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Monday, March 22, 2010
Lesson in Social Media ROI Save Time and Stress - Blog Editorial Calendar Template 78 Questions to Ask Before Launching a Blog If You're Not Doing This With Twitter Already, You Should Be About the Author: Jamie is a freelance consultant and copywriter who partners with small businesses, start-ups, and creative professionals to define and market their brands. A search for "social media strategy" returns over 7 million Web hits and nearly 500,000 blog posts on google. If you're just starting out in social, the prospect of sifting through all that information
 
Friday, March 19, 2010
And lastly, consider bringing in a specialized consultant to review your proposal materials and perhaps help you craft stronger presentations. ...Tags: The harsh reality is that more often than not your proposal will not win the project during a Request for Proposals . You won't win 50% of the time, and you might not win even 25% of the time.
 
Thursday, March 18, 2010
conferences, consultants, and tools flying. Marketing folks in B2B are obsessed with aligning marketing and sales. It's a longstanding pain point, and it always comes to the fore in a down economy. The problem, at least from my humble perspective, is that the discussion tends to rotate around the idea that marketing needs to align more fully with sales. Four years ago, I wrote this : The typical approach to marketing-sales alignment emphasizes getting marketing
 

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I've also seen dramatically increased interest in hiring social media consultants. But if most companies are already using social media in their marketing/PR mix, why is a consultant necessary? If you're inside an organization on the hiring side, here's how a social media consultant can help your firm. Interest in social media marketing is surging, with several recent studies showing that a majority of companies, of all sizes, are now using social media in some form for business purposes. After all, isn't social media primarily about conversations?
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No reputable SEO consultant or firm will even offer such guarantees. Not to suggest that self-confidence isn't a positive attractive attribute in an SEO consultant, or even that there aren't perhaps a few talented SEO practitioners with slightly overinflated egos, but if a consultant's web page or Twitter bio reads like a second-rate late night infomercial, approach with caution. The importance of search engine optimization—helping websites stand out in an increasingly cluttered online world amid rapid growth in global search volume —combined with the fact that search is one of the few growing areas in an otherwise brutal economy has led to an influx of new providers in the space.
The latest example is last week's announcement of a new Sustainable Procurement consulting offer .  IBM consulting and thought leadership resources on green and Corporate Social Responsibility Tags: Corporate Social Responsibility Green Innovation Marketing Reputation B2B consulting corporate social responsibility csr green IBM marketing smarterplanet sustainabilit Pardon me for talking about IBM yet again, but the company continues to impress me with its ability to ride the green wave with intelligent and high-potential offerings. According to IBM, the offer is designed
This week I’m finishing up my day job as Sr Marketing Manager at Backbase, and will be available full-time for Marketing Automation Consulting. June 8th I will officially start as a full-time consultant. If you have Marketing Automation challenges, I’d love to hear from you ( or toll-free 1-888-4A-SLOTH). I
Being a consultant or contractor has its advantages -- flexibility, challenge, constant opportunities to meet new people -- but it also means that you're a perpetual "outsider." Although Dan is a professional contractor, his observations apply well to consulting also. I hope that you enjoy Dan's article, and that all of your engagements are with "good" companies. ***** Terms: consulting, company My friend Dan Rutman has written a wonderfully witty piece entitled The Contractor's Guide to Corporate Culture that humorously captures the intangibles of fitting in with the company that's providing your temporary revenue.
On Friday our PR firm sent this post fromSageCirclerelating to Forrester's recent decision (some say it has been in effect since mid to late 2009) to ban all personal blogs from analysts that relate to topics they are researching for... ...Tags: Tags: Branding Marketing Social Networkin