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The Challenges in Adoption of Marketing Technology « The Effective.

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Based on a recent report on Marketing Technology Adoption for 2011 , the findings of their research shed some light on the challenges we face when it comes to marketing technology. Marketers as Technologists According to Forrester’s research, data driven marketers are divided about technology investments.

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WordPress Plugins for Marketers

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The list is not all inclusive and depending on the focus of your blog you may have to search for that specific plugin elsewhere, but it seems there is an agreement that at minimum you need some kind of SEO and Analytics plugin, and if your blog has enough traffic, a cache plugin is justified. United States License. United States License.

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Marketing Content That Sells

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Go to a trade show and the situation gets really bad. Trade show booths with slogans and taglines that don’t mean anything and sales brochures that are full of “features” and screenshots but lack detail of how they solve a problem. What is that acronym you keep using? In the B2B marketing space this is notorious.

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Choosing an Email Marketing Software « The Effective Marketer

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This question on a recent LinkedIn discussion thread for the Technology Marketing Community reminded me of when, a couple years ago, I delivered a presentation at the 2008 MarketingSherpa Email Marketing Summit. The important thing is to lead with the analytics side before throwing the qualitative evaluation into the mix.

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Presenting Effective Charts « The Effective Marketer

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Go to Juice Analytics website and download their free add-on to Excel that cleans up charts for a professional look. Was the last trade show really effective? Was the last trade show really effective? This entry was posted on Sunday, July 12th, 2009 at 8:15 pm and is filed under Communication.

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because you can't beat free marketing training

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Class: Analyzing Inbound Marketing (AZ401) Professor: Marshall Sponder, Monster.com , Web Analytics Association for Social Media In this class Marshall takes you through a tour of web analytics and how to track and measure your efforts related to social media, web, and more. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0

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B2B Lead Generation Blog: On Alignment between Marketing and Finance

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Im of course talking about budget time. When I see the challenge that marketers face when it comes to getting their budgets approved, I wonder why it has to be so hard? " Last week, I read a short BtoB article by Carol Krol that shows that this continues to be a challenge. Im of course talking about budget time.