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Best Companies Don't Need Marketing

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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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A Primer on Sales Competitive Battle Cards

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If your company hasn’t created formal battle cards (aka kill sheets, competitive cards, competitor takeout), it will at some point, as this is typically one of the first things sales teams ask. in an effort to give a 360 degree view of the competitor as a company.

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Killer Presentations

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Either from other departments in your company or even delivered via webinar. The first thing you should do is watch Garr Reynolds explaining how to create great presentations at this Google Talk recorded session (video embedded below). Think back to the past few presentations you’ve attended.

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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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Proven Tactics to Increase Blog Traffic

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Penn and his newsletter I read this amazing post by SEOmoz on “ 21 Tactics to Increase Blog Traffic “ It not only validates some of my personal beliefs but also gave me additional tactics to apply to my own blog as well as companies I work with. Use Twitter, Facebook and Google+ to Share Your Posts & Find New Connections.

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The Danger of Automatic Feeds in Social Media

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However, some shortcuts become disastrous detours, and this is often what happens when a company relies on automation for significant portions of its social updating. An example of this is setting up your Twitter updates to automatically feed into your Facebook company page. Why do companies use this sort of indiscriminate messaging?