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Online Marketing News in 2009: The Year’s Hottest Events

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Here is our 2009 year in review. December 2009 Online Marketing News. Top word of 2009: Twitter. November 2009 Online Marketing News. Marketing Automation gets Social – the first major announcement about social marketing automation. October 2009 Online Marketing News. Linkedin and Twitter integrate.

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Don't Count on Marketing Automation to Solve All Your Lead.

Industrial Marketing Today

Of course, Marketing Automation alone cannot live up to those hyped up expectations and has to take the brunt of the blame. That is unfortunate because Marketing Automation software is a very useful tool and in my opinion, a necessity these days. However, is improving efficiency enough to justify investing in Marketing Automation?

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How to Fail at Social Media

The Effective Marketer

An interesting post on Why So Many Companies Suck at Social Media brings in some good insights and compares the now famous Old Spice youtube campaign with copycats like Cisco and Brigham Young University. The solution, it seems, is far more complicated. Why is it that one company fails miserable while the other gets it right?

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The Rise of the Content Marketer « The Effective Marketer

The Effective Marketer

Besides the rise of social media as marketing channel, the emergence of marketing technology, more specifically Marketing Automation systems, in which you can configure the automated distribution of content to customers and prospects has been changing the way marketers see and create conent. What used to be clear roles (i.e.

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Social Media's Next Victim?

The Effective Marketer

And now with social media, there’s no telling who will be the next United to see its market cap hurt because of a blog post or youtube video. This entry was posted on Friday, November 6th, 2009 at 8:15 am and is filed under Uncategorized. What stories or lessons learned do you have to share? United States License.

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The Fun Theory: How to Change Behavior

The Effective Marketer

Volkswagen launched what became quickly a viral campaign with emails being forwarded, youtube videos with over 1 million hits and comments from all corners of the web. This entry was posted on Monday, November 30th, 2009 at 8:00 am and is filed under Communication , Marketing Strategy , Social Media. Some food for thought.

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The Enemy of Productivity

The Effective Marketer

Stress vs. Productivity from www.hrmreport.com If your office is anything like mine, your colleagues send you Youtube videos, web links, and other stuff that although very entertaining doesn’t help you get your projects done on time. Have you ever tried simply not checking email ? Close the email and ask yourself again in 1 hour.

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