The Effective Marketer

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

If you are already a content marketing convert and understand the importance of embracing content publishing as a core component of your marketing strategy, you may be wondering how well you are doing in comparison to other companies. The Content Marketing Maturity Model. Internal Resources. External Resources. Measurement.

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The Effective Marketer

MAY 9, 2011

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking The Rise of the Content Marketer Content Needs a King I know I don’t have to argue the value of content to readers of this blog. What used to be clear roles (i.e.

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The Effective Marketer

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Although the level of marketing spend doesn’t usually correlate to marketing effectiveness, it is useful to know how others in your industry or other companies of similar size are spending their money on marketing. So if the survey finding that the median of annual interactive marketing budgets is $7.19

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The Effective Marketer

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking The Opposite of Advertising How can a company embark on an branding campaign without prominently displaying its logo? Marketing News article, Marketing Across the Americas (requires login).

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The Effective Marketer

JANUARY 11, 2010

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking Choosing an Email Marketing Software Who’s the best email marketing company/software? Good luck in your email marketing selection process! Slides can be seen below. Good question!

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The Effective Marketer

JULY 13, 2011

Viral Marketing, or the spread of ideas (also called Word of Mouth Marketing) is usually thought of as a good thing. Scott Stratton , author of “ UnMarketing: Stop Marketing. tells in his book a personal account of how a viral marketing campaign went wrong. A Viral Marketing Lesson. Start Engaging.”

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The Effective Marketer

MAY 24, 2012

A recent research survey, Email Marketing Industry Census 2012 , conducted by eConsultancy and sponsored by Adestra sheds some light into how email marketing is being used and trends facing email marketing as an industry. It seems most companies have a “setup and forget” attitude when it comes to their email marketing.

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The Effective Marketer

AUGUST 5, 2010

They offer them because the market for talent is fierce. The best marketing ends up being what the employees tell their friends about their companies. link] 2 days ago Virtual Events win marketers over low costs, but are attendees really paying attention? United States License. United States License. United States License.

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The Effective Marketer

MAY 20, 2011

I was reminded once again of the importance of creating buyer personas during Bulldog Solutions event on Marketing Benchmark in which Rob Solomon walked us through their five step process for organizing your marketing programs: Business Case. Buyer Personas for the B2B Marketer. Infrastructure. Process Planning.

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The Effective Marketer

JUNE 21, 2009

Free Marketing Training from IMU After watching the classes, my take on the University is: Positives: Online archives from each class including slides available on-demand helps a lot when you have busy schedules like mine, and also allows watching at your own pace (i.e.

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The Effective Marketer

OCTOBER 14, 2010

According to their post: “Last week in San Francisco, 211 business-to-business marketers spent two days sharing insights, case studies and advice on social media marketing, lead generation, Sales and Marketing alignment, and other hot-button issues on the West Coast swing of MarketingSherpa’s seventh annual B2B Marketing Summit.&#

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The Effective Marketer

MAY 3, 2012

My career in content marketing started at age 12. Every day I’d load up my red Schwinn Varsity bicycle with The Aurora Beacon News and head out to make deliveries, learning valuable lessons about digital content marketing that just starting to sink in lately. 1. Content Marketing Is Hard Work. See his bio at the end.

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The Effective Marketer

JANUARY 6, 2009

Marketers are used to creating marketing plans, including advertising campaigns, trade show schedules, etc. Many marketers I know have calendars posted on the walls marking important dates, deadlines, events, and so forth. A great marketing plan is created! Spreadsheets abound, and ideas flow.

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The Effective Marketer

MAY 10, 2010

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking Taming Your Brand Mascot From Tony The Tiger, Trix Rabbit and Energizer Bunny to Ronald McDonald and even John McCain (?!) brand mascots are a common tool to promote your product or service.

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The Effective Marketer

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking Web Prototyping With PowerPoint Website re-designs are a common project on the hands of marketers at companies of all sizes. How can we improve this process? It’s not the tool, it’s the CEO.

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The Effective Marketer

MAY 3, 2011

Based on a recent report on Marketing Technology Adoption for 2011 , the findings of their research shed some light on the challenges we face when it comes to marketing technology. The Goal of Marketing Software The need for marketing software comes from the necessity to better understand customer behavior across multiple channels.

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The Effective Marketer

APRIL 6, 2009

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking Get Hired in Marketing Want a marketing job? I was recently hiring a marketing coordinator for my company and once again it became obvious to me that most candidates do a poor job at interviewing.

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The Effective Marketer

MARCH 9, 2010

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking Email Design Review Gallery Are you tired of what your marketing emails look like? Sure, our email marketing software has some canned templates but they are very bland.

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The Effective Marketer

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking Outlook Productivity Tips How to use MS Outlook to become more productive Most people have MS outlook as their business email client, but very few really know how to take full advantage of all the options Outlook offers.

