO: 7 Tactics to Improve Your Rankings
How ToGoogle Knol Primer: Strategies for Writing Content, Getting Started, Designing Layout
How ToLanding Page Site Redesign Passes Test: Conversions Lift 32.5%; ROI at 154%
How ToHow Circuit City Uses How-To Videos to Boost Customer Loyalty
How ToPimped-Out Microsite Triggers Viral Explosion: Accounts Double; Sales Leap
How ToLanding Page Rules: Made to be Broken? Customized Strategy Boosts Paid Search: 4 Key Steps
How ToHow to Ease the Pain of Website Redesign: Try ‘Scrum’ Project-Management System
How ToHow to Optimize Landing Pages to Maximize Holiday Traffic Conversions
How ToHow to Optimize Landing Pages to Maximize Holiday Traffic Conversions
How ToHow a Simple Email Increased Customer Reviews 1000%
How ToHow to Build Your Own Analytics System: 6 Steps to Get Data You Can Trust
How To
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How ToLanding Page Report: New Tests & Tactics to Lift Conversions - Special 19-Page Download
How ToHow to Get a Domain Name Owned by Someone Else: Tips to Assess the Value & Negotiate the Deal
How ToHow National Instruments Doubled Completion Rate for Web Forms
How ToHow to Test Email Landing Pages (More Easily)
How ToTop Three Usability Tests for Web Site Redesign Decisions
How To
E-LOAN Improved Search Marketing ROI by Testing Landing Pages
How ToWhy You Should Consider Budgeting a Site Redesign for Firefox 1.5 Now (Yes, Firefox)
How ToHow to Change Your Web Site to Appeal to Busy Moms Shopping Online: Survey Results From Gymboree
How ToHow Dolby Revamped its Site to Please Multiple Audiences (Consumers vs. B-to-B) Globally: Seven Steps
How ToHow to Turn Your Web Analytics System Into Action-Items to Help the Bottom Line
How ToHow Web Site Eyeball Studies Work & What You Can Learn From Them
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5 Ways to Make Your Landing Pages Get Higher Conversions -- Stop Wasting Clicks
How ToTop 10 Lab-Tested Ways to Improve Your Site Design & Convert More Visitors to Action-Takers
How ToHow Hewlett Packard Doubled its Own Site’s Sales with Web Analytics
How ToHow IBM Revamped its Site to Appeal to Customers
How ToThree of the Best Pharmaceutical Web Sites: Why They Work and Which Ideas You Should Steal from Them
How ToWARNING: Search Engines Often Ignore Sites Using Flash -- What You Need to Tell Your Web Designer
How ToWeb Versions of Traditional Direct Mail: Online Lift Notes Tested
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How ToTop 10 Rules for Successful B-to-B Web Design: VIPdesk
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ArticleNew Chart: Why You Must Pay More Attention to Your ‘About Us’ Page
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ArticleNew Survey Results: 80% of Consumers Hate Flash Intros
ArticleTop 7 Mistakes Made by US Political Campaign Web Sites
ArticleSPECIAL REPORT: Should Your Company Reserve a “.Biz” Domain? Here’s What You Need to Know
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Online Marketing
Social Networking & Evangelism
Case StudyPR Interview: Become a Social Media Release Convert: 8 Steps
Case StudyGenerate Leads with Social Media Strategy: 6 Steps to Fill Up Sales Funnel
Case StudyH&R Block Gets Big Buzz through Social Media for Digital Products: How to Test and Pick Channels
Case Study Brand Building: How to Mix Offline with Online to Drive Targeted Entries to Video Contest
Case StudyHow to Launch a Lead-Gen Campaign on a Tiny Budget: 7 Steps for Using Blogs & Social Media
Case StudyHow to Use Social Networking Sites for Lead Generation
Case StudyHow to Add Video to Your Site to Recruit Star Talent
Case StudyHow Online Video & UGC Lifted Conversions 27% for Youth-Oriented Site
Case StudyHow User-Generated Content Drives In-Store Sales for Grocery Chain
Case StudyPersonable ‘About Us’ Page Lifts Ecommerce Conversions 30%
Case StudyHow to Sell 32% More Ads on Wikis, Blogs and Discussion Groups
Case StudyHow a Top Photo-Sharing Site Gained Traffic & Revenues: 12-Month Attack Plan
Case StudyHow to Create & Use an Audio Testimonial Library to Shorten Your Sales Cycle
Case StudyHow to Build a Rabid Fan Community to Help Market a Product That Doesn’t Exist (Yet)
Case StudyHow to Turn Entertainment Fans into Active Evangelists (Responsibly)
Case StudyHow to Use Evangelism Marketing to Grow Your Affinity Card Program & Online Sales: Schoolpop’s Story
Case StudyIntegrated Ad Campaign Results - Podcast + Avatar Banners + NYC Bar Coasters
Case StudyHow to Grow Your Business 40% by Cutting Search Ads in Favor of a Customer Referral Program
Case StudyHow Friendfinder Network Reached 1 Million Paid Subscribers by Breaking the Rules
Case StudyOlive Garden Radically Revamps Email Newsletter Format & Gains 57,000 Customer Referrals in 90 Days
Case StudyHow to Make a Niche Community Site Profitable; Plus 4 Ways to Market CD ROMs to Your Members
Case StudyHow to Get Fortune 500 Clients to Evangelize with Press, Analysts & Sales Prospects on Your Behalf
Case StudyHow MarthaStewart.com Grows Product Sales with Online Community
Case StudyPublisher O’Reilly Rallies its 50 Most Influential Fans to Spread the Buzz Online
Case StudyKeyva Gains 75-80% of its ISP Clients By (Carefully) Participating in Email Discussion Groups
Case Study United Communications Group Uses Free Email Discussion Groups to Grow Paid Subscription Sales
Case Study Rainbow Network Grows Site Membership Cost Effectively by Guerrilla Marketing at Festivals
Case StudyHow Oil of Olay Gets Thousands of Women to Request New Product Samples Online
How To
Follow Zappos’ Web 2.0 Steps to Build Email Newsletter Driven by User-Generated Content
How ToGoogle Knol Primer: Strategies for Writing Content, Getting Started, Designing Layout
How ToHow to Target Twitter: 8 Ways to Build a New Audience in this Niche Community
How ToHow to Grow a Customer Forum into a Social Media Site: Add Hands-On Tools
How ToHow to Go Viral on MySpace With 4 Easy-to-Try Tactics
How ToHow to Piggyback User-Generated Content Onto Site Redesign & Triple Revenue - Before & After
How ToGet Famous Using Twitter to Market Your Company & Yourself
How ToSherpa Kit: How Subscription Marketers Can Monetize Web 2.0
How ToHow UNICEF Doubled Video Exposure With Social Media
How ToHow to Transform Your Subscription Site into a Paid Social Network – 6 Launch Tactics
How ToOnline Video Contests - How to Start Them, Promote & Track ROI + Pitfalls to Avoid
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8 Tips to Add a Facebook App & Attract Millions of New Users
How ToHow to Build a Social Networking Site That Complements Your Subscription Business - 6 Strategies
How ToStarter Kit for Grassroots Campaigning: 5 Tactics to Improve Results With Web 2.0, Email & Mobile
How ToSherpa 101: How to Use Digg to Go Viral - 10 Strategies to Making It Part of Your Marketing Strategy
How To
Mobile Social Networking: 8 Strategies for B-to-B Marketers
How ToHow to Add Web 2.0 Features to Your Publishing Site: 5 Best Practices
How ToTutorial: How to Market Yourself & Your Company on Facebook - 11 Steps & Strategies
How ToSocial Networking: How to Build a Publication That Relies on Readers for High-Value Content
How ToHow to Use YouTube to Generate Leads: 7 Video Posting Strategies & Tagging Tips
How ToSpecial Report: Marketing With Widgets - Usage Data, Tactics & Test Results
How ToSpecial Report: How to Get Your Company Listed on Wikipedia, Part II: Damage Control
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Measuring Web 2.0: How to Promote the Features That Get the Best ROI
How ToHow Wells Fargo Made Web 2.0, Virtual Worlds Educational (and Fun) - 5 Tactics
How ToSpecial Report: How to Add Web 2.0 to Your Email Newsletter
How ToNew Research: How to Improve Your Customer Reference Program -- 2 New Data Charts Plus Sample Slides
How To
Convince Your Boss to Launch a Word-of-Mouth Marketing Campaign: 4 Steps
How ToHow Intuit Uses Customer-Generated Content & Community Online: 5 Tactics
How To
Quick Referral Marketing Tutorial: 4 How-to Steps Plus Real-life Results
How ToHow to Track (and Influence) Consumer Buzz Online About Your Brand - 6 Steps
How ToHow Patagonia Uses Word of Mouth Marketing (Instead of Traditional Campaigns): Seven Steps
How ToHow to Get Word-of-Mouth Buzz Among Teens -- Tips from Procter & Gamble
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Building Buzz - How to Get Cool Consumers to Spread the Word About Your Brand
How ToHow B-to-B Marketers Can Use Email Discussion Groups to Grow Sales and Increase Customer Loyalty
How To
John Audette on How to Make Money Publishing Email Discussion Groups
How ToHow Nutrio.com’s Leaders Use Expert Content and 24/7 Community to Appeal to Women on the Web
How ToHow Tengara Corp. Boosts Their Brand by Hosting the Famous Online Advertising Discussion List
How ToHow to Sell More Content By Adding Community to Your Site: MightyWords.com, Prospero
InterviewDow Jones Steers Marketing with Plenty of Social Media Data: 7 Key Strategies
Interview
8 Low-Cost Networking Secrets for any Economy from a Veteran Consultant
InterviewDow Jones Steers Marketing with Plenty of Social Media Data: 7 Key Strategies
Interview
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InterviewPR Interview: Reach Elusive College-Age Demographic With Guerilla Stunts, Social Media, Traditional PR: 8 Steps
InterviewHow to Build User-Generated Content Site for Target Audience: 8 Tips & Strategies From CondeNet
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ArticlePodcast: Interview with Jason Billingsley, VP Innovation, Elastic Path Software, on Adding Blogs to Marketing Strategy
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ArticleOnline Advertising Roundtable: 5 Experts Answer Sherpa’s Top 8 Questions on New Tactics to Seize the Booming Market
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ArticleHow to Market in Virtual Worlds
ArticleNew Chart: Attendees Share Webinar Turnoffs - Find Out Which Ones Top the List
Online Marketing
Viral Marketing
Case StudyTwo Campaigns for the Price of One: Holiday E-card Goes Viral Twice
Case StudyViral Email Nets 100% Response from Brand Champs: 3 Simple Steps
Case StudyHow to Turn Video Contest Into a Viral Extravaganza & Get Millions of Views on YouTube
Case StudyHow to Build Viral Buzz With ‘Revolutionary’ Web 2.0 Community
Case StudyHow Blog Advertising Helped Video Series Go Viral
Case StudyVideo + Humor + Viral = Lead-Gen Success for Data Backup Firm
Case StudyHow to Make Your Technology Brand Famous Via Podcasts, Blogs & Games: 12-Month Viral Marketing Plan
Case StudyHow CPG Company Goes Viral to Launch New Product
Case StudyHow Personalized Video & Telemarketing Viral Effort Built Really Great Buzz for Product Launch
