As marketers, we talk a lot about generating leads and driving ROI. But when customers receive the right messages across every touch point, revenue follows. Tracking the impact of marketing campaigns on inbound call activity in Salesforce.com is a powerful way for marketers to determine which marketing campaigns create valuable customer relationships. The result of […]

Does your sales team use anything that could be construed as an “autodialer,” or are you thinking of buying one? Does your marketing team use SMS/text messaging campaigns? If so, you need to become intimately aware of new regulations going into effect. The Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) was drafted in 1991, but new regulations […]

It’s official – Google’s long and gradual campaign to limit marketers’ visibility into organic keyword data is nearing completion. Some Google Analytics users are able to see just 25% of the organic keyword data that drives traffic from Google to their site, and a total eclipse of the keyword universe as we knew is at […]

What does it take to become a successful entrepreneur? This is the question Entrepreneur on Fire – or EOFire, as it’s known to fans – seeks to answer in its ongoing series of interviews with business leaders. Past guests have included marketing guru Seth Godin, Nimble’s Jon Ferrara and Shark Tank’s Barbara Corcoran. In the most […]

While there are many sales organizations that have cold called their way to success, recent data indicates that a referral strategy can be far more effective. In a referral program, partners recommend your goods or services to to their prospects and customers. The idea is that if a lead has already has done business with […]

Dynamic phone number insertion (DNI) is a process that marketers use to measure the impact of digital efforts on  inbound phone calls. When a lead clicks though to your site from any advertisement, DNI technology displays a number that’s unique to the specific search engine, web page, keyword or other source. By tracking call tracking […]

What separates the best agencies from the rest of the herd? Creative vision? Attention to detail? Sure, those things will always be important. But, at the end of the day, your customers are hiring you to deliver results. The best agencies are those that can not only deliver good results, but can also perpetually connect […]

What if every lead that called your company could be instantly connected to someone specializing in the product they want? If you could do that, how much more business could you close? For example, let’s say that you sell cloud app hosting packages that you are advertising on Google AdWords. With Revenue.io, the moment a […]

For many Google Analytics users, the prospect of achieving 360 degrees of inbound search visibility suddenly became impossible during the fall of 2011. On October 18th of that year—a day that SEOs will forever consider infamous—Google announced that organic search query results from users signed into Google would be hidden from all web analytics services, […]

Like many others before me, discovering marketing automation was a defining point in my career. And once you see the light, there’s no going back. I remember the old days of sending out email campaigns without any knowledge of how those campaigns were affecting conversions or contributing to pipeline. But marketing automation tools such as […]

An interview with Andrea Wildt, VP of Product and Marketing for Full Circle CRM. As marketing budgets continue to expand, it’s increasingly critical to understand how marketing efforts impact pipeline. Traditional ROI models give credit to a single effort that impacted a sale or opportunity. For example, if a prospect views a tweet, then performs […]

It’s no longer a question of whether marketers should invest  in social media. Social platforms like Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook are blooming with valuable behavioral data about your customers. Not surprisingly, there has been an explosion in social media advertising. BA Kelsey has predicted that by 2017 social media ad spend will more than double […]