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Content Marketing eBook and Infographics

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I was curious to see how marketers of the past have used content marketing strategies to attract and engage customers before the Internet Age. Content Marketing is all the rave, that’s part of what drove me to do some research on the history of content marketing and publish this free eBook, A Brief History of Content Marketing.

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More Free Marketing Knowledge

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The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking More Free Marketing Knowledge I love the internet. Free stuff abound and sharing is easy. But there is so much out there that deciding on what to read is a job in itself.

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The Danger of Automatic Feeds in Social Media

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About the author: Brad Shorr is Director of Content & Social Media for Straight North, an Internet marketing, Chicago-based agency. Any business in social media for the long haul needs a strategy that employs something other than convenience as the linchpin.

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Marketing Charts and Trends « The Effective Marketer

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There are 65 charts on 54 data slides showing: The benefits and consequences of social media to US Adults Whether Americans are willing or not to pay for online news The average cost per lead for outbound vs. inbound marketing The percentage of mobile users that own smartphones What activity dominates mobile internet time (and it’s not social networking) (..)

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How to Build a Content Development Plan for Your Site

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Brad Shorr is Director of Content & Social Media for Straight North, a Chicago Internet marketing firm. The firm boxed itself into a corner as it added content and did not have the resources to rebuild the site from the ground up. Not a good situation to be in, but one that is all too common. About the Author.

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Getting Started Guide for Marketing Automation

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There are also a few very good free resources on the internet that you can read as you get started, such as: 37 Marketing Automation Best Practices , by David Raab. If implementing Marketing Automation seems like a daunting task, then I hope that this short “getting started” guide has helped to break things into smaller, manageable pieces.

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A Primer on Sales Competitive Battle Cards

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The internet is your best friend for finding a trove of information about competitors. Out of it may come a battle card but the battle card I’m talking about in this post is something created specifically to position your product against a competitor’s. Data Collection: Knowing what data you need to gather, now you can start the process.