Gesundheit! Want a healthy business? Launch an ideavirus

This article by Seth Godin, author of Permission Marketing and now Idea Virus talks about his self-coined term for increasing sales by giving away your product.

Control Geeks

Websites bombard us with billions of banner ads. Avid surfers want to dodge the deluge. Arm both sides with shrewd software and you have the makings of a nasty little war.

AskASalesPro.com

AskASalesPro.com is a site that provides free, emailed responses to anyone who submits a sales-related question. The site is manned by a group of veteran sales professionals who enjoy sharing their experience, knowledge and success stories with others. It may take up to 48 hours to get a response, since the advice givers are all working professionals. Sample topics cover issues like getting through … [ Read more ]

Advertising Electronic Reading Room

This site from the University of Texas Department of Advertising offers a number of useful resources, including: white papers, links to the ad world, advertising quotations, advertising law & ethics, famous ad slogans, biographies of ad giants, rules for style in writing, dictionary of terminology, and more.

Market Research Q&A – Robert Lederer

Robert Lederer, an expert in market research chats about the past, present and future of online surveys.

That Elusive Customer Loyalty: How to Build It, Learn From It and Profit From It

Wharton marketing professor Barbara Kahn writes about the importance of turning customers into advocates who will not only develop loyalty to your company’s product or service but will also spread the word to other potential buyers. The article discusses the concepts of customer portfolio management and relationship marketing.

Building Strong Brands

Aaker (marketing, Univ. of California- Berkeley) has written a sequel to his Managing Brand Equity (Free Pr., 1991). In this latest offering he tells how to deal with the fragmentation of markets by building brand identity, creating brand personality, and managing a brand system. With extensive case studies and illustrations of companies’ ads, he emphasizes positioning a brand personality to match that of the consumer … [ Read more ]