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Everybody Loves A Good (Marketing) Story

By crafting narratives that resonate on a human level, we can even be MORE effective at delivering complex technical concepts.

3 Key Considerations For A Killer PPC Strategy

Marketers at B2B companies can achieve stellar results with a robust Pay-Per-Click (PPC) advertising strategy, which includes search engines, YouTube and social.

What The Super Bowl Can Teach Us About B2B Marketing

B2B marketing leaders are constantly on the hunt for strategies to elevate their teams’ performance and drive growth.

B2B Marketing That Energizes Your Sales Team

When it comes to B2B Marketing for Engineers, there is nothing more Marketing Departments want than to empower their sales teams, to give them better-qualified leads that turn into opportunities and close faster.

B2B Marketing Trends For 2024: A Must-Attend On-Demand Webinar For B2B Leaders

There are several studies recently released that point to critical changes marketers must make – immediately – to the way we all build our digital marketing and lead generation campaigns.

Killer Keywords That Will Power Your Marketing

Choosing the right keywords is the foundation of an effective B2B SEO strategy.

How To Incorporate AI Into Marketing Content Creation

By embracing AI, businesses can improve their advertising results, reach their target audience more effectively, and save time and money.

10 Tips To Beat Declining Attention Spans

Refine your content marketing approach to engage B2B buyers in a culture of distractions. Elevate engagement with these tips.

How Google AI Is Changing B2B Marketing

By embracing AI, businesses can improve their advertising results, reach their target audience more effectively, and save time and money.

Unlock The Secrets Of Skyrocketing Conversion Rates With Landing Pages

In this post, we’ll equip you with actionable strategies and the latest industry insights to supercharge your landing page conversion rates.

Goldstein Group Communications Announces Salesforce Integration Certification

Sarah Gontero, Director of Digital Marketing Strategy, is bringing syncing capabilities even further for clients by achieving the HubSpot Salesforce Integration Certification.

How To Write Content That Google Will Love

Here are some easy guidelines for creating winning content.

Goldstein Group Communications Adds Carolanne Taylor As Marketing Manager

Carolanne is known for her strategic thinking, customer focus and collaborative leadership style.

How To Increase Sales-Ready Leads Using Nurture Marketing Automation Strategies

How Email Workflows Boosted MQLs to 33% of Leads for an Industrial Pump Manufacturer

Marketing That Finally Drives Growth Of Your Portfolio Company

Here’s how a B2B marketing audit can help your private equity firm grow portfolio company sales.

Get Winning Lead Generation And Marketing ROI

If your company is struggling to generate leads, especially sales qualified leads, and if you want more traffic to your website, then read the story of how we did it.

Your Guide To Starting Thought Leadership Marketing

Ready to start your thought leadership marketing strategy? Here is a primer on thought leadership: what it means and how to start your company’s journey to a thought leader.

Goldstein Group Communications Adds Bennett Gust As SEO Manager

Bennett is a business driven SEO manager with 7+ years of marketing agency experience. He has focused on providing SEO plans for enterprise B2B companies.

ROI A Win For B2B Digital Marketing Campaign

Learn how Goldstein Group Communications (GGC) achieved an $8:$1 ROI on a marketing campaign designed to help launch a new product for a client with a business focus on property identification solutions.

How To Increase Leads From Your B2B Website

This blog post explains how Goldstein Group Communications (GGC) helped a client squeeze more leads out of its website immediately and before new content and outbound ad programs were put ready to deploy.

How To Use ChatGPT Artificial Intelligence For B2B Marketing

How to Use ChatGPT Artificial Intelligence for B2B Marketing

What New Ideas Are Around The Corner For B2B Marketing?

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What Were B2B Marketers Doing 30 Years Ago?

Reflections on 30 years of B2B Marketing and What It Means to Marketers Today

Leveraging An Agency To Get Measurably Better Media Advertising

Leveraging an Agency to Get Measurably Better Media Advertising

Goldstein Group Adds Tina Golumbeski To Digital Marketing Team As Paid Search Manager

Goldstein Group Adds Tina Golumbeski to Digital Marketing Team as Paid Search Manager

SEO Vs PPC For B2B Companies

Why SEO & PPC Work Well Together for B2B Marketing | B2B Marketing Agency

30 Tips To Increase B2B Lead Generation

Goldstein Group Communications is Celebrating 30 years in Business by Giving Away 30 Tips for B2B Lead Generation

How To Increase B2B SEO Rankings With An SEO Team

Create Your Team Plan for High Google Search Rankings and Improve Lead Generation

Marketing To Younger Engineers

Time to Revisit Your New Target Audience: Marketing to Young Engineers

LinkedIn Advertising—Is It Worth Doing For B2B Marketing?

