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The State of Demand Generation

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Create sufficient content (how can we possibly keep up with demand for content?). And so, there are new roles coming down the pike based on each of the critical tasks mentioned before: Seed : Content strategist. Create a knowledge base with relevant content that your sales team can leverage during the sales cycle.

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The Danger of Automatic Feeds in Social Media

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Note: This is a guest post by Brad Shorr is Director of Content & Social Media for Straight North. Most social platforms enable users to finely tune and personalize their incoming content, dooming any type of mass merchandising effort. LinkedIn for business updates relevant to employees and stakeholders.

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When Inbound Marketing Goes Wrong

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It seems that every eBook, blog post, and webinar is now touting content marketing and inbound marketing as the go-to strategies for the new marketers. Content developed for inbound marketing should be more focused on your prospects’ problems and concerns than on your product or solution – Marketo. Capture your target.

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12+ Tips for Trade Show Success

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Tell the sales reps what the giveaways are going to be, any details about lead capture devices, and other relevant information. That’s a great opportunity for marketers to get to know the target market better and listen first-hand to what customers have to say about the company, product, and competition. Promote your session.

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The Danger of Email Marketing Benchmarks « The Effective Marketer

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Analyze the results you get by segment (geography, products purchased, industry targeted, job titles, etc.) and start fine tuning the message, email design, subject line, date and time sent, and other relevant variables to each segment and you will start creating your own baseline. United States License. United States License.

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Why Social Media Is Not For Everyone « The Effective Marketer

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Some blasphemous professionals on the other hand, caution us to be careful in our efforts, telling us we should really focus on those customers that love our produc t and not use social media targeting everyone. Who is our target? It is a great post and the content you provide is very helpful.I Maybe not so much. What is it for?

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6 Ways to Spice Up Boring Email Marketing Campaigns

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Just be careful to follow all relevant laws. However, even if you don’t have that information, you can still target your subscribers by publishing themed emails aimed at one or two specific segments. All in all, segmenting your audience and reaching out to them is a great way to make your emails more relevant, interesting and useful.