Everyone knows that social media marketing is a CRITICAL promotion tactic these days. But what a huge corporation does on a social media platform to promote it’s brand is usually dramatically different from a hardware, SaaS or software startup. Mostly this has to due with the vast difference in monetary and personnel resources of Giant […]
The Importance of Content Marketing for Tech Startups
Content Marketing is very much a mainstream marketing activity these days, in nearly all segments of the marketplace. It’s particularly important of tech savvy buyers looking for education in a particular product category. It’s rise in importance corresponds with the general degradation of outbound marketing response rates, along with Internet-driven prospect preferences toward more control […]
Is Outbound Marketing Dead?
The trend in the marketing world for some time has been away from “outbound marketing” towards “inbound marketing”–otherwise know as “content marketing”, “permission marketing”, “new marketing” “modern marketing” and a few other buzz-terms. The definitions may vary slightly, but they’re essentially variations on the same theme: Potential customers find you, rather than you (the marketer) […]
Is SEO a Legitimate Marketing Technique?
I have definite ideas on this question. But what got my attention recently was a reference to SEO in a prime time television show (one of the legal dramas) on one of the major US networks. It went something like this: Lawyer: “What are you concerned about?” Client: “I’m concerned that the jury will have […]
Is Google Actually Good or Evil?
I know this has been a topic that’s been discussed at length by many other folks. But a recent personal experience caused me to explore it further. I recently transitioned my Blog from Google’s Blogger platform to WordPress. Like most software transitions, it was a bit of work, and somewhat painful. Thankfully being from the […]
