Sat.Jan 26, 2013 - Fri.Feb 01, 2013

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3 Steps that Helped Skyline Exhibits Increase New Product Sales by 18%

markempa

Tweet During the economic downturn of 2008, while most companies were scaling back and avoiding risk, Skyline Exhibits , a global trade show exhibit company, decided to go the opposite direction and invest in innovation. It was a smart move, considering that Skyline: Became the smallest company ever to win the Product Development and Management Association’s prestigious Outstanding Corporate Innovator Award in October 2012 – joining the ranks of companies like Harley-Davidson and FedEx.

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9 Reasons QR Codes are Bad for Your Brand

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Posted in QR Codes. The tale of the QR code is a sordid story. The QR (Quick Response) code was originally the trademark name for a two-dimensional barcode system. It was invented in 1994 by Denso Wave, a Toyota subsidiary, as a way to track vehicles as they were assembled, and to scan components at high speeds. While Denso Wave holds the patent on the technology, they granted free license on it, going so far as to publish the specs online, and allowing anyone to use it.

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11 (of the) Best SEO Tools and Keyword Research Guides of 2012

Webbiquity

With its progression of benignly named yet ferocious algorithm updates (Farmer, Panda, Penguin), Google continues, in its efforts to battle webspam, to confound and make life more difficult for legitimate SEO professionals and their clients as well. Fortunately, there are a large and growing number of tools available to help SEO practitioners adapt and carry on their valiant efforts to help Google bring the most relevant (usually anyway) results to the top.

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PowerViews with Josiane Feigon: Survival of the Fittest Sales Reps

ViewPoint

Joining me today is Josiane Feigon, President of TeleSmart. TeleSmart is a leader in providing inside sales coaching and consulting to Fortune 1000 companies. As publisher of TeleSmart’s “Trend Report,” Josiane has spent most of the last decade tracking the biggest challenges that sales leaders face each year. Below, you can read highlights from our discussion or use the links to start the video from different parts of the conversation.

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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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The Most Important Marketing Metrics

Marketing Insider Group

What marketing metrics do you use to run your business? Are they the same as the metrics you report to your CEO? Long-gone are the days when the only thing marketing discussed with the CEO was the color of the logo and the size of the advertising budget. It is not the creatives who will delivering reports to the C-Suite. It is the data scientists and the marketing nerds.

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Five Reasons to “Dislike” Social Media

Webbiquity

Guest post by Megan Totka. The benefits of social media are clear: huge outreach, easy to use, low cost and (assumed) high ROI, not to mention a wide variety of options. In no way would I recommend anyone stop using social media as a marketing tool. In fact, I’m a huge advocate of it. But after months or even years of use, you will likely learn, there are a lot of things to hate about these websites; that even though it’s become an essential marketing channel, social media still sucks.

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Are you mistaking marketing tactics for strategy?

Biznology

Diversification (marketing strategy) (Photo credit: Wikipedia). One of the fun parts of my job is that I work with very smart people–my clients. One of them told me that they have no interest in figuring out their LinkedIn strategy. It’s not that he doesn’t care about LinkedIn–far from it–but he is voicing something that is critically important in marketing: understanding the difference between tactics and strategy.

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The Future of Marketing: Is The Science of Marketing Taking Over?

Marketing Insider Group

Last week we kicked of this Future of Marketing series with an interview with Mark Schaefer. Mark identified culture as the key differentiator of a successful social business. He also predicted that Facebook search would begin to impact the balance of power that Google has with consumers and over advertisers, as more millennials enter and rise in the workforce.

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5 Creative Ways B2B Marketers Can Use Twitter’s Vine

B2B Marketing Traction

I don’t know much about Vine, and I like it already. Here’s why – have you ever NOT watched a video because all you want is the few seconds that show you how to do the thing, and the video is 4 minutes long? That’s what I’m talking about. I’m just saying I’d rather scan some text than endure a long video to get the small bit of information I need than be a captive viewer for several minutes.

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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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MMA Modernizes Marketing Mix Models

Customer Experience Matrix

I’ve been spending a lot of time recently looking at marketing measurement systems. This means that you, Dear Reader, will be spending a lot of time reading about them. A good place to start is Marketing Management Analytics , known to its friends as MMA. MMA was founded in 1989 and is one of the pioneers in marketing mix modeling. Mix models remain the heart of the company’s business.

