Archive for December, 2011

Your Website is a Sales Tool, 
Make it Work Hard.

Tuesday, December 20th, 2011

Unlike their B2C counter-parts, many B2Bs treat their websites as an online brochure. While it should showcase all that is unique about your company and express what you have to offer, it should also be treated as a lead generating tool with a focus on conversion.

Is your website pulling its weight?

In a full service marketing approach most, tools lead to the website. When we do Marketing Map sessions, invariably the website shows up as the second last and therefore most important step in a prospect’s path to that action step you want them to take to reach a sale. Does your site prompt them to take action? (more…)

You Built It, Now What?

Monday, December 12th, 2011

Websites used to be seen as online brochures, you just needed a presence. No need to really drive people there, they’ll find you. After more than ten years of websites like that, and the more recent socialization of the internet we now know how important it is to be found. Would you build a big, beautiful building in the wilds of the Greater Toronto Area and expect people to just stumble in? There’s a lot of competition out there and visitors want to be engaged. You need to give them a reason to go to your site. (more…)