Phil Lauterjung

Posts Tagged ‘inbound marketing’

It seems as though I come across an article every day that questions the use of Social Media as a legitimate tactic to use in business.  The big question is can Social Media be measured?  Can you get an ROI from Social Media?

The best answer that I can think of is – it depends.  Kind of a weasely answer, but bear with me for a moment.  There are currently over 350 million people on Facebook and nearly 50 million on LinkedIn.  There are also tens of millions on Twitter, but that seems to be a more difficult number to pin down.  My point is that there are very large numbers of people using these communities to talk about what matters to them.  Some of them might be your customers or prospective customers.  Read more... (532 words, 2 images, estimated 2:08 mins reading time)

I don’t claim to be an SEO (Search Engine Optimization) expert or guru; however, I have spent a lot of time learning about it and I intend to continue.  One thing I have found is that there are way too many who do claim to be experts or gurus on the subject.  Some of you may have hired one and lived to regret it.  But SEO, as I explained in the series on Integrated Lead Generation, is an integral piece of the process.  Read more... (588 words, 2 images, estimated 2:21 mins reading time)

What’s a Landing Page you ask?  Well, if you have done what we’ve talked about in the previous parts of this series you will have people clicking on your listing in the organic search results and/or your pay-per-click ads.  Where are they going when they click?  Do they all go to your home page, or maybe to your “contact us” page?  Why do you want them to go there?  Read more... (674 words, 3 images, estimated 2:42 mins reading time)

A few years back I was head of sales for a $70 mil./yr. manufacturing company.  The Executive VP for the company and I had an ongoing debate over metrics to use in evaluating our leads.  His primary measurement was cost-per-lead.  While I felt it was good to know that number I also argued that it was rather meaningless unless we knew how much sales revenue, and over what period of time, we were getting from those leads.  Read more... (751 words, 2 images, estimated 3:00 mins reading time)

The lifeblood of any business is leads – right?  If you don’t have leads to follow up you won’t have many sales.  Seems simple enough, but in today’s marketplace it has become VERY difficult to get well qualified  leads.

According to Todd Defren at Shift Communications you should consider using the PR power of social media.  Todd taught a class for Inbound Marketing University today called PR for Inbound Marketing, and had some great insights worth passing along.  Read more... (530 words, 2 images, estimated 2:07 mins reading time)