The PromoLeading Edge

Get Ready! PromoLeads is coming out of beta very soon. A few things to note:

We will continue to offer our basic service free of charge to the industry. In the future we will be offering additional services in a premium membership, but the core service will remain free

Suppliers – Invite your favorite distributors to sign up and send them leads. Very soon you’ll find a feature under your “distributors” tab which will allow you to send an invite and assign leads to any distributor you choose.

Distributors – invite a supplier to join PromoLeads. If there is a supplier that you’d like to get referrals from, send them an invite and tell them about PromoLeads. We’d especially encourage you to invite suppliers who already have contact forms on their sites – by changing that to a PromoLeads form, everyone will be more comfortable knowing that every inquiry is going to a distributor.

Watch this blog for additional announcements as we count down to the launch….

Search Marketing Now is offering a free webcast today (Dec 13th at 1:00pm EST) on the basics of search marketing. 

SEO, SEM, PPC, keywords, AdWords, analytics — what does it all mean for you as a marketer when you’re just starting out with search? You know you need to incorporate search into your marketing mix, but where do you begin?

We’ll help you get started, in this introductory webcast about search engine marketing. Industry veteran Detlev Johnson will talk about the basics, from the bottom up, so you can understand the landscape of search and how it fits into your current marketing efforts. We’ll do this with a powerpoint presentation, streaming audio, and a Q+A session where any question is a good one.

I’ve attended a few of their other webcasts and they always do a professional job and offer great information.  This promises to be a great way to get a quick intro to search marketing.  Sign up here.