Posted by Todd Miechiels in B2B Marketing Strategy, Measurement, Strategy on Jan 26th, 2010
All we need is yet another acronym in our bowl of search engine marketing alphabet soup that already includes ROI, ROAS, CT, SEO. But there is one more worth mentioning, one you should be aware of and avoid at all costs: Ranking Obsession Syndrome, or ROS.
You don’t have to search hard to find someone who’s obsessed with whether their company’s search engine rankings has moved from position...
Posted by Todd Miechiels in B2B Branding, General, Life, Strategy on Nov 7th, 2009
Most businesses that have a mission statement probably spent a lot of time and thought (and money in some cases) carefully crafting it. Over zealous and well meaning executives and consultants meticulously toiled (and probably feuded) over getting it ‘just right’ in hopes that it would both pull their team together, and at the same time impress prospects enough to want to do business with such...
Posted by Todd Miechiels in B2B Marketing Strategy, Measurement, Strategy on Apr 8th, 2009
In the spirit of not continuing to waste time, money, and trees, I propose agencies and consultants adopt the immediate use of The Happy Face Report as the primary way to periodically communicate your progress on projects and results from campaigns.
The idea for The Happy Face Report came to me in the form of a tirade that a prospect of mine was having one day. “I’m so sick of reams of meaningless data...