Valasys

MAY 6, 2021

Virtual marketing can be a boon for B2B marketers, especially in the post-pandemic wake to the next normal, where the common formats of virtual advertising including email marketing, social media marketing, display advertising, blogs, and other digital formats are gaining precedence due to the accelerated rate of digital transformation.

B2B Marketing 52

B2B Marketing Planning B2B Digital Transformation 52

Sprout Social

OCTOBER 8, 2018

This powerhouse fitness clothing brand brings a multi-pronged approach to their social media and digital marketing efforts. The feel of the online experience matches the in-store one and it’s clear a lot of thought goes into their social media planning. View this post on Instagram.

Social Media 92

Social Media Branding Brand Identity Media 92

Outbrain

JANUARY 25, 2021

Understanding these trends and aligning marketing strategy accordingly will be key to sustainable success in digital marketing (themes that we’ll be covering at our exclusive event, Outbrain Unveil !). 5 Major Digital Marketing Trends. With overly pushy ads, marketers run the risk of evoking negative associations.

Trends 41

Trends Advertisements Advertising Buy 41

Webbiquity

JULY 28, 2010

Despite its airy title, Social Media Marketing: An Hour a Day by Dave Evans is anything but a lightweight treatment of this topic. This isn’t a tactical, do-this-on-Facebook-and-then-that-on-Twitter type of roadmap either, but rather a sequence of exercises to explore, monitor, justify, plan and measure a social media program.

Social Media 100

Social Media Social Marketing Planning Media 100

Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Summary: Social Agency’s Spredfast helps marketers schedule social media campaigns the same way they schedule paid advertising. If social media worked the same way, companies would first buy a monitoring system to track what’s being said, followed by tools to respond to comments made by others. On reflection, this makes sense.

Social Media 120

Social Media Paid Content Enterprise Management Work Management 120

Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Social media marketing is all about potential audience. The same dynamic is present on Facebook. What percentage of your status updates are seen by each of your Facebook fans? In fact, BrandGlue estimates that as few as 1% of the status updates brands send on Facebook are seen by the fans of those brands.

Social Media 137

Social Media Media Webinar Metrics Paid Search Agency 137

Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 20, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Social Media and B2B Marketing Do Pair Well by Achinta Mitra on April 20, 2010 in B2B Lead Generation , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Social Media Marketing , Social Networking For a while, it was difficult to find hardcore data to make a business case for social media.

Social Media 60

Social Media Social Marketing B2B Marketing Web 2.0 60

Webbiquity

APRIL 19, 2011

There have been numerous posts written about the pitfalls of social media marketing (including helpful pieces from Online Social Networking , Sysomos , and one I wrote for HubSpot ). Social media is about having a conversati0n with your prospects, not broadcasting to them. Using social media as a direct response vehicle.

Social Media 100

Social Media Allocation Media Marketing Automation Services 100

Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 28, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website A Blogging Style to Call Your Own by Achinta Mitra on April 28, 2010 in Industrial Marketing Blog , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Social Media Marketing Creating a blog is not too difficult but building an active community around it is.

Web 2.0 60

Web 2.0 Privacy Policies Buying Cycle RSS 60

Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 24, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Social Media with Email Marketing – is it the Super Combo? This long time staple has become the Rodney “No Respect&# Dangerfield of B2B and industrial marketing. Do you have any good examples of social media used in email marketing?

Social Media 60

Social Media Email Marketing Social Marketing Web 2.0 60

Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Then you dash to Facebook to see what’s going on there. Handy Facebook Reminders It’s pretty tough to find a credible excuse for missing people’s birthdays on Facebook. NutshellMail saves you from being labeled an ingrate by reminding you of all the birthdays of your Facebook friends this week.

Social Media 115

Social Media Media Paid Search Agency PR 115

Convince & Convert

JULY 21, 2010

The Lawyers Are Coming Social networks give people the ability to share incredible volumes of content. Download Michael’s presentation here. Have you read the Terms link provided by Facebook, Twitter or YouTube? The FTC encourages social media policies be in place and reviewed. All that stuff?

Social Media 155

Social Media Paid Content Media Advertising Agencies 155

Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

because through social media, customers are praising and criticizing companies in public in a way that requires marketing to triage and respond. Marketing isn’t about campaigns any more. It’s an exciting time to be a marketer, but it’s also a tremendous responsibility. Now, he tweeted it to his 1.6

Conference 116

Conference Organization Paid Search Agency PR 116

Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Tired of chasing shiny objects, and setting up Twitter and Facebook accounts with clear direction, or success metrics? Tired of chasing shiny objects, and setting up Twitter and Facebook accounts with clear direction, or success metrics? Developing a Social Media Strategy in 7 Steps View more presentations from Jason Baer.

