Beasley Direct and Online Marketing Agency Blog

The Beasley Direct and Online marketing blog covers emerging trends and best practices for increasing leads, sales and knowledge in online and direct marketing, demand generation and marketing operations. Check back regularly for updates or subscribe to receive updates automatically.
 
 

Why Have Prospects Stopped Submitting Contact Info on Lead Forms? And What Can You Do about It?

By Laurie B. Beasley, President, Beasley Direct Marketing Symptoms of the decline: Over the past four months we’ve noticed a pronounced trend: prospect lead form submissions are declining in raw numbers and in percentages of clicks-to-submissions. Yet other forms of...

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Content Marketing Tips: Making Your Content Work for You

By John Thyfault, Vice President of Search & Social Strategy, Beasley Direct Marketing Content Marketing Tips In our first blog about content marketing, we mentioned that sharing original content is important. The whole purpose of content marketing is predicated on having...

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Content Marketing and the Sales Funnel: An Indirect Road to Direct Sales

By Laurie B. Beasley, President, Beasley Direct and Online Marketing  Content Marketing Content marketing is a newish term for an oldish concept. That is, surround your customers with information and education they need to feel motivated to do business with you....

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Building Organic Links: Best Practices and Tactics

By John Thyfault, Vice President of Search & Social Strategy, Beasley Direct Marketing Organic Links OverviewIn an earlier blog post (“How To Improve Organic Search with Link Building”), we discussed how Google assigns value (PageRank) to your online material. Also...

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Why Direct Mail Still Yields the Lowest Cost Per Lead and the Highest Conversion Rates

By Laurie B. Beasley, President, Beasley Direct Marketing These days, marketing is all about digital. We are emailing, blogging, Tweeting and Facebooking our little marketeer hearts out.  So direct mail (the kind that the postal delivery person puts in your...

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Guide to Online Reputation Management in Social Media and the Internet Using Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

By John Thyfault, Vice President of Search & Social Strategy, Beasley Direct Marketing Online Reputation Management Social media and interactivity are a major focus of many companies’ outbound communications efforts—but what if some of that interactivity is hostile? What if people...

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How To Improve Organic Search with Link Building Strategies

By John Thyfault,Vice President, Search & Social Strategy, Beasley Direct Marketing When it comes to search engine optimization (SEO), it all comes down to the 800-pound gorilla: Google. Google is the main arbiter of value in the universe of Internet websites....

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Email Marketing Goes Mobile

By Laurie Beasley, CEO, Beasley Direct Marketing Mobile Email Marketing Best Practices We’ve known for a while now that mobile is a critical factor in all things marketing. This is particularly true for email marketing today. Between October 2010 and October 2012,...

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Why Print Advertising Still Works (in a Digital Age)

By Carlos Perez, Associate Creative Director, Beasley Direct Marketing Print Advertising in a Digital Age In today’s digital world, what use do we have for print advertising? You might be surprised, once you start looking into it. A number of studies show that people...

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Website Usability Part 2: Why the Heck Should Your Customers Care?

This is the second posting in a series about what it takes to make a website so easy to use that your audience will return again and again because the experience is simple, painless and quick. This second part explores...

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