Case StudyHow to Combine Local PR and Goodwill Email for High ROI and Media Exposure
Case Study Blog Marketing for Ecommerce Sites -- 7 Rules & Lessons Learned
Case StudyViral Holiday Email Card That Broke the Boredom Barrier
Case Study B-to-B Web Site Game Thrills Half a Million Engineers (and Counting)
Case StudyViral Advertising Showcase: Top 12 Campaigns & Results Data to Inspire You
Case StudySteve Winwood Doubles US Album Sales with Free File Sharing Plus Joint TV & Web Ads
Case StudyNew Personalized Talking Character eCard Format Generates 10X More Viral Response
Case StudyHow to Turn a Popular Viral Campaign into a Sales Lead Generation Machine
Case StudyViral Rich Media Email Campaign - 5 Practical Tips, Samples, and Useful Data
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Case StudyNew Beer Uses Pre-Launch Viral Email Vote to Turn Consumers into Evangelists
Case StudyHow to Create a Viral Email Campaign That Circles the Globe in 15 Minutes (Sample Included)
Case Study Using a Viral Game to Get Email Newsletter Subscribers
Case StudyIncredibly Unpredictable B-to-B Viral Campaign Results: The Little Snow Globe That Surprised Everyone
Case StudyThe Nine Rules of Viral Marketing -- Hitman 2 Videogame Promoters Reveal Their Tactics
Case StudyWhen Over a Million Play Radio Shack’s Online Game, Toy Sales Soar
Case StudyViral Marketing Danger: Online Survey to Gather Sales Leads Gets Out of Control
Case StudyViral Marketing That Grabs Women’s Attention: eCards, Newsletters, Free Email Boxes, and Petitions
Case Study Can Viral Games Work for Business-to-Business Marketing
Case Study Franklin Covey Gets Fortune 500 Sales Leads With Viral-Only Personalized Email Newsletter
Case StudyHonda Motor Europe Reaches Millions with a Viral, Rich Media Email Campaign
Case StudyPall Corporation Gets Double Digit Sales Growth to Forensic Scientists with Internet Game Campaign
Case Study eCard Site Grows Traffic from Women 300% While Reducing its Marketing Budget by 20%
Case StudyWizardWorld.com’s Viral Contest Increases Site Traffic 144%
Case Study Brownfields.com Grows Targeted Site Visitors with a Viral Contest (That Cost Only $275)
Case StudyHow Cyber-NY Grew More than 600% in 2000
Case Study Rainbow Network Grows Site Membership Cost Effectively by Guerrilla Marketing at Festivals
Case StudyDotmusic.com’s Pop Competition Garners 6 Million Page Impressions in 4 Months
Case StudyLetsbuyit.com Partners with Dominos.co.uk for Viral Marketing Success
Case StudyHow MarketingSherpa Grew from a List of 1,000 Friends to 90,000 Weekly Readers
Case StudyViral Marketing is #1 for Reaching British Women Online: BusyGirl.co.uk Survey Results
Case StudyGot Any Mutant Friends? Fox Uses Clever Viral Campaign to Sell X-Men Movie to UK Audiences
Case Study Brand Building: How to Mix Offline with Online to Drive Targeted Entries to Video Contest
How ToHow to Recruit Friends to Create ‘Stickiness’ for Your Website with Social Media Tactics
How ToPimped-Out Microsite Triggers Viral Explosion: Accounts Double; Sales Leap
How ToHow to Build an Online Street Team to Create Viral Buzz
How ToSpecial Report: Viral Marketing 2006 -- Benchmark Data, Practical Tips & Biggest Change
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MarketingSherpa Special: Viral Advertising in 2005 -- Top 7 Tactics, How-Tos, and Measurement Data
How ToTop 10 Ways to Sabotage Your Viral Marketing Program (Yes, You’re Probably Doing One of Them)
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Emode.com Attracts Three Million Monthly Unique Visitors By Emailing Just 400 People Viral Quizzes
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Just What Exactly IS Viral Marketing?
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ArticleNew Chart: What is Viral Good For? Marketers\’ Experience Guides Their Views
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ArticleIT Services Marketing Association’s Marketing Excellence Awards
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Online Marketing
Affiliate Marketing
Case StudyHow to Turn Subscribers Into Affiliates With Widgets & Viral Marketing
Case StudyHow to Turn Subscribers Into Affiliates With Widgets & Viral Marketing
Case StudyHow to Market Toys for Adult Women Online (If You Know What We Mean)
Case StudyHow ConsumerReports.org Gains New Subscribers via Affiliate Partnerships
Case Study 7 Site & Email Tactics Turn Health & Wellness Product Site Into Conversion Machine
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Case StudyHow Friendfinder Network Reached 1 Million Paid Subscribers by Breaking the Rules
Case Study 5 Steps to Finding the Best Performance Marketing Partners - How Lobster Gram Got Top Affiliates
Case StudyHow Crucial Technology Raised Affiliate Sales 27%
Case StudyHow to Succeed in CPA Advertising and Convert 30% of Samplers to Buyers - the TrimLife Story
Case Study CollegeRecruiter.com Profits with Affiliates in Two Directions (Inbound and Outbound)
Case Study Branders.com Doubles Affiliate Sales Revenues by Focusing Banners on Strong, Simple Offers
Case StudySelf-Published Book Grosses Over $750,000 in Sales Online with a Great Affiliate Program
How To
Behind the Scenes with a Five-Bar Affiliate -- How Merchants Can Improve Program Results
How To
EXCLUSIVE: 1,041 Affiliates Reveal How Merchants Should Improve Their Programs
How ToThree Pragmatic Tactics to Boost Your Affiliate Program -- From a Top-Rated Merchant
How ToThe Continuing Threat of Affiliate Automation: Risks to eretailers, Rewards Portals & Affiliates
How To
A Merchant’s Quick Guide to Affiliate Marketing in 2002 (First, Forget the “A” Word)
Interview
Behind the Scenes at eBay’s Affiliate Marketing Programs
Article
Exclusive Data: Most-Active Affiliates Offer Inside Scoop on Top 5 Networks
ArticleSpecial Report: Affiliate Marketing 2007 -- Commission Debate & Trademark Concerns
ArticleSpecial Report: Affiliate Marketing 2005 -- Do Merchants & Affiliates Have Unrealistic Expectations?
Online Marketing
Online Advertising (Banner Ads etc.)
Case StudyLift Event Attendance with Interactive Ad Partners Place on Their Sites: 10% Boost
Case StudyHow to Switch to SEO, PPC Strategies to Increase Leads: 10 Steps to Triple-Digit Lifts
Case StudyHow Multivariate Test on Banner Ads Boosted Clicks 50.4%
Case StudyVideo + Humor + Viral = Lead-Gen Success for Data Backup Firm
Case Study After Email Campaigns Fail -- Unusual Banner Ad Generates Loads of SMB Sales Leads for McAfee
Case StudyIntegrated Ad Campaign Results - Podcast + Avatar Banners + NYC Bar Coasters
Case StudyOnline Ad Results: NIVEA FOR MEN Tests Smaller Niche Demographic Sites vs Sports Sites
Case StudyPersonalized, Permission-based Banners Get 4-11% Click Rates for Only $20 CPM
Case Study Foster Parents Plan Tests Four Very Different Online Ads to Gain $396 Donors: Results & Samples
Case Study Rich Media vs Standard Gifs: Air New Zealand’s Online Ad Test Results
Case StudyHow to Use Online Ads to Build a Groundswell of Consumer Support (and Get Stocked in Wal-Mart)
Case StudyKodak’s Award-winning Online Launch Campaign (Great Creative on a Tight Budget)
Case Study Johnson & Johnson Tests Moving TV Ads Online
Case StudyHigh Click Rates Aren’t Always Best - What DeKemper Learned by Tracking Post-Click Activity
Case StudyHow Penn State gets 2.38% Banner Ad Click Through Rates (Creative Samples Included)
Case StudyHigh Tech Firm Tests 3 Banners to Reach CEOs Online
Case StudyOnline Ad Helps ‘Band of Brothers’ Become HBO’s “Most Watched Original Program”
Case Study “Live” Instant Message-Style Banner Gets 5% Click Throughs and Unusually High Conversions
Case StudyLEGO Lifts Brand Awareness With Online Ads
Case StudyHow to Translate a TV Ad into an Online Promotion
Case Study Ford Explorer Rich Media Ad Gets Half a Million Clicks by Dominating Yahoo!’s Home Page for 24 Hours
Case StudyStreaming Ads Beat Traditional Banners on Click Throughs, Conversions AND Cost Per Acquisition
Case StudyStartSampling Reveals Marketing Test Results: Banners are Clear Winners Over Print and Radio
Case Study AtYourBusiness.com’s Background Check Banners Get 1% Click Through Rate
Case StudyHow Direct Line’s jamjar.com Became a Top Three Car Site in Just Three Months
Case StudyHow Interactive SUPERSTITIAL Ads Generated Sales Leads for Nissan USA
Case Study 3M’s Target Practice: The Rich Media Banner 22% of Viewers Couldn’t Resist Playing With
Case StudySouthern LINC Uses Rich Media Banners to Raise Brick & Mortar Store Traffic
How ToLower CPCs: Identify Duplicate Search Pages to Drop Cost for Keywords
How To
Attention Nonprofits: Tactics, Tips for You to Get, Use No-Cost Search Ads with a Google Grant
How ToHow to Create an Online Video: Step-by-Step Guide to Make It Easy on You (and Your Budget)
How ToHow to Build a Mobile Ad Campaign: 4 Crucial Elements to Include + Mobile Ad Test
How ToSherpa 101: Online Display Ads, Part II - Copywriting, Design Tips & Ad Networks + How to Counter ‘Banner Blindness’
How ToSherpa 101: Online Display Ads - Types, Sizes, Rates & Metrics
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How ToSpecial Report: How to Create Online Video Advertising, Part II - List of Key Vendors
How ToSpecial Report: Online Video Ads - Types, Creative Tips & Success Stories
How ToHow to Get the Most Out of Google AdWords - 8 Strategies to Maximize ROI
How ToHow Sephora Coordinates Marketing Across Web, Print Catalog and 127 Retail Stores -- 4 Practical Tactics
How ToWhat Works With Online Creative + Blunders to Avoid: Exclusive Interview With Ad Expert Phil Sawyer
How ToInside Hyundai’s Online Advertising Tactics: What Works for Behavioral and Launch Campaigns
How To
MarketingSherpa’s 2005 Rich Media Ad Report: Reality Check, Annual Data, & 6 Vendor Profiles
How To
Quick Primer: How to Advertise on Instant Messaging Skins (Creative Samples Included)
How To
MarketingSherpa’s Quick Buyer’s Guide to the Top 10 Rich Media Providers
How ToSPECIAL: Using Talking Heads in Your Online Ads - Test Results, Creative Tips & Useful Links
How ToLocal Online Advertising that Works -- MLT Vacations’ 6 Tips (& Creative Samples)
How ToTop 5 Ways to Convince Offline Advertisers to Spend More Online
How To
Beyond Brand Marketing -- How Nextel Collects Invaluable Data from Sports Advergame Players
How ToING DIRECT’s Banner Secrets & Samples: How to Acquire New Customers from Low-cost Banner Ads
How To
Rich Media Advertising Tips to Reach the Six Different Types of Web Surfers
How ToSkyscraper Banners Get More Clicks
How ToTest Results from the 5th Biggest B-to-B Online Advertiser: Network Solutions
How ToHow to Improve B-to-B Banner Clickthroughs
How ToThe Latest Practical Information for Marketers Wishing to Track Banner View-Thrus
How To
Creating Text Ads That Actually Work (Most Don’t!)
