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Client Newsletters for B2B Firms Is Content that’s Dead on Arrival

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Regardless of its content, only a small number of professional service firms proactively work to expand their newsletter’s reach, to maintain an adequate CRM capability, or to proactively leverage readership analytics from open and click-thru rates, if their newsletter is delivered online.

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Social Distancing: Marketing’s New Strategic Mandate

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Very few companies seem to monitor website analytics, and even fewer understand the complex world of SEO. A significant number of companies also maintain a presence on social media platforms and publish posts for a relatively small group of followers, many of whom are not their target audience. Industry Events.

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Three Myths and Realities of Client Newsletters

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Regardless of content, only a small number of professional service firms proactively work to expand their newsletter’s reach, to maintain an adequate CRM capability, or to properly leverage readership analytics from open and click-thru rates, if their newsletter is delivered online. Newsletters often are one-way conversations.

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Is Your Client Newsletter a Marketing Albatross?

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Regardless of content, only a small number of professional services firms proactively work to expand their newsletter’s reach, to maintain an adequate CRM capability, or to properly leverage readership analytics from open and click-thru rates, if their newsletter is delivered online. Newsletters often are one-way conversations.

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Should Marketing Automation Customers be Pre-Qualified?

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In a nutshell: legacy sales management software (CRM systems), combined with the emergence of email and social media platforms, have provided marketers with new ways to reach and influence target audiences directly and indirectly. Most marketers understand the evolution of Marketing Automation technology.

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No-Cost, Cornball Marketing Can Drive B2B Top-of-Mind Awareness

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eReleases competes with dozens of electronic news distribution services, all seeking to charge companies and PR agencies hefty fees to put their press releases in front of journalists, in hopes of capturing the media’s attention and coverage. a leading provider of crime forecasting data and risk analytics.

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Client Newsletters: Empty Suit of the B2B Marketing Mix

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Regardless of content, only a small number of professional service firms proactively work to expand their newsletter’s reach, to maintain an adequate CRM capability, or to properly leverage readership analytics from open and click-thru rates, if their newsletter is delivered online. Newsletters are one-way conversations.