Thu.Apr 19, 2012

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Top reasons why you shouldn’t bother rebranding

Tomorrow People

Why rebrand your business at all? It’s a tough marketplace out there, so what’s the point of spending money on a company rebrand ? You don’t care about your competitors. Don’t care about your competitors? Then there’s definitely no point in completing a company rebranding exercise. If you’re not bothered about staying ahead of the competition there’s no need to worry about having a brand that clearly marks you out as the best in your industry.

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Content Marketing: Get Trained Up [Slides]

Marketing Insider Group

We all create content. But let’s face it, most of it is simply awful! How many emails do you get that you struggle to read? How many 5 minute voice mails do you delete? And how many PowerPoint slides contain way too many words? I mean no one wants to call someone else’s (content) baby ugly… This is not just about marketing. This is relevant for all business professionals who write emails, create PowerPoint slides and leave voice mails (And that’s all of us).

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Are Your Lead Generation Tactics Targeting The Wrong Buyer? 4 Steps You Can Take.

Tony Zambito

Target (Photo credit: Wikipedia). I am a big baseball fan and a one-time want to be pitcher. Hitting the target within the strike zone with a variety of different pitches is what separates Cy Young award winners from ordinary pitchers. Their ability to target different parts of home plate with predictable ball movement is an amazing skill and if you have it – you can earn millions playing the game.

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How Big is Too Big? One Email Offer That’s Tough to Ignore.

The Point

As any regular reader of this space will know, I am a fierce evangelist for the “sell the offer, not the product” approach to B2B email creative. That approach rests on the assumption that by selling the value of whatever it is you’re offering the reader (a white paper, a Webinar, an ebook), and not your product or service, you’re more likely to generate response from interested prospects.

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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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Can traditional marketers adjust to digital marketing?

Biznology

Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife. Sometimes I am making a speech and I realize that I am meeting a lot of traditional marketers–people my age (or even I admit, a little younger) who are trying to make the adjustment to digital. And as I am speaking, and explaining concepts, and exhorting people to take a chance and make a change, I realize something.

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Can Social Media Move You from Good to Great?

B2B Marketing Traction

Social media is not a silver bullet, the be-all and end-all, a panacea. It’s just another tool to add to your marketing toolbox. In his book Good to Great , Jim Collins wrote that great companies never saw or tried to use technology as the way to greatness. Rather, technology was an accelerant, but only if the company had built a sound foundation, knew their strengths and what they stood for.

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Should Companies Manage Their Employees’ LinkedIn Profiles?

Marketing Craftmanship

Everything Counts in Brand Management. LinkedIn has become an important business channel, not only for individuals to showcase their professional credentials, but also for companies seeking to promote their value proposition and to establish or manage brand awareness. LinkedIn is no longer simply a social media tool that enables corporate executives to put themselves in play for a better job under the guise of “networking.

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Why Is Link Building So Important to Your Website and Your Business?

EMagine B2B Blog

People in the world of search are commonly beating the drum of link building. We tell you that your success with your website, and even your online marketing presence, depends on it. Yet so many companies pay no attention to link building, and their inbound link profile. This dismissal is often due to a lack [.].

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10 Foolproof Ways to Earn Your Landing Page Visitors' Trust

Hubspot

Landing pages are a critical tool for meeting your ever-increasing lead generation goals. Actually, only 8% of marketers reported that dedicated landing pages were ineffective , according to MarketingSherpa's 2011 Landing Page Optimization Benchmark Report. I'm not sure what those 8% are doing, but the effectiveness of landing pages for the other 92% of marketers hinges on one component that isn't often discussed -- visitors have to trust you enough to give away their personal information on you

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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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Flexible Data Integration with Salesforce

JotForm

Salesforce is probably the most popular Customer Relationship Management tool. What makes it great is that it is highly customizable. You can customize the data fields for your contacts and leads according to your business needs. Today, we are happy to announce our new integration with Salesfor.

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Facebook Enhances Analytics to Enable Smarter Ad Targeting for Marketers

Hubspot

Seems like the team over at Facebook has been eating their Wheaties. Now that Timeline for brand pages and Premium Advertising is all rolled out, they've stepped up their game yet again with some brand new -- extremely robust -- analytics that I'm sure they hope will encourage marketers and business owners to spend more (and better targeted) dollars on their ad platform.

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10 ways to improve your social media presence in less than 10 minutes

SnapApp

By Corina Mackay Image credit: Michael (blue2likeyou) Keeping social media accounts up to date takes time. If you're short on time, there are plenty of small tweaks you can make to your social media presence that will take you less than ten minutes. 1. Update your bio Almost every social network allows you to display a small bio on your profile page.

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Understanding How Your Marketing Analytics Gives Credit for Conversions

Hubspot

When chatting with marketers, one of the most common questions we hear at HubSpot is regarding "first touch" versus "last touch" attribution in marketing analytics. First touch, last touch, and assist reports are all different ways to attribute conversions on your website, and each of these attribution methods will tell you something different and important about the effectiveness of your marketing and the behavior of your visitors.

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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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Klout Brand Squads: The future of brand influence?

SnapApp

Yesterday Klout released Brand Squads, which some would argue is their version of brand pages. ?There has been a recent trend of social sites developing a layout or profile specifically for brands, and now, Klout has joined the game with their 'squads'. ?So what will this look like in the future? Klout has established themselves as the industry leader on influence. ?

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Social Pros 12 – Derek Halpern, Social Triggers

Convince & Convert

This is Episode 12 of the Social Pros Podcast : Real People Doing Real Work in Social Media. This episode features Derek Halpern founder of Social Triggers. Read on for insights from Derek, and Eric’s Social Media Stat of the Week (this week: for Facebook advertising, CPM rates are up 41%, CPC rates are up 23%). Listen Now. Click the play button to listen here: Download the audio file: [link].

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Content Marketing Expert Rebecca Lieb Discusses Strategy, Influencers, and Leftover Turkey

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

by Jason Miller Rebecca Lieb is an analyst at the Altimeter Group where she covers digital advertising and marketing. She is the author of Content Marketing – How to Use Content to Market Online and in Social Media and consults on content strategy for a variety of brands and professional trade organizations. Recently I caught up with Rebecca and she answered some of the top questions that arise from businesses that are either currently implementing or plan to start a content marketing strategy.