Social Media 167

Social Media Media Webinar Metrics Marketing & Strategy 167

Convince & Convert

MAY 11, 2010

Not in a “here’s our FAQ&# way, but in a vigorous, social media way. For B2B companies, I suggest adding a short slide presentation that answers each question, and possibly a podcast that answers all six in aggregate. Post it to your Facebook page. Talk it up on Facebook and the blog. Your LInkedin page.

FAQ 139

FAQ Top of Funnel Paid Search Agency Social Media 139

Convince & Convert

JULY 27, 2010

Whether it’s blog posts, video blogs, Powerpoint presentations, podcasts, haiku, or graffiti art, practice makes the production process easier. Before Permission Marketing , how much audience did Seth Godin have? I couldn’t write Katie Van Domelan’s post about social media listening tools. It will pay off.

Paid Search Agency 117

Paid Search Agency Blogger Advertising Agencies PR 117

Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 10, 2010

Maximize the All In One SEO Wordpress Plugin View more presentations from Scott Stawarz. an industrial and business-to-business (B2B) marketing communications company in Houston, Texas. Achinta offers his industrial clients marketing for engineers by an engineer. I keep these checked to avoid any duplicate content issues.

Business Blogging 60

Business Blogging Optimization Web 2.0 Business 60

Convince & Convert

AUGUST 24, 2010

“ The Black Art of Optimizing Facebook Wall Posts &# can be voted for here. Drive Results with Content Marketing &# can be voted for here. We’ll have Facebook page and other promotional stuff about the book online soon – including pre-ordering capabilities. “ Your Content Stinks! You’ve got my vote!

Paid Search Agency 111

Paid Search Agency PR Advertising Agencies Word of Mouth 111

Hubspot

MAY 24, 2010

Social media marketing has a lot of moving parts and processes which make it hard to get up to speed. This challenge is only compounded by the ever-changing nature of the market, in which new applications and opportunities arise daily. Social Media Participation Chart by Oversocialized 2. Social Media Process v.

Social Media 28

Social Media Education Media Budget Programs 28

Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

UNderstandable One of the most commendable aspects of this book is Stratten’s gift for boiling down a marketing principle to its simplest form. The examples and mini case studies he presents provide insights that leave you nodding your head and thinking you could adopt the same approaches.

Social Media 115

Social Media Media Paid Search Agency Peer-to-peer 115

Convince & Convert

MARCH 25, 2010

At the most granular, day-to-day level, this necessitates visiting your various outposts and your social media hub , determining your progress on each, and graphing it out over time. Or, you could just use Swix, the super slick new social media scoreboard that just works. Need to see the increase in Twitter followers over time?

Social Media 117

Social Media Media Webinar Metrics Marketing & Strategy 117

Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 15, 2010

I am referring to updating, maintaining and sometimes marketing their industrial websites. My opinion is somewhat biased because I am an industrial and B2B marketing consultant. I make my living providing marketing services including designing and marketing industrial websites. Is that a good thing?

CMS Development 60

CMS Development Marketing Websites Work Management Web 2.0 60

Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 5, 2010

Ardath Albee, CEO of Marketing Interactions, Inc. said it best when she wrote, “Passive reading of your content is not going to help online marketing initiatives shorten buying cycles or increase customer acquisition and revenues.” Your sales team must report to marketing and put these leads back into the hopper for nurturing.

Sales Cycle 60

Sales Cycle Web 2.0 Buying Cycle Privacy Policies 60

Convince & Convert

MARCH 3, 2010

Yesterday, I gave a presentation in Tempe, AZ to Agencyside , a conference of advertising and PR agency owners. I emphasized that to remain relevant, agencies must differentiate themselves by providing advanced social media services, not just the basics. Forrester Research shows that from 2009-2014, U.S.

Social Media 122

Social Media Paid Search Agency Media Advertising Agencies 122

Convince & Convert

JULY 20, 2010

The post explored the topic of utilizing common interactive marketing tools in unintended ways to tap into consumer demand. It’s Time to Put Content Strategy First, Shiny Objects Second Until recently, interactive marketing tactics and techniques, bells and whistles, and new online tools often outshone smart, targeted messaging.

