SmartBrief - Marketing

AUGUST 14, 2023

As a lifelong agency guy, I have a profound bias about what activities and marketing disciplines are best outsourced. While it may seem surprising, it’s not that I believe that brands should outsource all marketing. Please keep my bias and your own limitations in mind as you read the following marketing channels.

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Martech Advisor

JANUARY 6, 2020

Real estate social media marketing is an essential process for realtors to reach out to their target audience. In this article, we discuss what real estate social media marketing is, advantages of using social media, and six best practices for realtors to follow while using social media to promote their brand and products.

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Computer Market Research

JUNE 11, 2014

Social media listening tools such as Hootsuite or the Salesforce Marketing Cloud can search and scour social networks and community forums to help you identify areas that require your attention. Social media is the perfect opportunity to provide training on your products. Synchronized Partner Marketing.

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Stevens & Tate

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Today’s media plan looks far different than even last year, with more media channels, more devices, and even more opportunities to connect with shoppers. How do you find the most effective balance with an advertising budget and media plan that make sense now? Develop your media strategy around your core audience.

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Inbox Insight

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Having access to the right market intelligence is essential for unlocking crucial information that will help you convert your target B2B buyers. Our first party research provides timely insights into the main obstacles faced by today’s in-market tech buyers. In Q2 of 2021, marketers spent 49.9%

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Seismic

MARCH 25, 2022

But with fewer networking events and in-person conferences, sellers are finding creative ways to engage buyers. Social media plays a role in our personal lives, but it’s also a powerful tool for every business. In a recent study, HubSpot found that 51% of marketers who leverage social media plan to increase their investment this year.

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Oktopost

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Social media strategies aren’t just about acquiring new customers; they also involve nurturing relationships with existing customers and ensuring your followers remain engaged and interested in your brand. B2B marketing leaders plan to spend 30% of their budgets on brand building , and community management is a vital part of that.

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Stevens & Tate

MARCH 4, 2019

March 1, 2019 – As long-time educators of senior living marketing, Stevens & Tate Marketing has once again been selected to present at a LeadingAge association event. event, which is the most anticipated conference for senior living providers and professionals in Illinois. LOMBARD, IL.,

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Sprout Social

JUNE 17, 2019

One of the best ways to enhance your personal brand is through social media. Just as social has given rise to the likes of influencer marketing , there are opportunities across a wide variety of networks in which to build and enhance your personal brand. The chatbot could then send them to your “Services” or “Events” page.

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BenchmarkONE

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

While small businesses and big businesses may overlap in their target audience, big businesses can often target audiences in a number of different markets due to resource abundance, providing them with larger audiences. Not Conducting Market Investigation. Straying From a Developed Business Plan. Target Audience.

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Hubspot

DECEMBER 4, 2019

For instance, one way social media planning tool Buffer uses ephemeral content is by holding Q&A sessions on Instagram Stories. Additionally, asking communities questions about what they enjoy, as Buffer did, helps gain insight on the type of content to produce to keep engagement numbers up. Image Source.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

If you’re concerned about social media cost justification, you’re not along. A recent Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) survey found that only 20% of CMO’s felt social media produced measurable ROI and 62% hoped it may someday. Social media definitely pays off, but you’ve got to focus on the approach not the tools.

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SnapApp

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

What does your content marketing process look like? For many marketers, it goes “idea–>create–>publish–>promote.” Make sure your content spreads like wildfire with a strong social media plan. And the icing on the cake of your social media plan just might be interactive content. Boston Content.

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NuSpark Consulting

JANUARY 9, 2012

Remember media plans? If you believe all those social media experts and SAAS platforms, you’d think advertising has gone away. Marketing has always been about crafting a relevant message and distributing that content via the channels where your target audience spends time learning about his/her industry.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 10, 2015

Do you use a content marketing editorial calendar but it still kind of… well… sucks? This is probably the biggest challenge we all face as content marketers—and I’m using that term holistically. We had editorial calendars for every region of the company for the different events we managed as Outlook calendars.

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B2B Marketing Traction

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Without a strategic social media plan or guidelines, the social media horse has already left the barn. Let’s look at the diffferent ways to address the problem when social media has been started at the grassroots level without a strategic plan or guidelines. Let the social media horse run ?

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FMG Suite

JULY 7, 2019

You don’t have to be a social media expert for it to make a difference! To create a winning social media plan, you need to do the following: Build a Strategy. In a recent broadcast, we went through these three bullets to show advisors how they can create successful social media strategies. Communicate with clients.

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Content4Demand

OCTOBER 3, 2018

In fact, the number of buyers using social media to research potential solutions has grown from 20% in 2012 to 54% in 2018, according to the B2B Buyers Survey. Yet, research from the Content Marketing Institute shows that while 80% of B2B marketers have a social media strategy in place, only 32% have documented it.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

At the same time, it is just another marketing channel. The reason I believe marketers are so confused about social media is because of this paradox. This misses the point, of course, since social media is about customer relationships and not really about the technology at all. Social Media And Your Personal Brand.

