deep understanding of your target audience will do more to shape your digital media marketing plan than nearly anything else. The more specific you can get, the easier it is to pick the most effective marketing tactics and distribution channels and to develop highly relevant content marketing. I’ve found I’ve found myself thinking a lot lately about target audiences and buyer profiling. In digital media marketing, specificity means relevancy, and relevancy means higher engagement, more clickthroughs, and higher sales. Pew Research Center. MORE >>

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Deconstructing the Four Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle by Achinta Mitra on May 26, 2010 in B2B Lead Generation , B2B Marketing Collateral , Content Marketing , Integrated Industrial Marketing B2B marketers agree that lead generation and nurturing campaigns must deliver relevant content to their target audience to be successful. Without a clear understanding of the stages, it is difficult to align your marketing content with your customer’s decision-making process. Resources MORE >>

Probably the number one thing that keeps social media managers up at night is thinking about how to create content that engages audiences and gets people to interact. How do you get Facebook fans and Twitter followers excited and look forward to what you have to say? How do you get people to share your content, leave comments on your business blog, and get busy executives to interact with you? The answer is by having a content marketing strategy. No one cares about your presence in social media unless you deliver content of interest. MORE >>

The proliferation of the Internet has transformed the way we create, publish and distribute content. Think about the pre-Internet era when companies were at the mercy of content publishers for distribution of content, and where consumers had very few options and meager resources for information gathering. So how does one handle this information overload and how do B2B marketers compete to stay on the top of search results, in this continuous flood of content that will only increase by the day? So what exactly is content curation? Curate, don’t spam. MORE >>

Facebook is an extraordinary phenomenon. Also included are a few posts from Facebook proponents, and skeptics, to help you determine if you even really need to be concerned with any of this — or if your social media marketing efforts might be best directed elsewhere. Facebook Marketing Tips and Tactics. How to set up a Facebook fan page that works by Direct Creative Blog. How to Better Engage Facebook Fan Page ‘Fans’ by Social Media Examiner. Facebook Marketing Tips: Make the Most of Your Fan Page by TopRank Online Marketing Blog. Facebook SEO. MORE >>