Mon.Dec 05, 2011

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Six Ways to Search-Optimize a Blog

Webbiquity

Many of the same principles apply to optimizing a blog for search as for optimizing a business website : use keywords in the body copy, post titles, subheadings, permalink URL, image alt tags and meta tags. But a blog also presents additional opportunities for search optimization beyond those that apply to standard websites (which is why Google loves blogs ).

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How to Improve Your Marketing in 31 Days

Tomorrow People

How to make your marketing more effective in 2012. How would you like to make your marketing more effective in 2012? More profile? Better ROI? More sales leads ? Every business wants to make their marketing work harder for them. Here are just five ways to make your marketing more effective in 2012: Ask yourself what your competitors are neglecting to do in their marketing.

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New Workbook: Estimating the Cost of Marketing Automation

Customer Experience Matrix

We released two more vendor selection workbooks last week, both sponsored by Eloqua and available for free on the RaabGuide Web site. One is about estimating the cost of a marketing automation system and the other is about evaluating vendor services. The cost workbook was a particular challenge because the subject is so complex. After much thought, I came up with four cost categories: direct system costs : the actual price paid for the marketing automation software itself.

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The A-Z Guide to B2B Lead Generation

NuSpark Consulting

I thought I’d have fun with this post and attempt to explain key principles of lead generation and inbound marketing in an A-Z glossary format. Feel free to challenge me with your own list or a replacement term for one of the letters. Here we go: A- Analytics. All activity of the lead generation process needs to be measured via a robust analytics program.

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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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Doubling Down on Print, for Better or Worse

B2B Memes

A nice specimen. Photo by Robert Burdock/Flickr. Over the weekend, New York Times reporter Julie Bosman described how book publishers have begun putting extra effort into making their print products more physically and esthetically engaging. Their rationale, says Bosman, is that if “e-books are about ease and expedience,” then print books should “be about physical beauty and the pleasures of owning.

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Company Holiday Party Etiquette: 10 Tips for Being a Good Guest

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

by Jason Miller ‘Tis the season for ugly sweaters, the big man in red, chestnuts roasting on an open fire, and of course the annual company holiday party. It’s that time of year when sales and marketing teams get together to relax, celebrate, and have some fun. Although technically a party, it’s no time to channel your inner Animal House toga days.

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Marketing Automation for Everyone with Infusionsoft

Convince & Convert

We’ve known for more than a decade that relevancy drives email marketing results. Getting a message or offer that’s tailored to your needs and circumstances is much more likely to be effective than an unfocused, blanket email that’s sent to an entire database at the same time. This ability to customize email and send different versions to different subscribers is often called “dynamic content” and has been available for quite some time, although mostly within enterp

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B2B Marketing & Scientific Research: Why Online Relationships Matter

MLT Creative

Online relationships have become an integral part of your target audience’s lives, and must therefore be part of your B2B marketing. BtoB Magazine recently presented a webinar called From Caveman to Customer: What the Evolution of Storytelling Means to Marketers that helped explain why these online relationships are so important. Drive to Bond As humans we are driven by multiple factors, one of which is the drive to bond.

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Top Eight Reasons B2B Marketers Use Content Curation

Online Marketing Institute

Reason 1: Many of the marketers who have stepped into curation on an enterprise basis are thinking about getting closer to their customers by providing an information service that draws people with similar interests and keeps them coming back. Marketers view content curation as a social as well as a content initiative. Reason 2: Because curated sites draw search engine traffic, they aid SEO strategies.

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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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7 Silly Google+ Business Page Mistakes to Fix NOW

Hubspot

As marketers and business owners are getting more comfortable using Google+ and integrating it into their overall social media strategy, it's time to start considering some of the finer points of managing a Google+ business page. As more and more examples of excellent Google+ business pages and creative use of the network's unique features arise, more instances of huge Google+ misses are also becoming apparent.

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7 Key Ways to Optimize Twitter for Search

Hubspot

Search engine optimization (SEO) is undeniably a crucial component of inbound marketing, but marketers often don't think about how it applies to social media. Similarly, many just think of social media as simply a tool for expanding reach, brand awareness, and engagement -- neglecting to think about how it impacts search results. To start getting your social media updates found better in search, an easy place to start is Twitter.

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Your Complete Guide to Measuring Email Marketing Success

Hubspot

The following post is an excerpt from our new ebook, An Introduction to Inbound Marketing Analytics. Learn how to measure your entire marketing program by downloading the complete, free guide here. To assess your email marketing performance, you must conduct ongoing trend analysis of several key metrics. That way, you can compare each campaign’s performance against your own averages to know whether a specific campaign outperformed or underperformed your internal email benchmarks.

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4 Essential Steps to Sales Lead Follow-Up

Hubspot

This is a guest post written by Andy Paul, the CEO of Zero-Time Selling , Inc. and author of Zero-Time Selling, Ten Essential Steps That Every Company Should Take to Accelerate Their Sales. Measure the effectiveness of your inbound sales lead follow-up efforts with the free Online Sales Assessment Tool. For the small or medium-sized business (SMB), every inbound sales lead has the potential to become not only a customer, but also to transform itself into a satisfied customer that represents a de

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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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82% of Businesses Are Unsatisfied With Daily Deal Sites [INFOGRAPHIC]

Hubspot

With 44% of online consumers using or searching daily deal sites like Groupon and LivingSocial, it's doubtful that the group buying craze will sizzle away any time soon. But while consumers are obviously finding daily deal sites valuable, businesses are divided on whether using them as a promotional tool is truly effective. In fact, 82% of businesses are unsatisfied with the amount of repeat business they generate after running a Groupon deal.