The Effective Marketer

JULY 21, 2009

They caution us saying it could be dangerous to our business if incorrectly used and it’s only helpful to build relationships and goodwill. 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.) Maybe not so much.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Helpful guidelines on plugins, post titles, pages, permalinks and pinging improve the search engine rank of and increase search traffic to your WordPress blog. 8 Effective SEO Techniques Every WordPress Blogger Should Use by BloggingPro. Share this on Facebook. WordPress SEO. Share this on Bebo. Share this on del.icio.us.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 18, 2010

To help out my fellow B2B marketers, here is a list of 7 common mistakes that B2B marketers make when jumping feet first into social media marketing. Focusing solely on your own agenda will not help you grow your audience – you MUST provide value to the community. Share your thoughts, post a comment. All rights reserved.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 27, 2010

The good news is that with the typical exception of Facebook, most of these changes are positive, well-communicated, and understandable. 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.

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The Effective Marketer

JUNE 13, 2009

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking Free Stuff That Sells. Effective marketing is about generating sales. Free marketing that sells Free marketing stuff can definitely help a company improve its brand and get new customers.

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The Effective Marketer

JUNE 21, 2009

Free Marketing Training from IMU After watching the classes, my take on the University is: Positives: Online archives from each class including slides available on-demand helps a lot when you have busy schedules like mine, and also allows watching at your own pace (i.e. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

MARCH 25, 2010

In my last post we discussed the 4 reasons why using Social Media pays to provide Support : Customers prefer a good customer experiences to low prices, helps aid in spreading WOM, makes customer less likely to defect and results in high profitability for the company. Share this on Facebook. Tweet This! Share this on Linkedin.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 4, 2010

Yet, in much of my social media consulting work corporate blog owners are invariably most interested in total visits and RSS subscribers. This is especially misplaced with group written blogs, where the broad content focus and inconsistent tonality makes RSS subscription less likely. Very helpful post, Jay. What do you think?

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Online Marketing Institute

APRIL 4, 2011

Real-Time Activity Stream 5 Steps for Crafting an Effective B2B SEO Blogging Strategy Derek Edmond | Mar 4, 2011 | 0 Comments Search engine marketers frequently recommend blogging as a tactic for achieving search engine optimization ( SEO ) goals. Consider what is taking the place of the blog: social sites like Facebook and Twitter.

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Online Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 23, 2010

Top Topics Twitter YouTube Facebook iPhone Google Video Google Buzz Social media Business Mobile 2.0 Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! A couple of months ago, we talked about ways to engage your fan base on Facebook.

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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. This is where marketing automation software can be a big help. White papers: Without a question, this continues to be the most effective content to build your in-house list. Not every action needs to be scored.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 17, 2010

This is a metric I devised to help me determine the efficiency of the time I spend on Twitter. Maybe FPT will help you think about the efficiency of your time spent on Twitter? For us, it has helped expand our consulting business, which is a real measure. Read and respond, recommend and help where I can. Mine is 1.78.

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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. Cold calling is replaced by useful content and tools that help people find them and contact them for more information. Don’t sell.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 10, 2010

However, you can do it too with some help. I don’t deny that effective SEO does take experience, expertise and time to produce results. Did you find this “how to” article helpful? Sign up now » | Read current issue » Subscribe via RSS Be the first to know about a new post. Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc.

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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. One-size-fits-all site content will not help you engage.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 23, 2010

Add Context to Your Blog Sure, you’ll give first-time visitors an idea of what the blog is about via the title or tagline, but how else can you help them go deeper? If your blog is consistent enough that you believe RSS subscription is realistic, make sure visitors can easily subscribe to your RSS feed. (As

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Convince & Convert

JULY 28, 2010

When I discuss this concept with companies, however, too often I hear something in the realm of “we don’t know what to provide our customers that would be helpful.&# Diagnosing your potential helpfulness doesn’t have to have the complexity of drilling a relief well, learning the triangle offense, or even Mahjong.

