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How to Include Webinars in Your Content Plan

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Typical Audience: Prospects that are evaluating solutions, technical buyers, training of new employees or business partners. What: Customer training. The longer webinars (more than 30 mins) can later be chopped down into easily digestible segments and posted on your Youtube channel. What: New product release walkthrough.

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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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A Primer on Sales Competitive Battle Cards

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Youtube can be a good source of information to catch product demos and reviews. Also related to presentation of the battle card is a formal training/presentation to the sales team. There’s quite a bit you can do for sales training, which is a good topic for another post.

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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.

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The Enemy of Productivity

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Stress vs. Productivity from www.hrmreport.com If your office is anything like mine, your colleagues send you Youtube videos, web links, and other stuff that although very entertaining doesn’t help you get your projects done on time. Have you ever tried simply not checking email ? United States License. United States License.

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The Rise of the Content Marketer « The Effective Marketer

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Twitter feeds need updating, Facebook pages need commenting, blog posts need editing, and YouTube videos have to be tagged. With the change and addition of new marketing channels, marketers now see themselves more as content creators than anything else. What used to be clear roles (i.e. United States License. United States License.

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