Mon.May 02, 2011

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How to Get Started with a Content Marketing Plan

NuSpark Consulting

A content marketing plan has now become an integral component of any digital or traditional marketing strategy. Without a content plan, your firm can lose focus on its messaging objectives, its outreach tactics, its social media strategies, and more. Since the Internet is the number one source for product and service information, valuable content has become the reason buyers purchase from vendors.

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Low-Hanging Fruit, “Operation Bounty” and the Problem with Having Too Many Orchard Crates

ViewPoint

Today we're honored to have guest blogger Nancy Nardin share her thoughts on delivering the 'right' leads to sales. Nancy is Founder and CEO of Smart Selling Tools , a leading online marketplace that helps connect Sales professionals with the right Sales Software vendors. The ideal situation for a sales organization is to have enough “ripe” opportunities hanging on the tree-of-prospects to simply pick the low-hanging fruit first.

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4 Content Marketing Goals for a Coach Website

Writing on the Web

How should content marketing be used on the home page of your website? What makes good website copy? More specifically, if you’re a professional service provider, like an executive coach , a consultant, a lawyer, health care or financial adviser… how do you create a website that attracts clients and gets potential new leads? No matter what business you’re in, your content must achieve 4 things.

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LinkedIn Lead Gen Tip: When a Face Makes the Difference

Smashmouth Marketing

Guest Post from Gareth Morfill, Inside Sales Blackbelt at Green Leads. If you were talking to a prospect face to face, do you think that would make you pitch any differently? More confidently? We feel that it absolutely does. The simple act of having a real person to look at while you are having the conversation makes the building of rapport much easier.

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The Top 3 Tips for Writing Successful White Papers

In the B2B marketing toolkit, white papers can be a powerful option for reaching decision-makers and experts, presenting them with interesting information that improves their perception of your organization's competence and thought leadership. That said, a poorly executed whitepaper will not only be unable to influence your desired audience but will also come with significant costs that other assets won't incur.

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Thanks to Social Media, I No Longer Mistake Terrorists for Water Dispensers

B2B Memes

Though I think of myself as a well-informed, up-to-date kind of guy, I have a history, shared with my wife, of drifting unconsciously out of the event stream and becoming completely unaware of what’s happening in the world. We’re not the kind of people who seek out media and keep a TV or radio on at all times. In the past, if we weren’t directly involved in major events, it sometimes took us a while to find out about them.

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Debating the Future of Social Media Management

Convince & Convert

Join Mark W. Schaefer (whose {GROW} blog is a must-read ) and me for a fireside chat about social media centralization vs. decentralization. We really want your feedback and ideas on these important issues, so sound off in the comments please. Is social media too complex for one person to handle? Are companies better off having one or a few social media practitioners, or many?

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Facebook Send Button Reminds Marketers that Email isn’t Dead, it’s Evolving

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

by Maria Pergolino Last week you may have noticed news of the new Facebook Send button. It was a super hot topic on many blogs read by marketers including Mashable and Marketing Pilgrim. And for good reason, as this added functionality brings us a new way to share our content socially. . For those that missed it, Facebook launched a few feature that allows your website or blog visitors to click a button similar to the Facebook Like button.

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Manufacturer’s Marketing Video Becomes a YouTube Sensation

Industrial Marketing Today

Industrial and manufacturing marketing doesn’t have to be dull and boring. Here’s proof. Corning, a manufacturer of specialty glass and ceramics created a marketing video called “A Day Made of Glass” to demonstrate future applications of its specialty glass. Even though the original intent was to create a sales tool for its manufacturing customers, it went viral in a big way after the company posted it to YouTube.

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The Online Anatomy of a Spreading Story

Hubspot

Last night, U.S. forces killed “ the most wanted face of terrorism ,” Osama bin Laden. However, this is not a political blog post or a commentary on the event. Instead, it is an examination of how technology has drastically changed the word-of-mouth spread of information. Traditional media, TV and print newspapers, couldn’t keep up with the story as fast as new, social media could draw the evolving picture.

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21 Advanced ChatGPT Prompts To Take Your Social Media to the Next Level

Upgrade your social media game with our in-depth playbook: "21 advanced ChatGPT prompts for social media managers". These powerful prompts are tailored to supercharge your content creation, strategy development, and results analysis. Say goodbye to writer's block and hello to endless creativity as you effortlessly generate engaging posts, come up with original strategies, and optimize your social media performance - all in a fraction of the time.

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A historic speech for America

Dahle Communication

I plan on talking about this more later, but I wanted to post this now because it is a historic speech and a historic moment in the recent U.S. History. What did you think of his speech?

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Which Social Networks Should You Be On? [Marketing Cast]

Hubspot

As new social media channels sprout up from the ever-evolving Web, marketers face the challenge of constant reevaluation of important networks. Which platforms should one be active on? Maybe being on all possible channels isn’t quite as effective as focusing on a few of them. In this episode of the Weekly Marketing Cast we discuss how you can approach this question.

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Alinean Announces the CMO Challenge

The ROI Guy

Free Campaign and Marketing Optimization (CMO) Assessment Tool and Service to Optimize B2B Marketing Return on Investment (ROI) Alinean announces the CMO Challenge , a free online assessment tool and service to help B2B marketers optimize the spending and practices of overall marketing groups, or individual campaigns. The assessment benchmarks an organization’s marketing or campaign spending, tactics, and effectiveness compared to peers and leaders.

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Alinean and Content Marketing Institute Launch Content Marketing Assessment Tool

The ROI Guy

Report Offers Industry Competitive Comparisons on Marketing Effectiveness Alinean and the Content Marketing Institute (CMI), the go-to source for practical how-to content marketing advice and consulting, have announced the development and launch of a new Content Marketing Assessment Tool. The interactive assessment is designed to help B2B content marketers compare spending, tactics, effectiveness and success, benchmarked compared to peers.

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Are Your Impact Comms Resonating With Stakeholders?

Whether your organization is at the start of its sustainability and impact journey or years into it, many brands share a common concern: the uncertainty of whether they are sending stakeholders mixed messages. Creating content that speaks to your audience's “love language” can be a tricky dance. But, worry not! 3BL has put together tips to ensure that your content not only finds its rhythm but also resonates with your target audiences.