LinkedIn Makes a Great Addition to B2B Advertising Programs Because It Is Super Targeted

How UX Drives B2B Marketing Success

What Website User Experience Works Best When Marketing to Engineers

Why Some CEOs Give Marketing A Blank Check

Why Some CEOs Give Marketing A Blank Check

Ben Bullock Joins GGC As Marketing Manager

Ben Bullock joins GGC as marketing manager

How To Convert More Marketing Leads To Sales Opportunities

Many elements must come together to convert quality marketing leads into exceptional sales opportunities. Here’s everything you need to know.

Writing Articles Engineers Will Actually Read

There are several benefits to contributing technical articles to B2B industry magazines. Click here to learn how this PR strategy can help your business!

Jeanne Turner Joins GGC As Technical Writer

Jeanne Turner Joins GGC as Technical Writer

Why B2B SEO Hinges On Funnel-Focused Content

How writing B2B SEO Content for the Buyers Journey Drives Visibility and Conversions

How To Increase Social Media Engagement In B2B

How to increase social media engagement in B2B

Google Analytics Is Changing. Are You Ready?

What marketers need to know about Google Universal Analytics changing to Google Analytics 4

2022 Trends In Google Pay Per Click Ads

2022 Trends in Google Pay Per Click Ads

“Dirty Dozen” Webinar: The 12 Most Effective B2B Marketing Initiatives

A recent GGC Webinar, co-sponsored with Chase Bank, outlined the critical programs B2B marketers use to drive revenue while reducing cost/sale.

Marketing Commodity Products And Undifferentiated Products

Marketing Commodity Products and Undifferentiated Products

Use A Content Tree To Grow Your Marketing

Why a content tree is the most effective way to develop B2B content.

The GGC “Big Game” Ad Review

The GGC “Big Game” Ad Review

What Is Your Brand Saying To Your Customers? How To Tailor Your Brand Voice So Customers Will Listen

What is Your Brand Saying to Your Customers?
How to Tailor Your Brand Voice So Customers Will Listen

Why You Should Have Primary And Secondary SEO Keywords In Your Blog Content

Why You Should Have Primary and Secondary SEO Keywords in Your Blog Content

Goldstein Group Communications Adds Laura Schreiber As Marketing Manager

Goldstein Group Communications adds Laura Schreiber as Marketing Manager

Is Your Digital Marketing Performing Up To Par? Three Numbers Tells Whether You’re A Leader Or A Laggard

Three key indicators to measure a program’s effectiveness and diagnose what’s working and what’s not.

Have You Checked Your Web Vitals Lately?

Read an explanation of Google’s Core Web Vitals and how to use them for marketing success.

How To Execute A Successful B2B PR Strategy | GGC

Execute a winning B2B PR strategy by avoiding these 7 things that editors hate & using a bulletproof workflow for your next story.

How To Proofread | Tips For Proofreading Your Writing | GGC

How to proofread. Practical tips for how communications managers and marketing managers can proofread anything more effectively.

HubSpot Names Goldstein Group Communications To Diamond Tier

HubSpot Names Goldstein Group to its Diamond Tier for Digital Marketing Agencies

GGC Promotes Five To Drive Client Satisfaction And Future Growth

GGC Promotes Five to Drive Client Satisfaction and Future Growth

Goldstein Group Adds Jed Davis As Web Development Manager

GGC is thrilled to announce the addition of Jed Davis as Web Development Manager. Jed will be joining the Digital Team to help launch and maintain websites and other online initiatives for our clients

50 Favorite Marketing Tech Tools

How healthy Is your B2B Martech Innovation Stack? GGC has long held that the impact of technology plays a significant role in marketing impact.

Create Your Own Virtual Trade Show Booths

Goldstein Group Communications now offers virtual trade booths. Learn more about the features and advantages in this blog post.