How To
B2B Marketers Don’t Always Make the Most of Online Ads
How ToTechnology and Tactics Behind Low Bandwidth Rich Media Success
How To
Breathe.com’s DHTML Floating Fish Get 12% Click-Though vs. Fish Banners at 1%
How To
Advertain’s Tips on Which Rich Media Ads Women Love
Interview
Crack Down on Click Fraud: How To Identify, Monitor, Prevent It: Red Flags and Links
Interview
aQuantive’s CEO Shares His Search & Rich Media Ad Tips
InterviewSix Online Advertising Media Directors Speak Out: What’s Working, Worries, & Pet Peeves
Interview
AOL’s EVP of Strategy Lon Otremba on Now That the Pop-Up Party’s Over
Interview
Charlie Buchwalter VP AdRelevance Reveals 46% of B-to-B Banners are Good for Branding Only
InterviewTest Data: Discussion Group Sponsorships Beat B-to-B Banner Results
Interview
B2BWorks’ VP Marketing Karen Breen Vogel on View-Throughs, Branding Online and Business Sales Cycles
InterviewWhat the Wall Street Journal Online Has Learned from Banner Advertising Tests
ArticleSherpaBlog: Online Ads: Find Commonality Among Consumers
ArticleNew Chart: Web 2.0 Technology Means Fewer Page Views: Is It Worth It?
ArticleNew Chart: Top Tactics to Boost Online Ad Response Rates
Article
Banner Ad Size and Click Rate: Bigger a Bit Better, But It’s Clicks that Count
ArticleNew Chart: Test for ROI to Get Best Bang for Your Online Advertising Bucks
ArticleNew Chart: Fending Off ‘Banner Blindness’ - Make Some Simple Changes to Your Advertising
ArticleNew Chart: Display Ads Do Work - and They’re Getting Better
ArticleNew Research From Sherpa: 577 Marketers Reveal Top Strategies to Improve Online Ads -- 5 Data Charts & PDF Download
ArticleNew Data: How to Maximize Impact of Email Newsletter Ads - 4 Takeaways on Ad Recall, Forwards & More
Article
MarketingSherpa Annual ad:tech Study: Biggest Web Advertisers Rate Best & Worst Tactics of 2006 + Reveal 2007 Plans
ArticleNew Online Ad Study Data: Clicks and Conversions Plummet After Five Impressions
ArticleIs Behavior Targeting the Next Big Online Advertising Trend?
ArticleWhat’s Holding Rich Media Back? (Hint: Standards)
Article
Advertising on Trade Show Web Sites Significantly Lowers Businesses’ Cost Per Sales Lead
ArticleSurvey Reveals Email Newsletter Ads Outperform Banners by More Than Double
ArticleSkyscraper & Avalanche Banner Sizes Get Four to Seven Times Higher Clicks than Smaller Banners
Article
European Advertisers Get Double-Digit Response Rates with Rich Media Banners
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Online Marketing
Alternatives (RSS, Mobile etc.)
Case StudyHow Hachette Filipacchi Created Mobile Content from Scratch: 9 Strategies to Get 15% Monthly Growth
Case StudyHow to Add Widgets to Streamline Lead Generation - 4 Steps & Test Results
Case StudyHow Text Messaging Helps Financial Services Marketer Target College Students
Case StudyPopeyes Restaurants Try Sending Coupons to Cell Phones -- Mobile Marketing Test Results
Case Study Blog Marketing for Ecommerce Sites -- 7 Rules & Lessons Learned
Case StudyGoToMeeting Tests RSS & Podcasting Advertising Campaign: Lessons Learned
Case StudyHow to Build Your eretail Business with a Blog (6-8% of Readers Convert to Buyers)
Case StudyHow to Create a Clever Desktop Application That Consumers Will Download, Adore, & Use to Say Yes to Your Offers
Case StudyKellogg’s Tests Instant Messaging RecipeBuddie to Drive Consumer Brand Interaction Online
Case StudyTeens Send 25 Million Messages to Warner Bros. Records Instant Messaging Ad Campaign
Case StudyNHL Hockey Team Gets 12.5% Ticket-Purchase Rate Via Wireless Advertising
Case Study Anatomy of a Really Successful B-to-B Wireless Advertising Campaign
How ToHow to Use Twitter to Push Your Products: Lessons from Woot
How ToHow to Build a Mobile Ad Campaign: 4 Crucial Elements to Include + Mobile Ad Test
How ToGet Famous Using Twitter to Market Your Company & Yourself
How ToSpecial Report: iPhones & Email Marketing - 10 Pros & Cons
How To
Mobile Social Networking: 8 Strategies for B-to-B Marketers
How To
Mobile Surveys Show Higher Response Rates, Lower Costs: 12 Strategies & Creative Tips
How ToSpecial Report: Marketing With Widgets - Usage Data, Tactics & Test Results
How ToSpecial Report: Email Marketing to BlackBerrys - Usage, Formatting & Rendering Tips
How ToInterview: How to Execute a Mobile Marketing Campaign - 10 Rollout Tactics
How ToSpecial Report: How to Buy RSS Ads - Formats, Pricing & Response Rates
How To
50 Million US & UK RSS Users Do Not Know They Use RSS -- How to Reach Them
How ToSeven Text-Messaging Campaign Tips from American Idol Producers
How To
RSS in Reality: Not a Replacement for Email - -Metrics & Best Practices
How ToSelling US Subscriptions to Wireless Content: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at MatchMobile
How ToHow Big Companies are Testing RSS Feeds to Circumvent Email: RSS 101 + Useful Links
How ToSix Best Practices for Text Messaging Campaigns: Warner Bros. Tests IM, SMS and Email
How To
Adding IM Reply Option to Email Campaigns: Results Metrics, 5 Tips & 6 Vendors
How To
Almost 40% of Kelly Clarkson CD Buyers Sign Up for Content Sent to Their Desktop (Bypassing Email)
How To
xXx - Zac Eller on Sony’s Wireless Ad Campaign That Worked (Yes, in America)
How ToWill Wireless Advertising Be a Practical Way to Reach American Consumers Anytime Soon?
