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Bare Essentials: Marketing as a Necessary Evil

Marketing Craftmanship

Include contact information; not a generic response form. A LinkedIn Profile that Mirrors Your Website: LinkedIn has become an important market research and due diligence tool for all industries. Better yet, bring in a professional photographer and provide all staff members with high quality photos for their LinkedIn profiles.

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The Attention Web: What B2B Marketers Need to Know

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In their 2001 book, The Attention Economy , social scholars Thomas Davenport and John Beck proposed that in today’s information-flooded world, the most scarce resource does not involve ideas, money or talent.

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

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If a hedge fund is unwilling to provide on its website essential information related to its capabilities and credibility, then the firm is not really serious about market communication. Harness the market reach of LinkedIn. LinkedIn has become an important due diligence tool for investors, intermediaries and the financial press.

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How WebMD Has Changed B2B Marketing Forever

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Prospective customers now turn to their personal networks and publicly available information — via digital and social media channels—to self-diagnose their problems and to self-prescribe their own solutions. does not guarantee marketplace attention.

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Social Distancing: Marketing’s New Strategic Mandate

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Many companies have abused email to such a great extent — bombarding clients, prospects and referral sources with email blasts, self-serving newsletters and other useless information — that it’s now extremely difficult to get noticed or gain meaningful traction.

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An End to B2B Social Media Madness

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Build Your LinkedIn Presence. LinkedIn is 3x more effective for demand generation than either Facebook or Twitter. LinkedIn has become an essential part of the business world’s due diligence process, and your company is conspicuous by its absence. They reflect poorly on your brand, and few people will watch them.

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Hedge Fund Marketing: From Oxymoron to Best Practices

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Peppercom’s research shows that: Nearly all of the largest funds have a website, but most of those websites have no marketing value, and consist of little more than a logo and contact information. Two-thirds of the largest hedge funds have a LinkedIn presence, but only 10 of those funds post any meaningful content on that social media site.

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