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Last Friday, we let you know that the new Timeline on Facebook wouldn’t be the end of the world and that you can actually benefit from the new features. It really is as simple to set up as the original layout. Just in case you don’t believe us, we’ll walk you through the basic setup just to ease your nerves a little more. Facebook makes it pretty simple by presenting you with a guided tour. If you’re an administrator to

As most of you know, on March 30th, the inevitable switch to the new Facebook Timeline will occur. If you’re a business owner who has taken the time to perfect the original Facebook layout, you might be thinking, What next? Well, March just started, so luckily you have the rest of the month to take a look at other brands’ Timelines, plan what you will do to yours and make the necessary changes so that your business can continue to

LEAD NURTURING Email marketing is an overused but under-utilized way of reaching new customers. The best way to use email marketing is for lead nurturing. Most of your prospects are interested in buying your products or services, but they might not be ready to buy right away. Too many companies lose out on sales by approaching potential customers once or twice and never communicating to them again if they don’t buy immediately. Since you are investing so much time and

SOCIAL MEDIA Social media is by far the most controversial online marketing channel. Some say social media is revolutionizing the way your business will get found by new customers, while others say it’s all hype and a total waste of time and resources. We think the truth is much more complex. Here’s our breakdown of social media marketing as we head into 2012. THE OPPORTUNITY Quite frankly, there isn’t enough quantifiable data to prove the direct impact of social media

In yesterday’s blog post, we talked about the importance of measuring Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). Today, we want to examine how best to use KPIs to create an agile, iterative campaign that maximizes your ROI. As we illustrated in our last post, there are many KPIs to study depending your campaign (SEO, PPC, social media, Blogging, etc.); but these KPIs don’t exist in a vacuum. You need to constantly be analyzing the KPIs to see if you are improving or

Key Performance Indicators (KPI) are a way of measuring the success of your marketing campaign to determine if it is successful or not based on what your goals are. KPIs can help you identify what is working in your campaign, what is not, how to improve your campaign, and how to apply new strategies to drive ROI. Selecting the appropriate KPIs can help your campaign succeed. You can track these KPIs in order to make sure your campaign succeeds: WEBSITE