Wed.Mar 28, 2012

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5 Uses for Your Business Blog

Writing on the Web

Maintaining a business blog is time-consuming. However, if you have clear objectives in mind, the effort very well could be worth your while. As you establish your blog, define your goals to determine whether to keep it alive. Below are five common uses for feeding regular content into a business blog. ( photo courtesy digitalart ). 1. Raw Sales. For retailers and service providers, the most obvious reason to host a business blog is to peddle products or services.

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Why You Should Stop Mapping Content Formats to the Buyer’s Journey

Digital B2B Marketing

I have had it with “research” about the content formats B2B buyers prefer at each stage of the buyers journey. Multiple B2B publishers are pedaling this misinformation and as B2B marketers struggle with content marketing, it is diverting their focus. Here is one example from TechTarget : eBooks are earlier than white papers which are earlier than virtual trade shows?

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35 Days to Great First Sales Meetings

Avitage

35 Days to First Conversation — do the math For prospects who actively engage your content, assuming a two day lag in viewing, here is a possible sequence to your first call appointment (elapse time not work days) (“your mileage may vary”): Day 1 – send initial invitation touch with vmail call Day 3 – prospect views email content Day 5 – send Touch #2 automatically, no call Day 7 – prospect views content Day 14 – send Touch #3 mail, vmail call Day

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The Key to Understanding New Media Is Attitude, Not Technology

B2B Memes

Gina Tapani. Anytime you write in depth about a new technology, you are at risk of falling into what might be called the Trapani Trap. A couple of years ago, Gina Trapani , the founder of Lifehacker and a cohost of This Week in Google , wrote and self-published the Complete Guide to Google Wave , which she described as “an experiment in iterative publishing.” As Google’s innovative technology evolved and its uses expanded, she would continue updating her book.

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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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Google takes another swipe at site search facilities

Biznology

Image via CrunchBase. I am used to seeing Google try to siphon off traffic that once went to site search engines. It makes sense, from Google’s point of view, to grab as much search traffic as they can–the better to show their ads and put a few more pennies towards the bottom line. So Google’s toolbar makes it easy to search just within a site, and the true geeks among us can use the site” operator right from the search box.

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Measures for the C-Suite

Vision Edge Marketing

'In his book, Kotler on Marketing (1999), Phil Kotler claimed that, “Marketing has the main responsibility for achieving profitable revenue growth for the company (pg 18).” Kotler suggests that achieving profitable revenue growth is derived from finding, keeping and growing profitable customers. His premise is that finding, keeping and growing profitable customers form the basis of marketing’s role: We can easily connect finding a customer to customer acquisition and keeping and growing to custo

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Please Aggravate Me: Is Gamifying Customer Service a Reality

Convince & Convert

Lisa Loeffler ( @LisaMLoeffler ) is Research & Analysis Lead at Convince & Convert. She is also founder and principal of Genuine Media, a marketing agency that helps clients build their individual and brand reputation through social media. We all know waiting on hold for-EV-ver on the phone, or standing in a l–o–n–g line, are a few of life’s most unpleasant, time sucking experiences.

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Hey Marketers, Need a Custom Facebook Cover Photo? We Got You Covered!

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

by Jason Miller Facebook timeline cover photos for business are all the rage this week, but what about the marketers behind these businesses? We thought it would be fun to create custom Facebook cover photos for all the marketers out there who love what they do and want to show the world. Here are 10 ready made cover photos to choose from that will surely jazz up your Facebook profile.

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25 Clever Ways to Grow Your Email Marketing List

Hubspot

It's a sad fact, but your email marketing database degrades by about 25% every year. Your contacts' email addresses change as they move from one company to another, they opt-out of your email communication, or they abandon that old AOL address they only use to fill out forms on websites. As a marketer, it's your job to make sure you're constantly adding fresh contacts to your email marketing campaigns so you can keep your numbers moving up and to the right.

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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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Shocking Statistics about Lost Marketing Leads

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

by Seth Resler It’s 10 o’clock in the morning…do you know where your leads are? On March 6th, Brian Caroll, author of Lead Generation for the Complex Sale , shared his marketing wisdom in a webinar. Some of the statistics he’s uncovered about lead generation and lead nurturing may shock and awe you – and could lead to fisticuffs between you and your sales team!

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B2B Marketing Research Tips: A Realistic Sense of Time

MLT Creative

When selling the C-suite on approving your B2B marketing research proposal, remember to build in enough time and resources to complete the research effectively. Research is the cornerstone of a successful B2B marketing campaign and it is not a place where you want to skimp on time. For example: Remember Travel : In order to make your target audience feel more at ease (and thus glean more information) you will want the interview to take place in their setting if possible.

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Difference Between Good Logo Design and Powerful Branding?

Tomorrow People

What’s the difference between good logo design and powerful branding? What makes the difference between good logo design and branding? It’s an answer that continues to be overlooked by too many companies today. Yet it can make a real difference in terms of revenue and overall performance, in a number of ways: Better ROI. So your branding agency has delivered good logo design.

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How to Analyze Facebook Insights to Improve Your Content Strategy [With Video!]

Hubspot

Your Facebook business page is a haven for well-crafted status updates, photos, and links -- it's the ultimate content-sharing platform. But in order to understand which content you post is actually benefiting your business, you need to take the time to analyze your Facebook Insights (Facebook's proprietary business page analytics tool) to capitalize on what works and wave au revoir to what doesn't.

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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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Best Website, UX and Mobile Design Guides and Tips of 2011

Webbiquity

Inspired web designers continue to push the envelope on what’s possible in online presentation, utilizing HTML5 and design elements and techniques like parallax scrolling effects, imaginative icons and unusual typography to stand out from the ordinary and grab visitors’ attention. Any website element can be creatively designed and optimized, from navigation menus and forms to landing pages and 404 error pages.

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The 7 Aspects of Inbound Marketing Most People Screw Up

Hubspot

Too often, marketing is just plain bad. The problem is that bad marketing often works better than no marketing at all. Inbound marketing is helping to change this by creating marketing that people love, which luckily also results in 61% lower lead costs. In the transition to marketing that people actually like and use, too often there are still remnants from annoying, spammy, and interruptive marketing.