According to recent research from Forrester and Enquiro’s 2007 B2B Survey, business buyers use search engines most frequently at the beginning of the buying process, during the awareness and research phases. Buyers actually use search engines less frequently when they are ready to negotiate and purchase a high-consideration product or service.

Excerpt from B2B Marketers Should Embrace “Tire Kickers” in SearchEngineLand.

I have to hand to Joshua Strebel at Obuweb.  He’s a regular at South by Southwest (sxsw) in Austin and this year had a brilliant idea to get attention.  At the last minute he came up with an idea and had it rolled out in 2.5 hours.  You can see it here.

You want to see the timeline from concept to delivery? 

Since there is a very large amount of adult beverage consumption at sxsw, you can see why Joshua designed this business card for the occasion.

Even Jay Adelson at Digg got in on the action.