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10 marketing functions that brands should keep in-house

SmartBrief - Marketing

As a lifelong agency guy, I have a profound bias about what activities and marketing disciplines are best outsourced. While it may seem surprising, it’s not that I believe that brands should outsource all marketing. Please keep my bias and your own limitations in mind as you read the following marketing channels.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

I’ve been in marketing or advertising (online or otherwise) for 20 years. I’ve been thinking lately about why I got involved in social media. That’s something sorely missing from a lot of traditional advertising, where veracity is neither required nor particularly encouraged. But, I’m not.

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Why Content Marketing Matters To Me And Should To You

Convince & Convert

Sure, I pay attention to where I’m ranked in the AdAge Power 150 (a broader ranking of all marketing blogs), and I look at my search rankings, etc. But I am incredibly delighted to top the list of content marketing blogs, because for me content marketing is becoming fundamental to business success at every level.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

She specializes in social media strategies that lead to actionable plans to achieve real world objectives. I’ve spent a lot of time working with various social media monitoring tools and I’ve whittled my list of favorites down to two or three. . • How much time will you be able to allocate to this project?

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Why Host a Blog on Your Corporate Website?

Online Marketing Institute

› Home › Column › Search › SEO Why Host a Blog on Your Corporate Website? Mark Jackson | August 18, 2010 | 0 comments ); //]]> Share Tweet My company has recommended blogging to many of our search engine optimization clients.

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Build Your Brand a Social Content Ladder in 5 Steps | Blogging and.

Convince & Convert

Too many companies and organizations are reinventing the content wheel for every social outpost they maintain. A better approach is to create a content ecosystem that allows you to repurpose and cascade your best information. Instead of a series of self-contained initiatives, build yourself a content ladder.

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Why Influence Mining is the Next Gold Rush | social crm | Social.

Convince & Convert

Last week, I interviewed three men that are helping create an all-new field of marketing and customer service – the emerging discipline of influence mining. Influence mining makes the old school, direct marketing notions of sorting consumers by purchase history seem dinosaurian by comparison.