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How to Develop Fresh Ideas for Your B2B Content Marketing Program

KoMarketing Associates

Bring in new writers, guest bloggers, freelancers, or people from other departments to write content that offers more varied perspectives and opinions. Focus Groups. It’s also fairly easy (with some planning) to hold your own focus group if it’s not something your company does regularly. Existing Audience Surveys.

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The Science of Email Marketing « The Effective Marketer

The Effective Marketer

I like Dan’s presentation for its brevity and focus on key action items based on solid data. What I wish he had shared is how the data from focus groups and MailChimp is broken down. link] 2 days ago Virtual Events win marketers over low costs, but are attendees really paying attention? billion emails sent.

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7 Ways to Market to the Subconscious Brain: The Homer Simpson Guide to Content Marketing

Writing on the Web

That doesn’t include marketing, advertising, etc. Companies and brands are gathering the wrong information, because consumer surveys and focus groups can only report back what they consciously experience …and it’s falsified by biases and flaws. Blog this on Blogger. 8 out of 10 new product launches fail.

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Phony Testimonials and Dumb Social Proof

Writing on the Web

“This product has only been used in testing and focus groups; here’s some feedback from initial reviewers.&#. Blog this on Blogger. Use Client Comments in Your Content Marketing. If you don’t have previous clients to give you quotes, say so. Be as up front and real as possible, tell people the truth.

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How to measure 5 popular social media channels

Online Marketing Institute

Blogger outreach A key component to many, if not most, social media campaigns are blogger outreach programs. These can offer some of the best mileage and results of any marketing tool. Measuring your success isn’t too difficult, either when you ask: How many bloggers wrote about you? Mentions, comments, etc.

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Get Your Social Media Story Straight | Blogging and Content.

Convince & Convert

But I wasn’t the only person doing this, and by no means was I doing it any more than anybody else in the community. There were 20-30 of us posting regularly to make the community great and countless others lurking through the threads.

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Blogs are Becoming the New Front Door for Prospects: Is Yours Open?

Online Marketing Institute

5 Most Popular Blog Posts Content Marketing: How to get your subject matter experts on your corporate blog (7) Social Marketing: Twitter contest boosts followers 43% (6) Marketing Research: Cold, hard cash versus focus groups (4) Email Marketing: Improve deliverability by deleting subscribers? (4)

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