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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

OCTOBER 2, 2010

The old email marketing strategy of batch and blast or spray and pray is no longer effective. Select only those that will help you optimize your nurturing campaigns and accurately gauge where the prospect is in their decision making process. According to SirrusDecisions research, the B2B buyer receives 20.3 per week in 2006.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 14, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website 7 Strategies for Using Content to Market Industrial Products by Achinta Mitra on May 14, 2010 in Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0 , Industrial Marketing Blog I am a big fan of Content Marketing or as some people like to refer to it as Inbound Marketing.

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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. Thanks for the post.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 29, 2010

That was one of the key findings of the “2010 Lead Generation Marketing ROI Study” by the Lenskold Group. 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.

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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. So we are doing everything we can to help marketers just like you to navigate the change. We hope this helps. How much will effective content marketing contribute towards SEO?

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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? 6 comments… read them below or add one } RogerW September 28, 2010 at 11:16 am Your Post is right on the money.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 22, 2010

The problems with that are clearly one of culture (truly believing that every customer is a reporter), and of definition (thinking that social media is somehow driven by Twitter and Facebook). The impacts and effects of social media are too broad for that.

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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

MARCH 3, 2010

Social is an Ingredient, not an Entree Help clients find ways to add social components to existing marketing (print, outdoor, broadcast, direct mail, email, search, live events) – rather than viewing social media as a freestanding silo. There’s a way to get your Facebook update seen in more news feeds.

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Online Marketing Institute

MAY 26, 2010

Facebook Fast becoming the key destination for many businesses and their products, Facebook offers some great built-in tools as well as demographic options to help gauge a campaign. Facebook Insights can help you here. Just ask the companies that used it to such effect during this year’s Super Bowl.

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

April 30, 2009 — Laura Ramos Email, Search, and Direct Mail Deliver Results Over Time I am very appreciative to Roy Young and Ann Handley at MarketingProfs for partnering with Forrester and me on the B2B marketing budget trends and effectiveness survey. Inside Sales And Telemarketing Help Boost B2B Brands: Really?

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Social media is not about Facebook or MySpace or Flickr or Twitter or blogs or YouTube. Too often, the humanization part gets overlooked in an effort to create a “user-generated video contest widget that we’ll launch on Facebook with support from Ustream.&# It’s not hard, it’s complicated.

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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. By creating helpful/resourceful content, youre giving yourself an opportunity to gain links to your website. What do people like to link to? White papers? Case studies?

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

But I get a lot of questions about why I like particular tools better than others and how I decide to use which, so here’s a summary of my thought process that I hope will help you make a similar decision for your client or your organization. How can your brand participate in this space most effectively?

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

By Marj Galangco | Published: 4 November, 2010 Page viewed 1788 times 0 Its shocking how many small businesses who are actively marketing themselves online still dont have blog marketing in their marketing mix. Granted, a blogs potential ROI (return on investment) will vary from business to business, but here are 5 good reasons to blog.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MAY 30, 2010

Incorporating new channels into existing efforts can help improve reach – and therefore results. . 1 marketing initiative for 2010. To combine the two tactics, email subscribers can be encouraged to not only forward content via email, but also share it via Facebook, Twitter, StumbleUpon and other sites. Hear your customers.

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Hubspot

AUGUST 4, 2011

They report that in 2010-2011, 100% of colleges and universities are using some form of social media. There is no other industry that can claim this sort of adoption: 98% are using Facebook. Are You Using Social Media Effectively? 86% are using YouTube. 84% are using Twitter. Inbound Marketing for Educational Institutions eBook.

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Online Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 23, 2010

The Thesis Theme is SEO-Friendly, easily customizable and has a community filled with WordPress Experts ready to help when questions arise. link] Adam Though I agree that video can effectively be used in B2B marketing, I will challenge that YouTube is the best platform to use. My Blog runs on the Thesis Theme for WordPress.

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