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Best Companies Don't Need Marketing

The Effective Marketer

The reality is, more and more companies are adopting practices like these (especially telecommuting and flex hours) because technology is such that not only allows you to do it, but makes you more productive. But companies don’t offer these nice perks just because they are run by nice people.

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don't forget your company history

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The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking Don’t Forget Your Company History The recent advent of the lost NASA tapes (they lost the original tapes from the Apollo 11 mission, the first Moon landing, then found out that they had all been erased) got me thinking.

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What Marketing Org Charts Tell You About The Business

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Every company has an official one and also a few “unofficial” charts. Look at how people are structured and what the reporting structure looks like and it will tell how the company is run, what is important to them, and how they think about their product and services and the market in general. The Right Marketing Structure.

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How to Fail at Social Media

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The problem is, when a company does very well with a campaign, others come and try to copy the same formula thinking it will also yield higher numbers, but no! Why is it that one company fails miserable while the other gets it right? The solution, it seems, is far more complicated.

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Content Marketing is the New PR

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According to Aberdeen’s report, the companies it considers leaders in PR and Brand Management achieve greater performance metrics than followers, such as: 23% of their marketing-generated leads are sourced through inbound or content marketing (vs 10% for followers). 12% growth in year-over-year company revenue (vs 3.5%

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Content Marketing is the New PR

The Effective Marketer

According to Aberdeen’s report, the companies it considers leaders in PR and Brand Management achieve greater performance metrics than followers, such as: 23% of their marketing-generated leads are sourced through inbound or content marketing (vs 10% for followers). 12% growth in year-over-year company revenue (vs 3.5%

PR 100
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get hired in marketing

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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. Companies spend a lot of time and money when they need to hire someone and spend even more when they make a wrong hiring decision. What is the risk the company faces?

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