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
Online Video Selling Tips for Direct Marketers
Jun 19, 2013Ready to test online video advertising? The opportunities are expanding exponentially with rapid growth and adoption of online video viewing...
Marketing Sustainably
Calling Any Ideas for a Postal Service Future!
Jun 17, 2013I read a review of a recently published biography of President Calvin Coolidge by Amity Schlaes, and it was the...
Yblog
Why Advertisers Need to Think Native
Jun 12, 2013Native advertising is the latest buzzword. Even venerable publishers such as The New York Times, The Atlantic and Forbes, are...
The Integrated Email
5 Things to Do Now to Prepare for the Next Stage of Email Marketing
Jun 10, 2013The email channel is well known for being a low cost high performance marketing machine. Generating revenue requires little more...
Making Social Sell
Stop Measuring Content Marketing
Jun 7, 2013Why are most sales people and small businesses struggling to generate leads online? Because they invest heavily in social media...
Ruthless B-to-B Marketing
5 Essentials for Every B-to-B Website
Jun 6, 2013"If you don't have a website, you don't have a business." By now, this maxim is well understood. But what...
Muscle Marketing
My 9 Insider Tips to Build Your Email List For Low or No Cost!
Jun 3, 2013Whether you're an entrepreneur, corporation or online publisher, the power of the lead is critical in growing your business …...
Triple Venti Dolce Data...
5 Reasons for ‘Why Now?’
May 29, 2013With the lingering, precarious feelings about the state of the economy, along with plenty of concerns about the business climate...
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...
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....
The LinkedIn Endorsement Smackdown
For years, I was a brand evangelist for LinkedIn. For me, it was an ideal way to stay on top of my business connections, meet new colleagues or learn more about individuals BEFORE engaging with them in any kind of email dialogue or face-to-face meeting. It definitely helped me establish my business presence for a larger audience, instead of carrying a long bio on our website. But I was surprised when they introduced the concept of "endorsements"
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Hashtags: #smartnewmarketingtool or #riskymarketingmove?
Call me out of touch, but I really don't understand the fascination with hashtags. The hashtag gives Twitter the ability to collect all tweets about that topic into one collective location. That makes it easy for Twitter users to join the conversation by reading, retweeting and adding commentary. If enough people tweet and retweet about the hashtag word or group of words, it's considered a topic that is "trending" (i.e. it's popular).
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Marketing Interns—The Uncle Sam Scam
Last summer, my college-age son was lucky enough to land a summer internship at a manufacturing company in Southern California. Considering there were over 100 applicants, he was thrilled to have been selected for a position where he could demonstrate his newly learned marketing skills. And as a college Junior, he was excited with the promise of full-time employment upon graduation. He started the job with relish, and 4 and a half months later went back to college feeling on top of...
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If Content Is King, Grammar Is Queen
Growing up in a household with highly disciplined parents, my grammar was always being corrected. Whether it was ending a sentence with a preposition, misplacing a modifier or splitting an infinitive, any conversation could be stopped, at any moment. Now that the marketing world has turned its sights to "content" as a key brand engagement device, I'm hopeful that the grammar police are reinforcing their troops for a ride along. Because from where I sit, brands could use a little disciplinary...
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If You Speak, Will They Listen?
Yesterday, I was one of two speakers at a webinar hosted by Target Marketing. During our prep call earlier in the week, the host advised us that over 1,000 people had signed up to attend this free event. Now I know from past experience that only 50 percent will likely attend, but another 10 percent to 20 percent will listen to the podcast after the fact. But despite providing case studies, facts and figures based on industry best practices, the disappointing reality is that very few...
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