4 Strategies To Transition To Virtual Selling

Learn four strategies to help transform your sales operation to virtual selling with Goldstein Group Communications’ new white paper.

Finding Undiscovered Prospects Via LinkedIn Lead Generation Tools

Learn more about how you can use LinkedIn lead generation tools to help uncover prospects.

Getting SEO Right Has Never Been More Important

61% of B2B marketers reported they were re-allocating portions of their digital marketing in response to the COVID downturn.

Preparing For The Restart: What Are Companies Doing Now?

When the economy re-opens, all our competitors will be rushing to re-engage with customers and prospects. How can we beat them? What can we do NOW ?

19 Ideas To Boost Website Quote Volume – NOW!

GGC put together a list of ideas for ways you can improve your digital marketing presence.

Carolyn Polanski Assumes New Role As Senior Account Director

Carolyn Polanski has been promoted to become GGC’s Senior Account Director

How To Conduct Great Customer Interviews

Sometimes customers say the darndest things.

What B2B Blog Topics Work Best?

When (and How) to Deal with Marketing Budget Cuts

Goldstein Group Wins Gold For Technical Writing

Goldstein takes home top honors PRSA Cleveland Rocks Awards for Technical Article on behalf of client, Rittal.

B2B Marketing And The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)

Come January 2020 the law is changing, are you covered by CCPA? Click here to find out how you can ensure compliance.

The Importance Of Campaigns That Market To Engineers (and How To Do It)

When dealing with highly technical customers – like engineers – then your communications should be up to the technical level that they’re used to.

Optimize Search For Voice And Featured Snippets

Optimize Your Content for Voice Searches and Featured Snippets

Throwback Thursday: AI For Marketing

Looking back at a presentation by WTWH Media about AI for Marketers.

Marketing to Those Much-Needed Engineers

Communicating to engineers at their level, engineer-to-engineer, can be difficult. We’ve got some ideas to help drive engagement.

It’s Halloween, But That Doesn’t Mean Marketing Has to Be Scary.

A look back at Alan Gaffney, Vice President Global eBusiness & Digital Marketing at Parker Hannifin Corporation, speaking at GGC’s Marketing Summer Camp. 

Catching Up With The Marketing Momentum.

A look back at what we learned about marketing trends in 2019.

A Look Back At The Second Annual GGC Marketing Summer Camp.

Tacos were eaten, ice cream was had, Marketing knowledge was acquired.

The 5-IN-15 Digital Marketing Audit

How do your metrics compare to other B2B companies? Book your digital marketing audit today to find out.

How To Elevate Your B2B Marketing By Building A Compelling Message Architecture.

In GGC’s latest White Paper, we walk you through 8 essential building blocks to start you off on putting together the perfect Message Architecture.

The Dog Days Of Summer

A Late Summer Marketing Check-In.

What Do Summer Camp And Artificial Intelligence Have In Common?

Join GGC at our 2019 Summer Marketing Camp.

Goldstein Group Creates Director Of Brand Impact Role

Erin Klees becomes Director of Brand Impact for GGC.

Goldstein Group In The News!

Goldstein Group in the News!

Featured Snippets AKA Yes, Another Term For Marketers To Learn.

Just what are “featured snippets” and why are they so important? Goldstein Group has answers.

Choosing A B2B Marketing Agency: Six Things You’re Not Likely To Hear In An Agency Pitch.

What to listen for when selecting a B2B Marketing Agency.

When Marketing To Engineers, It’s Important To Make The Right B2B Agency Selection.

Confused about how to choose a B2B Agency in 2019 trying to market to engineers? Read GGC’s Complete Checklist for Picking the Right B2B Agency

The 8 Core Elements Every B2B Marketing Program Must Have

Trouble with finding what works in B2B Marketing? Learn more about key elements for a great B2B Marketing Program from Goldstein Group.

Goldstein Group Adds Carolyn Polanski To Its Marketing Management Team.

Goldstein Group welcomes Carolyn Polanski to its Management Team.

Metrics That Matter: 10 Numbers Every Marketer Needs To Know.

What metrics really matter? What are the number that really drive all-important revenue and growth?

It’s Marketing Budget Season — What’s Driving The Numbers This Year?

The 2019 Budget Season is a good time to experiment with new approaches and new initiatives.

Learn What WE Learned In 2018!

