Is Newsletter Subscriptions More Important Than Selling

OnlinePR, a new blog about about – yes you guessed it – Online PR, states that getting subscribers for your newsletter is more important that getting the sale. There is even a great analogy about a bar-owner and his 100.000 potential customers. (If you understand danish I recommend that you read the post)
I agree [...]

March 11, 2009  Tags: ,   Posted in: Business  No Comments

Sales is More Important than Marketing

While reading a post about the marketing trap I got to thinking. I have seen this behaviour before. In 9iA we had this belief, and reinforced ourselves and eachother, that we were not salesmen. As a consequence we relied on marketing instead of sales-activities. Marketing was in our case definitely the wrong way to go. [...]

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