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5 Web Design Trends to Watch in 2013

It’s the end of the year. Traditionally a time for looking back, but savvy B2B marketers know it’s important to keep an eye on the web design trends that could spell the difference between website success and failure in the year ahead. As a business owner, you’re likely too busy to delve into the nitty-gritty.

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Some Thoughts on Becoming a Thought Leader

Everyone wants to be a thought leader these days. At least, that’s what other thought leaders tell us. Whether you call it thought leader, subject matter expert or some other buzz phrase, being highly regarded in your field is a great way to not just get noticed yourself, but to also attract new clients for.

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Marketing As a Conversation

If you ask 20 different experts to define marketing, you’re likely to get 20 different answers. Marketing is the process of educating people about your products or services. It’s how you go about building your brand. It’s what takes place before the sale. Marketing is conducting research to learn about your prospects and customers. It’s.

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New Client Website Design: Elevate Semiconductor

ElevATE Semiconductor makes semiconductors and integrated circuits for test equipment. They recently became an independent company, spinning off from Intersil. The ElevATE team needed help transitioning from Intersil’s brand to a brand of their own. Because ElevATE was previously part of another company, they didn’t have their own website. They needed a website to help.

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Retargeting for Improved Online Advertising Results

Are you getting a good ROI from your online advertising? If not, you might want to consider retargeting, an advertising approach that displays your ads on other websites to people who have already visited yours. Here’s how it works: you target previous visitors to your web site with banner ads on display networks across the.

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How To Use Customer Testimonials to Improve Your Website

Are you avoiding the use of customer testimonials on your web site because they seem phony or cheesy? If so, you might want to reconsider. We’ve all seen websites with obviously fake testimonials. And sometimes even legitimate testimonials can make the product sound too good to be true. But experienced marketers know that the best.

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Communicating with Today’s Time-Deprived Readers

Have you noticed how people in our culture have evolved from readers into scanners? People will still sit down to read a good book or magazine for entertainment purposes. But when it comes to business communications, most of us simply don’t have time to read all the details anymore – a fact that has serious.

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Make B2B Marketing a Holiday Tradition

Unless you have real elves toiling in your workshop, the holiday season usually isn’t such a great time for B2B marketing. That’s the conventional wisdom, anyway. But times like these call for unconventional measures. Even if you’re busy planning ways to kick off business after the New Year, there’s really no excuse for not staying.

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Choosing a Secure Password for Your Internet Accounts

Imagine the horror of visiting your company website and discovering that a hacker has defaced it. Or still worse, logging into your online banking account and finding out that a cyber thief has made off with all your money. You may think this only happens to other people. But get lazy or careless when creating.

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The Pros and Cons of Allowing Blog Comments

To comment or not to comment—that is the question. Of course, Shakespeare didn’t write it quite like that. But if he lived in our era and ran a B2B website, he might have. The Internet makes it easy to engage in a two-way dialog with your prospects and clients, especially using blogs and online articles..