At Goldstein Group we encourage our team to innovate at the speed of technology by using resources such as HubSpot Academy’s online courses.

Goldstein Group Has Gone To The Dogs . . . .

Sign up for our newsletter, get valuable market insight, and meet some very good dogs.

Do You Know What We Did Last Summer???

This summer we learned some valuable advice on how to deliver “Measurably Better Marketing” from a variety of industry experts at our Marketing Summer Camp.

2019 Budget Planner: 5 Key Questions To Ask

In our newest White Paper, “2019 Budget Planner: 5 Key Questions to Ask,” we identify the five core questions to ask yourself and your marketing team to begin building out your 2019 program

Goldstein Group Communications Adds Rachel Kerstetter To Its Marketing Management Team

Goldstein Group Adds Rachel Kerstetter to Marketing Team!

B2B Marketing: Learn What Engineers Want To Read

IEEE GlobalSpec surveyed more than 2,000 engineers and technical professionals, asking key questions on work environment, professional challenges, and the competition. Learn what they want to read.

Accelerate Sales Ramp-up With A Better Approach.

Marketers can accelerate their sales startup by preparing a detailed Sales Pillar to point the team in the right direction, right from the start.

Sales Teams Seem To Struggle Selling Technical Products?

Why Do Sales Teams Seem to Struggle Selling Technical Products? Learn how to empower your sales team and successfully market to engineers using sales pillars to ensure your extended team gains traction in the shortest amount of time.

Building Your 2018 B2B Marketing Budget

How much should you spend on your Marketing budget? What working and what’s not with your lead generation?

Forget What You Know About Marketing: A Content Marketing World 2017 Recap

What if everything we know about marketing is what’s holding our business back? This was the main theme of this year’s Content Marketing World.

Reaching Millennial Engineers – What Works Today?

Goldstein Group Communications – Reaching Millennial Engineers – What Works Today White Paper.

The Difference Between HubSpot Vs Pardot

What marketing automation software platform should you choose? Learn about The Difference Between HubSpot Vs Pardot from new platinum VAR, Goldstein Group.

The Value Of Cold Calling – Even Today

The value of cold calling and tips on the best times.

Can You Sell To Millennial Engineers On The Phone?

Goldstein Group questions, is it possible to reach people and sell on the phone anymore?

Tech Accelerators Will Win The Marketing Battleground

Goldstein Group reports that Gartner Group reported that the technology budget for the Chief Marketing Officer in 2017 will be bigger than the CIO’s tech budget

50% Of Your Content Should Be Video

50% of Your Content Should be Video. Online marketers are turning toward more advanced forms of communication and traditional blogs are due for a major overhaul.

Blogging 101

Five suggestions to help get you started brainstorming on ideas when you are stuck for what to write about for your next blog.

Why Is CRM So Hard?

Why is CRM So Hard? Download our eBook to answer your questions.

How To Pick A B2B Marketing Agency? 6 Things You’re Not Likely To Hear In An Agency Pitch

How to pick an agency.

Google Fred Update | How To Save Your Site

Is your site safe from the Google Fred Update? Curious about what it is or how it will impact site traffic?

How To Market To Engineers: Making Marketing Work For The Technical Buyer

What do engineers really want to hear from marketers?

How To Market To Engineers: Four Focus Group Surprises On What Engineers Really Want To Hear.

Marketing to engineers is a cinch if you put out valuable content, as well as material that helps them to their jobs better.

Making CRM Easier: A New EBook From Goldstein Group.

Making CRM work for your agency.

Joel Goldstein Speaks On Digital Marketing At IT Expo

Joel Goldstein speaks on Digital Marketing at IT EXPO.

Goldstein Group Communications Adds Kevin Hatgas To Its Marketing Communications Team

Goldstein Group Adds Kevin Hatgas to its Marketing Communications Team.

Your 6 Most Important Marketing Questions For 2017

What 6 questions should your Marketing team ask themselves to ensure an effective Marketing strategy in 2017?

2017 B-to-B Marketing Budget Review

Planning for 2017 Marketing Budget

Understanding Millennial Marketing

Get hip to Millennial speak with our new eBook. Learn important decision-making factors when marketing to millennials.

Jennie Ford Speaks To AMA Panel On Digital Marketing Careers

Jennie Ford, Digital Marketing Manager, speaks to AMA about her role in managing a wide variety of different digital marketing components for clients, from social to marketing automation to online advertising and paid search.

