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The Enemy of Productivity

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The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking The Enemy of Productivity Did you get anything done today? This entry was posted on Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 at 8:15 am and is filed under Communication , Marketing Management , productivity.

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How to Include Webinars in Your Content Plan

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For example, consider the following types of webinars and how they can be used: What: Product demo. Focus: Product features and functions. What: New product release walkthrough. Focus: Step-by-step product walkthrough, business scenarios, best practices. What: Educational (non-product). New product coming out?

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A Primer on Sales Competitive Battle Cards

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Competitive Battle Cards (BTW I’ve seen them spelled together, battlecards, and separate – battle cards) are a staple of product marketing. So for the purposes of this post I will focus on the marketer or product marketer that has been tasked with coming up with a competitive analysis to help sales. How about product people?

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How Viral Marketing Can Kill You

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As Scott tells in his book, he was into motivational speaking and decided to put out a short video (this was in 2004, way before YouTube became the default video sharing site) in his website. Sure, today you have YouTube to host videos but make sure you have all pieces in place before you start the viral engine.

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How to Fail at Social Media

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An interesting post on Why So Many Companies Suck at Social Media brings in some good insights and compares the now famous Old Spice youtube campaign with copycats like Cisco and Brigham Young University. The solution, it seems, is far more complicated. Why is it that one company fails miserable while the other gets it right?

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Social Media's Next Victim?

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And now with social media, there’s no telling who will be the next United to see its market cap hurt because of a blog post or youtube video. We all like stories of companies that mess up and in the process of trying to clean up their act end up messing up even more. United States License. United States License.

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The Fun Theory: How to Change Behavior

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Volkswagen launched what became quickly a viral campaign with emails being forwarded, youtube videos with over 1 million hits and comments from all corners of the web. They call it The Fun Theory (www.thefuntheory.com) and the goal is simple: using fun to change people’s behavior for the better. United States License.