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The Marketing Book Podcast: “The Growth Leader” by Scott Edinger

The Forward Observer

His other books are The Hidden Leader: Discover and Develop Greatness Within Your Company (AMACOM, 2015) and The Inspiring Leader: Unlocking the Secrets of How Extraordinary Leaders Motivate (McGraw Hill, 2009). Scott has served as an affiliate faculty member for the University of North Carolina, Kenan-Flagler School of Business.

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How Buyer Behavior Will Change Amid COVID-19

Tony Zambito

In the last 100 years, the Great Depression, War World II, 9/11, and the 2008-2009 Financial Crisis come to mind. Pandemic Persona. Since founding the concept of buyer personas for B2B in 2001, there has never been a need for a new type of persona.

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[Book Review] "The Context Marketing Revolution"

B2B Marketing Directions

Source: Amazon "Starting on June 24, 2009, everything that once worked in marketing, stopped. Emphasis in original) So writes Mathew Sweezey in The Context Marketing Revolution: How to Motivate Buyers in the Age of Infinite Media (Harvard Business Review Press, 2020). According to Sweezey, June 24, 2009 was the day when ".

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6 Outdated SEO Tactics to Avoid At All Costs

Zoominfo

Search engines quickly recognized this problem and in 2009, Google officially announced that they no longer use meta keywords as a ranking signal ( source ). Continue to target relevant keywords, but, spend less time over-optimizing your meta keyword tag. Write for humans, not robots, and watch your rankings climb.

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Plan for the Social Buyer Before It’s Too Late

Tony Zambito

  The Fortune 500 is jumping on board with nearly 70% actively pursuing social networking as a business benefit for their buyers ( McKinsey , 2009).    There should also be a healthy realization that knowledge of buyers may be not up to date.  The Future of Buyer Relationships (customerthink.com).

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Marketing Automation Monday is Here!

The Effective Marketer

Buyer personas and content creation The interaction was great and the fact that we had people from both SMB and large companies was great, we could hear both sides of the story and how different size companies work with marketing automation. Ideally, you want to match your content with the buyer persona and the nurturing/sales stage.

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Marketing Content That Sells

The Effective Marketer

The key ideas that seem to be present across them all are: Buyer persona is key for content generation Guest writers (employees, competitors, etc.) Web Design Webinar Yes, Please Share This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License.