The Effective Marketer

OCTOBER 21, 2009

And it will help stir some debate about the usefulness of such reports to consumers in general and how relevant the reports are. This entry was posted on Wednesday, October 21st, 2009 at 12:30 pm and is filed under Marketing Planning , Marketing Strategy. Stay tuned! United States License. United States License.

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The Effective Marketer

MAY 25, 2009

Some of the best webcasts I’ve watched were the ones where a moderator would interject at some points to feed a question that was relevant to the slide being presented or to make a comment that would help with a transition to the next section of the webinar. but this person can also interject during the presentation to create a dialog.

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The Effective Marketer

JUNE 23, 2009

The Inbound Marketing University calls itself a “marketing retraining program” and I guess that if you really have not been involved with online marketing up until now, it could be a great eye opener. For those that have been around online marketing for a while is a good refresher but nothing spectacular.

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The Effective Marketer

JUNE 13, 2009

It is a free week long online training program featuring some great speakers on topic such as blogging, SEO, viral marketing, email marketing, lead nurturing… all the tools online marketers need to know. Do you offer free marketing materials without registration on your website? So, why is it free?

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The Effective Marketer

JULY 21, 2009

At the company I work for we recently had an informal discussion about Facebook and Twitter, with people raising questions such as “why don’t we have a Tweeter page” or “let’s create a Facebook account and start inviting customers”. Reply Jean-Paul says: July 22, 2009 at 8:58 am Hello, Thanks a lot for track backing our link.

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The Effective Marketer

APRIL 6, 2009

You should also be checking for industry related news and is a good idea to email the hiring manager a link to an interesting article or press release that might be relevant to the company, this shows you’re up to date on the industry and is really interested. Some of these simple gestures go a long way towards helping you land the job.

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The Effective Marketer

MARCH 9, 2010

Design #5 Email Sender: MarketingProfs Email Title: How Businesses are Marketing with Facebook and Twitter What I Like: Really great color combination makes it easy in the eye. Reply Leave a Reply Cancel reply Email Subscription Subscribe to the RSS feed Follow Daniel on Twitter Connect via LinkedIn Follow Me On Twitter!

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Anything Goes Marketing

DECEMBER 21, 2009

2009 has been a long year but as I reflect back on my many conversations, I've created a top 5 list of items to avoid in 2010: 1. In 2010 you will not have a choice but to make social media part of your overall marketing strategy. The key to sending relevant communication is to automate the process.

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Smashmouth Marketing

SEPTEMBER 30, 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 published the Top 20 tweets of each day of the conference here: MarketingSherpa Marketing Summit, Top 20 Posts from Day 1 MarketingSherpa Marketing Summit, Top 20 Posts from Day 2.

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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 run a microsite, B2B Online Marketing Pros, for our B2B Online Marketing group on LinkedIn. Next week, Oct 5 and 6, will be the Boston summit.

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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

JUNE 24, 2010

Link), was a survey of small business owners and found that the two most common tactics used in 2009 were tweeting e-mail newsletters and sending out blog entries to e-mail lists. I paid a visit to GlobalSpec and downloaded their Trends in Industrial Marketing 2010 report. The first study done by AWeber (aff.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 5, 2010

The focus there is to optimize it for keywords or phrases for people to find your website when searching for relevant terms. Ardath Albee, CEO of Marketing Interactions, Inc. That however is only part of the solution because if your content doesn’t engage the visitor s/he won’t take a desired action to move forward in the sales cycle.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 20, 2010

In doing so, we’ve learned that findings resulting from search and social data mining are incredibly handy for informing creative and content, improving relevance and impact. In today’s post, it’s my pleasure to share some content relevance tips I’ve learned along the way. Easy – you listen!

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 30, 2010

Not just any content, but ideas, information and expertise they find relevant and helpful for answering questions they have about problems they’re trying to solve. Put it on a refresh schedule and spiff it up to keep it in tune with constantly shifting markets. If the market has shifted and it’s no longer relevant.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 3, 2010

I emphasized that to remain relevant, agencies must differentiate themselves by providing advanced social media services, not just the basics. Forrester Research shows that from 2009-2014, U.S. Learn the Science of Social Like any other online marketing program, social media is widely measurable – and testable.

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Hinge Marketing

JULY 25, 2014

With thousands of other users, open source CMS sites have plenty of free tutorial videos and online references. If your last press release or blog post was uploaded in 2009, it’s time for something new! Blogging is a great opportunity to speak to the issues that are relevant to your customers and establish your authority.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 15, 2010

Instead, I choose to keep my credibility intact and provide the professional help my clients need to supplement their do-it-yourself (DiY) industrial and B2B website capabilities and online marketing efforts. For DiYMers: Read my earlier post Do-it-Yourself Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for Your WordPress Blog. Take a quick poll.

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Ambal's Amusings

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

We asked our panel of B2B marketing experts "How can B2B marketers measure return on investment (leads generated, market awareness etc) for the money/effort spent on creating and marketing content? Blog Marketing Interactions Twitter Ardath421. Ardath Albee is a B2B Marketing Strategist.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 12, 2010

ThomasNet study, 2006) For IT solutions in excess of $50,000, the most wanted data in the early stage awareness was price ( Source: Joint study done by MarketingSherpa and Enquiro , 2007) Today, a majority of industrial buying decisions begin online. Reasons people don’t want to publish prices online There may be many reasons (excuses?)

