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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. However, our approach is very different from the marketing automation vendors and here are three examples.

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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% Guide] How to Master Internal Link Building for SEO.

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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. Let’s start with the subject line (not seen here): Optimizing Email Productivity and ROI.

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Is Social Media Wasted on PR Agencies?

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The stated objectives of said plan were: * increase awareness amongst bloggers, influencers and prospects. By viewing social media exclusively through the PR prism, and designing blogs (for example) as platforms for propagating the company’s news and views and little else, clients and their agencies are leaving opportunities on the table.