Image via CrunchBase Zemanta is a superb recommendation tool for blogs – we’ve bee using it here on Creative Agency Secrets for years after seeing it on David Cushman’s blog.  Its easy to use, helps us create professional content in minutes and best of all enables our content to feed back to other blog sites. [...]








There are a lot of places online where your personal and company profile is visible.  This is the modern-day equivalent to directory listings that used to be a very important part of B2B marketing in the past. I was reminded of this by a recent follow request from StrewIt.  I have no idea what the service is [...]








Do you struggle with objections or sometimes find that objections you never expected or planned for pop up and cost you sales? Well you’ll be glad to hear that there is an effective way to quickly become skilled at handling “any” objection whether you’ve heard it before or not. So how’s it done? Simple, all [...]








This is a guest blog by Larry Kim, Founder & VP of Product Development. WordStream Inc. Over the past seven weeks I’ve covered six steps that can transform your search marketing campaigns into lead- and revenue-generating machines. We’ve come to the final step: Step 7: Do it all over (and over) again! SEO and PPC are [...]








Following on from yesterday’s post about delays publishing a new company website – take a look at this one: What I like about it is it sets a deadline (the counter is clocking down all the time) it still says what the company does – USP – so the holding page continues to sell the [...]








What do you do when the first words you hear on a sales call are; “I’m not interested”, “we don’t have the budget”, “we already have a supplier”, “you’re too expensive”… There are numerous books full of clever techniques for handling these objections some of which are very good. However I have found a simple [...]








Since posting about marketing using Christmas Cards we’ve been inundated with visitors – thanks to you all. But we believe we’ve found the most innovative Christmas card of the year – created by The Blue Hive, an Ogilvy agency network member. A live artist creating doodle images incorporating a tweet message. The agency has taken [...]








hands up the number of times your company has delayed the launch of its newly designed website? It’s virtually impossible to find a client who has actually delivered a new site on time, when expected. So why is this? What makes a corporate website so hard to deliver?  Why can’t redesigns be launched on time? [...]








This is a guest blog by Larry Kim, Founder & VP of Product Development. WordStream Inc. He is outlining seven highly effective keyword research tactics that will help you generate more leads and sales from your search marketing campaigns. Step 6: Clean up your Research with negative Keyword Discovery Last week’s email covered the importance of prioritizing workflow [...]








Ramping up for christmas or winding down?  Planning for 2011 or just thinking about your “year end summary” blog post?  Everyone’s still at work as far as we can see. Agencies Twist Media, business communications, Teddington, UK Mercia Group, training services for accountants, Leicester, UK E-Marketing Associates, social media agency, El Monte, CA, USA The [...]