InterviewTime Inc.’s Mobile Marketing Approach: 4 Strategies & Mobile 101 Tips
InterviewPalm’s Ken Wirt Discusses Integrated Campaigns, Wireless Ads, Online Partnerships & Low Cost Tactics
Article
Email Marketing Summit Transcript 2008
ArticleThe Horrible Truth About Mobile Email
Article
Mobile Marketing: Quick Overview of Options
Article
Britannica.com Goes Wireless to Stop Arguments
Offline Marketing & Advertising
Case StudyHow Video Message Gets Viewed by 59% of Target Audience
Case StudyHow DRTV Achieved Double-Digit Annual Growth for Insurance Firm
Case StudyHow Personalized Video & Telemarketing Viral Effort Built Really Great Buzz for Product Launch
Case StudyHow to Track TV Commercials to Offline ROI & Coupon Redemption
Case StudySoutheast Toyota Beats Sales Goals with Web Plus Street Team Launch Campaign (No Traditional Media)
How ToHow to Get Your Product Placed Into Celebrity Gift Bags
How ToHow Sephora Coordinates Marketing Across Web, Print Catalog and 127 Retail Stores -- 4 Practical Tactics
How To
5 Tips to Avoid Cross-Channel Conflict From General Nutrition Centers’ Ecommerce Director
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How To
Research on the $16.9 Billion Promo Products Industry: Why T-Shirts & Pens Can Outdo TV & Internet
How ToWhich Marketing Services & Tech Should You Outsource? Plus Seven Danger Signs of Dud Vendors
How ToPick Promotional Items, Freebies and Giveaway Items Internet Marketers Will Really Go For
How To
Reach Women Through Offline Sponsorships
Interview
8 Tactics to Launch a Successful Direct Response Radio Campaign: Costs, Testing & Measuring Response
ArticleNew Sherpa Research: Exclusive Video Marketing Tactics, Strategies for Any Budget
ArticleOxygen’s Tank Tour Soars Across America
ArticleNew Sherpa Research: Exclusive Video Marketing Tactics, Strategies for Any Budget
Offline Marketing & Advertising
Integrated Campaigns
Case StudyHow Video Message Gets Viewed by 59% of Target Audience
Case Study Coolest B-to-B Site Traffic Building Campaign of the Year (Includes Stealable Ideas)
Case StudyHow to Generate 1,000 A+ Qualified Leads in Six Months by Mixing Online Plus Offline (On a Budget)
Case StudyGo RVing Integrated Online/Offline Ads Rank in Top 10% of All Campaigns Measured for Effectiveness
Case StudyHow the Boston Symphony Orchestra Mixes DM, Radio, Taxi-Tops, Web Ads, & Email to Sell More Tickets
Case StudyHow to Keep Sales Flow Predictable by Combining Telemarketing, Direct Mail, Email & Webinars
Case Study Mixing Direct Mail and Email Improves Marketing Results by 27%
Case Study Email Campaign Drives 11,000+ Consumers to Offline Event
Case Study RightStart.com Grows Sales 148% With Direct Response TV and Radio Spots to Mommies
Case Study AlwaysInStyle.com Integrates Print Catalogs and Email Marketing To Drive Traffic
How To
4 Tactics REI Uses to Drive Web Surfers to Brick-and-Mortar Retail Stores
How ToTower Records Combines Print Catalog Plus Email Marketing: Sales Boost from 8% to 11%
How To
Cross-Media Metrics: How Radio Ads Affect Site & Search Marketing Results - Data from esurance
How ToHow inc.com Drives Traffic with Integrated Online/Offline Marketing
InterviewSelfCare.com Reduces Customer Acquisition Costs with Savvy Marketing Tactics
ArticleIntegrate Your Online/Offline Media Mix for Lead Generation and Branding Purposes
Offline Marketing & Advertising
Direct Mail & Fax
Case StudyHow to Use Simple Postcard to Boost Revenue, Add Prospects for Nurturing: 6 Easy Steps
Case StudyGoing Green: How to Transition Catalog Users to Email & Lift Conversions 19%
Case StudyHow Reader’s Digest Mined Purchasing Data to Personalize Catalogs & Lift Conversions 74%
Case StudyHow to Quadruple Lead Generation Response With Job Title Segmentation and Targeted Messages
Case StudyHow Billboard-Web 2.0 Combo Grew Church Community 277%
Case Study Best B-to-B Direct Marketing Program of 2007 -- How to Combine Search + Web + Postal + Telemarketing + Email
Case Study Extreme Catalog Makeover -- How Schwan’s Turned a Dud Holiday Gift Catalog Around
Case StudyHow to Swipe Accounts From Competitors After M&As -- 5 Marketing Prep Steps
Case StudyGuerrilla Software Marketing -- Email Tactics to Turn More Trials Into Customers
Case Study Can Cool (Expensive) Direct Mail Campaigns Get a Decent ROI for Lead Gen?
Case StudyHow to Market Services to Mid-Size Businesses -- IBM Test Results
Case Study Forrester Tests Multi-part DM Campaign and Google AdWords to Promote Consulting Services
Case Study B-to-B Direct Mail Campaign Gets 7.5% Response
Case StudyHow to Boost Your Trade Show Booth Impact With a Clever Pre-show Mailing Campaign
Case StudyWhen a Failing Company Hires You as Chief Marketing Officer -- Inspirational Turnaround Story
Case StudyHP Tests Personalized Web Landing Pages for Email and Direct Mail Campaigns -- Data & Samples
Case StudyHow to Make Really Expensive Direct Mail Campaigns Pay Off -- 5 Tips on Dimensional Mailings
Case StudyGoTo.com Rolls Out a Direct Mail Campaign to Attract 10,000 Additional Advertisers
Case Study Forget White Paper PDFs -- TouchScape Offers a Print Magazine & Marketers Love It
How To
Use Email & Postal Mail to Create a Really Powerful One-Two Punch
How ToTested DM Strategies Get Great ROI for Book Marketer
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How To
5 Tips to Avoid Cross-Channel Conflict From General Nutrition Centers’ Ecommerce Director
How ToHow to Buy (and Sell) Package Inserts -- Higher Conversion Rates Than You’d Expect at Decent ROI
How ToTop 12 Facts B-to-B Web Sites Need to Know To Avoid Wasting Money While Direct Mail Marketing
How ToSimple Postcards Give Big Bang for the Buck: ArtofSelfPromotion.com
ArticleWhat the New Postal Reform Law Means to You
Offline Marketing & Advertising
Broadcast Advertising (TV & Radio)
Case StudyHow DRTV Achieved Double-Digit Annual Growth for Insurance Firm
Case StudyHow to Track TV Commercials to Offline ROI & Coupon Redemption
Case Study Can Late-Night Cable TV Ads Sell Online Subscriptions? Mixed Results
Case StudyHow to Test (and Reliably Measure) Radio Campaigns to Reach Small Business Buyers
Case Study Chrysler Tests Combining Radio Plus Fun Web Quiz to Drive Car Shoppers to Dealerships
Case StudyVermont Teddy Bear Uses Howard Stern to Drive Online Sales
Case StudyDeloitte & Touche Uses Clever Radio Ads & Email Newsletter Sponsorships to Get New Clients
Case StudyHow to Translate a TV Ad into an Online Promotion
Case Study RightStart.com Grows Sales 148% With Direct Response TV and Radio Spots to Mommies
How ToSherpa 101: Google Audio Ads - 10 Steps to Get on the Radio for Less
How ToTV & Web Integration -- Lessons Learned from Just for Men Haircolor
How To
Results Data: Crest Toothpaste Tests TV-to-Web Contest Campaign to Involve Consumers
Interview
8 Tactics to Launch a Successful Direct Response Radio Campaign: Costs, Testing & Measuring Response
InterviewStephanie Fierman, Office.com’s VP Marketing, Reveals Why TV Ads Drive Site Traffic Effectively
Offline Marketing & Advertising
Print Advertising
Case StudyProof -- The Same Space Ads Generate Leads Month-After-Month (Great Creative Samples)
Case StudyHow to Beat a Big-Budget Business Competitor with a Clever Little Space Ad (Includes Samples)
Case StudyTicket City Measures Print Newspaper vs Ezine Ads
How To
5 Ways to Market Products Faster With an Online Strategy That Doesn’t Wait on Print
How ToIs Your Yellow Pages Ad Working? Top 4 Most Common Advertiser Mistakes
How To
Registrars.com Tests Paying for Articles to Appear in Hundreds of Local Newspapers
Offline Marketing & Advertising
Out of Home
Case StudyHow Billboard-Web 2.0 Combo Grew Church Community 277%
Case StudyGeneral Motors Tests Kiosks to Gather Car Buyer Leads: 7 Lessons Learned (Plus Results Data)
Case Study Calvin Klein’s Team on How to Make Your Times Square Billboard Stand Out (Only Semi-Impossible)
Case Study AssociationCentral.com Grabs Execs’ Attention During Their Morning Commutes
Case StudySmallBusinessDepot.com’s Grows Opt-In Email Database by Giving Airline Travelers Print Newsletters
How ToTutorial: How to Get Your Marketing Message on a Blimp - Costs, Creative & ROI
How ToHow Pabst Blue Ribbon Reversed a 20-Year Sales Decline With Underdog Event Marketing
How To
Brand Marketing & Rock & Roll: How T-Mobile, Coke, Bank One & Rolling Rock Beer Use Concerts
How ToPanasonic’s 5 Tips to Guerrilla Marketing Partnerships That Work
How ToLifetime Television Network’s Adam Lewinson on How to Create Marketing Partnerships with Hollywood
How ToTop 10 Out-of-Home Media Buy Options for Web Sites Targeting Women
How To
Create Successful Online Sweepstakes to Market to Women: Part II
How To
Reach Women Through Offline Sponsorships
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Offline Marketing & Advertising
Telemarketing
Case Study Rediscover Lead Gen Gold by Reaching Exec Assistants with Telemarketing Tactics: 4 Steps
Case StudyHow to Double Renewals with Triggered Emails and Sales Reps: 6 Steps
Case StudyHow to Score Customer Loyalty: 7 Steps to Double Satisfaction Rating
Case Study Best B-to-B Direct Marketing Program of 2007 -- How to Combine Search + Web + Postal + Telemarketing + Email
Case StudyHow Click to Call Adds Muscle to Jenny Craig’s Multichannel Strategies
Case StudyHow Personalized Video & Telemarketing Viral Effort Built Really Great Buzz for Product Launch
Case StudyHow to Use Teleconferences to Turn Prospects Into Friends
Case StudyHow to Swipe Accounts From Competitors After M&As -- 5 Marketing Prep Steps
Case StudyGuerrilla Software Marketing -- Email Tactics to Turn More Trials Into Customers
How To
B-to-B Market Research --- How to Discover Why Fortune 500 Prospects Are Saying No to Your Offering
How ToHow to Pick the Best B-to-B Telemarketing Firm: Quick Buyer’s Guide
How To
Qualify Sales Leads for IT Products & Services via Telemarketing
How ToHow Verida Uses Telemarketing to Hand-Hold Farmers Online
Interview
Exclusive Data: How Many Telemarketing Calls Does It Take to Initiate a Lead Gen Conversation? (More Than You Think)
ArticleNew Data on Best Telemarketing Tactics: 5 Tips to Improve Your Lead Gen Calls
Article
Exclusive New Data: What’s the Best Day & Time to Follow Up on Leads?
