The Effective Marketer

JANUARY 6, 2009

Action plan checklist: - Desired results - Probable restraints - Future revisions - Check-in Points - Implications for how the marketer will spend his time I need to stress the first bullet, “desired results”. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0

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The Effective Marketer

FEBRUARY 16, 2009

you will be far more successful if you think in terms of WIIFM – make it attractive enough that they will want to spend a few minutes answering your questions. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 You can leave a response , or trackback from your own site. Like Be the first to like this post.

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The Effective Marketer

MARCH 15, 2009

Long-term productivity is the focus on your overall goals, how you spend your time, and what do you need to change in your daily habits that will let you achieve your objectives in the amount of time you have available. Do we even know how much time we need to spend on specific tasks and whether those tasks will get us to where we want?

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

In Needs Awareness and Research phases, the first two stages of the industrial buy cycle (see my earlier post Deconstructing the Four Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle ) your prospects and customers use a variety of online content to find solutions to their current problems and needs.

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Convince & Convert

DECEMBER 21, 2010

Bloggers hope and expect that readers will subscribe to the RSS feed, return often, leave comments, and share posts in social media. Your content strategy? You have to decide where on the infinite scale of ways to spend your time each of those things are slotted. What kind of signal does that send? What’s Important to You.

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The Effective Marketer

APRIL 6, 2009

Companies spend a lot of time and money when they need to hire someone and spend even more when they make a wrong hiring decision. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 Risk is the most important factor: The whole hiring process has one goal, and that is to reduce the risk of hiring a bad candidate.

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The Effective Marketer

MARCH 9, 2010

We also spend some time talking about the emails we hated and those that could be improved. I think the only good thing going for them is that their name is recognizable and so people may spend some time deciphering their email. This entry was posted on Tuesday, March 9th, 2010 at 12:15 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.

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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. Free content will get you farther. Do you have the people?

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

So how should your prioritize spending for next year? Create helpful and link-worthy content, optimize your pages, and get other sites linking to yours in order to improve your site’s position in the search engines. First, that it’s important to continue investing in marketing through the downturn.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 3, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website How Lack of Marketing Content Can Derail Your Website Redesign Project by Achinta Mitra on June 3, 2010 in Content Marketing , Industrial Websites , Search Engine Optimization (SEO) , Website Design & Development What comes first – site content or site design?

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 17, 2010

I love the Twitter culture and community, and I spend quite a bit of time using Twitter. Whatever your Twitter objectives might be, I suggest you spend some time with yourself figuring out what they are, and how to measure whether you’re accomplishing your goals. Maybe you found this blog from Twitter? Followers per tweet.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 7, 2010

Organizations are spending considerable amounts of time and money on tracking and measuring lead generation metrics. 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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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 28, 2015

We had nearly 1,600 people sign up for our webinar last week on “ How To Plan And Build An Effective Content Marketing Strategy. We believe that content marketing is starting to have a dramatic impact inside marketing organizations for business both large and small. How much will effective content marketing contribute towards SEO?

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 21, 2010

Instead of spending most of their marketing budget on traditional industrial marketing channels like trade shows or direct mail, Vico produces webinars and creates content that site visitors download and others link to. In short, they are doing things that help them get found online.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 27, 2010

Now, you can track number of “likes&# and daily interactions on your Facebook page, in the same place you can track RSS feeds, Twitter followers, and all the other awesome data points Swix provides. This was an item requested by approximately 125% of Swix’ customers, and the company was finally able to pull it off.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 24, 2010

by Achinta Mitra on June 24, 2010 in B2B E-Mail Marketing , Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0 , Social Media Marketing , Social Networking Lately, social media seems to garner all the attention in the media and blog posts with very little mention about email marketing. See charts below). The second study done by GetResponse (aff.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 15, 2010

The client uses their in-house resources to regularly update the site content without spending more money on our professional marketing services. We converted several of their PowerPoint files into online Flash presentations to highlight the primary benefits and features of their software suite.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 10, 2010

I keep these checked to avoid any duplicate content issues. Now that you have a better idea of optimizing your WordPress blog to attract traffic, don’t forget, it is your content that will create fans and convert them into customers. Spend 80% of your time writing engaging content and the rest of your time on optimizing your blog.

