The Power Punch
By Carolyn Goodman
About Carolyn
A blog that challenges B-to-B marketers to learn, share, question, and focus on getting it right—the first time.
Carolyn Goodman is President/Creative Director of Goodman Marketing Partners. An award-winning creative director, writer and in-demand speaker, Carolyn has spent her 30-year career helping both B-to-B and B-to-C clients cut through business challenges in order to deliver strategically sound, creatively brilliant marketing solutions that deliver on program objectives. To keep her mind sharp, Carolyn can be found most evenings in the boxing ring, practicing various combinations.
You can find her at the Goodman Marketing website, on LinkedIn, or on Twitter @CarolynGoodman.
Online Video Marketing Deep Dive
12 Overlooked Ways to Help Your Video Rank Higher on YouTube
May 22, 2013YouTube is currently the second largest search engine on the Internet. With 1 billion unique monthly visitors watching YouTube videos,...
Muscle Marketing
List-building 2.0: 7 Tips for Using ‘Power’ Polls For Prospecting
Apr 8, 2013Most people know Web 2.0 is simply the evolution of the Internet into an environment of interactivity, reader participation and...
Think Mobility
3 Questions Before Implementing Any Mobile Solution
May 20, 2013I often get super excited when I see other businesses doing cool and innovative things in mobile. You read an...
Marketing Sustainably
Direct Mail Benchmarks From DMA
May 20, 2013In my years following the direct marketing field, one of the resources I've most appreciated is the Direct Marketing Association's...
Yblog
Wearable Mobile Devices Are the New Black
May 15, 2013This year's hot trend in fashion is computers. Whether at SXSW or in the tech and media hubs on the...
The Integrated Email
What Is the Best Day to Send Emails?
May 13, 2013Somewhere, in the world just on the other side of the rainbow, there is a magical day for sending emails....
Making Social Sell
Convince Prospects You Can Change Their Success Rates
May 10, 2013Is generating leads with LinkedIn proving frustrating and difficult? Probably because you're failing at tempting prospects to click more deeply...
Ruthless B-to-B Marketing
B-to-B Marketers Should Take Another Look at E-commerce
May 6, 2013E-commerce opportunity is evolving fast, but only 25 percent of B-to-B marketers are taking advantage of it, according to a...
Triple Venti Dolce Data...
The Data Czar and His Ministers
May 1, 2013I live in a relatively small, rural town of 50,000 residents spread over 61 square miles. My specific neighborhood still...
Who's Your Data?
Instagram: Does It Matter That It Will Make Money on Your Pics?
Dec 19, 2012Instagram announced the company will soon begin using your content to sell targeted advertising products to the highest bidder. Does...
The Whole Magilla
What Marketers Can Learn From Maine's Political Email Idiocy
Feb 24, 2012It finally happened. Politicians' idiotic email practices had a measurable negative effect. "Maine Republican Party chairman Charlie Webster has admitted...
Denny Hatch's Blog
The Internet Can Make You a Chump—Forever!
Sep 25, 2010Trouble is, the Internet is rife with misinformation and if you get caught advertently or inadvertently propagating this nonsense in...
SEO & Content Marketing Revue
5 Tips for Top Positioning (And Converting) Page Titles
Aug 11, 2010Wondering about a SEO content strategy that offers the biggest impact in the shortest time? Try tweaking your page titles....
Hello Complaint Department? My Friends Are Listening
If it costs five times more to acquire a new customer than to keep one, why do brands continue to try and ignore customer complaints? For as long as there have been businesses selling goods and services, there have been complaint departments. And I'm guessing that as the number of sales increased, so did the number of complaints. So why did it take until the creation of the Internet and the popularity of social media for so many businesses to really start to address customer satisfaction...
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Help! I'm Being Stalked by a Bathtub!
As a marketing agency, we're always recommending different media channels to our clients depending on the product, the target audience demographics, marketing goals, etc. And, like many of you, I thought online retargeting was a clever way of "helping" to remind browsers that since they had been interested in a product/service at one point, they might still be interested in making a purchase from that site, so a little tap on the shoulder seemed like a clever way to stay top of mind. ...
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The Meanness of Strangers
The link between sales and marketing is undeniable. So I think it's time that working adults accept that their communications behavior—whether in email, on the phone or online—is a direct reflection of the brand they're representing. And if you're rude to me, I don't want to do business with you—ever. I first noticed bad behavior in an email
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DM 101: A Small Business Primer
Yesterday, Target Marketing hosted a webinar called "Direct Marketing on a Shoestring Budget." I was honored to be a speaker, along with Cyndie Shaffstall of Spider Trainers. Considering all the resources available for DM information, I was completely surprised when I learned that over 1,000 people registered. During the live event, we were deluged with questions and there wasn't enough time to answer them all, so I thought I'd dedicate this blog to trying to cover a few DM strategies that...
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Marketing: It Doesn't Have to Be Complicated
I love the new AT&T television campaign with the cute guy talking to the group of first graders. The guy poses a simple question to the kids, like "What's better? Doing two things at once or just one?" The kids pause for a moment, consider their options, and then all shout out "TWO! TWO!" with some thrusting two fingers into his face. "You sure?" he asks innocently to one little girl. "I am absolutely positive," she states decisively, flattening her hands on the table for emphasis. ...
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