Wed.Jan 18, 2012

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Turning Funny New Year Resolutions into Serious Business Marketing

Tomorrow People

How to turn funny New Year resolutions into serious business marketing. Wondering what you can do to make your business marketing more effective in 2012? Here’s a thought. Apply funny or daft new year resolutions to develop a wider range of marketing ideas. Now is a great time to brainstorm your most weird, wacky and funny new year resolutions to help get your marketing work harder.

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No more SEO worries for dynamic content?

Biznology

Image via Wikipedia. If you care about how your site is found in organic search, you must spend some of your time thinking about search engine optimization (SEO). In the olden days (2005), certain kinds of content had no shot of showing up in the search index (and thus, could never be found). But in recent years, more and more dynamic content is showing up in Google’s search index, as Google makes its spider smarter and smarter.

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Fight Internet Censorship

B2B Memes

I have nothing particularly insightful or original to add in the case against Internet censorship represented by the bills up before congress, SOPA and PIPA, but not to say something today would be too miserable an omission to live with. So when I found in my e-mail this morning an invitation from this site’s host, Siteground (an excellent provider, by the way, if you’re in search of one), to speak out on the subject, how could I refuse?

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Social Media Success May Depend on HR

Convince & Convert

Guest post written by Mark W. Schaefer. Mark is a consultant, college educator, and author who blogs at {grow}. There is a growing gap between the social media “haves” and “have-nots.” Some companies I visit have embraced social media enthusiastically and are moving into some pretty advanced ideas. Other companies are simply checking the box.

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Sales & Marketing Alignment: How to Synergize for Success

Speaker: Carlos Hidalgo, Co-Founder & CEO of Digital Exhaust, Author, International Keynote & TEDx Speaker

Recent research shows that only 50% of B2B organizations state that they have good alignment between their marketing and sales teams. This lack of alignment tremendously impacts the ability to meet business goals, and is a limiting factor for building and maintaining customer relationships. While many B2B organizations continue to struggle with aligning their marketing and sales teams, they can take practical steps to unify both teams and simplify their overall approach.

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How to Use LinkedIn to Generate and Qualify B2B Leads

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

by Jason Miller LinkedIn is often considered a jobseeker-only social media platform. As a result, B2B marketers sometimes overlook the professional social media site’s ability to support lead generation and qualification. LinkedIn enables brands to offer bite size chunks of content that support business objectives. To better understand LinkedIn’s value, it’s useful to understand its usage patterns.

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Before Deep Diving Into B2B Social Media Marketing.

MLT Creative

As a B2B marketing agency, we encourage our clients to work on their website content before diving in too aggressively in social media. In most cases it makes sense for our clients to be blogging, providing white papers, case studies, video and other content that will be helpful to their customers and prospects. To be successful in social media, it helps to be human.

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30 Thought-Provoking Lead Nurturing Stats You Can't Ignore

Hubspot

We've got some news for you, inbound marketers, and it might come as quite a shock: your job doesn't necessarily stop at lead generation (GASP!). Just because a website visitor has downloaded your awesome ebook or registered for your informative webinar doesn't exactly mean he or she is ready to chat with one of your sales reps and jump right into a purchasing decision.

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The Wrong Way to Run a QR Code Campaign

SnapApp

Lately, QR Codes are popping up everywhere. Magazines are?full of them. Retailers like Best Buy have codes on nearly every product. But,?just because they are available doesn't mean that customers will use them and they link to information that is worthy of the time it takes to view. Take a moment and scan a few codes located in a local?newspaper or national magazine.

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7 Terrific Ways to Use Social Media for Instant Feedback

Hubspot

Social media moves at the speed of light, and marketers have done an admirable job at keeping pace. Now that you have your social media bearings in this fast-paced inbound marketing world, consider another use for social media: collecting critical feedback that advances your business objectives quickly. Social media gives you the ability to get the kind of quick feedback inbound marketers require to stay agile.

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WorkCast's Ultimate Webinar Handbook 2024

Elevate your webinar game with WorkCast's Ultimate Webinar Handbook! Packed with insights from our seasoned webinar experts, this comprehensive guide is your go-to resource for mastering the art of B2B webinars. Learn the fundamentals, from defining webinars to exploring their benefits and diverse use cases. Discover the key elements of running a successful webinar, avoiding common mistakes, and making your sessions more engaging.

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What Does Marketing Do?

Marketing-Gimbal

Internal multimedia presenation on what the end to end marketing function does inside one particular comapny.

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How to Split-Test Your Facebook Ads to Maximize Conversions

Hubspot

It’s tough to nail down a successful Facebook advertising strategy unless you do some testing. However, testing Facebook ads, with all their nuances and constant updates, might seem scary. In this post, we'll walk you through the basics and functions of Facebook ad split-testing. Understanding Facebook Ad Campaigns. In the Facebook Ads Manager, you arrange your ads into campaigns.

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What Does Marketing Do?

Marketing-Gimbal

Internal multimedia presenation on what the end to end marketing function does inside one particular comapny.

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Facebook Launches Much-Anticipated Open Graph Applications

Hubspot

Sick of reading about all this SOPA brouhaha? How about a news story marketers can actually get behind? We had an idea Facebook would start rolling out the new Open Graph apps in January when Facebook announced it was starting to accept submissions for Open Graph actions from developers. Well, it looks like they're here! At a press event in San Francisco this evening, Facebook unveiled the first batch of its much-anticipated Open Graph applications, which you might remember were first debuted al

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The Resurgence of Direct Mail as a Growth Marketing Strategy

Speaker: Jeff Tarran, COO, Gunderson Direct & Margaret Pepe, Executive Director of Product Management, U.S. Postal Service

Learn the secrets to direct mail success for growth marketers! Industry veterans Jeff Tarran and Margaret Pepe are here to delve into how direct mail has completely evolved in recent years, and has rightfully earned a seat at the table alongside the email and digital marketing plans of SMBs, enterprise companies, and agencies as they look into strategy for 2024 and beyond.

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SOPA and PIPA versus? the Internet

SnapApp

Two new anti-piracy bills will go before Congress this month, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protest IP Act (PIPA). The internet is buzzing with concern: what are they for and what does it mean for the United States? The House?s Stop Online Piracy Act targets?individual internet users that upload or display pirated content and takes action against them as a single entity.

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How to Overcome the 7 Most Crippling Blogging Challenges

Hubspot

We hear it all the time: "I know blogging is important, but." "But I don't have any time." "But I can't write." But, but, but. Well luckily, every business blogging challenge we've heard has a solution that you can implement immediately if you truly want to keep that New Year's blogging resolution. Take a look at the most common objections we hear to starting or maintaining a regular blogging regiment, and learn how you can overcome those impediments to become a business blogging rock star. 1.

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8 Tell-Tale Signs You Do (Or Don't) Need Marketing Automation

Hubspot

The topic of marketing automation has skyrocketed on marketers' radars, as evident by the volume of searches over time. But with all the hype over marketing automation or revenue performance management (RPM), some businesses jump too quickly to assume they MUST need this shiny new object. Don't get me wrong - marketing automation tools are great for a lot of companies.