Social Media 141

Social Media Media Webinar Metrics Marketing & Strategy 141

Convince & Convert

MAY 13, 2010

I think Charlene Li may have coined this one) The goal of social media is to turn customers into a volunteer marketing army. Social media allows big companies to act small again. Social media creates kinship between companies and customers, and kinship equals purchase intent. Facebook is for people you used to know.

Social Media 153

Social Media Media Webinar Metrics Marketing & Strategy 153

Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Many successful social media programs take months (or even more than a year) to really germinate. Social Media is “Viral Marketing&# False, in the same way that a square is also a rectangle, but a rectangle isn’t a square. Can a social media program go viral? Social Media results can’t be measured False.

Social Media 151

Social Media Media Webinar Metrics Paid Search Agency 151

Convince & Convert

MAY 25, 2010

This session included much of what Indra and her partner Jon Bailey have been able to accomplish in the last two years, moving from a primarily traditional agency to a new media powerhouse. will range from 11% (the relatively mature email marketing), to 34% (social media). Direct mail? Embrace Math.

Paid Search Agency 124

Paid Search Agency Online Marketing Advertising Agencies Ads 124

Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 20, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Can Industrial and B2B Marketers Learn Creative Problem Solving from Fifth Graders? Finally, they presented designs to teachers, parents, and Jim West, inventor of the electric microphone. The four steps are: 1.

Creativity 60

Creativity B2B Marketing Lead Ranking Lead Scoring 60

Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 20, 2010

Having worked closely with many manufacturers and companies from the industrial sector, I have learned several valuable lessons about what works when it comes to marketing to engineers and technical buyers. It is always a good idea to serve up your marketing content in different formats but your text is the key component.

Web 2.0 60

Web 2.0 Planning Buying Cycle Lead Scoring 60

Convince & Convert

APRIL 1, 2010

Doing so reveals finely honed, groan-inducing marketing copy that clumsily tries to build a bond via forced humor and shared humiliation. But, the team does reference a series of social media outposts via a tiny murderers row of icons (my favorite is “Linkedin.coming soon&#. They need to snap up that Facebook name pronto.

Social Media 120

Social Media Paid Search Agency Media Advertising Agencies 120

Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 14, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Is Content Curation an Easy Way for Content Marketers to Do More With Less? Next, I came across a blog post written back in September of 2009 by Rohit Bhargava of Influential Marketing Blog. Hmmm…not very satisfying.

Curation 60

Curation RSS Web 2.0 Content Marketing 60

Convince & Convert

JUNE 22, 2010

The problems with that are clearly one of culture (truly believing that every customer is a reporter), and of definition (thinking that social media is somehow driven by Twitter and Facebook). Too many companies are “experimenting&# with social media because they feel they have to, not because they want to do so.

Social Media 132

Social Media Media Paid Search Agency Budget Programs 132

Convince & Convert

JUNE 24, 2010

I’ve been in marketing or advertising (online or otherwise) for 20 years. I’ve been thinking lately about why I got involved in social media. Sure, you can tell your company story ad infinitum in social media, but ultimately you’ll benefit so much more if you can make your customers part of your marketing team.

Social Media 122

Social Media Paid Content Media Webinar Metrics 122

Convince & Convert

AUGUST 3, 2010

A digital marketing success story. Facebook, of course. Ironically, Facebook itself started as humble website. Facebook is waging a three-pronged war on websites. Incidentally, this is why Google is so afraid of Facebook. Build a website. Make it useful and at least moderately pleasing to the eye. Keep it updated.

Facebook 167

Facebook Marketing Websites Paid Content Social Media 167

Convince & Convert

MARCH 10, 2010

The Best of Twitter 20 From the forward: I’m sitting in a ballroom in Indianapolis in September, 2008 watching Joseph Jaffe give a masterful presentation on social media transforming corporations, when I come upon the idea to interview him on Twitter. Download it: [link] [link] Lucy Railton Hope to read this if/when MC naps.

Social Media 117

Social Media Media Webinar Metrics Marketing & Strategy 117

Convince & Convert

APRIL 15, 2010

Sure, I pay attention to where I’m ranked in the AdAge Power 150 (a broader ranking of all marketing blogs), and I look at my search rankings, etc. But I am incredibly delighted to top the list of content marketing blogs, because for me content marketing is becoming fundamental to business success at every level.

Paid Content 125

Paid Content Content Marketing Paid Search Agency Planning 125