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Maker’s Mark: PR Debacle or Social Media Genius?

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A mere week later, after a firestorm of protest erupted on social media and the Internet in general, the company reversed course. And I began to ask the question: what if the whole affair were not a mistake at all, but instead, a masterstroke of social media marketing? We Listened.”

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Meeting the Needs of the Self-Serve B2B Buyer

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As in the consumer space, B2B buyers use a variety of content to research prospective purchases: social media, Google search, review sites. Key Finding 1: Buyers have all but replaced vendor-provided content. Less and less of that content is vendor-provided.

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22 Potential Touchpoints for Your Next ABM Sales Play

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Touchpoints in an ABM sales play can be almost any form of communication: email, phone, social media, direct mail, even in-person outreach. Target the prospect with custom, campaign-specific ads on LinkedIn ( LinkedIn Matched Audiences ), Google ( Customer Match ) or Facebook ( Custom Audiences ). Send gift “teaser” (e.g.

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Social PPC: 17 Tips for Successful Ads on Twitter, LinkedIn & Facebook

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It seems only yesterday that “PPC advertising” was synonymous with Google AdWords. Google still dominates search advertising – at last count, it handles roughly two-thirds of all Web search queries , a market share that won’t be decreasing any time soon. Billion with Google in 2013.

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5 Ways to Expand Lead Nurturing Beyond the Inbox

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Paid Social Media – all three leading B2B social media channels (LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook) offer variations on “custom audience” programs that enable you to upload lists of customers, prospects, or target accounts and deliver ads exclusively to that audience, or so-called “lookalike” prospects that meet the same criteria.

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8 Common LinkedIn Advertising Mistakes

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In a remarkably short time, LinkedIn has grown to become a major player in B2B advertising (at about 20% of total industry spend, according to industry watchers ), quickly rivaling search advertising on Google. LinkedIn may afford you more real estate than Google Ads, but brevity is still your friend. Non-Content Offers.

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Origami Logic Scores Gold with “Brand Olympics” Campaign

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The microsite features different marketing campaigns each week, spotlights the brands driving the most engagement on social media, and provides articles, blog posts, and other content that showcases top performing campaigns. Results are also promoted on Twitter ( @brandolympics ) and using the hashtag: #BrandOlympics2016.

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