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How to Blog: What Do I Write About?

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I encourage my clients to think about the daily conversations they have in sales, customer service, with the media and within their industry. Follow other bloggers in your space and make note of what they write about. Sales conversations and presentations – your salespeople are the front line to customer needs and wants.

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4 Keys to Building Trust with Inbound Marketing

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Done right, inbound marketing can help increase the trust of prospective clients and customers have in you – something that is essential for conversion from prospect to customer or to additional sales. My colleague Rocky Mills , member of a networking organization I belong to, coined the phrase Know-Like-Trust-Refer.

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How Businesses Can Market Like Beyoncé

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It’s a great example of creative marketing, leveraging a fan base and followers on social media as well as using the element of surprise that resulting in record-breaking sales on iTunes. Will you arrange for bloggers in your industry to write about your launch? But, you say, businesses don’t have fan bases!

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B2B Marketing Survey Says Email and Twitter Work

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As usual, I have to provide information about the source of the survey, which few bloggers ever do. And, make sure you have a good presence on Twitter – don’t be a robot like many B2B companies who get on Twitter and just spit out boring sales statements.

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Positioning is Key Factor for Social Media (and All Marketing) Success

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It’s interesting to search and see what other marketing bloggers are saying about the key to success in social media. Since 1997 we have worked with hundreds of companies of all sizes to identify marketing opportunities, improve branding and marketing messaging, and increase awareness and sales revenue. Contact New Incite today.

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3 Key Ingredients for Business Social Media Success

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Your marketing persona is not you, it’s not Susie in Customer Service, and it’s not Joe in Sales. or sending other messages out to your followers, friends, connections, fans and customers, write your company’s marketing persona. An important part of the marketing persona is understanding your buyers.

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4 Marketing Trends to be Thankful For

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Now that product that may have been a cash cow for a while can generate sales for a very long time at a very low marketing expense. For example, marketing author and blogger Seth Godin says that people want “me-mail” that they’ve opted into, not promotional email pushed out by a seller trying to hawk something.