ArticleHard-hitting Advice for Marketers on How to Handle Do Not Call
Offline Marketing & Advertising
Trade Shows
Case Study 5 Steps to Double Conference Attendance: Inject Virtual Webcast & Trade Show
Case StudyHow to Turn a Trade Show Speech Into a Podcast That Becomes a Lead Machine
Case StudyHow Simple & Inexpensive Trade Show Souvenir Got 430% ROI
Case Study APC’s Client Site Tour Program: Software Marketing Campaign Mixes Evangelism & Education
Case StudyHow to Schmooze Only the Most Qualified Prospects at a Big Trade Show
Case StudyHow to Dominate a Trade Show Floor & Garner Loads of New Sales Leads with a Clever Promo
Case StudyHow to Use a Back-stage Blog & Virtual Community Networking to Maximize Your Road Show’s Impact
Case StudyHow to Build Buzz at a Massive Trade Show on a Limited Budget: Operation Blueshock Strikes CES
Case StudyHow to Boost Your Trade Show Booth Impact With a Clever Pre-show Mailing Campaign
Case Study Rolls-Royce’s Tradeshow Microsite Gets an Astonishing 25 Pageviews per Visitor
Case StudyHow to Get 100% of Hot Prospects to Download a White Paper: Trade Show Follow-up Email Tips
Case Study Clever Pre-Show Direct Mail and Web Campaign Generates Solid Leads
Case Study Mix Direct Mail + Web to Get More Trade Show Booth Visitors
Case StudyHow AnswerLogic Won Best of Show for Their eCRM Conference Booth
Case StudySanctum Inc. Gets “Unbelievable” Six-Figure Sales in Just 90 Days with Online Marketing
How ToTutorial: How to Become a Star by Landing Coveted Speaking Gigs & Gaining New Business
How To
Make a User Conference More Effective - 9 Tips
How To
A Shy Person’s Guide to Networking at Trade Shows
How ToSpecial Report: How to Improve Your Trade Show Marketing for 2003: Staff, Booth & Sales Lead Tips
How To
Collect Opt-Ins for Your Email Prospect List at Trade Shows
How ToShould You Exhibit at Small Regional Shows? Six Factors to Consider First
How ToTips on Using an Expert Speaker to Promote Your Product to Small Businesses
How ToStage a Successful Networking Event: Tips from BusyGirl Forum
How ToGot a CEO Who’s a Lousy Public Speaker? Best Recommendation
How ToPick Promotional Items, Freebies and Giveaway Items Internet Marketers Will Really Go For
How To
8 Steps for Throwing a Successful Trade-Show Party
ArticleHow a British PR Firm Improves Ticket Sales For eBusiness Trade Shows
Article
Advertising on Trade Show Web Sites Significantly Lowers Businesses’ Cost Per Sales Lead
ArticleIs it OK to Email Lists from Business Events You Attended?
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PR, Fame & Communications
Case StudyHow to Win Fame, Glory, & Lucrative Consulting Gigs By Producing Your Own Advisory Radio Show
Case Study Best Practices in PR - How to Go From Zilch Coverage to 200+ Tech Media Interviews in 18 Months
Case Study Clever PR Tactics eMarketer Uses to Sell High Priced Reports to Internet Marketers
How ToHow to Create and Distribute a Social Media Release
How ToHandy Guide to Speaking Like a Pro: 15 Tips on Behavior, Visuals & Rehearsing
How ToTutorial: How to Become a Star by Landing Coveted Speaking Gigs & Gaining New Business
How To
15 Practical Tips to Turn Speaking Gigs Into New Business
How ToHow Miller Brewing Measures the Results of PR Campaigns
How ToTop Three Ways PR People Annoy the Heck out of Journalists
How ToHow to Impress Industry Analysts at Gartner, Forrester, IDC, Jupiter & Others
How ToThree Ways Your Intranet Can Improve Both Sales and Public Relations at the Same Time
How ToTop 4 Tips for More Effective Online PR
How To
Maximize Your Press Release’s Impact by Adding Hotlinks to a Microsite
How ToGot a CEO Who’s a Lousy Public Speaker? Best Recommendation
How ToHow to Select, Pay and Work With Your PR Firm to Maximize Business Media Mentions
How ToHow Authoring a Marketing Book Can Help Your Business: i-frontier, PFS New Media
InterviewPR Interview: How to Develop an Award-Winning Diversity Campaign: 7 Strategies
InterviewPR Interview: Pitch Your Tech Products to Wired Magazine’s ‘Gadget Guy’
InterviewPR Interview: Pitch BusinessPundit Blog: All Biz with Humor: 6 Tips
InterviewPR Interview: Get Featured in Barron’s Magazine
Interview
Jim Caruso of WirelessVertical.com Tells How They Went from Zero to Light Speed in Only 30 Days
Article
Essential Guide to PR 2.0: Social Media Dos, Don’ts
ArticlePR Interview: 5 Tips to Reach Small Businesses - How to Pitch John Jantsch’s Duct Tape Blog
ArticlePR Interview: How to Pitch to Ladies’ Home Journal
ArticleSpeaking Gig: Youth/Gen Y International Marketing Expert
ArticleNew Research Data: What Content Do B-to-B Customers, Prospects Yearn to Read?
ArticleStartling Survey Results: Sales Execs Rate PR’s Importance Much Higher Than Marketing Execs Do
Article
25 Best Free Online Resources for PR Professionals
ArticleTop 5 Corporate Communication Mistakes the Fortune 500 Make Online
ArticleDo Journalists Hate Your Online Press Room? Take the Online Quiz
PR, Fame & Communications
General PR Tips
Case StudyHow to Get 350 Positive Media Mentions for a Business Services Firm in Six Months
Case StudyPR on a Low Budget: Combine 3 Tactics for Peak Impact
Case StudyWeekly World News Raises Newsstand Sales 15% with Web Site Publicity Stunt
Case Study Future Now Inc. Gains Clients by Winning Friends and Influencing People Online
Case Study Byte Level Research Sells High Price Reports Through Low Cost Email Marketing and Online PR
Case StudyHow the UK’s DeskDemon.com Used Scantily-Clad Males to Generate Press Interest
How ToStart with Subject-Line Length to Improve Pitches: 8 Dos, 4 Don’ts
How ToSpecial Report: Authors - How to Get Your Business Book Published
How ToWin (More) Marketing Awards: Practical Help from a Real-Life Judge
How To
15 Practical Tips to Turn Speaking Gigs Into New Business
How To
5 Best Practices for CMO’s Role in Investor Relations
How ToHow to Impress Financial Analysts: 5 Tactics for Chief Marketing Officers
How ToHow to Market Your Business Book (Your Publisher Probably Won’t)
How ToGet Trade Press to Carry Case Studies About You & Your Clients: 13 Tips
How ToHow to Safeguard Your Brand Reputation: Examples from Tommy Hilfiger, GE, Coca-Cola, Dupont
How ToHow to Discover & Get Mentioned in the Most Powerful Blogs for Your Industry
How To
Bloggers: How to Get More Traffic & Capture Mainstream Press Attention
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How ToScripting Tips for Audio News Releases (Plus a Sample for You)
How To
5 Steps to Landing (and Acing) Speaking Gigs to Promote Your Services or Company
How To
6 Steps for Giving an Unforgettable Speech
How To
Four Steps to Land More Interviews on High-Profile Radio Shows
How ToHow to Increase Responses and Track Results from Your Planted Articles
How To
7 Guerrilla-Publicity Tips for Businesses
How ToHow to Get a Speaking Gig ‘After’ Speakers Are Chosen
How To
Crisis Communications: How to Prevent Your Company From Getting Burned by Ex-Employee Emails
How ToTop 4 PR Tips to Reach Small Businesses Online: Dawn Ringel, Gumpert Communications
How ToHow to Select, Pay and Work With Your PR Firm to Maximize Business Media Mentions
InterviewPR Interview: 8 Steps to Roll Out a Successful Employee Relations Campaign + 2 Pitfalls to Avoid
InterviewProtect Your Image on the Digital Highway: 7 Tips & No-Cost Tools to Prevent a PR Nightmare
InterviewHow to Prep for and Survive a PR Crisis: 7 Steps From a Pro
InterviewPR Interview: Influence Your Peers - Pitch PR News
InterviewPR Interview: How to Get on ‘The Oprah Winfrey Show’
InterviewHow to Do Your Own PR Campaign: 8 Steps & 3 Mistakes to Avoid
InterviewHow to Network at Conferences and Trade Shows: Mini-Guide
InterviewPR Interview: How to ‘Help a Reporter Out’ & Get Some Fame
InterviewPR Interview: 20 Secrets From ‘Perfecting the Pitch’ Author
InterviewHow Marketer Grows Subs 22% With a Limited Ad Budget - 3 PR Secrets & Other Tips
InterviewPR Career Tips: Making Upper Management Appreciate Your Work
ArticleNo-Cost Resources for PR Pros: Top 10 Email Newsletters, 6 Content-Rich Sites, Popular Blogs
Article
Rainmaking - 20 Simple Tactics to Gather & Pitch Leads
ArticlePR Interview: How to Pitch a Tech Product to PC Magazine
ArticleIT Services Marketing Association’s Marketing Excellence Awards
Article
2008 American Business Awards: The Stevies
ArticleWho’s Hiring in PR + Negotiation Tips
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Fun & Insightful Blogs for PR Professionals
PR, Fame & Communications
Blogging & Podcasting
Case StudyHow Blog Advertising Helped Video Series Go Viral
Case StudyHow to Turn a Trade Show Speech Into a Podcast That Becomes a Lead Machine
Case StudyHow Billboard-Web 2.0 Combo Grew Church Community 277%
Case StudyHow to Make Your Technology Brand Famous Via Podcasts, Blogs & Games: 12-Month Viral Marketing Plan
Case StudyHow an Enterprise Software Company Created a Podcast Program -- 15 Useful Tips
Case StudyHow to Get Bloggers to Evangelize Your Product
Case Study Blog Marketing for Ecommerce Sites -- 7 Rules & Lessons Learned
Case StudyHow to Use a Podcast to Promote a White Paper That Generates New Business Sales Leads
Case StudyGoToMeeting Tests RSS & Podcasting Advertising Campaign: Lessons Learned
Case StudyHow to Win Fame, Glory, & Lucrative Consulting Gigs By Producing Your Own Advisory Radio Show
Case Study 7 Practical Tactics to Turn Your Blog Into a Sales Machine
Case StudySoftware Company President’s Blog Proves a Publicity & Search Optimization Bonanza
Case StudyHow to Use a Back-stage Blog & Virtual Community Networking to Maximize Your Road Show’s Impact
Case StudyNokia Tests Viral Marketing Via Bloggers to Launch New Phone
How ToShould You Position Your Blog Behind a Subscription Barrier? 5 Guidelines
How ToHow to Pitch Marketing Bloggers: 25 Dos & Don’ts
How ToHow to Drive More Traffic to Your Blog on Weekends
How To
10 Steps to Creating a Podcast Program
How ToHow a Financial-Services Firm Added a Podcast Program to Keep Clients Informed
How ToSPECIAL REPORT: MarketingSherpa’s Practical Podcasting Guide for Marketers
How ToHow Network Appliance Launched a Public C-Level Blog (Hint: Delicately)
How To
Fortune 500 Blogging: 5 Steps for Major Corporations Launching Blogs
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How ToHow to Market Open Source Software: Top 3 Mistakes & 5 Useful Tactics
How To
7 Marketing Tips for Podcasts, Blog Ads and RSS Feeds
How ToHow to Discover & Get Mentioned in the Most Powerful Blogs for Your Industry
How To
Bloggers: How to Get More Traffic & Capture Mainstream Press Attention
InterviewHow to Keep Your Blog Out of a Courtroom - Advice from Legal Pro on Providing, Creating Content
InterviewGM Blog Manager Shares Top 10 Blog Mistakes & How to Avoid Them
InterviewPR Interview: How to Get Featured Next in the What’s Next Blog
InterviewHow Marketer Grows Subs 22% With a Limited Ad Budget - 3 PR Secrets & Other Tips
InterviewHow LexisNexis Added Blog Search to Content Lineup
ArticlePodcast: Interview with Jason Billingsley, VP Innovation, Elastic Path Software, on Adding Blogs to Marketing Strategy
ArticleNew Chart: Let Content Determine Podcast Length
ArticleNew Research Data: What Content Do B-to-B Customers, Prospects Yearn to Read?
