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Email Adoption High But Lacking Best Practices

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A Forrester Research “ How US Maketers Use Email &# Report sheds some light into the use of email by B2B and B2C companies. Despite email’s prevalent use, interactive marketers still don’t do all they can to get the full value out of their email efforts – Sarah Glass, Forrester Research. Clean Email Data.

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Listening to Your Customers In the Digital Age

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This tried-and-true approach to innovation leading to brand extensions, new product categories, and new marketing approaches has and continues to be used as a cornerstone of market research efforts. Leveraging Social Media for Market Research. Will Social Media Replace Surveys as a Research Tool? Excerpt from Mad Men, Season 4.

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Why Seeding Your Content is Key to Making it Viral

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Is great to see scientific research being done on social media, viral videos, and marketing in general (see previous post on the New Science of Viral Ads ). Problem is, many research papers contradict each other. Here’s where many researchers disagree. So how do you go about “seeding” it right?

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A Primer on Sales Competitive Battle Cards

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Based on the intended audience you can then proceed to identify what information you will need and start thinking about a format for the battle card. The internet is your best friend for finding a trove of information about competitors. Youtube can be a good source of information to catch product demos and reviews.

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The New Rules of Lead Generation: Book Review

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Research and discover your target customer. Although you won’t get a lot of deep information on the many ways to use a certain tactic, it will get you up to speed on what exactly each one is and how it is used. For more information about the book, check it out on Amazon and on the book’s website. Build your assets.

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The New Rules of Lead Generation: Book Review

The Effective Marketer

Research and discover your target customer. Although you won’t get a lot of deep information on the many ways to use a certain tactic, it will get you up to speed on what exactly each one is and how it is used. For more information about the book, check it out on Amazon and on the book’s website. Build your assets.

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how to use social media - lessons from ama digital conference

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The room was packet (the number I heard was 80 attendees) and a lot of information was flowing to and from the audience back to the presenters. I was prepared for a sales pitch but Albert delivered one of the best presentations of the day while at the same time informing us of all the great tools available for Marketers from Google.