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New Learning Opportunity at Print 09

Wednesday, September 9th, 2009

Earlier today, the Graphic Arts Show Company announced that Print 09 will offer an additional learning opportunity for show attendees.  The "Reinvent:Print" educational theater, in booth 6129, will feature an impressive line up of more than three dozen presentations made by more than a dozen printing and marketing industry experts.  ...

B2B Marketing is Like Curling. Say What?

Sunday, August 16th, 2009

During every Winter Olympics, I find myself watching at least a few minutes of the curling competition.  I'm not really sure why because curling is definitely not an exciting sport.  If you're not familiar with curling, it's a little like shuffleboard.  The big difference is that curling is played on ...

Is Your Website Helping Sales?

Monday, August 10th, 2009

One fact of life for most B2B companies is that their customers and potential customers are now firmly in control of the buying process.  From a marketing perspective, "buyer control" means that prospective customers now have the ability to determine when and how they will access and obtain information about ...

Digital Marketing to Grow at the Expense of Traditional Channels

Sunday, August 2nd, 2009

The growth of digital marketing no longer constitutes "breaking news" for most of us, but research from several firms continues to track the fundamental changes that are occurring in the practice of marketing.  A recent example is the "US Interactive Marketing Forecast, 2009 To 2014" published last month by Forrester ...

Marketing Collateral Matters

Monday, July 20th, 2009

How valuable is marketing collateral in driving sales?  What types of collateral have the greatest influence on purchasing decisions?  What types of collateral are most widely used by prospective buyers?  These were some of the questions that Eccolo Media sought to answer in a recent study of collateral usage by ...

For Effective Marketing, Think “Pull” as Well as “Push”

Monday, July 6th, 2009

One significant marketing trend in recent years has been the growing use of "pull" marketing techniques and channels.  Outsell, Inc., a media research firm, recently estimated that U.S. marketers will spend $65 billion in 2009 on their Websites (a pull marketing channel).  MediaPost recently reported that U.S. spending on search engine marketing ...

B2B Marketing Budgets Expected to be Up in 2010

Monday, June 29th, 2009

About half (53.0%) of B2B marketers expect their budgets to increase in 2010, according to a recent study by BtoB magazine.  The study was based on an online survey of 495 business-to-business marketers conducted between May 14 and June 2.  About 37 percent of survey respondents expect their 2010 budgets ...