Goldstein Group Communications Adds Anastasia Fete To Its Account Management Team

Anastasia Fete joins Goldstein Group Communications.

7 Steps To Drive Marketing ROI

Curious on what good your marketing budget is doing for you? Check out Goldstein Group’s eBook on 7 Steps That Drive Marketing ROI.

No More Google Side Ads.  What Does This Mean?

Google removed the ads on the right-hand side of their search engine results page. Well, they didn’t really “re-move” them as much as just moved them.

Mobile Friendly Website

Google has announced that at the beginning of May they will give mobile friendly websites even more ranking priority than before.

Jennie Ford Joins Goldstein Group Communications

Goldstein Group Communications announced that it has added Jennie Ford as digital marketing manager to its team of marketing communications experts.

Let Me Apologize For Saying This:  Happy Holidays.

Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays?

Happy New Year From Goldstein Group

Where should you spend your 2016 marketing budget? Where will you get the most impact? Our ebook walks through a few tips.

Are You Satisfied With A D- On Your Website’s Report Card?

What makes a website great? And more importantly to businesses, what makes a website rank? It used to be that great content and design alone were enough. Today, new factors determine a website’s success.

Goldstein Group And Littelfuse Win Top Place In National Content Marketing Award

Goldstein Group Communications was named the winner in the PR News’ Agency Elite Awards in the category of Content Marketing, in connection with the agency’s work for its client Littelfuse and its Speed2Design campaign.

2016 Marketing Budgets:  How Much To Spend, And Where To Spend It

Get some great tips on setting up your marketing budget for 2016.

Joel Goldstein, Goldstein Group Communications, Talks Marketing Career, Tips

Joel Goldstein Expert Marketing Communications – Podcast: His Road to Success & His Biz Tips for You

SEO Update: Is Google Changing Things Again?

How are your Google rankings doing? Are you suffering from not updating your SEO strategies? Read about some of what we’ve been seeing with branding, local seo, and more.

Are You Listening? Five Things Your Customers Are Telling You.

“Five Marketing Tips from Your Customers” goes into detail on the most critical marketing foundations to consider when building your program.

Top Secret B2B Marketing Fitness Program Revealed!

B2B marketing targets and the podcasts that are helping me meet my goals.

How Important Is Brand In The Minds Of Engineers?

How important is brand in the mind of the engineer?

Native Advertising: Harmful Or Harmless?

Native Advertising is it harmful or harmless.

Native Advertising: Truth In Deceit’s Clothing

David Ogilvy gave this advice: Less an advertisement looks like an ad and the more it looks like an editorial, the more readers stop and read.

Five Things Your Customers Are Trying To Tell You. Are You Listening?

Are you listening to your customers? Research studies show how we should think about B2B marketing and what customers are trying to tell you.

A Conscience Is A Terrible Thing To Waste

Goldstein Group Communications recently posted firm’s core values .

Core Values Justify Our Existence

Goldstein Group asks its employees to periodically revisit what our values need to be as a B2B communications company.

Sure We Love Our New Site. And It’s Sending You An Important Message!

Goldstein Group Communications – A new site.  A new logo.  A new brand statement, “Measurably Better Marketing.”  So what’s it all mean?

Blogs Should Be Tools, Not Weapons

Blogging can be a very effective way to support your brand. It associates a human face and voice with a company name.

Getting Customers To Stick Takes More Than A Sticker

Goldstein Group Communications is doing more projects to help our clients detail their role in their clients’ engineering organizations.

Don’t Let Bigfoot Walk Away With Your Messaging

Is it true that all publicity is good publicity? That may be the case for FLIR the camera, but after hearing the Noory show I wondered if FLIR the client would agree.

We’re More About Resources Than Releases

Welcome Goldstein Group Communication’s new website (www.ggcomm.com). We’re More About Resources than Releases.

Is Your Website Mobile Friendly?

On April 21, 2015 Google started to incorporate the mobile friendliness of a website in their ranking algorithm.

The Most Creative Campaign In 22 Years

Littelfuse, put together a campaign so tremendous, with so much impact that it quickly gathered the most awards of any program in our agency’s 22-year history.

