The Effective Marketer

JUNE 21, 2009

Free Marketing Training from IMU After watching the classes, my take on the University is: Positives: Online archives from each class including slides available on-demand helps a lot when you have busy schedules like mine, and also allows watching at your own pace (i.e.

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ClearVoice

MARCH 8, 2022

She also provides insight on creating online courses and selling those courses with help from webinars. Finally, she creates and hosts a podcast, ‘Online Marketing Made Easy.’ Kay Hsu , head of Creative and Design, Partnerships Marketing at Facebook. Mari Smith , entrepreneur. Rebecca Lieb, Ph.D.

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The Effective Marketer

MARCH 7, 2009

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking How to Use Social Media – Lessons from AMA Digital Conference This past Friday (March 6) the AMA Tampa Bay chapter hosted an incredible full day event called the Digital Marketing Conference.

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KoMarketing Associates

JULY 1, 2014

Cutts indicates that activity on Twitter, Facebook, and potentially other social sources have impact in the current (at that time) search ranking landscape but primarily in certain aspects like blog search and real-time search. Profile page information is too volatile to be trusted for ongoing rank relevance. Created: August 20, 2009.

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The Effective Marketer

JULY 21, 2009

It’s like saying everyone should do email marketing, everyone should do podcasts, print ads and TV spots. Choosing the right social media strategy While some may say that since your employees are already using social media (facebook pages, tweeter accounts, linkedin posts, etc.) Do we need to create rules or procedures for using it?

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The Effective Marketer

JUNE 13, 2009

It is a free week long online training program featuring some great speakers on topic such as blogging, SEO, viral marketing, email marketing, lead nurturing… all the tools online marketers need to know. Do you offer free marketing materials without registration on your website? So, why is it free?

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WebMarketCentral

DECEMBER 31, 2009

Facebook Lets Users Open Up Profiles by MediaPost Online Media Daily Mark Walsh helpfully outlines the recent changes Facebook has made to its privacy settings, though noting that " profiles opened to everyone, however, will still not turn up in searches on Google or other outside search engines. "

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Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Probably the most comprehensive study along these lines was Global Faces and Networked Places , released by Neilsen in March 2009. of the online population), compared with just 65.1% The Online Publishers Association has tracked time since 2003 in conjunction with Nielsen. Where are marketers moving their budgets?

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Hubspot

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Named 2009 "Word of the Year" by the New Oxford American Dictionary, " Unfriend" is used as a verb and the official definition is "To remove someone as a ‘friend’ on a social networking site such as Facebook." As a marketer you need to be on topic and communicate information that is relevant to your prospects.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

In Needs Awareness and Research phases, the first two stages of the industrial buy cycle (see my earlier post Deconstructing the Four Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle ) your prospects and customers use a variety of online content to find solutions to their current problems and needs.

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Online Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 1, 2010

LinkedIn users will be shown events that match their specific business needs based on the information they’ve added to their LinkedIn profile (Job Title, Industry, etc.), Facebook Events Facebook doesn’t have the most elegant option for managing events, but it can be effective.

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Writing on the Web

MARCH 31, 2011

I share these key points with anyone who struggles with writing online for their business and needs ideas for what to write. I first heard the term content curation is this post by Rohit Bhargava back in 2009. Content curation is a relatively new term, and is key to always providing fresh information that interests your audience.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 12, 2010

There have been many studies done over the years that indicate that price information is the very reason why most B2B buyers visit a vendor’s website. The results from three separate studies confirm this: 61% of engineers surveyed indicated pricing information as one of the primary reasons to visit a vendor’s website.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JANUARY 26, 2010

I’m not talking about a cosmetic facelift but turning it into a marketing powerhouse as you position your company for the recovery. Optimize, optimize, optimize : That’s the golden rule of online marketing as is location, location, location in real estate. Sometimes you need help with a specific marketing challenge.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 26, 2010

By the time buyers reach the Procurement stage, supplier Web sites and catalogs are the most important information sources. Those that drop off the list are often those who did not provide the right level of information to buyers or did not meet some other perceived or real need in the buyer. There are plenty of charts and graphs too.

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Smashmouth Marketing

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

This past week was the first in a series of two great conferences, the MarketingSherpa's 6th Annual B2B Marketing Summit 2009 in San Francisco. We published the Top 20 tweets of each day of the conference here: MarketingSherpa Marketing Summit, Top 20 Posts from Day 1 MarketingSherpa Marketing Summit, Top 20 Posts from Day 2.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 5, 2010

Ardath Albee, CEO of Marketing Interactions, Inc. said it best when she wrote, “Passive reading of your content is not going to help online marketing initiatives shorten buying cycles or increase customer acquisition and revenues.” Your prospects are at different stages of their decision making process when they visit your site.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 23, 2011

by Maria Pergolino The magnitude of the Internet’s size and scope can be overwhelming when determining how to incorporate the countless B2B marketing facts and strategies you can find on the Web. The State Of B2B Social Media Marketing. The Noob Guide To Online Marketing. Social Media in Business.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 23, 2010

The more detailed and specific information you can provide with the least number of search queries or clicks, the better will be the user experience. The shelf life of your content is pretty short because new information is generated very quickly on the Internet. While social media marketing may be cheap, it is not free.

