Author Archives: Derrith Lambka

About Derrith Lambka

Derrith is the founder of MarketingZone.com, an online resource center for small business on marketing. During her career Derrith has worked directly for, or as a consultant to, many Fortune 100 clients including Apple, Adobe, Cisco, Gateway Computers, GlaxoSmithKline, Google, HP, McDonald's, Microsoft and WebMD. Derrith brings all her accumulated expertise and industry-insider knowledge to help small businesses with how to do marketing better, faster and less expensively to the MarketingZone.com blog. As she learns, she shares what is most relevant and actionable to help small businesses with marketing.

Book Review: The Challenger Sale

There’s a new book out with a new approach to selling.   Authors of The Challenger Sale, Matthew Dixon and Brent Adamson of the Corporate Executive Board, conducted research to uncover what types of salespeople are most successful.  Their research identified … Continue reading

New Publisher for MarketingZone.com!

Susan J. Curtis becomes Publisher of MarketingZone.com.  Susan started her career in business publishing and advertising, working for publishers like Ziff-Davis and IDG.  She’s been the Publisher of Mobile Office, Portable Computing, and Cellular Business — from launch to sale. … Continue reading

How to Increase Website Traffic

Quality website visitors are people who will buy something or ask for a price quote or download a report to learn more about what you are selling.  You want to attract website traffic for qualified buyers at the lowest cost. … Continue reading

Tips on Customer Experience Design from Cisco’s Monique Mulbry

Monique Mulbry is Senior Director of Customer Experience Strategy and Design at Cisco.  Before taking on this role at Cisco she led branding.  Branding is ultimately all about the customer experience.  Here’s what she has to share… The lawyers at … Continue reading

How to Get Found on Google

How findable is your business?  Do a Google search for the most common terms people may use when searching for what you do or offer.  Do you show up?  What about on all the other places people go to search … Continue reading

Does getting PR coverage increase sales?

Yes?  No?  Sometimes? From my experience, getting PR doesn’t always relate to increases in sales.  Why?  It’s the equivalent of an advertising placement frequency of one.  If you run a print ad, a TV ad, or a radio ad one … Continue reading

How “findable” is your website online when someone’s searching?

What happens when someone tells someone about your business (word-of-mouth referral) and they go to whatever place they like to use to search online?  Do they find you and your business? If you haven’t created or claimed your business listing … Continue reading

Easter Marketing: Getting the Easter People to Come Back to Church

Happy Easter!  Today, on what is the most important day in the Christian year, many people will come to church who don’t normally.  They’re known as the “Christmas and Easter people.”  They surface only twice a year. In a survey … Continue reading

How to Promote Yourself as an Expert

If someone calls you => you are an Expert. If you call them => you are a sales rep. How to Promote Yourself as an Expert

Branding Basics for Small Business

Branding in this day of skeptical buyers and social media sharing isn’t adopting a clever new tagline or more modern-looking visual identity or spending on a pricey ad campaign. That’s like wrapping a present.  It’s nice but it’s what’s inside … Continue reading