Leveraging Events for Digital Marketing

By Bob West A group of us were recently invited by a client to attend their annual field day event, at which they were going to share results from much […]

Twitter — Where Do I Start?

By Bob West I have to start this blog post with a confession: I didn’t always like Twitter. In fact, I thought Twitter was one of the dumbest ideas I […]

Email Marketing 101

By Bob West Many companies have embraced email marketing as a key component of their direct marketing tactics, and most of the efforts that we see are very successfully. However, […]

Budgeting Enews vs. Web Advertising

By Bob West Enewsletters and media websites represent two of the most significant digital advertising opportunities available to marketers, and many clients wrestle with which medium should get their ad […]

Digital Chat Video: Enewsletter vs. Web Spend

Marketers commonly wrestle with deciding how to split their marketing dollars between enewsletter and online advertising. This Digital Marketing Chat Video offers some guidelines for when to use each medium. […]

Video : It’s What is Next.

By Bob West I have written here before about the value of video in a marketer’s toolkit, and a quote I recently encountered has prompted me to do so again […]

Blogging for Business

Fact: Companies that blog have 55% more website visitors. Fact: B2B companies that blog get 67% more leads per month than those who don’t blog. Blogging is clearly a great […]

Use of the Web Increasing for Ag Audiences

By Bob West For many years, marketers to the agricultural and horticultural audiences largely ignored the growth of the Internet as a marketing tool. Many factors contributed to this skepticism […]

Banner Ads that Work

Many digital marketers and industry observers are keen to predict the impending demise of the online banner ad. This is particularly true for consumer-oriented websites that deliver hundreds of thousands […]

5 Social Media Tips for B2B

You know it’s true, and here are the facts to back up your sense that social media matters more than ever: The Aberdeen Group reports that 84% of b2b marketers […]