Essential Internet Marketing Acronyms Explained
If you’re new to Internet marketing, the many acronyms and abbreviations often used in discussions on the subject can be confusing. To help you get up to speed quickly, here are the meanings of the most important:
27 Essential Marketing Tips
The following 27 essential marketing tips are culled from my marketing experience during the last 25 years. These are the tips that have helped me over and over again. They have helped me get back on track when I have strayed off course. All of these tips may not work for you, and that is OK. Perhaps you will find some tips you have not considered before that will help you connect with your internal clients as you market your programs and services to them.
IT Certification and Career Trends for 2004
What are your IT Career and Certification expectations for year 2004? While certifications can give you an edge, going for just any certification doesn’t help. What is your career focus? New or old activities, what is your focus? New does not always translate to good or wise. It makes sense to review and analyze trends that will affect your career in 2004.
Don’t Underestimate Search Advertising
During this week’s Search Engine Strategies conference it was stated that search engine marketers currently make up 22% of the people buying online advertisements, often bidding on thousands of search terms with million dollar budgets.
Enterprise ROI selling
IT vendors have accepted the fact that closing deals today requires proving that their products deliver substantial value. But, with some budget relief in sight for 2004, vendors may be optimistic about the return of the happy days of pre-bubble selling — and they could abandon their commitment to ROI-based selling programs.
Your World Your Way – Trusting Yourself In Business
“It doesn’t interest me who you are, or how you came to be here. I want to know if you will stand in the centre of the fire with me and not shrink back.” Oriah Mountain Dreamer
How to Quantify Downtime
Quantifying the cost of downtime can help you gain funding for technologies that enhance performance and mitigate downtime risks. Yet most organizations have a difficult time calculating the losses associated with downtime because of its complexity.
Network Your Way to Success
To develop sustainable internal business, clients need to know about you, and they need to respect you. They need to view you as an integral part of their team. They need to believe you contribute to their success in achieving organization goals.
Become a Thinking Organization
A thinking organization supports employees with powerful process tools designed to tap into the thinking power of its employees. These process tools provide a common set of frameworks and language for the necessary thinking and discussions employees need to engage in, in order to arrive at thoroughly thought out business solutions. For example, if a team needs to make a decision, they would all follow the same decision making process. It wouldn’t matter what part of the organization they work in, they would all use the same decision making tool. This saves enormous amounts of time and puts a team on the same page at the same time.
Tax Filing 101: Procrastinators of the World, Unite!
For all you procrastinators out there, here’s a nuts ‘n bolts guide on how to legally postpone the filing of your Year 2003 income tax returns.