Mission Accomplished: Littelfuse Speed2Design Wins Second Platinum MarCom Award

Littelfuse, Inc. , the global leader in circuit protection, has received a 2014 Platinum MarCom Award in the Marketing/Promo Campaign.

And The Winner Is… The Power Of Integrated Marketing

Everyone’s trying to answer to answer the question “what works today in marketing.” Read our eBook to find the answers.

Are Your Blogs Like Trees Falling In The Forest (Unheard) Due To Poor SEO?

10 SEO Questions You Should Answer before Posting Your Blog.

Killer Ideas To Build A Website

Are you thinking about a website re-design in 2015? If so, you will definitely want to read our “Killer Idea” eBook.

7 Shocking Numbers To Consider When Building Your 2015 B-to-B Marketing Budget

Download our eBook, 7 Shocking Numbers to Consider When Building Your 2015 B-to-B Marketing Budget; to help with your 2015 plans.

Goldstein Group Named As Hubspot Gold VAR For Lead Generation Programs

Goldstein Group Communications earned Gold Level status as a Hubspot Value Added
Hubspot LogoReseller (VAR) for Lead Generation Programs.

2015 Marketing Budget Planning

It’s budget planning season for marketers. Now is the time of year when you look at what worked, what didn’t, and turn on the creativity after-burners to create that one awesome marketing campaign.

The Dirty Dozen: 12 Filthy-Great Ideas To Boost Quality Lead Flow

It’s time to think about lead generation ideas for 2015, review our favorite top performers to help with your lead generation strategy.

Multi-Touch Marketing: A Concept Invented Just A LITTLE BIT Before You Might Think

We’ve always known that running an ad once doesn’t make much of an impact. Seems like that’s been common knowledge for quite a while!

Security Vulnerability In WordPress – Update Now!

In the last few weeks, it has been revealed that a huge security flaw exists in the Wordpress and Drupal content management systems that could easily

One Really Good Thing About CASL And Five Ways To Use It

CASL is a new frustration for legitimate marketers.  In Understanding the CASL, we’ve addressed a number of the FAQs.

Understanding The CASL Hassle: FAQs We All Seem To Be Asking

What you need to know about CASL (Canadian Anti-Spam Legislation) and six steps you need to take now to comply.

Do Blogs Drive SEO Rankings? [Case Study]

Does blogging boost rankings in search engines? We proved it to one of our clients.

SEO Success: 7 Ways To Leapfrog Your Competitors

What keeps marketers up at night?   Hoping their bosses don’t find competitors ranking higher on Google than they do!

Search Engine Performance: Moving Beyond Meta Tags Drives This Company’s Search Rankings

Moving Beyond Meta Tags Drive’s This Company’s Search Rankings.

Get A Roadmap For Boosting Your Search Engine Rankings

Our 12-page SEO Audit gives you a detailed roadmap for how to improve your site’s rankings in four key areas

Measuring Your Performance: Can You Beat IndyCar Racing With A Trip To Mars?

Successful lead generation campaign was tied to online advertising, PR, social media and video to generate attention.

Are You Asking The Magic Question On Your Lead Forms And Landing Pages?

For most companies, it’s not just about generating leads.  Most of us can do that, pretty easily.  It’s actually about generating OPPORTUNITIES.

Does Paid Search Work? A Case Study

Paid search advertising on Google, Yahoo! Etc. has its fans and detractors.  The big question for many is, are the clicks worth it?

Hiring An Agency: “The Dirty Dozen” Core Questions To Ask To Find A Fit That Lasts

12 questions you should ask when considering hiring an agency.

5 New Ways We’re Using Google Advertising To Drive Leads

Use Google Advertising to drive leads. Techniques we’re applying to clients campaigns to get more ROI out of their marketing programs.

Return Of The PR News Release

Should we cut back on the number of news releases we do for clients?  The answer is no, releases have become more important than in the past because, Google told us they are!

Do Sponsored Tweets Campaigns On Twitter Work?

Sponsored tweets are just one of the new tactics we’re using to drive qualified visitors to client sites.

Inbound Marketing Checklist: 10 Things You Can’t Afford To Miss

There is so much new with lead gen marketing today you’ll need to download our Inbound Marketing Checklist to make sure you didn’t forget anything.

Social Media Success: Sometimes Lightning Strikes Twice And For GOOD Reasons

Goldstein Group Communications helps Littelfuse become a finalist in the PR NEWS Social Media Icon Awards for the second year in a row.

