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Is Your Marketing Plan SMART?

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One Page Marketing Plan. If there is one thing I’ve learned as a marketing consultant, strategic marketing plans must be SMART to be successful. Especially in tough economic times, they have limited resources to spend on marketing. So, what they do spend on marketing must produce results. Without the What?,

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Best Day to Send B2B Email Marketing Campaigns

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As a B2B marketing consultant, I’m often asked what day of the week is the best day to send promotional email. Then, in 2008, Morgan Stewart, research director at ExactTarget , an email marketing firm, was quoted in Fortune magazine in an article titled “ Sunday is the New Monday.”

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How to Blog: How Much Time Does It Take?

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” It seems that many business marketers and others don’t consider the resource requirements of starting and maintaining a blog. A 2008 Technorati study showed that the blog abandonment rate was over 90%! What else can help bloggers be more efficient?

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Before You Abandon Your Social Media Accounts, Read This

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According to a Technorati study in 2008 , the blog abandonment rate is over 90%. In a LinkedIn discussion group, a participant posted that they had been blogging for six months with no results. 80% of Twitter users have fewer than ten followers says Techcrunch. So why do this social media thing? Why invest the time and money?

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Getting Ripped Off on B2B Web Development and SEO?

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I got an inkling that all was not right in the web development and SEO world in 2008. That’s a red flag of a fragmented industry – or innocent business owners being ripped off on their Internet marketing! In 2005 I placed more emphasis on positioning and marketing my B2B CMO for Hire services. ” Eeeesh!

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Does LinkedIn Make Your Phone Ring?

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I wish I could remember who first invited me to connect, because today, over seven years later, LinkedIn makes my phone ring and my inbox fill up with inquiries from prospective clients and recruiters looking for an outsource marketing help. In 2008 he launched the Social Network Roadmap and the Executive’s Guide to Web 2.0

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Does Your B2B Marketer Plagiarize like Melania Trump?

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The news stories about Melania Trump’s 2016 Republican Convention speech plagiarizing Michelle Obama’s 2008 Democratic Convention speech brought up one of my pet peeves – plagiarizing marketing content. It is not OK to copy other marketer’s stuff.