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MarketingSherpa’s Top 10 Best Blogs & Best Podcast of 2006: Readers’ Choice Award Results
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MarketingSherpa’s 10 Best Blogs for 2005: Winners Named + Hotlinks for Your Surfing Pleasure
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MarketingSherpa Readers’ Choice Best Blog Awards 2004: 7 Winners Named
PR, Fame & Communications
PR & Search Marketing
Case StudyHow to Optimize Press Releases & Get Higher Search Ranking and 75% Clickthrough Rate
Case Study Can Virtual B-to-B Marketers Work Better Than an In-House Marketing Team? 3 Stealable Campaigns
Case StudyHow Southwest Airlines Sold $1.5 Million in Tickets by Posting Four Press Releases Online
Case StudyHow to Get Your Press Release Picked up by Google News
How ToHow to Optimize Your PDFs to Increase Search Traffic: 10 Steps
How ToPR & Search Marketing: 5 Steps to Get More Press Attention by Using No-Cost Search Optimization
InterviewPR Interview: 13 No-Cost Press Release Distribution Sites Reviewed: Get High SEO Rankings on a Budget
InterviewPR Interview: Influence Your Peers - Pitch PR News
PR, Fame & Communications
How to Pitch Marketing Journalists
How ToHow to Get Bloggers’ Attention With Personalized Landing Pages & Videos
How ToHow to Pitch Marketing Bloggers: 25 Dos & Don’ts
How ToHow to Get Reporters to Write About You at a Busy Trade Show
How ToPR Opportunity: How to Submit an Article to Benefits Marketing Magazine
InterviewPR Interview: How to Pitch to ‘Fortune Small Business’: 6 Strategies
InterviewPR Interview: Get Into ‘Fast Company’ With Innovative Pitch: 8 Dos & Don’ts (Plus Tips for Startups)
InterviewPR Interview: Influence 50,000 Execs - Pitch Sales & Marketing Management Magazine
InterviewPR Interview: Pitch TechCrunch to Introduce Your Start-up to Millions
InterviewPR Interview: 5 Ways to Catch the Attention of The Washington Post’s Consumer Technology Writer
InterviewPR Interview: Pitch ‘Search Engine Land’ to Get Your Message in Front of Marketers in the Search World
InterviewPR Interview: How to ‘Help a Reporter Out’ & Get Some Fame
InterviewPR Interview: How to Get Featured in ‘Inside the Marketer’s Studio’ Blog
InterviewPR Interview: Pitch Magilla Marketing’s Ken Magill: 10 Tips
InterviewHow to Pitch 1to1 Magazine
InterviewPR Interview: How to Pitch ClickZ’s Editors
InterviewPR Interview: How to Achieve Success With Catalog Success
InterviewPR Interview: How to Be Seen in Adland, the Land of Edgy Video Ads
InterviewPR Interview: How to Pitch Canada’s Strategy Magazine
InterviewPR Interview: How to Get Blogged by Adrants
InterviewPR Interview: How to Pitch eMarketing+Commerce
InterviewPR Interview: How to Get Media 2.0 Blog to Feature You
InterviewPR Interview: How to Get Featured Next in the What’s Next Blog
InterviewPR Interview: Connect with iMedia Connection’s Readers
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InterviewPR Interview: See Your Name in CIO Magazine
InterviewPR Interview: How to Pitch the AMA’s Marketing News
InterviewPR Interview: How to Market to MarketingVOX
InterviewPR Interview: Pitch PRWeek’s Features Editor + Tips From News Editor
InterviewPR Interview: How to Get Your News Mentioned in DM News
InterviewPR Interview: How to Get Your Brand Mentioned in Brandweek
InterviewPR Interview: How to Pitch a Story to Ad Age
InterviewHow to Get The MadAve Journal’s Tim McHale Mad About You
InterviewPR Interview: Pitching ANA’s The Advertiser Magazine
InterviewPR Interview: How to Get Mentioned in BtoB Magazine & BtoB Online
InterviewPR Interview: How to Get Your 15 Minutes of Fame With The New York Times’ Stuart Elliott
InterviewHow to Get Your News Featured on UK BrandRepublic Site
InterviewPR Interview: Brag About Your B-to-B Campaigns in Business Media Matters
InterviewPR Interview: How to Reach Ad Execs Targeting the Hispanic Market
InterviewPR Interview: How to Get News & Stories into BusinessMedia
InterviewPR Interview: Top Database Marketing Journalist Seeks Story Sources
InterviewPR Interview: How to Get Mentioned in 8 High-Profile Blogs on Marketing
InterviewPR Interview: Ballyhoo Magazine for Online Ads
InterviewPR Interview: How to Pitch the Editors of PROMO Magazine
InterviewPR Interview: How to Get in American Demographics Magazine
InterviewTips for Pitching Advertising & Marketing Stories to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution
InterviewHow to Become a Guest Star on Radio’s The Advertising Show: 5 Pitch Tips
InterviewHow to get on Public Radio’s Brain Brew Radio Show
InterviewHow to Get Your Site Reviewed by Larry Chase’s WDFM
InterviewHow to Get Written About in Catalog Success Magazine
InterviewHow to Get Your Article Published in MarketingProfs
InterviewHow to Get in O’Dwyer’s as a PR Expert
InterviewHow to Get Your Marketing, Ad or PR Tactics Covered in MarketingSherpa Publications
InterviewNew Editor Explains How to Get Covered in PRWeek US
InterviewHow to Get Mentioned in Six Niche Newsletters for Biz-to-Consumer Marketers
InterviewHow to Plant Stories in Target Marketing & Inside DM
InterviewHow to Get Mentioned in The Marketing Report
InterviewHow to be Famous in the UK - Revolution Magazine
InterviewHow to Be Famous in the UK - New Media Age
InterviewHow to Be Interviewed by iMediaConnection
InterviewHow to Get Covered by Adweek Magazine
InterviewHow to Pitch The Chicago Tribune’s Jim Kirk
InterviewPROFILE: How to Pitch the Editors at Mediaweek
InterviewHow to Get Featured in Catalog Age Magazine
Interview
FAME: How to Get Your Story in Direct Magazine
Interview
FAME: How to Get Your Company Mentioned in Sales & Marketing Management Magazine
InterviewPROFILE: How to Reach BusinessWeek’s Online Marketing Editor
Interview
FAME: 48,000 Puerto Rican Execs Want to Learn More About Internet Marketing -- How to Reach Them
Interview
FAME: How to Pitch a Story to Forbes’ Marketing Editor
Interview
FAME: How to Pitch Your Story to PR NEWS
Interview
Marketing Fame: How to Get Noticed in Canada
Interview
FAME: How to Reach CRMGuru.com’s 115,000+ Business Readers
InterviewHow to Get Your Name in The Brand Newsletter
InterviewHow to Influence Media Buyers & Planners
InterviewGet Your Name in Internet Retailer Magazine
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PR, Fame & Communications
How to Pitch Business Journalists
Case StudyHow to Get 350 Positive Media Mentions for a Business Services Firm in Six Months
How ToHow to Get Reporters to Write About You at a Busy Trade Show
How To
Craft Emailed PR Pitches so Business Magazine Editors Respond to Them (Samples Include)
How To
Media Relations: Three Business Journalists Reveal How You Should Contact Them Via Email
How To
Ron Lieber, Senior Writer FAST COMPANY, Shares the Best PR Pitch Letter He’s Ever Received
InterviewPR Interview: How to Pitch Technology Writer for Forbes: 5 Tips
InterviewPR Interview: Get Into ‘Fast Company’ With Innovative Pitch: 8 Dos & Don’ts (Plus Tips for Startups)
InterviewGo Direct to More C-Level Execs by Pitching Electronic Retailer: 5 Steps
InterviewHow to Reach Millions of Hispanic Business Owners, Professionals
InterviewPR Interview: How to Pitch Ideas to Welcome Magazine: Reach 25,000 Hospitality Executives
InterviewGet Your Story in Front of Top Retail Execs: 5 Tips to Pitch Internet Retailer
InterviewPR Interview: How to ‘Help a Reporter Out’ & Get Some Fame
InterviewPR Interview: How to Pitch CustomerThink: 15 Tips
InterviewPR Interview: How to Pitch The Baltimore Sun
InterviewPR Interview: How to Pitch AARP’s Magazine
InterviewPR Interview: How to Pitch The Dallas Morning News
InterviewPR Interview: How to Pitch BusinessWeek’s Reporting Staff
InterviewPR Interview: Pitch The Denver Post’s Business Columnist
InterviewPR Interview: How to Be a Part of the Most Livable City - Pitch the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
InterviewPR Interview: How to Pitch The Boston Herald’s Business Department
InterviewPR Interview: How to Land a Spot on CNBC’s ‘Business Nation’
InterviewPR Interview: Pitch Your Outsourcing Ideas to Global Services
InterviewPR Interview: 8 Pitch Tips so You Get Featured in the Chicago Sun-Times
InterviewPR Interview: How to Get Featured in Jack Myers’ (Highly) Influential Newsletters
InterviewPR Interview: How to Get Coverage in Entrepreneur Magazine
InterviewPR Interview: 5 Dos and 5 Don’ts to Get Into Rocky Mountain News’ Business Section
InterviewPR Interview: How to Get Some Ink in Inc.
