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Entrepreneurship: the most vital force in our economy

Proving the old adage that when you get to meet real leaders in their field, one usually finds a very humble individual, this interview with Entrepreneur Nicolas Hayek shows just that. Mr Hayek shows true foresight and reveals his philosophy of good management.
Mr. Hayek is the man behind revitalising the Swiss watch industry and regaining that market from the then biggest producer: Japan.

New Insights into Googlebot

New Insights into Googlebot -

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Lead Nurturing - not just for B2B Marketing, but also for Sales - and Beyond


The primary goal of lead nurturing for B2B marketers is to build a better relationship with your prospective buyers in their ‘upstream’ decision making. 

5 tips for Google AdWords's new ReMarketing feature

Google AdWords Remarketing: 5 tips to set up a successful and easily managed Campaign

Remarketing: Google AdWords now provides retargeting platform.

Google AdWords just released a retargeting option to follow your visitors around on the web.

By "the web" is meant Google's network of different websites, aka Google Content network. For small-to-medium sized businesses ths opens the door to being ahead of their competitors.

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Mobile phone email reading

E-mails being read by iPhone leaps ahead by nearly 130% in one year. 

Campaign Monitor just completed a study on how emails are being read. The trend shows dramatic changes, as iPhone grows by 128% in one year. Clearly mobile is something SME's need to prepare for now.

Click to see the actual results of the various mobile email systems being used.

Facebook (finally) introduces Conversion Tracking!

Facebook introduces Conversion tracking

Up until now the only way I knew of getting some ROI measurement on Fb advertising was by using a dedicated Firefox plugin called Facebook Ads Manager. It's a great plugin, but it's still a very complex round-a-bout way of actually tracking your ad-spend & ROI.

Pay-per-Call: a brief outline

Pay-per-Call: brief outline and some Do's & Dont's

 

First off let's get our terminology straight:

Pay-per-call: this means you advertise your phone number on the Internet and pay when a prospect calls you up. A rough price guideline here is 10x an average click price of what it would cost you in AdWords, i.e.: if you pay $1 for an AdWords click, expect to pay $10 per call

Learn how to Join the Pay Per Call Advertising Affiliate Program from Commission Junction

Split-test: Google's TV ad platform

Split-testing

It's always interesting to  see how other people run a split-test. Google is right now conducting a split-test for their very latest product: Google TV ads.

Follow the links below to check it out. Once you're cookied in one browser you're only be able to see one specific landing page version, but using different browsers will enable you to see what the split-test consists of.

Link to landing page A: www.google.com/adwords/tvads/index-a.html

Link to landing page B: www.google.com/adwords/tvads/index-b.html