Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 23, 2010

It shouldn’t be an afterthought because retrofitting SEO after the redesign is typically not very effective and usually costs more. And yes, it does cost money. While the cost of entry for a small business is going to be higher, investment will pay off many times over later on.” Is SEO a DiY (do-it-yourself) job?

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Just as e-mail marketers learned to adapt as people evolved from sharing one e-mail address to having multiple e-mail addresses, today’s marketers need to address the many different social spheres individuals may inhabit. Listen, respond, and adjust not just your marketing message, but your entire value delivery chain.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

However, a lot of people making that news have created expectations and beliefs about social media that aren’t true. Social Media is Inexpensive False. As Charlene Li said recently, social media trades media cost for labor cost. Social Media is Fast False. Leave a comment please.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

MySpace last week declared what amounts to a post-modern armistice, announcing that they will integrate status updates with Facebook (and Twitter). We easily forget that Facebook was one of the first social networks that insisted that we use REAL names, and policed personal profiles accordingly. Haven’t you?

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 8, 2010

Let’s say your business offers a software product designed to help business owners efficiently allocate revenue to related expenses to ultimately reduce costs. As such, you are solving the problem of inefficient cost management because at the end of the day, your software helps business owners save money. What has worked for you?

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JUNE 17, 2010

But at what cost? I look at it a little differently. Sure, you can get a ton of followers by doing all the right things ( Mack Collier has a great post here about how he got to 20,000 followers ). If you spent all day, every day on Twitter you could certainly amass quite a following.

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JULY 6, 2010

The taboo of never tooting your own horn with a press release about your good deeds clearly has crumbled in corporate America, and companies today are not only promoting philanthropy through social networks, they’re building unique Facebook pages and Twitter profiles for these important programs.

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AUGUST 19, 2010

Virality, Quick and Easy Once the stories are approved and posted on the blog, RESMARK automatically triggers another email, notifying the author and asking them to share the story on Facebook, Twitter, and elsewhere. And once the system was set up and the business rules determined, the company spends almost no time managing the program.

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APRIL 28, 2010

Look to Facebook Somewhat surprising (at least to me) was the finding in the Forrester study that 62% of influential impressions from Mass Influencers took place on Facebook, with Twitter just 10%. Consequently, look to your Facebook fans, or use of the new Facebook “like&# feature as a marker for Mass Influence. (It

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AUGUST 3, 2010

Facebook, of course. Ironically, Facebook itself started as humble website. But, for all its foibles and fairytales, its growth and groan-inducing missteps, Facebook and its leadership have known for a long time that websites are yesterday’s technology – they are just now getting around to twisting the knife.

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 2, 2010

And that reality of the flooded inbox is very evident from steadily dropping response rates of only 1% to 3% range for traditional email marketing. The old email marketing strategy of batch and blast or spray and pray is no longer effective. However, there’s no denying the low cost of email marketing.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 1, 2010

But, the team does reference a series of social media outposts via a tiny murderers row of icons (my favorite is “Linkedin.coming soon&#. So, I turned to the team’s Facebook page, where NBA rules have not yet been codified, and team’s have more leeway than they do on the official Web site. Your Web site.

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AUGUST 3, 2010

Facebook, of course. Ironically, Facebook itself started as humble website. But, for all its foibles and fairytales, its growth and groan-inducing missteps, Facebook and its leadership have known for a long time that websites are yesterday’s technology – they are just now getting around to twisting the knife.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Match Your Social Media Tactics to Your Social Media Goal The problem we’re faced with today is that very few companies seem to be thinking about their efforts in this way. I see this as a natural for Twitter, but Jay is right to point out the shortcomings of most companies when it comes to their facebook and blog approach.

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Single Grain

JANUARY 31, 2020

Find countries or regions that are more profitable in terms of advertising costs with the CPC map and modify your ad campaigns accordingly to benchmark your numbers, plan your marketing campaigns and estimate ROI. How Much Does SEMrush Cost? SEMrush provides three standard monthly plans: Pro plan at $99.95.

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MARCH 3, 2010

I emphasized that to remain relevant, agencies must differentiate themselves by providing advanced social media services, not just the basics. corporate expenditures on social media will increase by an AVERAGE of 34% a year , and that by 2012, as much will be spent on social media as on email marketing. Between bit.ly

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Digital marketing, social media and the constant pressure to cut costs have radically changed this traditional industrial sales model. Social media and online marketing have forced the traditional salesperson to change his/her tactics like the rest of us but have not made them expendable. Not so fast!

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MAY 11, 2010

Post it to your Facebook page. Talk it up on Facebook and the blog. Consider the cost comparison of communicating the kind of messages, and the useful information that we can freely distribute now through the internet tools available versus the older media sources and their cost structures? Your LInkedin page.

