Mon.Mar 19, 2012

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The Death of Pay Per Click Advertising (PPC)

Tomorrow People

Is PPC past its Sell By date? For something that’s been around for just a few years, PayPer Click advertising , or PPC has become an established part of online marketing for many companies. Put simply, “Paid search marketing is the process of gaining traffic by purchasing ads on search engines. It is sometimes referred to as CPC (cost-per-click) or PPC (pay-per-click) marketing, because most search ads are sold on a CPC / PPC basis.

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Inbound Marketing for B2B: Discussion Recap

Digital B2B Marketing

Inbound marketing is a clear trend in B2B marketing. In fact, Sirius Decisions, a research firm focused on B2B markets, predicts more than 75% of leads will be sourced through inbound channels by 2015. What are the key challenges to B2B inbound marketing, how does inbound marketing change the type of content B2B marketers need to create and what tools are critical to inbound marketing?

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How to Blog: How Often Should I Blog?

B2B Marketing Traction

How often should you write and publish blog posts to get results from your blog? The answer depends on how competitive your industry is, what kind of results you want, and how much time resource you have to devote to blogging. What results do you want from your blog? If you are writing your blog to establish yourself as an expert in your industry, you have some leeway as to how many blog posts you publish each month.

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Are you constantly removing “conversion friction”?

Biznology

indecision dice (Photo credit: snigl3t). You can’t underestimate the difficulty of actually persuading someone to do something. We all walk through our days being bombarded by pitches to buy things and we develop a king of “default no” for everything that comes our way. Studies show that each person has only a certain amount of energy for making decisions each day, and once that energy is depleted, we each tend to retreat to minimalist, low-risk responses, which for a buying de

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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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Google's Pending Algorithm Update to Penalize Over-Optimized Content

Hubspot

Last week during a SXSW panel, Matt Cutts, head of Google's search spam team, announced that Google has been working on a new tweak to its algorithm that will punish sites that are too optimized for SEO -- what he called "over-optimized" or "overly SEO'd," according to the recording of the announcement posted on Search Engine Land. Here's what you need to know about the new Google algorithm update, which has not been released yet but will go live in the next few weeks, according to Cutts' announ

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Your Topmost Misguided Myths About PPC. BUSTED

Hubspot

When you think about inbound marketing, PPC isn't the first thing that pops into your head. That's because PPC is traditional advertising -- you know, that interruptive stuff you've become adept at blocking out -- except it takes place on the internet instead of a billboard on the side of the highway. But that doesn't mean there's no place for PPC in an inbound marketing strategy.

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The Everyday Genius Institute Takes a Look Inside the Minds of Top CMOs

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

by Jon Miller What if you could climb into the mind of a genius, take a look around, and discover just how they achieve such exceptional results? Taryn Voget, Co-founder and CMO at the Everyday Genius Institute, does just that. Her latest report Patterns of Marketing Genius looks at how top chief marketing officers generate innovative ideas that get big results.

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54 Pearls of Marketing Wisdom from HubSpot

Webbiquity

The inbound marketing experts at HubSpot along with Jeff Ente of Who’s Blogging What have just published an outstanding collection of social media insights, 54 Pearls of Marketing Wisdom by “26 of the world’s best marketing experts.” The assembled pundits weighed in on one or more questions regarding social media strategy, mobile marketing, online content, guidance on allocating resources between social networks and more.

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