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True Story: Without a marketing plan, he planned to fail!

ViewPoint

First there is an assessment of the strengths and weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT). The SWOT was completed in about five hours; the goals, objectives, strategies, and tactics followed in another 4-5 hours. My point is this: if you haven’t done a SWOT analysis in a few years, do one. We need a plan.”.

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SEO Competitor Analysis: A Step-By-Step Guide

Conductor

They can be news sources, social media sites like Pinterest, content creation sites like YouTube or individual bloggers. This will allow you to identify the full scope of brands, publishers and bloggers competing with your content. These indirect competitors are still worth considering when you’re doing your competitive analysis.

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B2B Prospecting Data Just Keeps Getting Better

ViewPoint

Company SWOT analysis (OneSource). Today''s guest blogger is Ruth P. Ruth consults on customer acquisition and retention, teaches marketing at Columbia Business School and is a guest blogger at HBR.org and Biznology. Self-identifying keywords used on the company website (ALC). Whether the company conducts e-commerce (ALC).

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How to Launch a Successful Blog in 12 Weeks: Lessons from Webbiquity

Webbiquity

A SWOT analysis is one helpful tool to develop killer topics for blog posts. It helps (greatly) if you already have a relationship with the blogger, but even if you don’t, most bloggers are far more open to offers of a guest post than they are to PR pitches. Link to other bloggers.

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Blogging Benchmaks: In Search of the Missing Metrics

B2B Marketing Savvy

But if you are a blogger (or a wanna be blogger), what are your benchmarks for progress… for success? Now, as lead voice and a newly minted blogger trying to engage with/understand the new social media landscape, I feel like it’s an Indiana Jones episode titled: “Search for the Missing Metrics”. You can help.

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19 New Featured Sources on the B2B Marketing Zone

Webbiquity

The B2B Marketing Zone has really taken off over the past few months with the recent addition of numerous great bloggers. the BMZ) was officially launched a year ago as the first content aggregation hub for leading business-to-business bloggers. For those not familiar with it, the B2B Marketing Zone (a.k.a. Business Blogging.

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The Ultimate Collection of Free Content Marketing Templates

Hubspot

I joined HubSpot in September 2011 as a blogger. These templates will help you complete a SWOT analysis on your content marketing efforts (and develop a plan to improve them), define the right objectives and KPIs for that plan, brainstorm content ideas and map these across your funnel, and create a timeline for your content plans.