Archive for July, 2009

Are your visitors looking for prices? Prove it!

Posted on July 22 2009 by Dave J.

Are your website’s visitors looking for prices? Choose one:

Duh. Of course they want prices.

Okay … prove it!

If you’re the marketing guy, you choose #1. If you are the CEO, you’ll choose #2.
Dale Underwood at his B2B Conversations Now Blog has an easy plan to ‘prove it’: Publish B2B Pricing? Test the traction without actually doing [...]

Telecom Purchase Saga – Let me sum up

Posted on July 17 2009 by Dave J.

Our company needs to renew our telecom/internet services this year, and I’ll be working with our Controller to do so. I thought it might make a good case study in B2B sales & marketing. And my blog would make a good place to vent about the experience.
Unfortunately, rather than a case-study, it already feels like [...]

A trade pub's ugly home page

Posted on July 15 2009 by Dave J.

Let’s assume that digital is the future of Trade Publications. If you want to ponder how much work its going to take to get there, take a gander at this publication’s home page:
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Since it’s cut-off at the bottom (the page is 3800 px tall), let me tell you that there are 53 links [...]

Skype for customer service? Why not?

Posted on July 15 2009 by Dave J.

This post is inspired by a promotional email that I’m not sure why I received, or why I opened. The subject line was ‘Customer Service’.
The email was from an Italian company promoting availability of product support via Skype.
Hmmm. Not a bad idea.
Today, our customers are working more globally, and more likely to use Skype to [...]

SpendMatters discusses four types of directory sites

Posted on July 13 2009 by Dave J.

I think at one time I looked up some blogs from the other side of the fence…you know, the buyers. Professional buyers.
Well the announced closing of ThomasGlobal.com led me to a very readable purchasing/sourcing blog called SpendMatters. Jason Busch responded to this news by posting The Future of Supplier Directories and Supplier Search. Its a [...]