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The Rise of Call Verified – Why

In a slightly perverse analogy, we could argue that for-profit-education is the pornography of the lead generation world. We're not saying that it is profane; what we're really saying is that of any vertical, those successful in for-profit-education tend to be some of the most advanced marketers. And, like...

EDU has a serious case of E.D.

In a recent conversation with an investor in the EDU industry, I asked him what do you think of Career Education Corp's stock price taking a 40% nosedive? His response was standard - something had to change and the industry is still...

Groupon: Why the Hate?

In discussing the value, or often lack thereof, with lead generation businesses, it's hard for us not to think about the biggest lead gen business of all, Groupon. Not that they would use that term, but there is a reason that most of the fast followers and better self-funded iterations came from the lead generation...

Lead Gen the Dirty Word

Talking to a company the other day, something interesting was said. They said, we have given up the word lead generation. "We don't use it internally and we don't use it when talking to clients." When asked how they make their money, they said to us, "lead generation." Let's repeat that. You aren't a lead...

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