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JULY 14, 2010

I now take the organization’s current strategic plan, CEO’s vision, mission statement and make those the metrics of a social media strategy. If a non-profit has a strategic objective to “further engage current donors”, with 600 million people on Facebook it is a sure bet that some of them have a profile. Look on facebook.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Bonus: My list of social media monitoring tools that I collect to share with others and test myself. applications like Facebook, Twitter, Skype, etc. Certainly on the cost side, with the multiple licenses, it came out far better, and the UI seemed a lot more intuitive as well. Historical data seemed more robust as well.

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JULY 28, 2010

Total cost of this incredibly helpful marketing effort is very low, and Mike even offsets that by including ads from sponsors! Mike you are a helpful marketing genius. Website surveys, email surveys, Facebook inquiries, focus groups, telephone calls to 25 customers each month. It’s a Bird.

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AUGUST 11, 2010

The Science of Cities We used the online filtering tool Find Your Spot to narrow down our relocation options. We looked at criteria like size (under 100,000 people), college town, good schools, access to health care, cost of living, etc. and the site produced a list of candidate cities for our consideration.

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Single Grain

JULY 6, 2023

Work With Us TABLE OF CONTENTS: ↓ What Is a Promotional Plan? Public relations Sales promotion Social media marketing Online marketing Advertising Personal selling Conduct a SWOT Analysis What Are the Main Components of a Promotional Plan? What Are Promotional Strategies?

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

I’ve asserted that B2B social media tactics vary from B2C, in that they are typically rooted in consumer education and thought leadership, and thus require deeper layers of interaction. Private brand communities vs. Facebook. The range of Facebook usage is just 37% – 51%. Linkedin Groups vs. Twitter.

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Buffer

MARCH 13, 2018

My colleague Hailley has long admired the original framework for setting goals from Warren Buffett – a method where you write down 25 things you want to accomplish in your career, and from that, pick the top five as the focus and put the other 20 on an “avoid at all costs” list.

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AUGUST 18, 2010

What’s the hot new trend in social media that we can bring to our clients? Better question: How can we optimize and improve our existing social media programs? What’s the best way to get the most possible Facebook “likes&# and Twitter followers? How can we make a viral video that gets thousands of views?

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

AUGUST 3, 2010

Free Download: 2010 Online Marketing Blueprint. At least one time per day, every day for three years, someone emails us at Junta42 or submits a project looking for a content vendor wondering how much content marketing (both print and web content) should cost them. Social Media Strategy? Facebook (150).

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JULY 8, 2010

While it’s not that easy with online marketing, for the past two decades, email has been the leading retention marketing tactic, and the channel you can bank on to deliver a predictable revenue stream—provided that you’ve invested in building your own, permission-based list. October 2009. So is email immortal? link] Jeffrey K.

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MARCH 22, 2010

This program is being produced by Mike Stelzner, who runs the successful Social Media Examiner site (where I write monthly). link] [link] Jen Grant You're Invited to the Socialpalooza [link] by @jaybaer (who in my opinion is worth 10x more than the cost here #justsayin) [link] Skip Bensley RT @jaybaer: Wow.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 31, 2010

Facebook has some great banter with the wall posts and status updates, but it’s more chatty than conversational and it’s not an open/public environment. Beyond that, when I think of social media, I don’t just think of the tools like twitter, linkedin and facebook. Absolutely not. The nudge here and there.

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AUGUST 26, 2010

For social media professionals inclined to get their mathematical hands dirty, it’s a winning combination. Six types of reports are included in RowFeeder: Post Volume and Velocity Analysis – What’s being said about keyword(s) on Twitter and Facebook. No problem. Pricing is quite reasonable for RowFeeder.

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JUNE 15, 2010

At conferences, I am often asked something along these lines, “My boss thinks none of our customers are on Facebook, but I think they are. Here are 4 ways to find out where your customers are in social media: 1. Add data collection fields for Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin (at a minimum). Total cost? What do I do?”

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MARCH 9, 2010

A recent study by Econsultancy called “ The Value of Social Media &# shows that companies are overwhelmingly using the “Big 4″ of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Linkedin for their social media efforts. Do you really know where your customers are in social media? Are you ready to look harder?

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MARCH 18, 2010

Why would a consumer “friend&# us or “fan&# us or “follow&# us in social media, unless they were either already a customer, or at the very least had us in their purchase consideration funnel? People don’t experimentally engage with brands in social media, they engage with the brands they already support.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 22, 2010

Building Long Term Relationships While it’s true that the web has made building individual relationships cheaper and easier than it used to be, this doesn’t mean that businesses can necessarily expect to build deep connections with their entire customer base; in many cases, this is neither feasible nor cost effective.

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APRIL 8, 2010

It’s an almost magical device that can show incredibly crisp HD video, all the audio you can handle, Web pages, books, online magazines ( Zinio is great on the iPad), newspapers, tweets, Facebook, Linkedin, and just about anything else you’d want to digest. It’s fast, it’s seamless, and it’s enthralling.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Ultimately, social media is about the sale. There’s no market for reselling Facebook fans or Twitter followers. Ultimately, companies need to make money, save money, or both via social media. link] jaybaer Yes and no. Isn’t that where engagement leads? Otherwise, why do we bother? Just not in a linear fashion.

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