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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. Ensure that all of your staff profiles include photographs. Use first-class, consistent photography for people’s portraits.

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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. Most hedge funds understand this, and either provide a very basic firm profile, and / or allow its employees to post their personal profiles on LinkedIn.

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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. Twitter can be a great information source, and most hedge funds should use it exclusively for that purpose: to listen rather than to speak.

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Should Marketing Automation Customers be Pre-Qualified?

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For decades, the ONLY way to produce any type of printed material – ranging from sales & marketing brochures, to annual reports and informational flyers – involved a multi-step, time / people-intensive, costly process requiring a copywriter, graphic designer, a typesetter and a printing press.

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An End to B2B Social Media Madness

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In terms of demographics, it’s telling that Twitter’s top 3 profiles belong to Justin Bieber, Lady GaGa and Katy Perry, but if your B2B firm needs quantitative evidence to support dropping these social media platforms, here is some recent research from Pew Research Center : Use YouTube Selectively.

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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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Make Your Corporate Anniversary Worth Celebrating

Marketing Craftmanship

Based on that strategic groundwork, a company is well-prepared to identify appropriate tactics, make well-informed decisions regarding budgetary allocations, assign responsibilities for tactical implementation, and to build a program calendar. .; Framing the core messages that will be expressed through the program, and.