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The Death of Rolodex Marketing

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In the pre-internet world, personal relationships, referrals and endorsements played a significant role in the decision-making process. Over the past 20 years, the internet has dramatically and permanently changed the way that people make decisions.

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3 Ways Social Media Will Fail Marketers

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Social media will not increase word of mouth influence. Research by Keller Fay for Google shows that 94% of word of mouth conversations occur offline, and most often, those conversations are sparked by information found on the internet and television…and not on Facebook, Twitter or other social networking sites.

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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. Don’t rely on the internet exclusively to generate market attention. Less can be more, when it comes to B2B content.

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Marketing to Multi-Media Multitaskers?

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In a forthcoming edition of the journal Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking , Professors S. A new study from Boston College’s Carroll School of Management on the impact of multi-media multitasking has some significant implications for marketers using TV or online channels. of all computer gazes, and 2.9%

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Research Integrity: The Achilles Heel of Content Marketing

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Research integrity was an issue long before the internet became the platform for content marketing. Our client was overjoyed with the media exposure, but we felt less than honorable, and resolved that we would never use market research to promote a client’s product or service unless we believed the supporting methodology had sufficient rigor.

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Death by Content: How Press Release Abuse Killed Public Relations

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The internet delivered news faster, and this was a good thing. Twitter, blogs and other social media-based “pull” tools may eventually replace the press release. But the news release has lost its franchise as a communication tool, for two reasons: Thanks to technology, news releases became an anachronism.

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Is Your Web Content a Marketing Liability?

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Distracted by all the social media buzz, it’s easy for a company to lose sight of the fact that their website remains the mother ship of brand expression and commerce. Long live the internet. Previously published at [link] ].