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No, SEO still isn’t dead

Biznology

Photo credit: Wikipedia. I am old enough to remember the Spanish dictator Francisco Franco. At the end of his life, there were endless reports of his courageous fight to remain alive. When, inevitably he did pass away, Saturday Night Live aired a news story about Francisco Franco’s'”valiant fight to remain dead.” I am getting to the point where I think we need to do the story on SEO’s valiant fight to remain dead.

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Three Reasons Marketing Is the First Budget Cut

Digital B2B Marketing

Marketing budgets are often one of the first budgets cut, time and time again, yet marketers continue to claim companies are making unwise decisions. To support the case, you point to research and cases showing companies who invest in marketing during a downturn come out stronger. Is the answer turning marketing into a profit center, as some have claimed?

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Social Media Strategy in 8 Steps

Convince & Convert

Over the past four years at Convince & Convert, we’ve continued to refine our social media strategy process. Here’s one of the latest iterations, presented as a keynote speech to ESTO (Educational Seminar for Travel Organizations) last Fall. I’ve pasted the slides below, but also included a short summary of the 8 steps in our social media strategy process, as the slides are more visual than descriptive.

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Are Your Impact Comms Resonating With Stakeholders?

Whether your organization is at the start of its sustainability and impact journey or years into it, many brands share a common concern: the uncertainty of whether they are sending stakeholders mixed messages. Creating content that speaks to your audience's “love language” can be a tricky dance. But, worry not! 3BL has put together tips to ensure that your content not only finds its rhythm but also resonates with your target audiences.

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Social Media Marketing: Where Do I Start?

B2B Marketing Traction

Many business owners want to get involved on social media, but don’t know where to start. The answer is simple, but it depends on whether you are a B2B (Business to Business) or B2C (Business to Consumer) marketer. Business to Business marketers should start with LinkedIn. The reasons are simple. For B2B marketers (consultants, business lawyers, accounting firms, technology and manufacturing companies), LinkedIn is the number one social media platform with 200 million users.

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If you perform only to an empty house your show will close

Biznology

I am so impressed by how well brands are messaging these days. People are spending the money and devoting the resources required to create compelling and engaging social media posts, not only just on Facebook but also on LinkedIn , Twitter , Pinterest , and even Google+. There’s a problem, however: while I am impressed with the quality, generosity, and creativity of the posts as well as the kindness and responsiveness of the replies to queries via social media, is it money well-spent if th

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Why Salespeople Don’t Follow Up on Good Leads

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

by Dayna Rothman We are excited to welcome Michael Boyette as our guest author today. Michael is the Executive Editor of Rapid Learning Institute and editor of Top Sales Dog Blog. The number-one issue in Sales and Marketing alignment can be summed up in three words: “These leads suck!”. No matter how much effort Marketing puts into delivering high-quality, actionable leads, most salespeople remain convinced that marketing-generated leads are lousy.

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3 Steps to Building a Solid Media List

Convince & Convert

Image via BigStockPhoto.com. Ever land a cover story from a Twitter pitch? Newsjack breaking news from a Facebook feed? Secure a blog column on a critical e-zine website? If not, it’s time to kick up your PR skills a notch or two. The PR industry continues to shift like Tony Stewart at a Daytona race, and it impacts EVERY area of our job: pitching, monitoring, placements, bylines and media relations.

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Lets Get Physical: How to Blend Direct Mail Marketing with Your Digital Strategy

Speaker: Akeel Jabber, B2B SaaS Investor and Growth Marketer at Horizen Capital

⭐ Are you ready to boost campaign success? Consider the untapped potential of integrating direct mail marketing seamlessly with digital marketing strategies. Combining the physical, tangible impact of direct mail with the dynamic reach of digital marketing can be a game-changer, significantly increasing your ROI when done right. Direct mail grabs attention, making it great for reaching your target audience 📩 Digital marketing keeps the momentum going, driving action 📲 So.

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3 Marketing Personalities You Need to Manage

B2B Marketing Traction

In over 15 years as a marketing consultant, I’ve worked with a lot of great clients. There are 3 personalities, however, that I’ve realized are not always productive for improving marketing, generating more leads, and increasing sales revenues! 3 Marketing Personalities You Need to Manage. 1.Myopic Marketer. This marketer can’t see the forest for the trees.

