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When I Couldn’t Find Marketing Outlets to Elevate My Brand, I Created My Own

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So often as a mission-based business owner, it can feel like I have the most important message in the world—but nobody wants to listen to it. When we were first getting started as a student club in 2009, I remember initially struggling to get my peers to join. My marketing is not just about promoting Diversability.

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Best Companies Don't Need Marketing

The Effective Marketer

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Taming Your Brand Mascot « The Effective Marketer

The Effective Marketer

More recently even Twitter mascots have been showing up as a company’s public face. A recent article I read on Harvard Business Review, “ Aflac’s CEO Explains How He Fell For The Duck ” made me think about brand messaging and the use of mascots. For example, don’t let your brand mascot share the spotlight with other characters.

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The Rise of the Content Marketer « The Effective Marketer

The Effective Marketer

This could be a good stepping stone for a promising young Marketing Coordinator, for example. You could simply rework some job descriptions to free someone’s time to focus more on the whole content coordination aspect. This will save everyone (especially the Marketing Manager) a lot of time and avoid headaches down the road.

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Measuring the Value Social Marketing and Media

Vision Edge Marketing

to help the company build its business. billion in 2009. As with any initiative, you can measure the impact of a social media effort only after you’ve determined the business outcome it supports and established performance-based objectives. Each of these objectives should be tied to a business outcome.

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if you're gonna copy, make it right

The Effective Marketer

He uses examples like 37Signals, Copyblogger, FogCreek Software, Zappos, and make a good case for trying to think for yourself instead of just following what others are saying. This entry was posted on Sunday, February 15th, 2009 at 10:02 pm and is filed under Communication , Marketing Planning , Marketing Strategy. Let me explain.

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Measuring the Value of Social Marketing and Media

Vision Edge Marketing

company build its business. billion in 2009. As with any initiative, you can measure the impact of a social media effort only after you’ve determined the business outcome it supports and established performance-based objectives. Each of these objectives should be tied to a business outcome. to help the.