It’s Pure Marketing Madness: Let’s Put An End To Lead Generation

Want to move beyond counting clicks to generating high quality opportunities that salespeople WANT? Get our eBook on Inbound Marketing Methodology to learn how.

19 Ideas For Blog Topics?

19 Killer Ideas for Blog Content:  The most common objective we hear from clients about blogging is that they don’t have enough to say. 

The Home Run Of Lead Generation: Your Handbook

What’s the most successful lead generation campaign we’ve ever run?  Without a doubt, it’s a tutorial handbook.

Going Viral: YouTube “Suggested” Videos Are The Trick

YouTube served up a clients video as a “suggested” video on the right side of the viewing pane. This video went viral. Learn how to get your video in the suggested pain.

PR Update: What’s Changed In What Editors Want From You?

What do editors want from you? Whats changed and what has remained the same in Public Relations.

Child-Rearing Leads To Good Marketing Professionals?

What chores did you do when you were growing up? My client believes that those who grew up having household responsibilities have better work ethics at his company.

Marketing Automation Success – It’s Not The Tool, It’s The People

Ten years ago it was CRM systems. Three years ago it was social media. And now, companies are doing it again, as are we – with Marketing Automation.

25 Website “Must Haves” For Driving Traffic, Leads And Sales

We all know how important a website is to your online strategy.  Read our white paper on 25 Website “Must Haves”.

On Her Way To Being India’s Next Billion Dollar Company – And She Just Turned 20

Entrepreneurs’ Organization’s Global Student Entrepreneur Award (EO GSEA) competition.

2014 Marketing Goals: Move Behind Marketing Activities To Achieve Marketing Performance

Move Behind Marketing Activities to Achieve Marketing Performance.

A Valentine’s Day Message: Are We Falling In Love With Email Again?

Email inboxes have become a true horror story for many of us.  However, our email response rates actually increased in 2013.

Are Your Marketing Programs Earning A Gold Medal?

The athletes in Sochi aren’t the only ones who perform at a high level – we all do as marketers. Is your website performing at the level of a true gold medalist

Marketing Priorities: A Reminder From David Packard

“Marketing is too important to be left to the Marketing Department.” David Packard, co-founder, Hewlett Packard.

5 Marketing Blogs You MUST Read (even If You Suffer From TMI)

B2B marketers, we all suffer from TMI.
However, here are five marketing-related blogs that are worthy of your consideration.

9 Useless Things To Cut From Your Marketing

Digital marketing has made marketers’ lives easier. But many marketers are overwhelmed. Make 2014 the year you clean up your marketing toolkit.

B-to-B Marketing: 13th Idea For 2014

Grab me, entertain me, engage me, THEN teach me. We have to find more creative and clever ways to talk to our engineering customers.

B-to-B Marketing: 12th Idea For 2014

Engineers like to laugh, too. A group of interns at NASA’s Johnson Space Center created a parody of the popular Gangnam Style video that has generated nearly 5 million views.

B-to-B Marketing: 11th Idea For 2014

Teach me something, but don’t make me read it. B-to-B Marketing idea number 11.

Marketing Budgets For 2014: Where To Spend, What Drives ROI

It’s the natural time of year to talk about how to spend marketing dollars. As we make our plans for next year, it’s common to look for new concepts and trends.

Turn A Product Launch Into A Trophy Winner With The Right Touch

Turn a Product Launch into a Trophy Winner with the Right Touch – Marcom Award.

4 Magic Words That Lead To More Email Opens And Clicks

Words That Lead to More Email Opens and Clicks and words not to use.

7 Predictions For Driving Marketing ROI In 2014

I collect marketing experiences. I love hearing stories about what works for companies, and what doesn’t, because everything’s changing so rapidly.

B-to-B Marketing: 10th Idea For 2014

Allocating more budget to content creation. The quality of what you publish speaks to the quality of your product or service. Don’t take shortcuts. It hasn’t worked before, and it won’t reflect well on your brand.

B-to-B Marketing: 9th Idea For 2014

Webcasts and custom eblasts are at the top for lead generation.

B-to-B Marketing: 8th Idea For 2014

Remarketing Banners are the one banners that still generate a response.

