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11 Digital Marketing “Crimes Against Humanity”

Occam's Razor

Not spending 15% of your Marketing budget, every month, on experimenting with new techniques / channels / ideas. " I'd postulated this rule in 2005, it is even more true in 2011. Skipping creation of a cross-channel strategy [via Shilpa Gupta] "TV drives Search. We hate change. Super lame! The 10/90 rule.

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Should You Get Rid of Your Website’s Lead Forms?

ConversionXL

Lead capture forms made sense in an era when phone and email were the dominant communication channels. True, some companies experimented with social media as a sales channel as well. The first wave of messaging software arrived with ICQ (launched in 1996), followed by AIM (1997), Yahoo! Image Source.