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New Blog site
02 January 10 - 14:08
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I am moving my blog to http://sdcllc.wordpress.com/
Come check it out.
What do you use to track the activity generated by Social Media and Inbound Marketing activity? I’m looking for a web based solution that will help a small business track activity from the following sources in one package:
Ø Website
Ø Blog
Ø YouTube Channel
Ø Flickr
Ø LinkedIn
Ø Facebook
Ø Twitter
Ø Plaxo
Ø Linked Websites
Ø PURL Campaign
Google Analytics will do some of this but not all. If I engage an ad agency they will provide analytics for the campaign. Yet, when I finish the work with the agency, my data and tools go away too. What can a business use to track and analyze all web oriented marketing activity?
Some tools I have heard of are:
ü HubSpot: http://www.hubspot.com/
ü Woopra: http://www.woopra.com/
ü MutualMind: ... (more)
Why is the US postal system losing money?
By J.R. Atkins 12/18/2009
Non-competitive business practices or poor customer service; what would you call this recent experience with the US Postal Service?
Monday evening I went to get my mail when I noticed our community mail box had been knocked down. I went ahead and checked for mail, no luck.
Tuesday evening, same thing, no mail. This is when I figured that the mail is not going to be delivered if the boxes are not accessible from the rout carrier’s vehicle.
On Thursday I call my local post office and they tell me I can pick up my mail at their location and they have no idea when my mail box will be repaired.
On Friday, I go to the post office to pick up my mail and learn they don’t have my mail. It is at an annex. If I call the annex, they can deliver my mail each day to my local post office and I can come pick it up.
I call the annex, they said they can deliver my mail to my local post ... (more)
Here is a good article on Social Media and Email Marketing
DECEMBER 10, 2009
Tried-and-true plus shiny-and-newBusiness executives around the world are optimistic about next year, according to the “2010 Marketing Trends Survey” from StrongMail. Nearly nine in 10 plan to increase or maintain their marketing budgets, and one-half expect their customers to be spending more in the coming year.
E-mail and social media top the list of marketing tactics respondents will increase spending on in 2010. Search came in third.
Combining social media and e-mail marketing is a growing trend. More than four in 10 business executives said integrating the two tactics was one of their most important e-mail marketing initiatives for 2010, just after improving performance and targeting and growing opt-in lists.
Around one-quarter of respondents ... (more)
| The following statistics are an abbreviated version of the research that we commissioned from the University of Wisconsin - Green Bay. The detailed research and source information can be found here. The statistics contained in the email that originally inspired the project have been retired, but can still be viewed here for purposes of comparison. If the World were 100 PEOPLE: 50 would be female |
