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Making Talent Decisions using Talent Analytics

This month, as I work with a lot of really dynamic companies that have interesting challenges, it feels a bit like the annual college basketball tournament – crazy, exciting, with some of ups and downs. Three client projects this month are about making talent decisions using talent analytics; the work is evaluating the talent, identify [...]

Make it unique and sell the difference

Have you identified what makes your business unique? The marketplace is crowded with lots of companies who have similar products and services. Potential customers have lots of choices, are easily confused by your messaging, and are willing to invest very little time doing work to figure out what you are offering. Most first time visitors [...]

Intepreting Email Opens and Clicks

Email marketing is an essential tool used by professional marketers today; many marketers are moving up to marketing automation systems that include email marketing, Web site tracking, automatic lead nurturing, and more. All vendors in this space offer helpful campaign summary reports that show delivery and bounce rates, email open percentages, click through rates, etc. [...]

Hiring the Perfect Candidate

We’ve all made hiring mistakes…

Tracking in Marketing Automation Systems

Many people are mis-informed or confused about how email open tracking works in email marketing and marketing automation systems. The purpose of this post is to explain how tracking works and what approach to use to get the best results. How email open tracking works. When an HTML email is sent, the email system inserts [...]

Is Marketing Automation going Mainstream in 2009?

51% of companies who don’t have a lead nurturing strategy will be adding one in 2009

CRM failing? Marketing Automation to the Rescue!

Marketing Automation can add the strong value proposition that salespeople need to fully adopt and use CRM

Building a High Performing Sales Team- Part One

Sales hiring results can be improved by assessing a sales candidate’s behavior.

The 3 A's of Social Media

I attended an informative Webinar hosted by Hubspot www.hubspot.com today with Brent Leary of www.CRM-Essentials.com presenting. Brent shared lots of valuable information including his three A’s of Social Media: Automation Analysis Audacity Automation is using the social media tools that allow you to participate in the dialog (e.g. blog, tweet, comment, phone, webcam). Analysis is [...]