October, 2012

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3 Ways to Fight Facebook’s Algorithm and Customize Your Feed

Convince & Convert

Image from BigStockPhoto.com. My wife asked me today if something had changed at Facebook. “I used to see a lot more posts from my friends about where they are, and what they are doing, and the basic comings and goings. I like that stuff, because I can easily keep up to speed with them. But I’m not seeing it as much lately.” I’ve noticed it as well.

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Five Simple Steps to Make You a King (or Queen) of Content Marketing

Tomorrow People

'With so much guff floating around on the Internet you need to make sure your website can stand out and take the crown. Content marketing is a great way to attract curious visitors to your site. Follow these five simple rules to secure your reign in the online domain. #1 It’s not Business, it’s Personal! So many articles, so many people, so little time.

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Bark, Meow, Tweet: What Our Pets Can Teach Us About Digital Marketing

KoMarketing Associates

Everyone always says pets are smarter than people. Don’t they? Well, maybe not, but it can certainly be argued that animals, that lovable Lucy or that mischievous Milo, understand more human language than we give them credit for. What does this have to do with marketing? Well, nothing. But no one ever said that thinking outside the box was easy. So, for a fresh take on digital marketing best practices, let’s look to our furry friends for guidance: Liam ( my orange tabby cat): Liam enjoys napp

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Successful Content Marketing Plans Do 1 Thing Really Well

ViewPoint

Today's guest blogger is Jeff Molander. Jeff is the authority on making social media sell, adjunct faculty at Loyola University business school, author of, Off The Hook Marketing: How to Make Social Media Sell for You and a social sales training speaker. Is your business-to-business (B2B) content marketing plan creating re-action beyond sharing? I’ve been using LinkedIn and blogging to generate B2B leads and sales very effectively lately.

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How to Leverage Behavioral Science Insights for Direct Mail Success

Speaker: Neal Boornazian, President and Nancy Harhut, Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer - HBT Marketing

Direct mail has consistently remained a powerful tool in the marketer's arsenal, but in an age of digital dominance, its effectiveness hinges on the strategic integration of behavioral science. 💡 When you incorporate powerful behavioral science principles into your direct mail marketing strategies, you can prompt the hardwired decision-making shortcuts your audience relies on — and that automatically unlocks new avenues for engagement, conversion, and brand loyalty.

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SEO Success Story: How an engineering firm moved from obscurity to the #1 ranking for critical local search terms

markempa

Tweet If you think that using websites for lead generation is for other businesses, but not yours, consider GHT Limited. This regional mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) engineering firm, like its competitors, had considered its website a glorified brochure, but certainly didn’t believe it could drive opportunity. Having conducted business in the region for nearly 50 years, GHT was certain any fresh opportunities would come through its well-established community relationships.

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How to Know When to Promote a Facebook Post

Convince & Convert

Social media has never been inexpensive, just different expensive. But now, the last vestiges of false assumptions about the true cost of social marketing are being wiped away. Facebook’s changes to EdgeRank essentially require that Pages pay a fee to reach more than 15 out of every 100 of their fans. How long until Twitter follows? If you ‘re at all serious about social marketing, and don’t have a line item budget for promoting Facebook posts in 2013, you need to add it.

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Five Simple Steps to Make You a King (or Queen) of Content Marketing

Tomorrow People

With so much guff floating around on the Internet you need to make sure your website can stand out and take the crown. Content marketing is a great way to attract curious visitors to your site. Follow these five simple rules to secure your reign in the online domain. #1 It’s not Business, it’s Personal! So many articles, so many people, so little time.

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B2B Marcomms Agency League – highlights

Savanta

'Aren’t we B2B marketers are blessed? We’ve the intellectual stimulation that comes from getting to grips with complex markets and decision making processes. We’ve the juicy challenge of bringing to life what can often, at face value, be rather dry products and engaging with buyers on an emotional as well as functional basis. And we also have a thriving community of agencies.

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Study: Brands Rely on Social Metrics To Measure Engagement

KoMarketing Associates

In the midst of digital marketing clutter and indifferent audiences, a report from eMarketer claims that fighting to create attractive content is not the only thing brands are up against; how to accurately quantify success remains up for debate. A study from Outbrain found that 88.9% of brands rely on social media metrics and referrals to measure content marketing efforts followed by views/downloads at 75.6 percent, leads generated at 53.3 percent, and referrals from search at 51.1 percent.

