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  • Pinterest Introduces Its Own Web Analytics Tool, Takes a Big Step Toward Monetization

    Pinterest has taken another step toward making it easier for businesses to gauge just how helpful the visually driven social network is for them

  • FirstRain Releases Enterprise Customer Intelligence Solution for the Salesforce Touch Platform

    Leading Software Analytics Company Enables Touch-Powered Customer Intelligence for the Enterprise

  • Affiliate Marketing Requires a Business-Owner Mentality

    If you believe some of the sales pages floating around the Web, you might get the impression that affiliate marketing is an easy, lucrative job that requires just a few hours of in-pajama work a day. But this perspective misses a major point

  • Study: Sales Reps Should Be Assigned More Leads

    Sales reps and the volume of leads they’re given each day smacks of the story of “Goldilocks and the Three Bears:” Organizations are trying to find the exact number of new lead assignments per day that’s just right. A new study from Leads360 has some helpful information on how to find this perfect number. According […]

  • Practice Better Data Hygiene: Is It Time to Clean up Your Act?

    By Micky Long, vice president and practice director of lead nurturing, Arketi Group

    Let’s be clear: I’m not asking you to confess whether or not you floss daily. That’s between you and your dentist. But we are seeing an alarming trend among B2B marketers in an area equally as troubling as bad dental habits: poor data hygiene.

  • How to Create Effective Content for Squeeze Pages

    A squeeze page is a landing page that’s created to compel a visitor to give you their first name and email address so you can initiate a strategic email marketing campaign. The campaign will typically involve autoresponder emails that aim to convert a lead over time. While most discussions about squeeze pages focus on on-page […]

  • How to Use Gated Content to Increase Response Rates

    Gating content with lead-generation forms asking for a person’s information can be an effective tool. If your company decides to use gated content, here are three tips to increase response rates, courtesy of Seth Lieberman, CEO of SnapApp: 1)

  • 5 Unexpected Places to Conduct Keyword Research

    There are plenty of free tools to use when conducting keyword research, such as Google Alerts, Google AdWords Keyword Tool, Soovle and Topsy, among many others. But marketers and content creators that want to get a little more creative with their keyword research to improve the use and selection of relevant keywords on their site, […]

  • Leads360 Express Launch Brings Big Business Sales Capabilities to Small Business Sales CRM

    New product empowers small businesses to better compete for new customers Los Angeles, California – March 5, 2013– Leads360, a market leader in cloud-based intelligent sales automation solutions, today announced the availability of Leads360 Express

  • Why Brands Should Overhaul Their Social Media Strategies

    By Eric Covino, president and founder of Creative Signals

    Was I the only one who wasn’t shocked when GM pulled its $10 million ad budget with Facebook last year?

    Despite all the hype, social advertising is not yet the golden goose for direct response, and it may never be. The attractiveness of large amounts of eyeballs at cheap prices is not enough to overcome the psychological aspects of why people interact on social media.