Archive for March, 2008

A reader asked me to explain why fewer leads are better and why “cost-per-lead” budgets fail. These are two great questions that have the same fundamental answer: quality first then quantity.

The truth is that sales people care very little about the cost of the leads we generate. What they really care about is how [...]

Have you ever wondered, “Who reads this stuff?” Or how about, “Who wrote this awful copy!”

I have to admit that MOST of what I read literally bores me to death (my 1-second attention span doesn’t help!).

However, every once in a great while, I happen across something that grabs me by the eyeballs and won’t let [...]

One of the bright spots in IT spending today is enterprise software and services that support the alphabet soup of compliance regulations (SEC, SOX, PCI, HIPAA, FISMA, OSHA, etc.). One of our clients, SAP, is doing a great job capturing share as the market for governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) software is expanding rapidly. Perhaps [...]