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Why Most B2B Companies Don’t Use Earned Media (Public Relations)

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In ways that really matter for companies, notably lead generation, market engagement and revenue generation, no other type of marketing content compares with earned media exposure. They don’t appreciate the power of earned media.

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What the US Marines Can Teach Your B2B Firm about Marketing and Sales

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B2B companies – professional service firms in particular – can benefit by creating a culture similar to the Marine Corps; training all employees with basic marketing & sales skills that can help the firm to grow and succeed. Every Employee a Sales Rep” will not be achieved simply by establishing firm-wide mandates. Semper Fi.

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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. The error of many desktop publishers?

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Social Distancing: Marketing’s New Strategic Mandate

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Although most company CEOs or owners would never consider operating without a website — which serves as the modern-day storefront — many of them over the years have confessed to me that they see no tangible connection between their website or social media and tangible business outcomes, such as lead generation, increased sales or new accounts.

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Diet, Exercise And Marketing: Self-Imposed Obstacles That Ensure Failure

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In marketing as well, we often establish lofty goals — whether they involve lead generation, revenue growth or new accounts — that require a level of investment or period of time that far exceeds actual resources. Regardless of our body shape, age and metabolism, we typically seek chiseled six-pack abs and movie-star good looks.

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Time to Kill Your Company’s Zombie Blog?

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Three months later, the Marketing Department grows tired of hounding would-be content contributors, and management is not seeing the expected increase in lead generation or even website traffic. Posting frequency drops from weekly to monthly to quarterly.

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Is Your Web Content a Marketing Liability?

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Prostitution – If your white papers, case studies, newsletters, webinars and other tools are nothing more than re-labeled sales pitches…website visitors will classify you a self-promoter and discount the credibility of all the information on your website. Of course not…they now trick people using email.)