Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 20, 2010

Finally, they presented designs to teachers, parents, and Jim West, inventor of the electric microphone. 2 comments… read them below or add one } Jack Pallet July 23, 2010 at 9:36 am The missing link in many sales presentations is a combination of clear, concise communication and the establishment of credibility.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 14, 2010

Instead, I found something on Media Curation, which I thought was close enough: Media Curation is the emerging trend toward creating media content using a mix of machine and human resources. Next, I came across a blog post written back in September of 2009 by Rohit Bhargava of Influential Marketing Blog.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

The examples and mini case studies he presents provide insights that leave you nodding your head and thinking you could adopt the same approaches. I will spare Jay’s blog the list of the 70 videos we did, outside of YouTube, since most of them were made before YouTube existed. UNsettling Stratten has a knack for gaps.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Power, Risk & Accountability Today, I gave a presentation to LEAD San Diego, a group of Southern California business leaders. The theme of the presentation was this new era of marketing-centrism and what it takes to succeed in an environment where marketing plans are not month-to-month, but minute-to-minute.

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MARCH 25, 2010

Swix aggregates as many as 100+ of your social media metrics, and presents them in a unified, visually digestible fashion that will be the darling of any Excel hater. Want to compare the historical growth of your RSS subscribers to your YouTube channel subscribers? New YouTube video that goes viral. A new product launch.

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JULY 21, 2010

A recent presentation at the PRSA Counselors Academy, by Michael Lasky , Partner and Chair of the Public Relations Law Practice at the law firm of Davis & Gilbert in NY, provided a wake up call to those in attendance about how the law is slowly creeping into the social landscape and why responsible marketers had better pay attention.

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APRIL 1, 2010

The team’s record for the last five years: 2009-10 (14-60) so far 2008-09 (24-58) 2007-08 (22-60) 2006-07 (32-50) 2005-06 (33-49) In fact, the Timberwolves have won a playoff series only one time in their 21 years of existence. So, I peeked at YouTube. 213 videos on YouTube , the most recent just five days ago.

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MAY 11, 2010

Not in a “here’s our FAQ&# way, but in a vigorous, social media way. For B2B companies, I suggest adding a short slide presentation that answers each question, and possibly a podcast that answers all six in aggregate. Put it on YouTube of course. Post it to your Facebook page. Your LInkedin page.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Social media is not about Facebook or MySpace or Flickr or Twitter or blogs or YouTube. Because so much focus has historically been on creation and distribution of content online, companies often mistake social media outlets as simply another, more social repository for this content. It’s about humanization.

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JULY 14, 2010

Those results will not change without a concerted effort to engage in social media. Throughout life it drives us crazy when people talk about us when we’re not around – here we have an opportunity to be present. Losing in social media can be akin to the experiences of companies like Kraft, Nestle, and BP in the social media realm.

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APRIL 6, 2010

I recommend using a mixture of your Top 25 phrases and some that are highly relevant to your business, but perhaps aren’t sending as much traffic as you’d like at present. Seek Content Inspiration Creating successful social media content isn’t just status updates. What shows up in these search results?

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Driving Traffic to Your Homepage All the Time May Be a Big Mistake by Achinta Mitra on October 26, 2009 in Industrial Websites , Website Design & Development You’ve read up on all the traffic generation tactics and optimized your site to rank high on major search engines.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Due to the content discovery constraints of social media sources such as Twitter, the timeframe to access historical data could be significantly less than 6 months. Most of the tools in the space focus on Twitter, we focus on Facebook Pages, YouTube and Twitter.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2010

ThinkGeek has a robust involvement in social media, with over 68,000 followers on Twitter , 50,000 fans on Facebook and over 11,000 subscribers to their channel on YouTube , which features company-posted videos demonstrating items like their proximity-meter t-shirts and fake-blood-filled, realistically gummy heart for Valentine’s Day.

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JUNE 8, 2010

A single tweet, YouTube video, or blog post can be the spark that sets off a firestorm of controversy. Opportunities Via Context Musician Dave Carroll has been widely lauded for his “ United Breaks Guitars &# YouTube video that has now been seen more than 8.5 450,000 views on YouTube, and counting. link] [link] Ashley E.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Flickr Creative Commons Search This is my go-to source for photos for the blog and presentations. This robust source for inexpensive stock photography is my secret lair of images for my presentations and workshops. Extremely handy for locating and adding links to specific Web pages (see link to Seth Godin above).

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AUGUST 3, 2010

Although I'd be looking at my YouTube and Facebook search optimization right about now, too. Facebook, YouTube, Search, etc are all entrance points and are all of changing value depending on purpose of campaign. I want control over how I present who I am, and Facebook is the new hottest method. link] jaybaer Indeed.

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AUGUST 3, 2010

Although I'd be looking at my YouTube and Facebook search optimization right about now, too. Facebook, YouTube, Search, etc are all entrance points and are all of changing value depending on purpose of campaign. I want control over how I present who I am, and Facebook is the new hottest method. link] jaybaer Indeed.

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OCTOBER 31, 2010

Flickr Creative Commons Search This is my go-to source for photos for the blog and presentations. This robust source for inexpensive stock photography is my secret lair of images for my presentations and workshops. Extremely handy for locating and adding links to specific Web pages (see link to Seth Godin above).

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

It’s a benefit, not a drawback that (despite what others might proclaim) there is no social media playbook that can taken off the shelf and executed in rote fashion for all companies. Inevitability Sure, we all talk about Facebook and Twitter and YouTube. You are free to make your own reality and script your own success.

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APRIL 7, 2010

Some great ideas: from @theblackfin from @mikefraietta from @bradmays In addition to the chat, I also came across this fantastic presentation about Foursquare (note the SEO benefits) from Chuck Reynolds. Jon Thomas Presentation Advisors [link] Jon Thomas Jay, I was able to join the chat for a while and it was great. That is troubling.

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APRIL 27, 2010

I'm presenting at a leadership conference (of engineers) this weekend and one of the points I will try to make is that “Information isn't boring by accident. I'm presenting at a leadership conference (of engineers) this weekend and one of the points I will try to make is that “Information isn't boring by accident.

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