Category Archives: Marketing

Yardney Water Filtration – A bly:Optimize Success Story

Riverside California’s Yardney Water Filtration Systems operates a state of the art 60,000 square foot research, design, and manufacturing facility. They are a pioneer in the development of clean water solutions and since 1965 they have provided high-quality, cost effective products becoming one of the world’s leading manufacturers of water filtration equipment for industrial and

4 Things Every Business Should Know About Marketing

By Mark Badran @JuiceMarketing It seems that each year brings a flurry of predictions (like ‘the death of email’) and cutting-edge marketing tactics (you know, anything associated with social media) that are going to drive customers to your door by the thousands.  And while new marketing tools seem to crop up daily, the most important

Announcing Hubspot 3: The Future of Marketing

By Brian Halligan from @Hubspot We started this company because we saw an opportunity to help businesses break away from the traditional marketing playbook and attract better quality leads through inbound marketing. In the first five years of HubSpot, we did just that. Our software has helped 7,000+ businesses generate more than 12 million leads

Are You Proud of Your E-mail Database?

I just read an article about how there are four billion e-mail addresses in the U.S. today. With that being said, there are only 313 million people living in the U.S. – 20% of which are under the age of 20 and don’t use e-mail as their primary form of communication. That would suggest that

Wasting Marketing Budgets Part 1: The Wacky Usage of QR Codes

Companies spend thousands of dollars a year trying to create effective marketing campaigns to reach the largest possible audience. The effectiveness of a QR campaign is highly dependent on driving awareness, and crafting a compelling offer that is simple enough for consumers to engage and understand. It’s all about creating the right and provocative CTA

How Pinterest Can Help Your Small Business Succeed

Pinterest is an online space where users can post images, “pinning” pictures to their virtual bulletin boards. Others can view the boards and repin images to their own boards. If a business has anything it can put into visual form, Pinterest can act as a marketing agent to expand the brand. For businesses, and especially

Retail and Pinterest – A Perfect Match

Is your business on Pinterest yet? Marketers are scrambling to figure out how best to use Pinterest, a niche social media phenomenon that has grown exponentially in 2012 – according to Chad White in his Email Insider article “Retail Email Marketers Rapidly Adopting Pinterest”, Pinterest was the Number 3 social network behind Facebook and Twitter.

Inbound Marketing…Finally Explained!

Inbound marketing is some-what of a buzz word these days and can be over-used to mean everything that isn’t “outbound” marketing. The true definition of inbound marketing is the focus around content creation and then exploiting that content to its fullest. Traditional or outbound marketing would be considered, untargeted e-mails, cold calls, blanket advertising. This

What the Heck is a CTA?

If you are in sales and/or marketing, a CTA, or a Call-to-Action, is your friend. You may not know it yet, but after you learn about them, your world will be forever changed. Why is a CTA your friend? Well firstly, it can be anywhere from a little button, to a form or simply a

How to successfully implement forms that get filled on your website.

Not all form requirements are created equal. In fact, you should really vary forms by the type of content that is behind it – this will dramatically change the way your leads respond. All CTA’s (Calls to Action) or Forms on your website should be organized or grouped by their ability to produce good quality

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