Brad Gustavesen

May 18, 2011
A Blog? I Can't Do That! Five Steps to Making a Case

We encounter a number of clients and end-users who insist there is no way they could support a blog. A blog is basically a collection of centrialized content. Examples can include articles, press releases, events, case studies, or a key hire announcement.

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February 10, 2011
Building Customer Profiles

Marketers need to spend more time increasing the quality, not so much the quantity, of their databases. Here are five ways to get better quality data while not annoying customers.

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0 Comments Topics: B2B Marketing, B2C Marketing, E-Commerce, Integrated Marketing, Online Security, Email Marketing
January 6, 2011
Getting Transactional - 10 Tips for Launching a Transactional E-mail Campaign

When it comes to e-mail marketing, building a single broadcast e-mail doesn't intimidate most of us. But a triggered or transactional e-mail campaign always causes high anxiety. Here are a set of ten tips to help get you started.

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0 Comments Topics: Analytics, B2B Marketing, B2C Marketing, E-Commerce, Email Marketing
December 15, 2010
Optimizing On-Site Subscription Opportunities

While holiday shopping earlier this week, I was reminded of the importance of the integration between your subscription list and your e-commerce site. Too often, website forms and acquisition methods become too focused on a single purpose. A contact form is only a contact form, a catalog request form does only that and your checkout process is for shopping only.

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0 Comments Topics: B2C Marketing, Web Development, E-Commerce, Email Marketing, Partner/Client Relations
November 16, 2010
My new website is live, now what?

Your site has launched. You’re still getting pats on the back from the rest of your team and you still have that “I just accomplished something big” glow. Things are good. Just don’t forget that there’s no such thing as a finish line for a web marketing project.

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0 Comments Topics: Web Development
October 28, 2010
Fighting Feature Creep on the Product Page

It’s happened to us all - it starts out slowly with a feature here, a must-have script there and soon enough your product detail page is chock full of widgets, gadgets, apps, animations and more. Somewhere, deep in the there, you’ve still got a “Buy” button. Now if your customers could only find it.

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October 11, 2010
Fighting the "BOLD" Fight!

If you have experience managing content on the web or designing, you've seen it. Take a simple website and begin making design elements “stand out”. The changes begin innocently enough and with the best of intentions.

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0 Comments Topics: Content Management System, Web Development