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 8, 2010

In one word content – marketing content that is relevant and tailored to the prospect’s stage on the buy cycle. Don’t just rely on analysis, refine your list based on relevance to your business, products and services. Achinta offers his industrial clients marketing for engineers by an engineer.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 23, 2010

Today, technical buyers and engineers expect suppliers to have a substantial online presence with a website packed with relevant content in a variety of formats and easily searchable. I’m sure you’ve read many times that engineers hate marketing/marketers and they want only the facts.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 14, 2010

Next, I came across a blog post written back in September of 2009 by Rohit Bhargava of Influential Marketing Blog. The final piece of the content curation puzzle was an article by Lee Odden of TopRank Online Marketing blog. Rohit may be the first person to have coined the term “content curator.”

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

This puts significant pressure on email to be more relevant, because most of what would be contained in an email newsletter or special offer now happens faster and more personally within Facebook, Twitter or other social outposts. Twitter knows that you are @somecustomer, and what you Tweet about, and maybe your geography.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JANUARY 26, 2010

I’m not talking about a cosmetic facelift but turning it into a marketing powerhouse as you position your company for the recovery. Optimize, optimize, optimize : That’s the golden rule of online marketing as is location, location, location in real estate. Here are six essential rules that you should follow: 1.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Both seek to keep your brand top-of-mind with customers and prospects, communicating in a relevant, timely way that ideally is measurable and testable. “Should we be on Twitter, or Facebook, or Linkedin, or YouTube, or some other places?&# Flowtown gives you the answer in seconds. link] JasonPeck Hmm- privacy concerns here.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Solution: You have two primary responsibilities; a) make sure your website is easily found so your company can get on the shortlist early if you hope to be considered in the decision making stage and b) serve up content in different formats and be relevant to various stakeholders. Not so fast!

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

Skip to content Skip to navigation Skip to footer Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media Consulting Social Media Strategy Blog Social Media Consulting Blog Social Media Consulting Speaking Newsletter Free Social Media Tools Twitter Interviews About Lijit Search Is It Curtains for the App Store?

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 10, 2010

The Best of Twitter 20 From the forward: I’m sitting in a ballroom in Indianapolis in September, 2008 watching Joseph Jaffe give a masterful presentation on social media transforming corporations, when I come upon the idea to interview him on Twitter. You can download it free below. Maybe you will also.

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Online Marketing Institute

JUNE 25, 2009

Search the realtime web OneRiot: Fuel Your Search - Feed the Pulse Web Video Search Trending Topics: Ed McMahon , World Hunger , Dead Sea , Coma , King of Pop , Thriller , MJ's , P Michael , P Micheal Sort by: Pulse | Realtime Most relevant results: Refresh to see Are B2B Companies Ready for the Real Time Web? Social Medi.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 3, 2010

Why does online marketing content cause so much angst? Solving the content conundrum It is our responsibility as practitioners of inbound marketing to coax relevant content out of the client, be it internal or external. And the cycle of frustration continues. There are many reasons for content becoming an afterthought.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 27, 2010

link] Laura Click Are You Growing Enough Voices – a great post about utilizing guest bloggers from @jaybaer: [link] [link] Ian Greenleigh Jay- Inviting, commissioning and curating content that expands the relevance of your blog to its readers is the part of engagement that's not talked about enough, IMO. How can I help you?

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

An immediate, relevant, courteous, personalized e-mail from the rep assigned to that lead will help ensure that no real and immediate opportunities are falling through the cracks. Twitter Click Here to follow me on Twitter. RSS Feed Click Here to receive new posts instantly via RSS.

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Online Marketing Institute

JANUARY 4, 2011

Jeffbullas's Blog Internet Marketing Home Bio Speaking Grade your Site Marketing Resources Twitter Jeff’s YouTube Contact Congratulations: You have successfully subscribed! Write articles for the different types of customers that are relevant for each of your vertical markets 8. be authentic.

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Hinge Marketing

JUNE 26, 2016

Online marketing is growing in popularity – and importance. As we explored in our recent book, Online Marketing for Professional Services , changes in the demographics of the professional services marketplace are leading to the adoption of new strategies for building reputations, networking, and generating leads.

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Ambal's Amusings

AUGUST 27, 2010

Pick two pieces of content(ebook, white paper, flash video, total cost of ownership calculator) that you consider outstanding - 1 example of a B2B Marketing content addressed to a Technical Decision Maker and 1 B2B Marketing content addressed to a Business Decision Maker" Read on to get their insights. Ardath Albee.

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Ambal's Amusings

MAY 27, 2010

What kind of content is most useful in each phase of the B2B marketing cycle? Blog Marketing Interactions Twitter Ardath421. Ardath Albee is a B2B Marketing Strategist. Leading Lights: Marketing and PR Strategist David Meerman Scott – video interview. Blog Modern B2B Marketing Twitter Marketo InboundMarketer.

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