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Marketing Maxims for Today’s Challenging Times

These are turbulent times for all businesses - necessitating streamlined marketing processes that are finely honed to mesh with today’s sputtering global economy.1.
Lee TraupelJuly 25, 2002

LookSmart Not Small Business Friendly

There is a firestorm of negative press regarding LookSmart's recent marketing stumbles via numerous discussion groups, including two of the oldest and most influential, I-Search and I-Advertising Digests.
Lee TraupelJuly 25, 2002

Fast Forwarding your Business with Instant Messaging

Instant Messaging is rapidly becoming accepted in the business community as a viable communications tool and process - it's faster than e-mail, free on the client side, even a novice user can easily grasp the interface in just a few minutes and...
Lee TraupelJuly 25, 2002

E-Mail Newsletter Marketing Essentials

If Gutenberg were alive today he would be in publishing heaven! Forget the printing press, the web has fast-forwarded self-publishing in ways that are evolving so rapidly it's becoming difficult to integrate technology and process to leverage...
Lee TraupelJuly 25, 2002

Driving Qualified Traffic Using Directories

Some education is essential to enlighten you about this form of interactive marketing. Directories aren't Search Engines; they are web sites or information portals which use analysts on staff to review submissions from companies who want to be...
Lee TraupelJuly 25, 2002

All Along the Digital Watchtower

It's no secret interactive (web-based) marketing has arrived. The IDC research group just released a study in late June of this year indicating 99.9% of a survey of executives and entrepreneurs said they currently conduct online marketing...
Lee TraupelJuly 25, 2002

Creating Effective Opt-in E-Mail Campaigns

It's been said before, but important to re-emphasize, e-mail is the "killer application" of the information age. According to the latest Forrester Research numbers, the permission based e-mail industry is projected to grow from $164M...
Lee TraupelJuly 25, 2002

Don't Become Another .com Road Kill

Remember those Super Bowl and World Cup commercials where you saw talking hand puppets, scantily dressed women, cowboys herding cats and crude lettering on cardboard?
Lee TraupelJuly 25, 2002

The Happy Jar

I just delivered a free speech. I am a great believer in free speech, but an even greater believer in paid speech. However, there are good reasons why someone like me would deliver free speeches.
David Leonhardt a.k.a. The Happy GuyMay 31, 2002

5 Reasons Why Headlines Are Crucial To Your Website’s Success

Without a powerful headline, your message stands little chance of being noticed in an increasingly competitive marketplace. If your headline doesn’t capture attention and pull prospects into your sales copy, than your marketing effort is a...
Robert BoduchMay 25, 2002