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Video Tech Company Leverages SEM to Drive Enterprise Leads

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Started in 2008 as the world’s first open source video player, JW Player pioneered video on the Web and today has customers in 193 countries, ranging from Fortune 500 companies to individual bloggers. More importantly, the campaign started to generate real business results. billion unique monthly views. Aggressive testing of ad copy.

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Measuring the True Impact of Marketing Campaigns: A Conversation with Bonnie Crater

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Bonnie Crater is a five-time Vice President of Marketing, a former colleague of this blogger from our days at Oracle in the late 80s, and in 2000 was named one of the “Top 20 Female Executives in Silicon Valley” by San Jose Magazine. This ensures that every new Contact is associated with a Campaign and therefore maintains data integrity.

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5 Mistakes to Avoid in Your Next Email Campaign

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Can a campaign about how to improve email design be a prime example of how NOT to design an email? If it’s the campaign below, received this week from Lyris , an email marketing software company, the answer is (in the view of this blogger): yes. The header itself, with its odd, faintly psychedelic clipart, is one big image.

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Apparently It’s Now Safe (Again) to Use “Free” in a Subject Line

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In follow-up to the recent 2013 Marketo Summit , the marketing team at ReachForce , a leading provider of B2B data services, sent a message to attendees (including this blogger) crowing about the success of their traffic builder campaign , an email that generated a 42.8% The subject line that generated such success? So, what to do?

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Does Renting Email Lists Make Sense Any More?

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When the list industry “discovered” email in earnest back in the 90s, direct marketers like this blogger were enthralled with the potential of a new, hipper alternative to direct mail. Email campaigns were still a fraction of the cost of direct mail. Fast forward to today, and that cost advantage has essentially disappeared.

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Top 10 Posts on B2B Lead Gen for 2010

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26 Must-Have Negative Keywords for B2B PPC Campaigns. Eloqua’s “Juan Eloqua” Campaign: Email Creative at Its Best. If there’s one thing I learned early on as a blogger, it was this: when you title a blog post, don’t imagine the reader actually viewing the blog itself. Comments after the fold.

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When Emails Go Bad: A Lesson in How to Apologize

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If you’ve been involved in email marketing for any length of time, no matter how diligent and prepared you are for every campaign, something somewhere at some point will go wrong. And when that happens, a very large number of people will receive a message from you that isn’t quite what you intended for them to receive.

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