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I’m all about DIY Marketing – especially internet marketing. I love it when clients want to take the initiative and manage their own social profiles and websites. Content generated by clients has the potential to be the most honest, insightful, and transparent marketing content you can get. If its done right. Remember the customer For [...]

This post comes to you courtesy of ideas from Lifehacker & Mail Chimp blogs. The next time you have an event to attend – be it a trade show, a networking event, a usergroup meeting, etc, do a little work ahead of time to make sure you meet with and get the contact info for [...]

One of the most obvious gaps in the ‘out-of-the-box’ salesforce.com toolkit is a duplicate blocker. There’s a free force.com labs duplicate blocker available on the app exchange , but it only finds duplicates with matching first name, last name & email address. That’s not always enough – especially since most of your contacts will have [...]

Ok so I might be the last Google Reader ever to figure this out, but I wanted to share it in case anyone else out there could use it. I stumbled across a Firefox plugin that lets you leave comments on blogs and articles from inside your Google Reader. This is a huge thing for [...]

Image via Wikipedia Ok, so a confession, the image is the chemical makeup of caffiene. I thought that was just too good to pass up! And I had to play with my new Zemanta plugin. Something that shocks and quite honestly scares me is how few organizations have their Sales and Marketing teams really working [...]

Here’s some tips I’ve gathered from the all powerful internet and my own experiences and education. If you want to see some proof that other folks out there agree with me, check out articles by Gail Goodman, CEO of Constant Contact. She’s written quite a few articles about the dos and don’ts of email marketing. [...]