Customers Really Matter – 20 Most Popular CRM Software
Customer relationship management (CRM) software is essential to any sales or service-oriented business- which explains why it’s one of the most active categories on Capterra. Especially today,...
View Article30 Minutes, One Awesome Landing Page, and $50
Do you want more leads? How about $50? You can have both, but first… Do you have 30 minutes? No? Really? Not even for more leads? Did you eat today? Yeah, me too. And while I ate my lunch, I...
View ArticleContent Writing Tips from a Former Journalist
Do you watch the news? I don’t know if I’ve mentioned this before, but I used to be a local TV news anchor and reporter. For those 10 years, I wrote stories with strict time limits between 10 seconds...
View ArticleSelling the Short Form to Sales
It’s tax season, so you’ve probably seen all the ads claiming that your neighborhood tax professional will complete your 1040EZ form for free. Instead of spending hours sorting receipts and itemizing...
View ArticleThe Two Kinds of Press Releases and How to Use Each One
Press releases have traditionally been used to alert print media such as newspapers, magazines, and the like of new story ideas. But print media outlets are losing ground in a world of web-based news....
View ArticleMost Popular Maintenance Management Software
Usually, a number of industries can benefit from any particular type of software, but few software categories reach quite as many industries as maintenance management. With budget cuts and a tight...
View ArticleOur Top 10 Blog Posts about Marketing & Selling Software
As a new Capterran, I’ve been focused on learning as much as I can about the company in my first few weeks here, and I’ve been trying to figure out what our customers in the software industry really...
View ArticleKnoodle No More?
At Capterra, we were all shocked by the recent news that the popular social learning platform, Knoodle, is going out of business. But to all of the soon-to-be former Knoodle users, we don’t want you to...
View ArticleHow Social Media is Changing Hotel Management
It used to be that when you had a bad experience with a hotel or restaurant, you’d complain to the manager and maybe tell your friends about it, but that was about it. Well, not anymore. Facebook,...
View ArticleSwooning for Short Forms
As a Marketing Advisor at Capterra, I serve as an outside marketing consultant for nearly 300 B2B software companies. I’m basically their own personal “Dear Abby”—only instead of giving advice to...
View ArticleGot Credibility? 4 Elements to Build Trust
You’re walking down the street when a stranger stops you and tries to sell you a “real” Rolex for $200. Are you interested? No, because it’s probably fake or stolen. What if you’re in an official...
View ArticleShould Your E-Marketing Real Estate Include Landing Pages?
‘Closet space to die for…trails right outside your door.’ Recently, I thought that I’d made up my mind about where I was going to live. That is, until my friend suggested another alternative… ‘The...
View ArticleSkipping Out on Tracking? Why You Can’t Afford a Day Off
I love math and numbers and looking at data and trying to figure out what it means, just like everyone else in the marketing world! Right? Right?! Bueller? Okay, so maybe not everyone enjoys numbers as...
View ArticleDoes Your Website Copy Convert?
Typically, when you hear about “content marketing”, it’s in reference to SEO and inbound marketing efforts. You know… the whole, “Content is King” thing. That’s all well and good, but I’m surprised...
View ArticleThe Secret to Landing Page Creation
What used to take days when outsourced now takes Abby Bandel, the Marketing Manager at SimplyCT, hours to do herself. She now has more control, more flexibility, and less stress. Best of all, the...
View Article4 Tools for a DIY Lead Gen Website
No excuse…there is simply no excuse in this day and age for a software company to have a bad website. Now wait just a minute. Nobody’s calling your baby ugly. By bad website, I’m referring to its...
View ArticleThe Painless Truth About Capterra Conversion Tracking
In this month’s edition of our “Dear Kara” column, a software marketer asks for help convincing their web developer of the value of conversion tracking. Dear Kara, I’ve recently taken over our online...
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