Category Archives: Lead Generation

Tuesday, 01 June 2010

How to Deal with Customer Angst in Social Media Channels

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In the previous blog, I discuss the new book and site, Business Model Generation. One fundamental question that the book asks repeatedly is this: How do our Customer Segments want to be reached?
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Wednesday, 26 May 2010

New Approaches to Business Model Generation

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If you're like us, you're constantly thinking about new ways to create value for customers, and how to improve or transform your business. Recently, DemandResults CEO Howard Brown had a chance to participate in a one-of-a-kind project that would amount to a global brain-dump on a canvas approach to business model innovation.
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Friday, 23 April 2010

SMO Strategy: How to Leverage Facebook’s New Developer Plugins

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Facebook’s new developer offerings are a boon to social media optimization strategies, enabling Web publishers to quickly turn ordinary Web content into distributable social objects. At the heart of the strategy is transforming the “Fan” button utilized by brand and organization Facebook pages into the “Like” button.
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Thursday, 28 January 2010

Salesforce Cites SEO for Salesforce App in Best Practice Whitepaper

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Back in November, just before the Dreamforce conference, DemandResults launched our answer to that fundamental question – SEO for Salesforce, a highly configurable Salesforce.com app that enables companies to track which organic keywords convert to leads, opportunities and sales.
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Tuesday, 08 December 2009

Will Google’s Personalized Search Results be Bad for Startups?

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Ever have the feeling you’re being followed? You aren’t imagining things. Google is keeping a record of your online search history, and as a result, you’ll likely never experience Google in the same way as anyone else again.
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Tuesday, 17 November 2009

A Great New SEO Tool for Salesforce Users

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What happens when your customers find you in Google? Using many analytics programs, you can already track how many of your visitors become members, contact your sales team or make a purchase through a search query. If you use Google AdWords, you may even understand which paid keywords regularly convert to leads. But if you are a B2B business, or sell large-ticket items, you likely don’t know which organic keywords actually convert to sales.
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Tuesday, 03 November 2009

Banking on the Facebook App Economy

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Some prominent Facebook app developers breathed a heavy sigh of despair last week when Facebook announced that it would effectively mute involuntary app notifications messages (e.g. “Mark Just Leveled Up in Mafia Wars”). For some of the huge gaming apps, such as Mafia Wars and Farmville, notifications generated major traffic – as much as 70%, according to TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington.
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Friday, 11 September 2009

What is Marketing Automation?

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Until recently, the term "marketing automation" had grown slowly in popularity, becoming common corporate parlance only among a small group of SaaS developers in select parts of India and Silicon Valley. But during the past 3 months, "marketing automation" and "marketing automation software" have shot up Google's search trend ranking, totaling nearly 200,000 search queries in the U.S. in August alone.
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Thursday, 03 September 2009

Google Bomb: What Every Business (and Marketer) Should Know About Reputation Management and “Authority”

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Sue Scheff, founder of child and parenting advocacy organization PURE, was astonished when someone began attacking her reputation online. Scheff’s attacker posted comments on numerous Web forums in which Scheff was labled a “con artist,” leading to a lawsuit in which Sheff won $11.3 million.
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Wednesday, 26 August 2009

Why the Most Popular WordPress Plugins Are SEO-Centric

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What is the most striking about the list of 25 Most Commonly Used Wordpress Plugins --published by Line25.com, a blog focusing on web design--is how little the plugins actually have to do with actual web design.
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