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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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The Rush to Get Inside

ViewPoint

Jonathan Farrington is a globally recognized business coach, mentor, author, consultant and sales thought leader, who has guided hundreds of companies and more than one hundred thousand frontline salespeople and sales leaders towards optimum performance levels. He is the Senior Partner at Jonathan Farrington & Associates , Chairman of The JF Corporation and CEO of Top Sales Associates , based in London & Paris.

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WriteSpark: Best Blog Posts about Case Studies

WriteSpark

In this blog, I frequently write about case studies, white papers, and content marketing for technical products and technology companies. Over the next few months, I'll list what I consider to be my very best posts on these topics, along with a few "must have" books and other resources to further your knowledge. If you are involved in writing or managing customer case studies for high-tech marketing, you'll find useful ideas in these posts: Does your team know what makes a good case study?

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What Michael J. Fox Taught Me About Marketing

Convince & Convert

I like Michael J. Fox. I’m of the vintage that grew up with Alex P. Keaton, Teen Wolf, and Marty McFly. Further, I lost my grandfather to Parkinson’s a few years ago, and Fox’s efforts to raise funds to combat the disease are remarkable. So it was a thrill to see Fox give a keynote presentation Tuesday, when I joined more than 4,000 other marketers at ExactTarget’s smashing Connections conference in Indianapolis.

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5 Reasons Why Social Media Was Born for SMEs [SLIDESHARE]

Tomorrow People

'You don''t need to be a big name brand with a six figure marketing budget to make social media work. In fact, recent research has shown that small businesses are more likely to succeed within the social media arena than their supposedly all-powerful, ''jump in feet first'' corporate counterparts. Social media plays an important role in online marketing and is an ideal medium through which your Small to Medium Enterprise can acquire, nurture and increase leads.

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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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B2B Marcomms Agency League – highlights

Savanta

Aren’t we B2B marketers are blessed? We’ve the intellectual stimulation that comes from getting to grips with complex markets and decision making processes. The average satisfaction score given by clients to their agency is 8.3 out of 10. We’ve the juicy challenge of bringing to life what can often, at face value, be rather dry products and engaging with buyers on an emotional as well as functional basis.

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Marketing Lessons from Chernobyl

Customer Experience Matrix

I’ll be speaking about optimization this Wednesday at the Online Marketing Summit conference in Santa Clara, CA. Since I’m very comfortable with the actual topic, most of my prep time has been spent looking for pictures for my slides. One discovery was the image above, which shows is how I think most people imagine optimization: a team of dead-serious revenue engineers carefully tweaking dials and watching gauges until they find the perfect balance among alternative marketing investments.

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#Pubcon 2012: Tips, Tools & Trends

KoMarketing Associates

Last week I was fortunate enough to spend the week in Las Vegas for Pubcon 2012. Pubcon is by far the biggest search and social media conference around and features some of the brightest minds in the industry. With over 50 sessions a day along with non-stop networking events, Pubcon can be pretty overwhelming. However with an on-going stream of tweets and great recaps being posted across the web, you can get a lot of information even on the sessions you missed.

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I Need a Plan for 200 Videos for the Channel, Chapter Three

Avitage

'How to Produce 200 Videos For the Channel Max Wilson, Director of Marketing at WE-CAN Technologies, is responding to a request by the executive team to develop a plan to make 200 videos to use with the channel, (Chapter One). They had five questions for Max to answer. What is the right number of videos […] The post I Need a Plan for 200 Videos for the Channel, Chapter Three appeared first on Avitage.

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What Regulations Will Impact Sustainability Comms in 2024?

Navigating the waters of sustainability reporting disclosures and regulations can be intimidating, to say the least. With various measures set in motion in 2023 to keep companies accountable, there is a lot in store for brands’ impact communication in the upcoming year. 3BL is kicking off this January with our Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Capricorn Edition by highlighting the impact of: The U.S Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Climate disclosure rules The European Commission

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10 Content Marketing Must-Do’s for Brands

Convince & Convert

Your content “pen” can be as mighty as you let it. Marketing is a fun place to be these days, isn’t it? New tools and new technologies and new platforms are giving businesses interesting opportunities to connect with customers in inherently more meaningful ways. Of course, that’s put new pressure on marketers and layered new requirements onto Marketing.

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5 Reasons Why Social Media Was Born for SMEs [SLIDESHARE]

Tomorrow People

You don't need to be a big name brand with a six figure marketing budget to make social media work. In fact, recent research has shown that small businesses are more likely to succeed within the social media arena than their supposedly all-powerful, 'jump in feet first' corporate counterparts. Social media plays an important role in online marketing and is an ideal medium through which your Small to Medium Enterprise can acquire, nurture and increase leads.

