The Effective Marketer

MAY 10, 2010

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking Taming Your Brand Mascot From Tony The Tiger, Trix Rabbit and Energizer Bunny to Ronald McDonald and even John McCain (?!) The duck has 165,000 facebook fans in the US. United States License.

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The Effective Marketer

JULY 21, 2009

Taking the plunge into social media may not be the right thing for you Social media is just another media Experts, personalities and false prophets are all clamoring that social media is king. The same questions you would ask before using any marketing tool available you should also ask of the Social Media tools.

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Outbound Engine

MARCH 3, 2020

Not that long ago, having a social media presence wasn’t a must because not everyone used social media. However, over the past decade, the percentage of American adults on social media grew from 26 in 2009 to 72 percent in 2019 ! We’re talking basically 3 out of 4 people are now active on social media.

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The Effective Marketer

JUNE 21, 2009

Review of the first 5 classes: Class: How to Blog Effectively for Business (GF101) Professors: Ann Handley & Mack Collier, MarketingProfs This was a basic introduction to blogging, so for those already familiar with what blogging is, there wasn’t much new content.

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The Effective Marketer

MARCH 7, 2009

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking How to Use Social Media – Lessons from AMA Digital Conference This past Friday (March 6) the AMA Tampa Bay chapter hosted an incredible full day event called the Digital Marketing Conference.

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Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Summary: Here are links to about twenty studies with statistics on online media consumption and advertising spend. Many are contradictory, but it's clear that marketers need to invest in social media, which might eventually replace search as the primary way that customers find them. How are people actually spending their time online?

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Scoop.it

JUNE 6, 2019

Like this post on content curation strategy explains, there are five steps to planning an effective content curation strategy: Set your content curation goals. It allows you to publish it on one or more WordPress blogs, share it on multiple social media, and generate a customized newsletter for email automation solutions.

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 2, 2013

With 92% of companies now incorporating social media into their marketing efforts, it’s no longer sufficient to just “be there” on social networks. The first step to improving digital marketing results is to understand the emerging trends and best practices. What do buyers really want from social media marketers?

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The Effective Marketer

MARCH 9, 2010

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking Email Design Review Gallery Are you tired of what your marketing emails look like? Reply B2B Email Design – Gallery 2 « The Effective Marketer says: March 17, 2010 at 12:22 pm [.]

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Hubspot

MARCH 15, 2019

We're losing more than we're gaining for the first time since those statistics have been tracked, and the crossover coincided with the recession of 2007-2009. Census Bureau, the overall number of business applications began to recover in late 2009 and has been trending up for the past ten years. Make a plan. Social media.

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Content Standard

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Western brands need to be careful about how they use Chinese social media marketing, as Dolce & Gabbana found out this month. There are 911 million active social media users in China, compared with 207 million in the US, each spending an average of six hours a day browsing the internet. Getting Started with Social Media in China.

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Hubspot

MAY 11, 2018

You’ve put together a business plan, invested all your savings, and have been working your idea as a side hustle for a few months. Crowdfunding sites abound on the internet, and I’ve rounded up a few of the best. Best Crowdfunding Sites. Since their launch in 2009, the company has helped 15 million people pledge $3.7

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 26, 2010

However, to be successful with social media, you have to provide real value and that usually comes from great content. The old ways of pushing out content is no longer effective. Here’s a short but highly informative slide show that explains how to use content effectively as inbound marketing. Don’t sell.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

You should spend considerable amount of time in planning your strategy for effective lead scoring. White papers: Without a question, this continues to be the most effective content to build your in-house list. However, these tend to be far more effective in the later stages of the industrial buy cycle.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 19, 2010

Creating effective marketing content requires a well-rounded skill set that includes researching, interviewing subject matter experts (SME), customers, and internal stakeholders, compiling all that information into cohesive content and a basic understanding of any existing content management system (CMS) to update your online content library.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 23, 2010

Those punch lines and stereotypes may be amusing but they won’t really help you come up with an effective site redesign. It shouldn’t be an afterthought because retrofitting SEO after the redesign is typically not very effective and usually costs more. Instead of taking sides, I say use it to your best advantage.

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 2, 2010

The old email marketing strategy of batch and blast or spray and pray is no longer effective. Results achieved: The company has seen a 26% increase in engine and automotive shipping customers since the campaign began in 2009 FreightCenter.com exceeded its original goal of a 50/50 split in only 18 months. per week in 2006.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 10, 2010

I don’t deny that effective SEO does take experience, expertise and time to produce results. Search This Site Browse Industrial Marketing Topics B2B E-Mail Marketing B2B Lead Generation B2B Marketing Collateral B2B Marketing Videos B2B Media Planning Content Marketing Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 3, 2010

Make a plan: Even before you start writing content and posting, you need to have a clear set of goals. You don’t want to create another of those unless you are planning to sell advertisement space on your business blog. There you have it, six quick ways to make you business blogs even more effective.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

What is effective content marketing? How effectively you employ this content makes the difference in the outcomes you achieve.” In order to get there, you need to start with a content marketing plan and that starts with a content audit. What is a content audit?