B-to-B Marketing: 7th Idea For 2014

Think outside the boombox. We all know that banners aren’t the click machines they used to be.

B-to-B Marketing: 6th Idea For 2014

More data on our customers. We can’t market to people based solely on name, company, and industry.

B-to-B Marketing: 5th Idea For 2014

We mentioned previously that response rates for bulk email blasts were declining. We also commented on the growth of social media driving search.

B-to-B Marketing: 4th Way To Change Your Approach For 2014

It’s coming – social and mobile. No, wait, it’s already here. Mobile’s long been a play for consumer marketing, but now it’s relevant for B-to-B as well.

B-to-B Marketing: 3rd Way To Change Your Approach For 2014

Google makes the rules; the rule is based on relevancy . Search is still the star, and the top of Page 1 has never been more coveted.

B-to-B Marketing: Way #2 To Change Your Approach For 2014

Marketing to Engineers: 13 Ways to Change Your Approach for 2014.

B-to-B Marketing: 13 Ways To Change Your Approach For 2014

It’s planning time for many companies as they build their marketing programs for next year. So when a client asked how they should think about the coming year, we rattled off a few suggestions that we’ll share.

The Three Most Important Questions To Answer For Improving Your Lead Generation ROI

The three most important questions to answer for improving your lead generation ROI.

CONTENT GENERATION AND 2014 MARKETING BUDGETING TRENDS

2014 Marketing Budgeting Trends – The way people get information, who they listen to and how they’re reached is changing so rapidly that the way we approach marketing will likely be different every two years. And that applies to 2014, certainly.

Six Ways To Boost Your Website Lead Flow By The End Of The Day

Boosting lead generation and website performance today doesn’t require learning any deep, dark secrets. With the lead-tracking capabilities Marketing Automation software makes possible, the source of ROI is clear.

Does Mobile Marketing Matter For B-to-B?

Does it matter if someone on a mobile phone can navigate through a B-to-B company’s website?

Our Favorite Ridiculous Client Requests

Our Favorite Ridiculous Client Requests

When Good Blogs Go Bad

Twitter and blogs were filled with racist comments about Miss Davuluri (Miss America), referring (erroneously of course) to her as Arab and not part of America.

Hire A Marketing Agency Or Build An Internal Staff? Seven Reasons Why Hiring A Marketing Agency Is A Better Strategy Spend

What can you do that I can’t do better for myself?
A salesperson for one of our clients came back from a sales call with that question ringing in

The Role Of Trust

Trust is an interesting concept to explore. For any theme or message to be accepted, we can’t just say it; we have to SHOW it. We have to demonstrate

Google Paid Search – Sitelinks And Ad Extensions Become More Important

Google continues its “relevancy” campaign with changes to its Paid Search Program.  Just outbidding competitors is no longer the way to get to the to

Making Sure Marketing Communications Works

We believe effective Marketing Communications must travel through a disciplined six-stepprocess if it is to have impact.

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Elizabeth Smart At EO Conference: “I Don’t Regret What Happened To Me.”

That’s a pretty amazing statement from a girl who was kidnapped from her safe bedroom at knifepoint when she was 14 years old.Yet she said it. I hear

Is Everyone In Your Company Part Of The Marketing Department?

David Packard, co-founder of Hewlett-Packard, said once, “Marketing is too important to be left to the Marketing Department.”
Is David Packard say

Football Star Eddie George Shares His Lowest Moment With Advice To Entrepreneurs

Eddie George – Heisman Trophy winner, football star at The Ohio State University, and star running back for the Tennessee Titans – shared some intere

Why Is Tech Marketing So Bad? And What Can We Do Instead?

Every year, manufacturers introduce thousands of tech products. Some succeed, but many don’t, even though they may offer excellent performance or sol

How Should You Budget For 2014

The analyst-research company with the best finger on the pulse of B-to-B marketing is clearly Marketing Sherpa. They routinely publish the most relev

Marketing Automation Spending To Increase In 2014

We’ve said in the past that the b-to-b industry is focused on Marketing Automation today, as much as it used to be focused on social media 3 years ag

Goldstein Group Achieves Hubspot Silver Level Reseller Status

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Google Sitelinks Cost More – But That’s OK

It’s more common today to see examples of Google Sitelinks (the mini-links that appear under an organic or paid search ad) included with search resul