Revenue Roundtable put thought leader content into context, and one of the tools is obviously blogs. Take a look, there’s a nice mindmap of the different sources.

What’s the power of closing-the-loop? A few years ago, I worked on a lead generation program with a client that launched a new product life cycle management (PLM) software product.

It’s been well documented that quality of collaboration between sales and marketing directly impacts ROI.

AOL has given its 22 million AIM users a free 2GB e-mail account, another in a line of free services.

With the explosion of spending on search engine advertising continuing to alter the marketing realm, have there been any ramifications for traditional information entities? According to a new study, it does in fact look like search engine marketing may be pulling revenue away from those who are used to receiving large advertising returns.

Traditional media companies have been spurred to acquire online content providers as they seek more revenue.

We know the power of Word of Mouth already, many os us, but this is a great example.
From WOMMA: “…only five customer evangelists were responsible for generating $200,000 in sales (35-40% of its total revenue) for one liquor store in Chicago…

Global sales of servers continues to increase, but for the first time Windows boxes have matched Unix machines.

Following my post a few days ago on getting more from your RSS feed, in particular on using Feedburner’s new Total Stats Pro service …

Dell reports a most excellent boost in net profit, and issued a current quarter forecast that can only be called bodacious.

There seems to be an increase in the frequency of postings in Adsense forums from publishers noting that their earnings have slipped in the past few days. Of particular note is that a number of publishers are reporting drops in their per click’ earnings (to get this figure divide your total earnings for a day by the amount of clicks for that day).

Qwest Communications reported its first-quarter financial results after losing the ongoing battle for MCI to Verizon.

Exxon Mobil reported financial results for the first quarter today, including a boost in profit.

Latest revision to OS X will set existing users back $129; update will be included on new Macs sold.

For the first quarter 2005, XM Satellite Radio reported revenue of $103 million, an increase of 140% from last year’s first quarter.

Verizon Communications posted earnings of $1.8 billion for the first quarter with revenues increasing 6.6%.

Intel announced first-quarter revenue of $9.4 billion, up 17 percent year-over-year and down 2 percent sequentially.

Cree announced revenue of $96,710,000 for the third quarter of fiscal 2005 which ended on March 27, 2005, representing a 25 percent increase over the Company’s comparable year ago period revenue of $77,223,000.

Harley-Davidson announced record revenue and earnings for its first quarter ended March 27, 2005.

Best Buy reported earnings from continuing operations of $522 million, or $1.55 per diluted share, for the quarter ended Feb. 26, 2005.

Napster expects to report revenues of approximately $15 million for the fourth quarter, an increase from its prior projection of $14 million.