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Marketing’s Wish List to the Sales Department

ViewPoint

James Obermayer, Executive Director and CEO of the Sales Lead Management Association and President of Sales Leakage Consulting is a regular guest blogger with ViewPoint. "So what do you want from your salespeople?” I asked the marketing manager. Little did I know that she would launch into a stream-of-consciousness, pre-Christmas/New Year’s/birthday gift list that she had apparently been holding back to regurgitate at just the right moment.

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Microsoft Buys Marketing Automation Vendor MarketingPilot: Start of Something Big?

Customer Experience Matrix

Microsoft today announced the acquisition of marketing management system vendor MarketingPilot , which will become part of its Dynamics CRM group. Financial terms were not disclosed. MarketingPilot is best described as integrated marketing management for mid-tier companies. It has a pretty low profile in the B2B marketing automation world, partly because it serves a mix of B2C and B2B clients but mostly because it started as a marketing operations management system.

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How to Improve Email Deliverability and Optimize Each Send

Learn how to optimize email deliverability and drive greater email ROI. What lands your email in the customer’s inbox? Understanding those factors, otherwise known as email deliverability, is critical to getting the most return on your campaign investments. But the “rules” around which factors land you in the spam folder aren’t always easy to keep up with.

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Question B2B SEO Tactics That Don’t Involve Strategic Marketing

KoMarketing Associates

A client emailed me this weekend with a message about a potential guest blogger for their website. The blogger’s proposal was written concisely, the objective clearly stated, and the message illustrated a basic understanding of the client’s website initiatives. However, we turned the guest blogger down because the individual’s experience did not reflect any affiliation or relationship (direct or indirect) with the organization’s industry and market.

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I Need a Plan for 200 Videos for the Channel, Chapter Three

Avitage

'How to Produce 200 Videos For the Channel Max Wilson, Director of Marketing at WE-CAN Technologies, is responding to a request by the executive team to develop a plan to make 200 videos to use with the channel, (Chapter One). They had five questions for Max to answer. What is the right number of videos and why? Knowing that we need volume production, how do we do it?

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5 Ways to Create a Likeable Content Marketing Strategy

Convince & Convert

When considering a content strategy for your business, think about the reasons why people choose to interact with you online in the first place. Guess what? They are the same basic reasons people are interested in what you have to say in the real world. Content strategy is a term that has become popular in web development and user experience disciplines over the last several years, and the job of a content strategist is to plan, curate, and distribute interesting and shareworthy content.

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Lead Generation: 81% of marketers use email marketing

markempa

Tweet We surveyed 1,915 marketers for the 2012 MarketingSherpa Lead Generation Benchmark Report , and asked them about their most widely used lead gen practices. Here is what the data says…. Q. Which of the following lead generation tactics does your organization currently use? Click to enlarge. To help you improve your own lead generation efforts, here are some insights and tips from our audience….

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The AI-Enabled CMO: Practical Tips for Today's B2B Marketers

Speaker: Paul Slack, Vende Digital CEO

On October 11th, understand how to navigate the AI landscape confidently, turning insights into groundbreaking strategies that set you apart. Why attend? You'll learn: Practical applications/Use cases How to find and assess the right AI technology Prioritizing quick wins Mastering prompt engineering Solving marketing challenges efficiently Strategies to launch pilot programs Case studies of B2Bs building smarter businesses with AI Exclusive bonus content: Actionable frameworks to get started qui

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How do we align sales and marketing?

Savanta

'Ever looked at our cousins in FMCG marketing with a little jealousy? Eyed their big budgets with envy? Coveted their influence in a world where marketing is central to organisational success? Maybe not, but you’ve probably glanced across your own office and felt similar feelings towards sales. At least you will have done if you’re anything like the 100 B2B marketing leaders Circle recently surveyed as part of the B2B Marketing Leaders Forum.

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4 Ways for David Cameron to Succeed on Twitter

Tomorrow People

'How can the British PM and other leaders use social media to their advantage? Senior executives and other important folks have a peculiar relationship with social media. A study earlier this year found that 80% of people thought executives who use social media are better equipped to lead their organisations. Yet other studies found that just 30% of senior executives have any social media presence, and just 10% of CIOs use social media.

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PowerViews with Carlos Hidalgo: A Holistic Approach to Driving the Demand Process

ViewPoint

I am pleased to have as my guest today Carlos Hidalgo of the Annuitas Group. Carlos is a recognized thought leader in B2B marketing and known for his keen insights on the development and implementation of lead management processes, as well as marketing automation. Carlos has been named three years in a row—from 2009 to 2011—to the Sales Lead Management Association’s 50 Most Influential People in Sales Lead Management.

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