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What Marketing Content Works Best for B2B eNewletters?

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They may include how-to or opinion articles, quotes by thought leaders, personal stories, recipes, and even jokes. What information helps you run your business, your family, your personal life? Can you include a short story about your personal life or something that happened in your career that is funny or meaningful?

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Social Networking – Organic? Strategic? or Gaming a System?

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Share information related to your business, but do include your opinion and your personality. Note that your company’s personality may be quite different than your social media manager’s individual personality, and it’s important to make that distinction!). Be strategic yet human.

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8 Elements of the Perfect Blog Post

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Reading about the author’s experiences and how they led the author to his or her opinion on a topic is much more interesting that a dry dissertation on a subject. I know from personal experience if I land on a page and only see four paragraphs, I’m less than impressed. Use Sub-Headlines to Break Up Blog Text.

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B2B CMO – What Type of Ethical Manager Are You?

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These marketers base their decisions and actions on their personal interests – what will best serve them. In my opinion, we probably see a lot of these marketers in the financial services industry and perhaps in manufacturing. Egotistic or relativistic marketers. Moral strivers. This type makes up the largest group of marketers.

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Social Media Marketing: Where Do I Start?

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LinkedIn has personal profiles and company profiles. So there is no “either or” in my opinion – the more presence you have online the better. It is safe because people have to request connections on LinkedIn, and they can’t comment, post photos, or otherwise contact you on LinkedIn without your permission.

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B2B Marketers: The Devil IS In the Details!

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They go on to mention that professional service providers often equate the brand with themselves personally, because they are the deliverable. Therefore marketing becomes much more personal. In addition, they point out that service professionals are opinionated by training.

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Why You Should Rethink That Snarky Social Media Comment

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” A person who says they are also a “B2B Marketing Consultant” wrote a comment that was dismissive of my entire post and, in my opinion, snarky in tone. I recently published one of my most popular blog posts on the Business 2 Community blog and was happy to see that it was widely shared and liked by readers.