Marketing Craftmanship

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How WebMD Has Changed B2B Marketing Forever

Marketing Craftmanship

Many B2B companies, and professional services firms in particular, do not succeed at marketing for two major reasons: Failure to understand that the vendor selection process has fundamentally changed. does not guarantee marketplace attention.

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3 Ways Social Media Will Fail Marketers

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Research by Keller Fay for Google shows that 94% of word of mouth conversations occur offline, and most often, those conversations are sparked by information found on the internet and television…and not on Facebook, Twitter or other social networking sites. Marketers are best served by focusing on improvement of their SEO capabilities.

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Is Your B2B Firm REALLY Marketing…Or Simply Making Tactical Soup?

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Is Your B2B Marketing a Tactical Hodge Podge? B2B firms invest significant dollars and hours maintaining a broad range of marketing tactics that may or may not demonstrate economic value. When this situation exists, a B2B firm is not marketing; it’s simply making Tactical Soup. Put every marketing tactic under the microscope.

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The Road to Hedge Fund Transparency: Marketing Essentials and Potential Pitfalls

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Ideally, those plans will also avoid many of the non-productive tactics that marketers are known to promote. Here’s a marketing roadmap designed to achieve that objective: Build your brand strategy first. In an online world, websites are the mother ship of market transparency. Harness the market reach of LinkedIn.

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Hedge Fund Marketing: From Oxymoron to Best Practices

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This past September, the well-respected marketing firm, Peppercom, conducted in-depth research involving nearly 300 of the hedge fund industry’s largest firms, to measure how those funds are currently applying standard marketing tools & tactics including websites, social media, the financial press and advertising, one year after the JOBS Act.

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Do Most CEOs Lack Social Skills?

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On the major social networks, including Facebook, Twitter and Google+, the participation of Fortune 500 CEOs was minimal, with only 7.6% on Facebook, 4% on Twitter, and less than 1% on Google+. population uses Facebook and 34% uses Twitter. The study claims that 70% of them have absolutely no presence on social media.

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Marketing Craftmanship

Wall Street Journal columnist Jason Zweig recently called out “marketing services specialist” Clint Arthur for selling speaking opportunities at the Harvard Faculty Club and the West Point Club, as a means for his paying clients to leverage the credibility associated with those two respected institutions.

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