Leicestershire Twitter Elite List : How did aardmaan get to No 23

Posted by aardmaan | Wednesday 11 August 2010

Okay, I’ve only been tweeting six months (and three days). Thought I’d give it a go back in February. In fact, Pauline at LATI in Loughborough got me started. She was keen to give Twitter and LinkedIn a try. We’d thought we’d start out on the twitter journey together. Read the rest of this entry »

Twitter Parade: cool tools on the web

Posted by aardmaan | Tuesday 3 August 2010

A bit of twitter fun from  IS Parade. See your twitter followers parading behind you - and their tweets in real time too. Read the rest of this entry »

7 Habits of Highly Effective Customer Value Propositions

Posted by aardmaan | Tuesday 13 July 2010

Customer value propositions. Today, no business can get away with not having and using a value proposition. If you have a website - or business profile on the internet - you will be forced to state what your value proposition is.

The good news is that they’re fun to do. And, when you get them right, they’re incredibly powerful. Read the rest of this entry »

Customer motivations: What drives people to do business with you?

Posted by aardmaan | Monday 14 June 2010

Found this great Dan Pink video about what motivates people: related to performance and how to motivate your employees. The interesting discovery is that the larger the reward - the lower the performance. Fascinating! Read the rest of this entry »

3 Fundamental Reasons Why Your Marketing Strategy Isn’t Working

Posted by aardmaan | Monday 31 May 2010

Don’t think your marketing strategy is working? Not getting the sales you want? Not as profitable as you’d like to be? Not reaching the right customers? Read the rest of this entry »

B2B Customer Marketing: The cost of not knowing who your customers are

Posted by aardmaan | Monday 10 May 2010

Run a B2B business? Do you really know who your customers are? Is that a question you find easy to answer? Or difficult to answer? If so, you are one of many organisations that find it hard to define who their customers are. Read the rest of this entry »

93.3% Customer Focus Score: Beat That Meerkat

Posted by aardmaan | Thursday 15 April 2010

Love this tool. It measures your website’s customer focus rate. Called a “wewe” calculator. Not the best of names. However, the analysis results are truly insightful. Read the rest of this entry »

March tweets: intriguing, obscure and thought-provoking

Posted by aardmaan | Friday 26 March 2010

Here are a selection of tweets twittered in March, which you may find useful, intriguing, or simply interesting.  Read the rest of this entry »

Email marketing survey: Are companies more sophisticated today?

Posted by aardmaan | Friday 12 March 2010

According to a survey published today by Econsultancy/Adestra, companies are becoming a lot smarter in the way they use email marketing campaigns. In summary, their survey has discovered: Read the rest of this entry »

Social Media: How do you measure its working?

Posted by aardmaan | Friday 5 March 2010

Is the internet is key to your business success? Do you depend on the internet to drive business? Serve customers? Win new business? Makes online sales? Today, that means getting to grips with a totally new online tool: social media. Read the rest of this entry »