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Hedge Fund Marketing: From Oxymoron to Best Practices

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Two-thirds of the largest hedge funds have a LinkedIn presence, but only 10 of those funds post any meaningful content on that social media site. Harness the market reach of LinkedIn. LinkedIn has become an important due diligence tool for investors, intermediaries and the press. Very few funds have Twitter accounts.

Practices 100
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How to Grow Your B2B Firm by Making Every Employee a Sales Rep

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To showcase their credentials, every client-facing employee should maintain a complete and up-to-date biographical profile on the company’s website and on LinkedIn. Employees who possess the firm’s intellectual capital should play an active role in generating relevant content that can keep the firm in play.

B2B Sales 130
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Social Distancing: Marketing’s New Strategic Mandate

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The sales team rationalizes the significant investment of time and expense for these events by claiming the company “would be conspicuous by its absence,” or that they are a cost-effective way to meet face to face with many of the best clients. Beyond adjusting your tactics, consider how the COVID-19 pandemic will affect personal values.

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The Road to Hedge Fund Transparency: Marketing Essentials and Potential Pitfalls

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Harness the market reach of LinkedIn. LinkedIn has become an important due diligence tool for investors, intermediaries and the financial press. Most hedge funds understand this, and either provide a very basic firm profile, and / or allow its employees to post their personal profiles on LinkedIn.

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Do Most CEOs Lack Social Skills?

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LinkedIn is the most popular social media site among Fortune 500 CEOs, with 26% on the network, compared to just 20.15% of the U.S. Of that group, ten Fortune 500 CEOs have more than 500 LinkedIn connections, while 36 CEOs have 1 LinkedIn connection or none. In comparison, more than 50% of the U.S. general public.

PR 100
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Why Your Company’s Blog Doesn’t Make the Phone Ring

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For starters, they should be published on LinkedIn, both on your personal profile (as a long-form blog post like this one), and as an “Update” on your firm’s corporate LinkedIn page. Another way to increase readership of your blog is by re-purposing its content, in whole or part, in places where it’s likely to be seen.

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Make the Short List…Or Die Trying

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PROCESS CONSISTENCY — B2B 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 discipline a priority.