February, 2012

The Effective Marketer

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Guidelines for a Content Marketing Audit

The Effective Marketer

If you are already a content marketing convert and understand the importance of embracing content publishing as a core component of your marketing strategy, you may be wondering how well you are doing in comparison to other companies. The Altimeter Group has a report that can help you with that. Their recently released “ Content: The New Marketing Equation ” report puts together a “Content Marketing Maturity” framework to help you assess your content marketing efforts.

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When Inbound Marketing Goes Wrong

The Effective Marketer

The fact that Inbound Marketing is taking over traditional marketing methods is not news. It seems that every eBook, blog post, and webinar is now touting content marketing and inbound marketing as the go-to strategies for the new marketers. Marketing is evolving , there is no denying that. But for those out there in the trenches, trying to follow all the advice and get their marketing engines running it is not that simple.

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6 Ways to Spice Up Boring Email Marketing Campaigns

The Effective Marketer

Note: This is a guest post by Lior Levin. See Lior’s bio at the end of the article. For a marketer, email is possibly the most powerful medium ever created. In addition to be instantaneous and simple, it’s a personal medium that can be tailored to every person, it’s opt-in, meaning that you’re reaching an already-engaged audience and, best of all, the cost of sending each email is effectively zero.