Sat.Jan 24, 2009 - Fri.Jan 30, 2009

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Learn how to create content that improves your lead gen conversions

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B2B marketing efforts heavily rely on content as a lead generation incentive. To be effective in the lead gen cycle, this content has to be something your prospects yearn to read or view. You’ll want to create content that will actually help your sales team have a valid reason to follow-up. Marketers looking for ways to create this relevant content will get practical training during MarketingShepa’s B2B Webinar Training coming up January 29 from 2 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.

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My Fresh Morning Glass of Carbon Dioxide

Smashmouth Marketing

I just had a wonderfully natural apple muffin, washed it down with a half a pound of carbon dioxide, that tangy Tropicana orange juice. At least that's what Pepsico said the carbon impact was in an article in today's NY Times. The company might be trying to preempt criticism The company released a chart showing the different contributions. Production being the leading contributor, 60% with fertalizers and other energy consumption (heating plants in winter months).

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Positioning your Personal Brand

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Having taken on this new role of blogging on the Personal Branding Blog , I naturally have been looking at many of the other personal brands that are out there. A few names come to mind very quickly when you think about strong personal brands: Robert Scoble, Guy Kawasaki, Steve Jobs (the only non blogger), Jonathan Schwartz, Gary Vaynerchuk. Seems to me when you think of these individuals you also think of some attribute(s) about each of them.

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effective marketer principle 7: run productive meetings

The Effective Marketer

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking Effective Marketer Principle 7: Run Productive Meetings Meetings are a necessity of today’s work environment. And are also good source of humoristic material (see Dilbert cartoons) for the fact that they are often badly run and take way too much time.

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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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Marketo's Secret Sauce for Demand Generation

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

You may ask, why should anyone care what I have to say about demand generation? Well, at Marketo , we’ve built a world-class demand generation machine that has helped us in just 10 months to sign up over 130 customers in more than eight countries, including companies such as Thomson Reuters, Reed Business, and CollabNet. Now, I'm not writing this to promote Marketo, but I think our results are proof that we’re doing something right with our own demand generation and lead management processes.

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Sincere Marketing – a podcast with Romi Mahajan

Buzz Marketing for Technology

We live in an age of skepticism about all forms of consumption. The diffusion of our skepticism is accelerated by the Internet and makes the sincerity even more pressing. So it’s no surprise that the world of business -- specifically in the realms of advertising, branding, and marketing -- has to once again ennoble the concept of sincerity, which is to say, they have to simply be sincere and do work that is bounded by and radiates honesty.

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AdMob Launches Advertising Service for Android Apps

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The Android platform might still be in its infancy, but AdMob , one of the world’s largest mobile advertising marketplaces, launched its first dedicated advertising unit for Android applications today. Even though the Android platform was developed by Google, Google itself has yet to release a dedicated advertising service for Android applications.

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Demand Generation Trends for 2009

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Last October, Craig Rosenberg shared some insightful best practices in one of my first thought leadership interviews, titled Lead Generation Best Practices: Thought Leadership with The Funnelholic. He recently turned the tables on me with seven questions of his own as part of his own interview series: Thought Leadership Interview #6: Miller Time: Marketo’s Jon Miller on Lead Generation and Management in 2009.

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Best of 2008: Search Engine Marketing

WebMarketCentral

Is there SEM life beyond AdWords (and if so, where?)? How do you write a killer search ad? What should you look for when hiring a paid search agency? Which metrics are most important for measuring PPC success? What steps should take to optimize SEM campaigns—and which mistakes should you avoid? Discover the answers to all of these quandaries and more below, in some of the best blog posts and articles on search engine marketing from 2008.

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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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SQLStream Simplifies Event Stream Processing

Customer Experience Matrix

I spoke earlier this week with SQLStream , which offers software to execute queries against data streams such as stock market prices, Web logs and credit card transactions. These queries can include on-the-fly calculations such as moving averages, as well as scans for patterns like a sequence of failed log-in attempts. Typical applications include security monitoring, fraud detection, and general business activity monitoring.

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What's Next for B2B Social Media? FYIndOut Now

WebMarketCentral

It's been obvious for some time that social media has an increasing role in b2b marketing , and that b2b companies will increasingly invest marketing dollars there as social media marketing practices become more standardized. Still, most of what's being done today, from creating a company Facebook page to using a social media email signature , is extremely tactical.

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Book Review - Website Optimization - Follow Up

WebMarketCentral

As a quick follow-up to the recent review here of the excellent SEO/SEM book Website Optimization: Speed, Search Engine & Conversion Rate Secrets by Andrew King: I neglected to mention that there is also a companion website to the book at [link] which features sample chapters, chapter summaries, full-color figures, worksheets, videos, and a blog.

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Best of 2008 - SEO Tools, Part 1

WebMarketCentral

Looking for an easy-to-use backlink checking tool (or two) for SEO? How about tools for checking search engine rank, grading the SEO efforts on a website, developing an optimized keyword list, and link building? Or tools to help evaluate your competitors' online marketing strategies? Find these and more in this list of some of the best SEO tools and related reviews of 2008.

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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.