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Make the Most of Content Marketing Campaigns

Biznology

Photo credit: Wikipedia. Content marketing is a valuable part of any business strategy and it comes in many forms. Though the term is overused, its implementation is underutilized. A study by digital marketing company IMN found that 78 percent of companies surveyed placed content marketing as a high or medium-to-high priority but only 52 percent reported a formal content marketing strategy in place for every channel of distribution.

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The Ultimate Social Media Event Marketing Checklist [Infographic]

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

by Jason Miller Having a solid social media plan in place around your marketing events is essential to boosting engagement and overall awareness. Before an event your social channels are a great way to spread the word while pulling in registrants that are not currently in your database. During an event social networks offer a unique opportunity to interact directly with your audience while empowering them to share and amplify your message.

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The Dreaded Plaque Talk Sparks Facebook Engagement

Convince & Convert

Editor’s Note : This post is part of a series of weekly posts that highlight interesting examples of brands using imagery to their content marketing advantage. Read on for this week’s example and analysis from Jessica Gioglio. Have you had the plaque talk with your kids yet? Though not the type of content one expects to see in their Facebook newsfeed, this post from Crest is a great example of how to cultivate engagement around dynamic imagery.

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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.

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Creating Relevant Content for Industrial Marketing is a Challenge

Industrial Marketing Today

I am not referring to the age-old question, “What will we write about?” Creating content that an industrial and technical audience will find relevant is not easy. An industrial marketer [.]. [ This is only a content summary. Please click on the headline to read the full article. Visit my website for more content on industrial marketing.].

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3 Key Tips to Search Campaigns that Convert

Biznology

Photo credit: Search Influence. Paid search can seem almost magical at times. You plunk down your credit card, craft some ads, and watch the traffic come rolling in. But getting the most out of your search marketing efforts requires connecting those ads to business results. And the best way to do that is to drive your search traffic through to conversion (If you need more background on what conversions and conversion rate are, check out our past coverage of conversion tracking fundamentals ).

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Building a Kick-Ass Social Media Dashboard

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

by Jason Miller If you are tasked with building a social media dashboard to track your efforts, look no further than this post. I have built many dashboards over the years and as a personal resolution to making my job easier, I decided to cut to the chase and get to the metrics that matter most. That means cutting out the everyday metrics that litter and cloud up the social media manager’s real success story.

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Social Media Lessons from the “Open Source” Movement

Convince & Convert

Chris Moody, Red Hat @cnmoody. Chris Moody , Senior Marketing Manager at Red Hat , joins the Social Pros Podcast this week to discuss “open source” as the original social media on the internet, why Red Hat is the #3 place to work according to Glass Door , and (shockingly) why Google+ is a better platform for his business purposes than Twitter.

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Redefining the CDP: 8 Data-Driven Designs for Successful Customer Journeys

In this guide, discover 8 use cases for how a customer data platform can tackle common challenges faced by marketing, commerce, service, and sales teams. With helpful diagrams and simple explanations in each use case, see how Salesforce’s CDP, Data Cloud for Marketing, powers personalized, real-time experiences across marketing, with capabilities that include: Optimizing ad spend Powering dynamic website content Increasing upselling and cross-selling Resolving service cases with marketing data B

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The Anatomy of an Awful Marketing Email

Hubspot

How often do you think about junk mail? Probably not too often, because there's a folder in your email that thinks about it for you, right? But consider this: according to Return Path , marketing emails are responsible for 70% of 'this is spam' complaints. That means even if you don't think about junk mail as a recipient, as a marketer, you should all be thinking about it all the time -- specifically, whether your own marketing emails are part of that 70%.

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eMagine Launches New Websites

EMagine B2B Blog

eMagine has a large portfolio of website designs, SEO engagements, PPC Campaign Management, Social Media Management and more. We use this blog to provide educational material for our visitors on these subjects. Below is a sampling of some new website launches, and the services eMagine provided: Permatex. Permatex is a leading manufacturer, distributor and marketer of premium chemical products to the automotive maintenance and repair, home and hardware markets.

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The Content Marketing Mashup of Writing, Business, and Passion

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

by Dayna Rothman I get asked quite frequently how I became a content marketer. Not only is content marketing a newer role within an organization, but there has also been a lot of backlash against bad content marketing. A lot of companies remain in the dark when it comes to making the right hire because it isn’t necessarily something you can major in.