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Social Distancing: Marketing’s New Strategic Mandate

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Although most company CEOs or owners would never consider operating without a website — which serves as the modern-day storefront — many of them over the years have confessed to me that they see no tangible connection between their website or social media and tangible business outcomes, such as lead generation, increased sales or new accounts.

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Industry Conferences and Seminars: How to Extract their Real Business Value

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Conference sponsors do their best to prevent this type of guerilla marketing.). Sometimes lightning actually does strike: you’ll make a connection at a conference that eventually leads to new business. Simply enjoy the camaraderie, the golf / tennis / beach, and the nightlife…and hope for the best.

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Making the Short List: How to Drive Top-of-Mind Awareness

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PROCESS CONSISTENCY – Firms often start out with the best intentions to communicate regularly with target audiences, but lose momentum for two reasons: they’ve not assigned adequate resources, or they are not truly committed to the program. Senior management must make CRM a priority. They believe their putt will drop.

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Should Marketing Automation Customers be Pre-Qualified?

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In the hands of people lacking those communications skills, desktop publishers generated materials that, at best, were ineffective, and often hurt their company’s brand reputation and sales efforts. The error of many desktop publishers?

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Diet, Exercise And Marketing: Self-Imposed Obstacles That Ensure Failure

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Despite best intentions, many people who join gyms in January are likely to drop out in February, and many other new members will drop out within the next few months. Countless research studies also suggest that many people who lose weight will regain all of those pounds within a year, and likely add more.

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B2B Conferences: Essential Marketing Tactic…or Waste of Time and Money?

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Conference sponsors do their best to prevent this type of guerilla marketing.). Sometimes lightning actually does strike: you’ll make a connection at a conference that eventually leads to new business. Simply enjoy the camaraderie, the golf / tennis / beach, and the nightlife…and hope for the best.

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Time to Kill Your Company’s Zombie Blog?

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CEOs and their marketers are best served, and their blog is most likely to succeed, if senior management understands its function, benefits and limitations, and is 100% committed to a very long relationship. Posting frequency drops from weekly to monthly to quarterly.