Wed.Sep 03, 2014

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12 Questions to Ask When Performing SEO Keyword Research

KoMarketing Associates

'The other day members of our team had an informal discussion on how we choose keywords for our clients’ web pages. We base keyword selection on criteria that includes factors like relevance, competitiveness, and existing search results. The development of good keyword research also incorporates marketing prowess, data analysis, and experience working with SEO over time.

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Using Insights to Tame the Strategic Planning Beast

Buzz Marketing for Technology

'With the proper planning and strategic thinking, a competitive advantage is something that your company can definitely create in today’s dynamic and fast moving marketplace of business niches. Furthermore, your business can become particularly competitive in capturing those magical areas of competitive advantage if you can learn how to really understand your consumer market and the desires of your customers.

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The ABC’s of Business Blogging: Create Shareable Content – Don’t Be a Bore

Writing on the Web

'Create Shareable Content – Don’t Be a Bore" width="345" height="225" title="The ABC’s of Business Blogging: Create Shareable Content – Don’t Be a Bore" /> In the world of business blogging and content marketing, there’s nothing worse than a bore. I know we’ve all seen bad content marketing – blogs that are irrelevant, outdated, full of incorrect information, typos, rambling rants and silly drivel.

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Content Management – Aggregate Don’t Upload

Avitage

'As a content operations consultancy and service provider we occasionally find ourselves in the embarrassing position of the “cobbler’s children.” This syndrome reared its ugly head when we realized that our spreadsheet based content inventory wasn’t really working as a good way to discover and access the right content for specific sales, marketing or content requirements.

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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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In marketing, authenticity is the new black

Biznology

'Marketers have a longstanding reputation as many not the most straightforward folks you’ve ever met. Like salespeople, marketers have been known to shade the truth just a touch. They know how to give any story just the right “spin.” You might be forgiven for taking what marketers say with a grain of salt. And the younger you are, the more likely it is that you pay almost no attention to marketing at all.

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How Coca-Cola and Yoplait Use “Customer Participation” Marketing – And How You Can, Too

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'Author: Mike Stocker Coca-Cola and Yoplait are enormous brands that already have millions of customers – but while other companies might be content to rest on their laurels (and their customer bases), these brands are also known for their innovative marketing. Most marketers won’t be able to match Coca-Cola and Yoplait’s budgets, but we can take a page from their campaigns.

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Social Selling Works But Not How You Think

Convince & Convert

'(watch video to see guest appearance from Sharpie, the hedgehog) I read an article a couple of days ago that really got me mad. It turned out that J.D. Power and Associates surveyed 1,900 American consumers and found only 1% of those consumers used social media when shopping for a new or used vehicle, and among Millennials it was only 5%. Here’s my reaction to that survey: “No s**t.” Click image to tweet Under what circumstances would you actually use social media to buy a car

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“Eat This—It’s Good For You”

LEADership

'That’s Never Good Enough, So What Else Can You Do? . As parents we tell our children to eat their veggies because they are good. Then what happens? We struggle, the kids are unhappy, the veggies just sit there staring at us. Even as adults, fitness and nutrition experts tell us to eat what’s good and avoid what’s bad. A lot of what we eat may be very good for us, but that isn’t why we eat it.

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Trade Shows and Trade Offs

SugarCRM

'The post Trade Shows and Trade Offs appeared first on Salesfusion.

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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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How Google AdWords Works [Infographic]

Hubspot

'Optimizing your content for organic search is the best way to strengthen your presence on search engines and generate high quality traffic to your website. But that doesn''t mean pay-per-click (PPC) doesn''t have a place in an inbound marketing strategy. PPC can be a great complement to your organic search optimization efforts to help you maximize reach.

