Tue.Nov 29, 2011

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2011 Top Sales & Marketing Awards Nominations

ViewPoint

I am deeply honored to be selected as a finalist in two categories for the 2011 Top Sales & Marketing Awards. Now in its second year, the Top Sales & Marketing Awards combine peer voting with a judging panel of industry experts to recognize leading sales and marketing books, articles, thought leaders, solutions, resources and tools. " target="_blank">.

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The Death of Email Marketing

Tomorrow People

Why your email marketing campaign doesn’t need inbound marketing. So you send out emails on a regular basis. But you’ve heard that inbound marketing may well be able to boost the results it’s bringing your business. Here are three reasons why your email marketing doesn’t need inbound marketing: 1. If you’re happy with one-off blasts that get patchy results.

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5 Steps To Get Your Social Media Game On

Marketing Insider Group

Are you thinking about getting started in social media personally? Don’t worry, you are not alone. You are not the last one to drag your feet a bit and jump on the social bandwagon! But if you are still holding on to some of the common excuses such as “I’m too old,” (bullsh*t) “I don’t have time,” (bullsh*t) “I don’t see the value,” (bullsh*t) or “I don’t know how…” (why I wrote this post) then let me tell you th

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“Content Is Power”: Q & A with Mark W. Schaefer

B2B Memes

Mark W. Schaefer. A couple of years ago when I started B2B Memes it was my plan to focus exclusively on trade publishing. But as I looked around the blogosphere/Twitterverse, it didn’t take long to realize that the most enthusiastic and informed discussions about B2B communications involved not publishing, but marketing. For me, a journalist, this came as a jolt.

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The Top 3 Tips for Writing Successful White Papers

In the B2B marketing toolkit, white papers can be a powerful option for reaching decision-makers and experts, presenting them with interesting information that improves their perception of your organization's competence and thought leadership. That said, a poorly executed whitepaper will not only be unable to influence your desired audience but will also come with significant costs that other assets won't incur.

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Inbound Marketing: A Square Peg in a Round Hole?

Digital B2B Marketing

Two weeks ago, I wrote Just Say NO to Marketing Advice. Inbound marketing is a great example of popular marketing advice and it may makes sense for most marketers. But it doesn’t make sense for all. Most B2B marketers are not providing pure commodity products, even in commodity markets. Every company is looking to differentiate by meeting specific business needs.

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Inbound Marketing: A Square Peg in a Round Hole?

Digital B2B Marketing

Two weeks ago, I wrote Just Say NO to Marketing Advice. Inbound marketing is a great example of popular marketing advice and it may makes sense for most marketers. But it doesn’t make sense for all. Most B2B marketers are not providing pure commodity products, even in commodity markets. Every company is looking to differentiate by meeting specific business needs.

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Formulas for B2B Marketing

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

by Maria Pergolino When it comes to online B2B marketing, too many people fancy themselves an internet guru. They all claim to have the magic formula for optimizing leads, lead scoring and sales. And some of their techniques can get pretty complicated. Online B2B marketing efforts don’t have to be convoluted and complicated. When it comes down to it, some of the ideas behind website marketing are actually really simple.

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5 Awesome Examples of Engaging Social Media Campaigns

Hubspot

So you want more Twitter followers, eh? You want to increase your 'likes' on your Facebook business page ? Social media sites make great tools to engage prospects and customers as well as share content and messages about your brand. Since as a marketer, you're primarily using these tools for promotional purposes, you need to make sure you're attracting new fans and followers through content and campaigns that will attract the types of prospects your brand wants; followers that may be interested

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Want great posts on your business blog? …read this

EMagine B2B Blog

By now, I’m betting that your B2B has taken our advice (along with that of most of the known marketing universe) and started a company blog. If so, that’s a great start! But now comes the challenge of making it good …or at least good enough to attract new readers, maintain a growing core of [.].

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21 Advanced ChatGPT Prompts To Take Your Social Media to the Next Level

Upgrade your social media game with our in-depth playbook: "21 advanced ChatGPT prompts for social media managers". These powerful prompts are tailored to supercharge your content creation, strategy development, and results analysis. Say goodbye to writer's block and hello to endless creativity as you effortlessly generate engaging posts, come up with original strategies, and optimize your social media performance - all in a fraction of the time.

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12 Tips to Instantly Enhance Video Production Quality

Hubspot

Video content can be a valuable asset in your inbound marketing content mix. In fact, by 2013, 90% of internet traffic is expected to be video. But getting people to sit through your videos can be challenging, considering 33% of viewers say "no thank you" and move on after watching just 30 seconds. 44% lose interest and leave at the 1-minute mark, and 60% bail on your video after 2 minutes.

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Iron Mountain Cost Savings Advisor Interactive White Paper

The ROI Guy

Iron Mountain needed to better connect and engage with busy executives, to help these prospects understand the potential risk mitigation and costs savings from improving eDiscovery best practices. Alinean worked with Iron Mountain subject matter experts to create the Cost Savings Advisor Interactive White Paper. A few questions answered by the prospect produces a completely relevant, personalized and compelling 6-page white paper.

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4 Critical Ways Google+ Is Changing Search

Hubspot

As social sharing gained greater importance in Google's search algorithm updates throughout 2011 , it makes perfect sense that Google would venture into the social space by creating Google+ and the +1 button to get in on the action. Since then, Google has slowly rolled out updates to how Google+ and +1 impacts search results, and these little changes are starting to add up.

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Congratulations to the Winner of our Patriots Tickets Giveaway

SnapApp

Here's the moment you've all been waiting for! The? winner of 2 Patriots Tickets ?to this Sunday's ?Pats vs. Colts game ?is? Joselin ?Mane ?from? BostonTweetUp.? Congratulations to Joselin who scanned a QR Code & entered at our booth this past September at the? Web Innovators ?Conference. Send Joselin a congratulatory tweet? @JoselinMane ?- remember, he does have?

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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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How WordPress Helps The Little Guy Make Money

readwrite

Yesterday, WordPress announced WordAds , a program for hosted WordPress.com blogs to make some money off their sites. The first ads will come from the WordPress partnership with Federated Media announced at Web 2.0 this October. Interested users must apply to join WordAds , and it requires a custom domain , a service for which WordPress charges. In return, WordPress is offering independent publishers a chance to make money on the WordPress platform.

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The art of writing the perfect blogger pitch

Biznology

Image by Sean MacEntee via Flickr. Over the last five years that Abraham Harrison has been pitching bloggers on behalf of clients, we have learned a thing or two about how best to reach bloggers, how to engage them, how to get them to carry our client’s message to their readership. Whether we’re doing an outreach to the bloggers of mainstream media and celebrity blogs or to someone who has just set up a blog for the first time, it all begins with the message model.

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The 8 Best Link-Building Tactics to Boost Off-Page SEO

Hubspot

In search engine optimization , inbound links are a marketer's most powerful asset. Given that off-page SEO (as opposed to on-page SEO) accounts for the majority of a web page's ability to rank for a particular keyword, building authoritative and relevant links into your website from external sites isn't exactly something you should overlook in your SEO strategy.