The other day I was speaking with a client whose products are sold through direct and indirect sales channels. This client relies on channel partners to sell their products in Europe. He was telling me about their 90/10 experience – that is, 90% of European sales were generated by 10% of partners. His response generated several questions:
The operative word in this question is Attract. The impact of pushing your message out to your target prospect via advertising, PR, and direct sales has changed. Leading companies recognize that buyers no longer just listen to your message – that it takes an engagement process to first attract the right prospects and then move them along the buying process, until they are ready to make a decision. An engagement mindset is important because according to Forrester Research, your prospective customers are 67% to 90% through the buying journey BEFORE they contact the vendor.
Have you noticed that you have less organic search data available? In early February, we highlighted the impact of secure search on our organic search data in 2012. Approximately 31% of our organic search results were "(not provided)". This result means that people are accessing your site via secure search, which prevents you from seeing the search terms they used to find you.
If you’ve been paying attention to the headlines over the past year or so, businesses, marketing agencies, SEO practitioners, and other online marketing enthusiasts predict that keyword research as we know it (or knew it), is rapidly diminishing in effectiveness. Keyword research has been the SEO go-to source for website optimization.
We’ve learned from experience that all too often, business planning takes place on the run – or not at all. People are busy and don’t take the time to sit down and formally talk strategy; but without a solid game plan, opportunities are missed and holes start to form in the pipeline.
Rochester, NY (PRWEB) January 03, 2013
Katie Steelman joins PLS as our new marketing writer and social media specialist. As customers recognize that great content attracts prospects through the web, PLS is providing full content development services including public relations, articles, white papers, video scripts, blog and social media content, ebooks, etc.
Earlier this Fall, IDC released their 10th annual CMO Tech Marketing Benchmark Study, highlighting the budget allocation and trends of mid-sized and large tech companies. Marketing Profs also covered some of the results last month. While the IDC survey represents primarily mid-to large tech companies, there are insights and trends that apply to even the smallest of tech companies.
Recently, HubSpot released their marketing benchmark report compiled from results of 7000+ HubSpot customers representing a wide range of industries - B2B and B2C. Using data collected in July and August 2012, HubSpot analyzed the relationships between key inbound marketing activities and the volume of traffic and leads that correlate with those activities. HubSpot analyzed website pages, landing pages, blogging, Twitter reach, and Facebook reach. The report provides insights by business type (B2B vs. B2C) and by company size (by number of employees).
