Mike Coombs

Mike Coombs
Marketing pro, creative, and businessman. Agency and client side experience. Video expert. Masters Degree-Internet Marketing. Certified Inbound Marketer.
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7500 marketers and businesses can't be wrong! Inbound 2014

by Mike Coombs on August 31,2014

You should go. We are.

Today the smart money in marketing is on internet marketing, marketing automation, inbound marketing and HubSpot.  This is especially true for small and medium sized business.

Do you employ a Marketing Developer?

by Mike Coombs on August 8,2014

A recent Harvard Business Review article, entitled "The Rebirth of the CMO" discuss's the digital marketing transformation that has changed the role of CMO's.  And marketing.

"Digitally enabled tools and processes have altered what and how a business sells, flipped the tables on the typical customer relationship, introduced a glut of new channels and competitors, and made it harder for organizations to break through the “noise.”

Flipped the tables on the typical customer relationship? Harder to break through the noise? Clearly, big companies see what's happening in internet marketing.

This change is even more profound for small and medium sized business.

Why your marketing should generate more qualified online leads.

by Mike Coombs on July 17,2014

The marketing strategy blog post I probably shouldn't write.

For small and medium sized business...

Lots of firms do not have a clear, bottom line focused marketing strategy for qualified online leads.

(Despite the fact they could win on the web!)

2 Things Profitable Sales & Marketing Professionals May Want to Know

by Mike Coombs on July 11,2014

A couple of recent personal experiences have generated this post. Here are my two main points that sales and marketing people in small-to-medium size businesses may not know:    

You can sell with social media.

(If you know what you are doing.) 

That’s not the conventional wisdom of a lot of sales and marketing professionals (for good reason). And...