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Convene: Mining the Second Screen

The Freeman Company

'PCMA''s marquee publication checks in with FreemanXP to learn about this red hot event tech'

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6 Ways Your Coworkers Can Help Make Your Next Event a Success

Hubspot

'Events are having a moment -- especially with our very own INBOUND conference right around the corner! And for those of you who organize and execute on events, you know exactly what planning a successful one entails. Each aspect is an important element in what you hope will turn out to be a well-oiled machine. Various tips, tricks, hacks, and dare I say even shortcuts, are in constant demand from event planners, but sometimes it’s easy to overlook the secret weapons that you already have

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Introducing Good Idea/Bad Idea: A Series on Video Marketing Best Practices

Vidyard

You’ve created a great video, but aside from its killer content, what are you doing to optimize your performance overall? What are you doing to ensure you’re data-driven? It’s only as you start to streamline your video marketing process that you really begin to adopt best practices, so – in the interest of helping you out – we’ve started a new bi-weekly series to showcase some small things you can do that’ll make a huge difference.

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What Questions Are Brands Asking About Their ESG Initiatives Ahead of 2024?

Temperatures are rising (and not just metaphorically) as key stakeholders anxiously anticipate the outcomes of COP28. While companies reconsider their 2024 environmental sustainability strategies, there is another aspect of ESG that deserves exploring, the social sector. In the latest edition of "Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Sagittarius Edition", 3BL hones in on this sign’s bold quality of asking questions others are burning to know the answers to.

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Your Twitter Gender Is Probably Male, Even If You’re Female

readwrite

Twitter, unlike Facebook, never asks users to share their gender. Yet its recently-public Analytics tool can tell you, among other demographics, the male-female ratio of your followers. That’s because Twitter relies on the magic of algorithms to designate—and perhaps reassign—user gender. See also: Twitter Unveils A New Time-Waster: Tracking Your Popularity.

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Storytelling and Social Engagement Win the Day at ONS Norway

The Freeman Company

'Engaging Audiences in a Competitive Environment'

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20 Amazing Examples Of Brand Content Marketing Hubs

Marketing Insider Group

'As a content marketer , I am always looking for brands creating content I wish I created , the best video content , and general business and marketing inspiration. But I’m also continuously asked for sites I think are doing an amazing job of executing a branded content experience. I think it often helps brands who might need that little push into content marketing, to see what others are doing.

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The Truth About Lead Generation: Busting 5 Common Conversion Myths

Hubspot

'The following is an excerpt from our new guide, Inbound Marketing MythBusters. To download the full guide, click here. One of the most exciting parts of adopting inbound marketing is watching that graph of your daily, weekly, and monthly site visitors shoot up and to the right. It''s amazing how after just a few months of regularly producing content and engaging with people online, your analytics software can show you definitively that inbound marketing is having a positive effect.

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What's Working Now: ABM + Demand Gen

Speaker: Paul Slack, Vende Digital CEO

Are you struggling with a stagnant pipeline? Discover how combining ABM and demand generation can help you get more qualified opportunities and grow your pipeline. Learn the latest trends and tactics for 2023 and gain the confidence to implement a successful strategy that aligns with sales to drive revenue growth. Join this interactive live session with Paul Slack and learn how to: Identify the best accounts for ABM Personalize at scale Run paid campaigns that actually work Tackle and optimize r

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Infographic: 29 Tips to Improve B2B Email Campaign Performance

The Point

'An email campaign that fails to perform up to expectations could be failing on any number of fronts. The list could be bad (in which case, no attempted “fix” of the email itself will make that much of a difference.) The offer could be uninspiring, or buried deep in the email, or both. Or the campaign could be suffering from a myriad of issues relating to design, copy structure, and deliverability.

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How to Add Text to an Animated GIF Using Photoshop [Quick Tip]

Hubspot

'What''s the deal with animated GIFs these days? In January 2014, Pinterest announced that they were now supporting animated GIFs. Then, in June 2014, Twitter followed suit and announced that they also were supporting animated GIFs. Otherwise known as "Graphics Interchange Format," you''ll find these looping, animated clips featured all over social media, blogs, websites, and more.

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