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Smashmouth Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

This past week was the first in a series of two great conferences, the MarketingSherpa's 6th Annual B2B Marketing Summit 2009 in San Francisco. We run a microsite, B2B Online Marketing Pros, for our B2B Online Marketing group on LinkedIn. Next week, Oct 5 and 6, will be the Boston summit.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 20, 2010

Here are my top five industrial marketing lessons: Lesson #1: Save them time Most engineers, especially design engineers are already overloaded with work. Anything you can do to help them find the right information quicker will score big with engineers. You need to move beyond the free Google Custom Search tool for websites.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 14, 2010

I searched Wikipedia for information but couldn’t find an exact definition. Next, I came across a blog post written back in September of 2009 by Rohit Bhargava of Influential Marketing Blog. The final piece of the content curation puzzle was an article by Lee Odden of TopRank Online Marketing blog.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 24, 2009

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Content Creation Made Easy by Achinta Mitra on August 24, 2009 in Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Blog Are you struggling with creating content? Most people get writer’s block or their brains freeze up while staring at a blank screen.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 2, 2010

Either way, it would make me double-check how I have the privacy settings set for photos on my Facebook page. The last thing I need is a dressing room photo of me modeling Diesel brand fat pants hitting the public News Feed on Facebook. We sure as hell don’t lack for information at this point. 500+ TV channels.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 30, 2010

With a majority of marketing efforts going digital, that means even more content is needed. Not just any content, but ideas, information and expertise they find relevant and helpful for answering questions they have about problems they’re trying to solve. Designing content for 1X use is wasteful.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Even though the widespread adoption of social media in industrial marketing has been slower than general B2B and B2C marketing, it has had a serious impact on industrial sales, especially on the traditional role of the outside sales rep. They prefer to consume information at their convenience and in their preferred format.

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Reviewing the prior survey's results published in April 2009 , I expected that the economy -- and burgeoning interest in social media -- would accelerate the shift toward digital channels throughout 2009 to an unprecedented degree. More than half of respondents (55%) said they use Twitter for marketing purposes.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 8, 2010

In one word content – marketing content that is relevant and tailored to the prospect’s stage on the buy cycle. Create and deliver useful information such as white papers, industry research and trends and how-to guides for selecting the right solution provider. How can you accomplish all that? What has worked for you?

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

I hope this blog brings you a fresh perspective on the future of B2B marketing and best practices that you can put to work today to improve Marketings standing and influence inside your firm. You are welcome to participate and critique, praise, extend, or correct the information and opinions found on this blog.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 3, 2010

Why does online marketing content cause so much angst? Harness that power by gathering all the information and then editing the material into cohesive content. To rescue your website and deliver you to the Promised Land, the SEO consultant wants you to generate loads of content optimized for keywords and phrases.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 20, 2010

Not unlike traditional surveys, keyword research and social data mining tools tell a powerful story about the information target audiences want from organizations, on-and-offline. Now, the rules are changing, and noteworthy, quality content is the future of online marketing success.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 5, 2010

I have recruited a posse of incredibly smart social media, digital marketing, and public relations thinkers to entertain and inform you while I’m learning how to pay with colored money, and my son attends hockey camp. I’ll be back in a couple weeks.

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Online Marketing Institute

JANUARY 4, 2011

Provide “share this” buttons to Facebook and Twitter as a minimum 22. Promote and distribute your posts on to other social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn 29. Place a video on your Facebook fan page inviting visitors to subscribe. Link to your blog on your Facebook fan page 69. be authentic.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

“Should we be on Twitter, or Facebook, or Linkedin, or YouTube, or some other places?&# Export your email subscriber or customer database to Flowtown, and you’ll know in minutes what percentage of your audience is on Facebook or some other social outpost. Flowtown gives you the answer in seconds.

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Anything Goes Marketing

MARCH 8, 2009

LinkedIn: Starting an Alumni Group When Linkedin started a groups feature (like Facebook groups) I thought about how I could network with former colleagues. Some of the smartest people that I knew were from a technology post-grad college that I attended called the “Information Technology Institute (ITI) in Toronto. That is very cool.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

If we can reliably identify a person across Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Yelp and elswhere, we can then segment not only for the demographics of the consumer in question; we can tailor content for the mode they are in where we reach them. trying to get at information, oops scratch that b. then getting the information out.

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 10, 2010

Facebook Lets Users Open Up Profiles by MediaPost Online Media Daily. Mark Walsh helpfully outlines the recent changes Facebook has made to its privacy settings, though noting that “ profiles opened to everyone, however, will still not turn up in searches on Google or other outside search engines. &#. by HubSpot.

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