New Pig Turns Its Snout at Traditional B-to-b Catalogs

| Erin Lynch

When it comes to traditional business-to-business catalogs things can get boring. It’s generally pages and pages filled with products, prices and a few images of putting those products to use. Generally most business-to-business sellers take the simple and safe approach, but there is one company, New Pig, that refuses to stay inside the lines.

Google Executive Shares Secret Behind Google Shopping

| MCM staff

Why is Google phasing out Google Product Listings in favor of the pay-to-play Google Shopping? Jon Venverloh, senior manager of product partnerships at Google, explains why in this video posted to YouTube by Mercent. Venverloh, who begins speaking at the 4:17 mark, says customers will benefit because retailers will have to focus closer on the quality of data they serve up to Google.

Twitterific Tweets from the MeritDirect Co-op

| Tim Parry

The 13th Annual MeritDirect Business Mailers’ Co-op and Interactive Marketing Conference was held July 11-13 in White Plains, NY. The event was a hotbed for Twitter activity. Here’s what tweeters had to talk about at the co-op:

How to Get Started in B-to-B Social Media

| Mary Ann Kleinfelter

An easy way to answer the second question is to look at one of the major choices of social media for b-to-b marketers, LinkedIn. It has been reported that LinkedIn, while clearly not the size of other, larger social media channels, is growing at a faster rate and produces high quality visit-to-lead conversion rates.