InterviewPR Interview: Contribute to China Trade Monthly Magazine
InterviewPR Interview: Get Featured in Barron’s Magazine
InterviewPR Interview: Become a Star in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram
InterviewPR Interview: How to Get Your Business in Pacific Coast Business Times
InterviewPR Interview: How to Make News in U.S. News & World Report
InterviewPR Interview: How to Grace GQ’s Pages
InterviewPR Interview: How to Star in the LA Times
InterviewPR Interview: How to Get IndustryWeek to Write About You
InterviewPR Interview: How to Appear in Harvard Business Review
InterviewPR Interview: How to Get Into Business 2.0 Magazine
InterviewPR Interview: How to Get The Wall Street Journal to Write About Your Company
InterviewPR Interview: How to Get Women’s Wear Daily’s Attention
Interview
FAME: How to Get Your News Onto Forbes.com
InterviewPR Interview: How to Get On San Diego’s Inside Business Radio
InterviewPR Interview: How to Get Your CEO onto Canada’s Only Primetime Business TV Show
InterviewPR Interview: How to Land a Guest Spot on Bloomberg Small Business
InterviewPR Interview: How to Guest on the Business TV Show Viewed by Half a Million Canadians
InterviewPR Interview: How to Be Mentioned in Business Finance Magazine
InterviewHow to Get Interviewed on Entrepreneur ‘s Radio Show
InterviewPR Interview: How to Pitch Your Story to CFO Magazine
InterviewPR Interview: How to Pitch Your Story to Entrepreneur Magazine & Entrepreneur.com
InterviewPR Profile: How to Pitch the Business Editor of the Miami Herald
InterviewHow to Get in American Executive Magazine
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InterviewHow to Get Your Business Covered in the Detroit Free Press
Interview
12 Business Newsletters Seek Contributed Articles
InterviewHow to Pitch Your Story to TIME’s Business Editor
InterviewHow to Get the Reporters at BusinessWeek to Notice You
InterviewHow to Be Interviewed by Forbes Magazine Writers
InterviewHow to Get Mentioned in Fortune Magazine
InterviewHow to Get Your Company or CEO Mentioned in Inc. Magazine
InterviewHow to Get Your Company Mentioned in Fast Company Magazine
Article
A Press Release So Bad Business 2.0 Editors Say “Fire That Flack!”
PR, Fame & Communications
How to Pitch Technology Journalists
How ToHow to Get Reporters to Write About You at a Busy Trade Show
How ToGrab an Influential Analyst’s Attention: 3 Secrets & 4 Tips
How ToHow Pitching Canadian High-Tech Journalists Differs From US Media: 4 Key Tips & Useful Contacts
How To
Make the Most of Your Meetings with Industry Analysts
How ToTop 7 Mistakes to Avoid When Pitching High Tech Reporters
InterviewPR Interview: Get Your Story on the Cover of CIO Magazine: 6 Pitch Tactics
InterviewPR Interview: Pitch TechCrunch to Introduce Your Start-up to Millions
InterviewPR Interview: 5 Ways to Catch the Attention of The Washington Post’s Consumer Technology Writer
InterviewPR Interview: How to Reach IT Professionals by the Millions
InterviewPR Interview: How to ‘Help a Reporter Out’ & Get Some Fame
InterviewPR Interview: How to Pitch InformationWeek
InterviewPR Interview: How to Pitch Electronic Design Magazine
InterviewPR Interview: How to Pitch Tech News to the San Jose Mercury News
InterviewPR Interview: 8 Pitch Tips so You Get Featured in the Chicago Sun-Times
InterviewPR Interview: How to Reach IT Project Managers
InterviewPR Interview: How to Get Mentioned in Windows IT Pro Magazine
InterviewHow to Pitch Your Story to InfoWorld
InterviewPR Interview: How to Be a Featured Guest on The David Lawrence Show and Online Tonight Radio Show
InterviewPR Interview: How to Get Computerworld’s Mitch Betts to Think the World of Your Story Pitch
InterviewHow to Pitch Manufacturing Business Technology
InterviewPR Interview: How to Reach Developers using SQL and .Net Online
InterviewHow to Be Covered by RedHerring.com
InterviewPR Interview: How to Get Your Story Into Design News (Reach 170,000 Design Engineers)
InterviewPR Interview: How to Reach 250,000 IT Project Managers
InterviewHow to Get Your Blog or PR Read by 1.3 Million IT Pros Visiting ITtoolbox Monthly
InterviewHow to Get Your News Featured on CMP TechWeb
InterviewPR Interview: How to Be Featured in CIO Decisions Magazine
InterviewPR Interview: How to Guest Star on KenRadio’s World Technology Round-Up Show
InterviewPR Interview: How to Plant a Story in Logistics Today
InterviewPR Interview: How to Get Covered by Electronic Design Magazine
InterviewPR Interview: How to Guest Star on the WebTalk Radio Show
InterviewPR Interview: How to Pitch IT Stories to CMP’s 19 Pipeline Sites
InterviewHow to Guest Star on the Computer Outlook Radio Talk Show
InterviewPR Interview: 5 Steps to Pitching the Editors at Wireless Week
InterviewPR Interview: How to Reach CIO Today’s 65,000 Readers
InterviewHow to Pitch Stories to High-Tech Press: Three Critical Tips
InterviewGet Covered in Brandweek’s Technology Marketing
InterviewPR People - How to Impress Reporters at CIO Insight
InterviewHow to Get on TechTV
InterviewHow to be Featured in a Baseline IT Case Study
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InterviewHow to Plant a Story About Your Product or Service in BYTE.com
InterviewHow High-Tech Companies Can Get Covered in the Chicago Tribune
InterviewHow to Plant a Story in iSource Magazine
InterviewHow to Get Your Tech News Covered in The Washington Post
InterviewHow to Pitch Your Story to the Newly Revamped eWEEK
InterviewHow to Pitch Your Story to WSJ’s Walter Mossberg
InterviewHow to Be Featured in Optimize Magazine
InterviewHow to Get Covered in the Toronto Star’s Business & Technology Section
InterviewHow to Get Mentioned in San Jose Mercury News Biz Section
InterviewHow to Get Leonard Fischer, Tech Editor, Gannett News Service to Write About You
InterviewHow to Pitch CRN Magazine (Formerly Computer Reseller News)
InterviewHow to Get Mentioned in Intelligent Enterprise Magazine
InterviewHow to Be Featured in InformationWeek
InterviewHow to Influence VARBusiness’s 107,000 Readers
Interview
Journalist Profile: Tips on Getting Covered in CIO Magazine
Interview
Journalist Profile: How to Get Covered in Wired News
ArticlePR Interview: How to Pitch a Tech Product to PC Magazine
Article
FAME: Get Famous in Catchpole’s Weekly Newsletter
ArticleTop 3 Online PR Mistakes B-to-B High Tech Companies Often Make
Skills
Copywriting
Case StudyHow to Fix Your Marketing Messaging to Nip Common Sales Objections in the Bud
Case StudyHow to Improve Direct Mail Responses by Surveying Prospects Before You Start Copywriting
How To
12 Top Email Copywriting Tips to Raise Funds: Hint – Try YouTube
How ToHigh-impact Email Newsletter Writing Part II: How to Use Strong Bold Words in Your Intro
How ToHigh-impact Email Writing Part I: Useful Lists of Short Words, Strong Verbs, and Blah Words
How ToHow to Persuade People to Join Your Email List: 7 Copywriting Samples You Should Steal Ideas From
Skills
Branding
Case StudyHow to Prep Your Staff for Corporate Rebranding
Case StudySun Microsystems Tests High-Impact Brand Revival Campaigns Online: 3 Broken Rules
Case Study Reality Marketing Story Part II: Four Lessons on Branding, Logo Creation, and PR
Case StudyHow Pitney Bowes Targeted C-Level Execs in its Successful Re-branding Campaign
Case StudyHow to Integrate Branding into a Lead Generation Campaign (Useful Creative Samples Included)
Case Study Co-op Marketing Campaign Generates 4,258 High-Quality Leads: Webcast vs Sweeps Offer Test Results
Case StudyHow Jacob’s Creek Winery Used Screen Savers to Boost Brand Awareness and Retention -- 11 Tips
Case StudyHow GM Goodwrench Uses an Advertising Extranet to Help Dealerships Stick to Approved Branding
Case StudyHow to Influence CEOs with an Online TV Show (It’s Cheaper & More Effective Than You Think)
Case StudySingapore Airlines Tests Viral eCard Campaign
Case Study Bombay Sapphire Tests Online Brand Building
Case StudyOcean Surfing CD ROM Builds Brand Awareness (and Sales) for Toes on the Nose
Case StudyHow Scoot Increased Brand Awareness, and Encouraged New Users AND Advertisers with a Single Campaign
Case StudyHow IBM.com Successfully Rebranded Itself for the Small Business Marketplace
Case StudyTargeting the ‘Lads’ Online with Controversial Creative: Breathe.com’s Blow Up Doll
How ToHow to Practice Defensive Branding: 6 Key Factors to Build Credibility, Swat Bad Buzz
How ToLead Gen with Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and Blogging - 6 Key Takeaways
How ToHow to Go Viral on MySpace With 4 Easy-to-Try Tactics
How ToSpecial Report: How to Get Your Company Listed on Wikipedia, Part I
How ToHow to Effectively Rebrand -- Before & After Looks at 5 Award-Winning Rebranding Efforts
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How ToHow to Name (or Rename) Your Company: 3 Steps & Mistakes to Avoid
How To
Brand Marketing & Rock & Roll: How T-Mobile, Coke, Bank One & Rolling Rock Beer Use Concerts
How ToHow to Safeguard Your Brand Reputation: Examples from Tommy Hilfiger, GE, Coca-Cola, Dupont
How ToHow to Switch Brand Names Without Confusing Your Marketplace: palmOne’s Successful 4-Step Process
How ToPhishing Email Fraud Attacks Up 50% - Protect Your Brand
How To
3 Steps to Re-Brand Your Company & Get Employees at All Levels to Buy into the Change
How ToHow to Set Clear Rules for Your Company Logo: 3 Steps Goldman Sachs Used to Solve Branding Problems
How ToHow Aveda Keeps Online and Offline Brand Images Consistent: Top 7 Tips for Packaged Goods Marketers
How ToSuccessful Apparel Entrepreneur Liz Lange’s 8 Steps to Build Brand Equity (On a Shoestring)
How ToTop 7 Tips for Launching a New Brand from MINI Cooper’s Marketer
How To
13 Experts’ Tips on Marketing in Wartime - Copywriting, Media Buying, B-to-B , Branding & PR
How ToWhen an Email Spammer Uses Your Brand Name: How to Salvage Your Reputation (& Stay Off Blacklists)
Interview
JetBlue Airways’ VP Marketing Reveals Her Five Budget Marketing Lessons
InterviewTurning Hawaii’s Beloved Mauna Loa Nut Brand from a Money-Loser into a Profit Center
InterviewDunkin’ Donuts Brand Marketing Tips and Partnership Tactics
Interview
Charlie Buchwalter VP AdRelevance Reveals 46% of B-to-B Banners are Good for Branding Only
Interview
B2BWorks’ VP Marketing Karen Breen Vogel on View-Throughs, Branding Online and Business Sales Cycles
ArticleNew Chart: Hard Times Are Prime Time to Build Brand Awareness, Trust
Article
Branding Strategies - 4 Factors to Get More From Online Ads
Article
CAN-SPAM Study Results: Brand Marketers Change Tactics as Spammers Scoff at the Law
ArticleProtecting Your Brand Name Against Outside Spammers May Be Impossible
ArticleNew Chart: Two Shifts Speed Up in Bad Economy - From Offline and Brand to Online and Direct Tactics
Skills
Market Research
Case StudyHow to Conduct an Interactive Survey & Turn the Results into Must-Attend Webcast Content
Case StudyHow to Run an Online Focus Group to Discover What Business Prospects Really Want (+ Tips on Launching an Ecommerce Web Site)
Case Study Can Direct Response TV Commercials Work Online? 77% of Viewers Vote Yes
Case StudyHow to Improve Direct Mail Responses by Surveying Prospects Before You Start Copywriting
Case StudyHow to Recruit an Online Panel of Fashion Influencers for Year-Round Market Research (At Low Cost)
Case StudyHow Can You Turn Web Site Metrics Data Into Truly Useful Info? Avaya Tests Floating Feedback Link
Case StudyNissan Tests TV Commercial Creative with Both Online & Offline Study Panels -- Will Results Match?