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Liveintent

AUGUST 9, 2022

Brand awareness should be a top priority for marketers. This all means that marketers have a big opportunity to get in front of new audiences with widespread, multi-channel messaging. That’s part of why marketers across the globe say building brand awareness is their top marketing objective this year.

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

); //. Marketing News & Expert Advice. SES Events. Strategies Data-Driven Marketing Marketing Automation Marketing to Latinos Conference Call Local Retail Sports & Entertainment Politics & Advocacy Automotive CPG Financial Services Healthcare & Pharma Agency Spotlight. Live Events.

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Convince & Convert

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Do you use a content marketing editorial calendar but it still kind of… well… sucks? This is probably the biggest challenge we all face as content marketers—and I’m using that term holistically. We had editorial calendars for every region of the company for the different events we managed as Outlook calendars.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 15, 2010

Sure, I pay attention to where I’m ranked in the AdAge Power 150 (a broader ranking of all marketing blogs), and I look at my search rankings, etc. But I am incredibly delighted to top the list of content marketing blogs, because for me content marketing is becoming fundamental to business success at every level.

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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. Wonderful community-building strategy! Wonderful community-building strategy! Thomas for five days.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 5, 2010

This 40-something Florida Mom found herself undergoing several simultaneous life shifts, and realized that products and the communication about them didn’t resonate with her any longer. “If we’re going to counsel clients on the role of community, and its ability to garner insights, we need to be able to walk the walk.&#

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 4, 2010

Blogging for Commerce Related to the first, but commerce-oriented blogs are more interested in conversion events than in traffic generation. Blogging for Community These blogs seek to guild a consistent readership that interact with the blogger(s) and advocate on behalf of the content on other social outposts. Very helpful post, Jay.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 2, 2010

I’ll be talking about brand community strategy and how to activate your audience. More from Convince and Convert You Are Pissed Off at the Wrong Guy Taking Consumer Reviews Viral with Facebook Are you spending enough on digital marketing?

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Tip of the Iceberg Unlike enterprise-class social anthropology services like Rapleaf , Flowtown is incredibly easy-to-use, and is tuned for the do-it-yourself marketer. “We want to be the mint.com of social marketing,&# says Ethan Bloch , co-founder of the San Francisco based company. link] ethan Hi Jay, Thank you for the review.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Social media marketing is all about potential audience. Social Supports Email in the Interactive Marketing Hub Indeed, email marketing and social media marketing are spiritually and procedurally similar. Social media connectivity is digital bumper stickering. Email is all about actual audience.

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Online Marketing Institute

JANUARY 4, 2011

Mark joined the interactive marketing fray in early 2000 in business development with Lycos/Wired Digital and then AOL Time Warner. › Home › Column › Search › SEO Why Host a Blog on Your Corporate Website? a leading SEO company headquartered in Dallas, TX, with offices in Overland Park, KS and Clearwater Beach, FL.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 13, 2010

While my social media speaking engagements vary enough that I alter my material quite a bit from event to event, there is definitely a batch of one liners that I tend to incorporate. Event attendees often ask me if I have them written down, and I never have, until now. Social media allows big companies to act small again.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

because through social media, customers are praising and criticizing companies in public in a way that requires marketing to triage and respond. Marketing isn’t about campaigns any more. It’s an exciting time to be a marketer, but it’s also a tremendous responsibility. Now, he tweeted it to his 1.6

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 17, 2010

I love the Twitter culture and community, and I spend quite a bit of time using Twitter. Convince & Convert [link] #marketing #b2b [link] Assurance RT @ldiomede RT @jaybaer: Is Your Twitter Addiction Paying Off? Convince & Convert [link] #marketing #b2b [link] Evan E. Maybe you found this blog from Twitter?

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Convince & Convert

MAY 25, 2010

This session included much of what Indra and her partner Jon Bailey have been able to accomplish in the last two years, moving from a primarily traditional agency to a new media powerhouse. will range from 11% (the relatively mature email marketing), to 34% (social media). Direct mail? Embrace Math.

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Content Standard

MAY 22, 2016

In “Pressure,” a new story from the Content Standard, we investigate the mounting pressure marketers are under to change how they connect with audiences. Learn how an evolution in the way we create, discover, and share information has fundamentally shifted enterprise marketing strategies. The Backstory.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 16, 2010

link] Marketing 150 Via @jaybaer [link] Blastoff for My New Social Media Newsletter [link] TimWeaver How will this be different or an adjunct to those of us who read your blog, FB and follow you on Twitter? Ive founded 5 companies, and spent 15 years running digital marketing agencies.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

UNderstandable One of the most commendable aspects of this book is Stratten’s gift for boiling down a marketing principle to its simplest form. UNderstandable One of the most commendable aspects of this book is Stratten’s gift for boiling down a marketing principle to its simplest form.

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