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The Effective Marketer

JULY 21, 2009

You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 It is a great post and the content you provide is very helpful.I I wonder if works best for those who spend the time to understand how to use it- a massie task for some of us or is it simply he who devotes the most time to it wins. Thanks for reading the blog.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website B2B Lead Generation Using a Business Blog by Achinta Mitra on September 20, 2010 in B2B Lead Generation , Industrial Marketing Blog In B2B lead generation, quantity versus quality is probably the biggest challenge faced by industrial marketers.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 27, 2010

RSS subscriptions are up. First of all, tremendous thanks to the incredible team of guest bloggers who did an amazing job keeping the content fresh, and the conversation lively. Certainly, there is a benefit to creating content on a daily basis. To continue invigorating your content, you have to always be recruiting new voices.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Like RSS for your relationships NutshellMail sends you a highly customizable email digest (from 1 to 24 times per day) of what’s happening in your social media spheres, so you can browse and get up to speed quickly, without having to visit several different destinations or fire up your iPhone’s social apps. Then Linkedin.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 23, 2010

Remember that your likelihood of a first-time visitor coming back goes up the more content they consume on that first visit. So, make sure first-time visitors can access other content that may be of interest, convincing them that perhaps they should make a return trip. At first, you knew everyone at the party.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 6, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Translate Features into Benefits if You Want Your Marketing Content to Engage and Sell by Achinta Mitra on July 6, 2010 in Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Sales Strategies Marketing 101 teaches you “Customers buy benefits and not product features.”

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 20, 2010

Don’t force them to spend extra time or use multiple clicks because of a non-intuitive navigation scheme. Lesson #3: Features are the benefits Your online marketing content may consist of images, videos, PowerPoint presentations, PDFs, white papers and pre-recorded webinars. Is Your Industrial Website Still Just a Business Card?

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Online Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 23, 2010

Share Email This In my last post, I touched on the importance of B2B Content Creation and more specifically B2B Blogging, which is the easiest way to create B2B content. Today, I will touch on a few reasons why Marketers should consider video content creation and Youtube to get found online by the right prospects.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

To best develop thriving, mutually beneficial relationships with your customers, think of your social communication and email communication programs as two rungs on a content ladder. The Content You Want, via the Channel You Choose The future of integrated communications is in consumer choice and personalized preference centers.

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

In the growing content marketing field, some companies choose a pure creation strategy (often using blogging platforms for publishing) and find it to be a challenge. Â Pure content creation is demanding. Â Pure content creation is demanding. Pure automation of content aggregation doesn’t foster interaction.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 4, 2011

B2B spending on email marketing is estimated to have grown by 2.4% to $206 million in 2010, according to Metrics 2.0. However, email marketing isn’t always an easy channel to conquer with its unique resource requirements including those dedicated to content creation, landing page creation, distribution and measurement.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

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? To get on the radar screen in the early stages, shoot for a variety of content instead of generic one-size-fits-all marketing content.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 31, 2011

Internet users have dynamic activity patterns and today they spend more time on the web than ever. A 2010 study by Forrester research found that online viewing now equals that of TV viewing. consumer spends 13 hours a week on both. Get the most out of your content. The average U.S.

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Online Marketing Institute

MAY 26, 2010

All you need to do is set your success guides—what you want to achieve and how long you want to spend achieving it—and then measure your results against them. How much did you spend on a Facebook ad and how did click-throughs and new sales and customers compare? Social media can offer some very accurate metrics for ROI.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 27, 2010

Attract prospects online who are searching for answers to business challenges by providing relevant content and information. Using RSS to send different types of prospect information into one system. Progress beyond tracking and reporting on prospect information, and instead become integral parts of communities.

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Online Marketing Institute

JANUARY 4, 2011

Mark Jackson | August 18, 2010 | 0 comments ); //]]> Share Tweet My company has recommended blogging to many of our search engine optimization clients. For example, if you’re searching “ how to know if you need an ac repair company ,” you most likely wouldn’t find this type of content on a corporate website.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 22, 2010

Also, many B2B purchases are heavily researched, providing a real success path for content creation and socially-derived thought leadership. If you don’t have the obvious social chatter about your brand, you have to make the case that content creation will drive search, which drives traffic, which drives sales.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

I need validation for spending time on Twitter! Terrific content, per usual. Terrific content, per usual. Sessions start October 5. Go to [link] to save 50% for a limited time. Are you ready to add some “Why&# to your “How&# ? Looks like a good read. So, giving you all the cred., Thanks for sharing.

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Online Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 31, 2010

And the more time you spend online, the more likely you are to suffer relapses. Heather Rast 07/06/2010 at 8:18 PM Permalink Hi, Elizabeth! You or your colleague may be suffering from a significant case of Social Media Tool Exhaustion. But I need to stay on top of emerging trends,” I hear you say. and great speech!)

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