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What Makes Ads Go Viral?

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In a recent Harvard Business Review article “ The New Science of Viral Ads” , assistant professor Thales Teixeira from HBS outlines the ingredients you will need: 1. Utilize “Brand Pulsing”: weave your brand throughout the ad instead of placing it front and center. Interesting that the experiments Prof.

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Apple’s Marketing Genius

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Marketing, at Apple, has always been a differentiating point and key to their eventual dominance of the electronics consumer market and their resurrection in the personal computer industry. Apple: History in Ads. 10 Best Ads from Steve Jobs. Apple: History in Ads. 10 Best Ads from Steve Jobs.

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A Buyer Persona Template for the B2B Marketer

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David Meerman Scott argues that one of the benefits of creating buyer personas is that it will force you to create meaningful, easy to digest content that will actually make a difference in the buying process. Another interesting development that is shaking the B2B space is the increase influence of social media in buying decisions.

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What Marketing Org Charts Tell You About The Business

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A small startup will have a head marketing person with a few helpers below, but as it grows more people are added to handle the other facets of promoting the business.. Marketing is probably an area that changes more frequently based on the stage the company is in than any other, at least from what I have seen.

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Effective Content is Clear and Direct

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Or, the person just doesn’t know what exactly to write about and decides to mask the lack of subject matter knowledge. How are you different? Website copy is notorious for that… and you get excuses like “oh, we added all these words for SEO!”, Or a combination of both. What do you want the reader to know?

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The Rise of the Content Marketer « The Effective Marketer

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When companies start to tailor content to different audiences and stages of the buying cycle, they greatly increase the amount of content, and the type of content needed changes&# Marketing Roles Are Evolving Marketing used to have clearly defined roles. What used to be clear roles (i.e.

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Marketing Automation is More Than Technology

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A new research study by Sirius Decisions , “ Calculating the Return on Marketing Automation “, sponsored by Marketo talks about the different levels of companies implementing marketing automation platforms (or MAP, as they call it).