The Effective Marketer

JULY 21, 2009

Choosing the right social media strategy While some may say that since your employees are already using social media (facebook pages, tweeter accounts, linkedin posts, etc.) This entry was posted on Tuesday, July 21st, 2009 at 8:47 pm and is filed under Communication , Marketing Strategy , Online Marketing , Social Media. Please share!

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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. and measure it religiously.

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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

Probably the most comprehensive study along these lines was Global Faces and Networked Places , released by Neilsen in March 2009. Its most recent report shows that in the past year, time spent on “community” applications like Facebook and Myspace has more than doubled from 8.8% of the online population), compared with just 65.1%

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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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WebMarketCentral

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

Use social media more effectively for research? You'll find tools for all of those tasks and others in this collection of more of the best cool online tools. PeoplePond PeoplePond is a secure social profile site that can be connected to your Facebook, Twitter and other social media accounts. Generate word-of-word referrals?

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 26, 2010

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. Now, B2B content marketing’s agenda is to educate and inform customers and prospects. Content Marketing’s slogan is – “Don’t pitch.

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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

AUGUST 10, 2010

I don’t deny that effective SEO does take experience, expertise and time to produce results. webinars website design White Paper Marketing whitepapers YouTube Marketing Matters Marketing Matters is our monthly e-newsletter on best practices in industrial and B2B marketing. However, you can do it too with some help.

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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

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

MAY 26, 2010

Allocating online marketing in a broader and deeper fashion across multiple programs not only helps you connect with more potential buyers throughout the buy cycle, it helps prevent a key mistake that some marketers make: relying only on the ‘last click’ to determine which marketing programs are effective in bringing buyers to your company.

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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.” webinars website design White Paper Marketing whitepapers YouTube Marketing Matters Marketing Matters is our monthly e-newsletter on best practices in industrial and B2B marketing.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

One executive I know, the president of a software company, shares the first page of Google with a biomedical researcher, a diplomat, a (not exactly best-selling) author, and the Facebook page of a college student from North Dakota. Note: this post was originally published on the WebMarketCentral blog in January 2009. Tweet This!

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

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. 2) PR and TV are popular for building brand but trade shows and email raise awareness best. This is our second joint endeavor on this topic.

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Anything Goes Marketing

NOVEMBER 15, 2009

They are some of the best and brightest out there. One of the memorable moments on Day #1 was at the social media training session when all of students needed to set up a Twitter account (if they didn’t have one) and tweet using the #EE09 hash tag. I hope you enjoy it and I encourage you to follow the Tweeters that I mention below.

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Anything Goes Marketing

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

Sometimes it’s What’s Missing That Counts I was reading MarketingSherpa’s 2009 Email Marketing Benchmarking Guide looking for useful metrics and tips. A common theme in 2009 is that marketers need to prove the value of their marketing spend in even greater detail. We’ll come back to this story – let’s focus back on email marketing.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

If we can reliably identify a person across Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Yelp and elswhere, we can then segment not only for the demographics of the consumer in question; we can tailor content for the mode they are in where we reach them. The way to do this practically is to borrow a technique from social media and use tagging.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 3, 2010

There you have it, six quick ways to make you business blogs even more effective. How effective has it been for generating leads? webinars website design White Paper Marketing whitepapers YouTube Marketing Matters Marketing Matters is our monthly e-newsletter on best practices in industrial and B2B marketing.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

Wiley contacted me about becoming an author and after some back and forth on the title of the book we settled on Facebook Marketing for Dummies (due out in the fall). I recruited long time college friend (who reconnected with me in Facebook!) and a general tendency to speak in 140 character phrases! Seemed like a good one two punch!

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Best of B2B Marketing. August 2009. Twitter Analytics: Five Practical, Lesser Known Free Tools for B2B Professionals - B2B Marketing Savvy , August 31, 2009. How B2Bs can Improve SEO by Avoiding Duplicate Content - Modern B2B Marketing , August 18, 2009. 20 Formats to Consider - Savvy B2B Marketing , August 26, 2009.

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Online Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Facebook Events Facebook doesn’t have the most elegant option for managing events, but it can be effective. If your event or organization does not have a Facebook presence, just set up your event in Facebook Events and invite all your friends. It’s a year old but the information is still useful.

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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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Webbiquity

MAY 30, 2010

From social media cartoons and contextual advertising gone wrong to dysfunctional agency-client relationships and the best (and worst) online ads, here are some of the most amusing, creative and remarkable blog posts and videos of 2009. 14 hilariously effective online campaigns by iMedia Connection. Share this on Facebook.

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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.

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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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Unbounce

AUGUST 29, 2019

At the same time, this obsession with visual branding can come with a heavy price tag. 2 September 2009, [link]. Another possible origin of this trend is Facebook. An example of the illustrations used by Facebook, featured on the Buck website portfolio. This is when the butterfly effect really started to take shape.

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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

JULY 20, 2010

Next, solution-finding: which ideas were the most effective, cheapest, and aesthetically pleasing? Fiberglass absorbed sound the best but wouldn’t be safe. webinars website design White Paper Marketing whitepapers YouTube Marketing Matters Marketing Matters is our monthly e-newsletter on best practices in industrial and B2B marketing.

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Ambal's Amusings

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

"Go Where Your Best Prospects Spend Their Time" Ardath Albee's Bio. Her company Marketing Interactions helps companies with complex sales and quantify marketing effectiveness by using interactive e-marketing strategies driven by compelling content. Consider these five steps for determining the best way to get found: 1.

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Smashmouth Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

This past week was the first in a series of two great conferences, the MarketingSherpa's 6th Annual B2B Marketing Summit 2009 in San Francisco. We cover a different subject matter on the microsite every few months and social media garnered one of our best click-through rates for email sent to the group. Find me there and say hello.

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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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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Steve Woods said it best when he wrote in his blog post , “As the emphasis on face-to-face interaction as a way to build trust decreases in lieu of other ways of building trust, the need to be “in the field” also decreases.” I agree with you that sales must adopt social media in order to be more effective these days.

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WebMarketCentral

DECEMBER 9, 2009

What's the best method for approaching social media marketing? What tools are available for cost-effectively monitoring brand conversations across social media sites? Discover the answers to these questions and others here in more of the best blog posts and articles about social media marketing so far this year.

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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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Convince & Convert

MAY 4, 2010

Or, paradoxically, they claim to embrace social media while forbidding their employees from being on Facebook or Twitter. My friend Amber Naslund writes a lot of the need to “ manage up &# in social media—making sure the folks doing the work are communicating effectively to the C-Suite. I like the way that you phrase that.

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