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The Effective Marketer

JULY 21, 2009

They caution us saying it could be dangerous to our business if incorrectly used and it’s only helpful to build relationships and goodwill. I don’t know about you, but so far it seems like Social Media is nothing more than just another media, another tool in the marketer’s arsenal. Maybe not so much. What is it for? Who is our target?

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The Effective Marketer

JANUARY 13, 2009

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking Effective Marketer Principle 4: Take Responsibility for Decisions The fourth principle can be summarized in one word: ACT ! Until there’s a clear “owner”, a task won’t get done.

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The Effective Marketer

JANUARY 25, 2009

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking Effective Marketer Principle 7: Run Productive Meetings Meetings are a necessity of today’s work environment. Will anyone notice if I slip out of the room before the meeting ends?

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The Effective Marketer

JANUARY 17, 2009

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking Effective Marketer Principle 5: Take Responsibility for Communicating To get things done you need to communicate, ensuring the team is aware of the plan, deadlines, and expected results.

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The Effective Marketer

JUNE 23, 2009

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking Because You Can’t Beat Free Marketing Training This is the second post finalizing the review of the Inbound Marketing University program from HubSpot. Here I talk about the final 5 classes.

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The Effective Marketer

AUGUST 20, 2015

I was recently reviewing some content that a product marketing manager had created and we were discussing it in light of an upcoming product launch. What I told that product marketer at the time, and something I still believe in, is that anyone can write. Creating a piece of product collateral is easy.

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The Effective Marketer

MAY 21, 2012

If the myriad of webinar platforms out there with new entrants every year is not an indication that webinars are hot marketing tactic, then take a look at the following chart from MarketingSherpa : Webinars, together with virtual events were ranked top three marketing tactics to have their budgets increased in 2011.

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The Effective Marketer

JANUARY 31, 2012

Either way, the sender is not inspiring me to interact or do business. LinkedIn for business updates relevant to employees and stakeholders. Any business in social media for the long haul needs a strategy that employs something other than convenience as the linchpin. Inappropriate style. For example, a B2C firm might use ….

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The Effective Marketer

FEBRUARY 14, 2009

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking Effective Manager Defined From time to time I go back to some business books I’ve read that had big influences in my career, one of which is “The One Minute Manager&# , by Ken Blanchard.

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The Effective Marketer

MARCH 13, 2012

The most important content to present on the initial launch of a business site is the overview. For instance, consider a restaurant supply business. Brad Shorr is Director of Content & Social Media for Straight North, a Chicago Internet marketing firm. Go from General to Specific over Time. Logically Layer On the Details.

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The Effective Marketer

JANUARY 19, 2012

This tried-and-true approach to innovation leading to brand extensions, new product categories, and new marketing approaches has and continues to be used as a cornerstone of market research efforts. Leveraging Social Media for Market Research. Market Research via Social Media. Let’s do a focus group and find out.

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The Effective Marketer

JUNE 29, 2011

The old fashioned trade show may not be the hottest topic coming through your inbox these days but odds are that you may still be doing quite a few events and have trade shows as part of your marketing budget. A recent MarketingProfs article, Is Tradeshow Marketing Dead? Continue post-show marketing with an appropriate offer.

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The Effective Marketer

APRIL 30, 2013

Prior to Marketfish, David served as VP of Marketing for PeopleSoft and Intermec, and also has Boston Consulting Group and GE in his resume.His His solid business background shows that he is not just a “consultant”, “marketing guru” or some “speaker” But is this book for you? Cold Calling.

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The Effective Marketer

APRIL 30, 2013

Prior to Marketfish, David served as VP of Marketing for PeopleSoft and Intermec, and also has Boston Consulting Group and GE in his resume. His solid business background shows that he is not just a “consultant”, “marketing guru” or some “speaker” But is this book for you? Email Marketing.

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The Effective Marketer

JUNE 13, 2009

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking Free Stuff That Sells. Free Marketing Stuff Can Sell As marketers our job is to generate brand awareness, educate our prospective customers on the benefits of our products and get them to purchase.

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The Effective Marketer

MAY 27, 2015

Competitive Battle Cards (BTW I’ve seen them spelled together, battlecards, and separate – battle cards) are a staple of product marketing. So for the purposes of this post I will focus on the marketer or product marketer that has been tasked with coming up with a competitive analysis to help sales.

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The Effective Marketer

JANUARY 5, 2009

Anyone can learn how to become more effective as long as they apply themselves to it and marketers are no exception. In 2004 Drucker wrote an article for Harvard Business Review Magazine titled “What makes an effective executive”. Combining both sources, you have excellent material to guide you in becoming a better marketing manager.

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The Effective Marketer

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking The Six Minutes Challenge Presentations can be boring. I recently attended the Business of Software conference where I participated in a Pecha Kucha competition. Welcome to the world of Pecha Kucha.

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