Case StudyHow to Get 1,000s of Prospects to Fill Out a Survey (& What to Do With the Results)
Case Study Usability Lab Results - LEGO Tests Site Revamp Ideas to Please Both Parents and Kids
Case StudyWhy Didn’t You Buy? Survey Helps Search Marketing Clicks, Trials & Conversions Soar
Case Study Fair Measures Invents Profitable New Products by Analyzing Its Site Traffic Logs
How ToHow to Analyze Your Competition’s Marketing Properly & Gain ROI in Your Sector
How ToTop Three Usability Tests for Web Site Redesign Decisions
How ToHow Web Site Eyeball Studies Work & What You Can Learn From Them
How ToHow to Get Your Company to Pay Attention to Market Research Results: Tips from Levi Strauss
How ToHow LeapFrog Uses Marketing Research to Launch New Products
How To
3 Ways GE Energy Gathers Customer & Prospect Relations Data to Maximize Marketing Efforts Globally
How ToHow John Deere Increased Mass Consumer Market Share by Revamping its Market Research Tactics
How ToHow Unisys Uses a Survey to Retain its Most Profitable Customer Accounts
How To
4 Steps to Building a Qualitative Market Research Database That Works Better
How ToHow to Conduct Web-Based Surveys for Product & Pricing Development
How To
Emailing Market Research Surveys: How to Pick Lists, Incentives, Subject Lines & Estimate Response
How ToHow to Combine Location Videography + Focus Groups -- Rubbermaid’s 5 Steps for Market Research
How ToGuerrilla Market Research Expert Mitch McCasland Tells How You Can Conduct Quick (and Cheap) Research
How ToHow to Conduct an Online Survey Part IV: Getting Responses
How ToOnline Surveying Part III: How to Gather & Use Testimonials That Grow Sales
How ToHow to Conduct an Online Survey, Part II The Art of Question Writing
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How ToHow to Conduct an Online Survey, Part I
Interview
US Marketing Law: How to Conduct Surveys Legally Online & Off - 6 Challenges
Interview
4 New Data Charts: What Lead Generation Tactics Work for Professional Services Firms
InterviewThird Year Results from Hallmark’s Online Market Research Experiment
InterviewHow Hallmark Cards Conducts Online Market Research: Successful Tests and Biggest Mistake
Interview
Angie Kim Of Equalfooting.Com on Top Tactics for Affinity Marketing and Market Research
ArticleSpecial Report: Marketing During an Economic Downturn - New Data & Key Insights
ArticleNew Chart: Top B2C Tactics in ’09: Email, SEO and Paid Search Rank Highest in ROI
Article
Five Most Neglected Metrics: Go Beyond Clicks & Conversions to Optimize Campaigns
ArticleNew Chart: Shoppers Choose Different Routes to Purchase Your Products & Search for Information
ArticlePlease Take Quick Technology Survey Today
ArticleGet Ahead in Your Career: Sign Up for Sherpa’s New Chart of the Week
ArticleSpecial Report: Marketing During an Economic Downturn - New Data & Key Insights
Article
Exclusive Data: How to Design Your Newsletters - 5 New Action Charts
ArticleNew Research: 1,939 Marketers Reveal Globalization Tactics - 39 Charts & Tables
Article
CHART OF THE YEAR: 26 Different Ad Spends Compared (Online & Offline) -- From Billboards to Search Ads
ArticleNew Survey Results: 80% of Consumers Hate Flash Intros
ArticleSurvey Results: If Your CEO Gave You $50,000, What Marketing Tactics Would You Spend it On?
ArticleSurvey - 729 B-to-B Marketers Reveal 2003 Results & Plans: Email & PR are Winners; Rented Lists Lose
ArticleNew Chart: Special Primer on How to Find the Most Common Survey Flaws
Skills
Marketing Metrics & Marketing Tests
Case StudyHow to Create a Series of Automated Follow-Up Emails to Convert Average Sales Leads into Hot Leads
Case Study Are First Time Visitors Confused by Your Site Navigation? Measure Satisfaction with ACSI Metrics
How ToLead Generation Special Report: B-to-B Insights, Strategies & Tactics to Get More Leads – 22-Page Download
How ToNew Research Data: How to Title Your White Papers to Generate More Downloads From Best Prospects
How ToHow to Turn Your Web Analytics System Into Action-Items to Help the Bottom Line
How To
Quick Tutorial: How to Track Email ROI Metrics - New Solutions & Tips
How To
Exclusive New AOL Email User Data - Preferences & Marketing Insights
How ToHow Miller Brewing Measures the Results of PR Campaigns
How To
Email Metrics for Marketers 101
How ToTop Seven Email Marketing Tests You Should Conduct in 2003
How ToHow Hewlett Packard Doubled its Own Site’s Sales with Web Analytics
How ToHow to Track Open Rates of Text Messages With a Teeny-Tiny Bit of HTML
How ToKey ROI Metrics B-to-B Marketers Should Use for Online Campaigns
How ToThe Latest Practical Information for Marketers Wishing to Track Banner View-Thrus
ArticleNew Chart: Why Marketers Should Think Twice Before Changing Email Based on Open Rates
Article
Five Most Neglected Metrics: Go Beyond Clicks & Conversions to Optimize Campaigns
ArticleNew Chart: Is Paid Search Getting Too Expensive?
ArticleNew Chart: Transactional Emails - a Missed Opportunity
ArticleNew Chart: Transactional Emails - a Missed Opportunity
ArticleNew Chart: Why You Must Pay More Attention to Your ‘About Us’ Page
ArticleSpecial Report: New Data for Online Publishers - Which Subscription Tactics Work Best?
ArticleNew Sherpa Research: 6,618 Tech Buyers Tell Us What Marketing Works & What Doesn’t (PDF Report)
ArticleNew Chart: Ecommerce Marketers Don’t Take Advantage of Online Tools
ArticleNew Chart: Tech Buyers Don’t Always Tell the Truth on Registration Forms
ArticleNew Chart: Online Publishers Feel Effects of Economic Downturn
ArticleNew Chart: Display Ads Do Work - and They’re Getting Better
Article
MarketingSherpa’s Annual ad:tech Survey: Top Web Advertisers Rate Best & Worst Online Tactics & Budget Plans
ArticleNew Email Research From Sherpa: 1,210 Marketers Reveal Top Strategies to Lift Email Performance + Sign Up for Teleseminar
ArticleNew Data: 6 Actions to Lift Open, Clickthrough Rates
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ArticleNew MarketingSherpa Research: 4,658 B-to-B Technology Buyers Reveal What Works & What Doesn’t When Marketing to Them
ArticleNew Study Results: Online Shopping Isn’t Entertainment
ArticleNew Study: Biggest Internet Marketers Rate Best & Worst Tactics of 2005 + Reveal 2006 Plans
ArticleNew Lab Data: How Humans’ Eyes Really See Email Marketing Campaigns
ArticleSPECIAL PDF Report Download: Top Four Email Marketing Trends to Watch in 2006
Article
MarketingSherpa Study Results: 3,271 Marketers Reveal Search Marketing Costs, Clicks & Conversions
Article
2005 AD:TECH Survey Results Part II: Which Online Tactics Are Safest for ROI (vs Most Exciting)
Article
2005 AD:TECH Study Results -- Internet Marketers Reveal What’s Working, What’s Not, & 2005 Budget Plans
Article
2004 Email Metrics Survey: 2293 Marketers Share Real-life Campaign Stats & Plans for 2005
ArticleSpecial Report: 3,007 Marketers Reveal Search Marketing Costs, Clicks, & Conversion Results
Article
EXCLUSIVE: New Email Stats Reveal Monday is Best Day to Send Campaigns (Charts & Graphs Included)
ArticleSurvey Results Part II: Net Marketers Reveal Safest Tactics vs What They Yearn to Test
Article
AD:TECH Survey Results: Heavy Internet Marketers Reveal What’s Working What’s Not, & 2004 Budgets
ArticleThe New Metrics Frontier: Predictive Modeling for Email Campaigns -- Two New Tools Reviewed
ArticleNew Survey Data: US Consumers Reveal They Only Want to Get Email From an Average of 16 Mailers Each
Article
2003 Email Metrics Survey: 2,327 Marketers Report Opens & Clicks Still Strong Despite Spam
ArticleThe Three Major Problems with Online Marketing Metrics (And What You Can Do About Them)
Skills
Database Marketing
Case StudyHow to Boost Subscribers 33% With Simple Database Marketing Tactics
Case StudyHow Reader’s Digest Mined Purchasing Data to Personalize Catalogs & Lift Conversions 74%
Case StudyHow Scholastic Doubled eCommerce Revenues with a Site Survey
Case StudyHow to Ultra-Segment Your List to Increase Response Rates, Lifetime Value, and Offline Sales
Case StudyHow to Gain Thousands of Small Business Clients Without Overspending on Acquisition Costs
Case StudyHow to Twist the Sales Department’s Arm to Feed Info to Your Marketing Database
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