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Unbounce

AUGUST 29, 2019

According to Andy Crestodina over at Orbit Media , a “fancy site from a big web development firm” can easily run you up a bill of more than $100,000. A graph created by Orbit Media shows how costly a new website or rebrand can be. 2 September 2009, [link]. Another possible origin of this trend is Facebook. Digital image.

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Atomic Reach

JANUARY 3, 2019

It is a blog post that informs you of industry changes or a video on social media that reveals a customer reviewing the brand. His efforts at promoting best practices for content marketing were recognized in 2014 when he was awarded the John Caldwell Lifetime Achievement Award by the Content Council. Find him on Twitter & LinkedIn.

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Reviewing the prior survey's results published in April 2009 , I expected that the economy -- and burgeoning interest in social media -- would accelerate the shift toward digital channels throughout 2009 to an unprecedented degree. 2) Email, search marketing, and inside sales worked best for awareness and demand generation.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 26, 2010

Here are some stats, results and recommendations that I found very useful: In the Needs Awareness and Research stages, buyers use a broad array of sources, including social media, Webinars, e-newsletters, search engines and [vertical search engines like] GlobalSpec. There are plenty of charts and graphs too.

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

On this blog you will find insights and advice about how to make conventional, online, and social media work well in B2B marketing. I hope this blog brings you a fresh perspective on the future of B2B marketing and best practices that you can put to work today to improve Marketings standing and influence inside your firm.

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Ambal's Amusings

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Does this mean cross-media, low-volume campaign all year long? "Go Where Your Best Prospects Spend Their Time" Ardath Albee's Bio. "Go Where Your Best Prospects Spend Their Time" Ardath Albee's Bio. Consider these five steps for determining the best way to get found: 1. Read on to get their insights.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 29, 2010

In addition, companies that reported using more sophisticated measures of ROI reported that their marketing efforts were highly effective and efficient at engaging than those not using financial metrics. Only 11% said they did not do any tracking, compared with 40% of marketers using only traditional metrics.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 14, 2010

I have seen this application being used very effectively by metal building manufacturers to help their customers choose the right color combination for roof, wall and trims. Community/Customer forums – forums have been around a lot longer than social media and have proven to very effective for engaging the engineering community.

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Online Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Whether it’s a webinar or a multi-day conference, leveraging social media can help event organizers extend an event’s visibility, attendance and pre-event conversations. Facebook Events Facebook doesn’t have the most elegant option for managing events, but it can be effective.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 20, 2010

Many other media outlets have reported the same creativity crisis in America. Next, solution-finding: which ideas were the most effective, cheapest, and aesthetically pleasing? Fiberglass absorbed sound the best but wouldn’t be safe. Then, the teams developed a plan of action. 1 “leadership competency” of the future.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Business blogs for lead generation Even though business blogging is not widely used in B2B marketing and especially in industrial marketing, it can be very effective as a tool for lead generation. And the tug-of-war between sales and marketing continues. This white paper aims to change that perception of them.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

As marketers, we need to reach our customers where they are and social media’s potential in that regard is unquestionable. However, for marketers, a social media address is insufficient to manage that channel. Foremost, we need a way to convert with whom we interact in social media into real prospects.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Have Digital Marketing and Social Media Killed the Industrial Sales Job? by Achinta Mitra on September 27, 2010 in Industrial Marketing Strategies , Industrial Websites , Sales Strategies , Social Media Marketing Remember the very first music video ever played on MTV?

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Hubspot

APRIL 1, 2018

I’ve always been a little leery of proclaiming anything "the best." I never declared anyone my best friend as a kid because I was afraid my other friends might assume I thought less of them. So it was a little difficult for me to come up with just one "best" advertisement of all time -- which is why there are 17 in this post instead.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 17, 2010

By far and away it has been our best means of getting our story out, and capturing business. markwilliamschaefer I'll have to think about this one … don't know about cause effect and effort but it's thought-provoking so you've done your job Jay! We have focused on relevant followers, in our industry by and large.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 3, 2010

Retrofitting optimization is much harder and it isn’t as effective as creating content from the ground up that is optimized for carefully researched keywords and phrases. Search engine optimization (SEO) and content are two peas in a pod – working with a SEO expert while developing new content is a smart redesign strategy.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 4, 2010

I’m delighted to have had the chance to interview technology consultant and author Phil Simon about how technology and social media adoption is changing companies. Do you see social media participation as one of the hurdles businesses now need to successfully clear? Measuring social media is viable, but not obvious.

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