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Grow SMB Revenues With Buyer-Based Marketing

Tony Zambito

This is part 3 of a series on the challenge of targeting SMB markets and how the use of buyer-based modeling and buyer-based marketing help organizations to grow their SMB customer base. . Buyer Persona © All Rights Reserved Cristian Cardenas. The sheer size of the SMB makes for a daunting task for any organization intent on marketing to the SMB segment.

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Craft a Compelling Offer for Paid Search Marketing

Biznology

Image via CrunchBase. The best way to motivate a click online is to make a compelling offer and provide an urgent call to action. This is not news to Internet marketers. But when it comes to search engine advertising, like Google AdWords, you need to think about your offer and call to action a bit differently. The secret is coming up with an offer that attracts qualified prospects, to maintain conversion rates—instead of bringing in tire-kickers who are only interested in getting a quick deal

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Really Simple SEO

Direct Response Coach

Search engine optimization (SEO) seems very complicated, doesn’t it. Just the name itself will make you dizzy. Then there’s the onslaught of advice you get around keywords, meta data, inbound links and, of course, content creation. It’s a bit overwhelming especially if you don’t focus on this topic. You can see why people feel the [.].

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Move Beyond Concept to Create Content Like a Publisher

Avitage

For marketers who have embraced the publishing mindset in support of inbound and content marketing strategies, execution has emerged as the new barrier to success. You understand the need to think like a publisher. You have shifted content focus from vendor and product collateral, to customer educational content. You blog, create whitepapers or e-books, conduct webinars and even dabble in videos.

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How to Leverage Behavioral Science Insights for Direct Mail Success

Speaker: Neal Boornazian, President and Nancy Harhut, Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer - HBT Marketing

Direct mail has consistently remained a powerful tool in the marketer's arsenal, but in an age of digital dominance, its effectiveness hinges on the strategic integration of behavioral science. 💡 When you incorporate powerful behavioral science principles into your direct mail marketing strategies, you can prompt the hardwired decision-making shortcuts your audience relies on — and that automatically unlocks new avenues for engagement, conversion, and brand loyalty.

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Is Rex Hammock the Groucho Marx of New Media?

B2B Memes

In his autobiography, The Last Laugh , S. J. Perelman recalls that his first book included the following blurb from Groucho Marx: “From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.”. Perelman doesn’t say how he felt about it, but given his admiration of the Marx Brothers, he was surely delighted.

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Online Publisher Uses SnapApp Sweepstakes to Collect Over 100,000 Leads

SnapApp

Figment is an online community for teens and young adults. Members can share their writing, connect with other readers and writers, and discover new stories and authors. They wanted to engage their very active community in a unique and entertaining way. In particular, they wanted to: Increase the number of likes and? get Facebook fans. Easily create original content that would appeal to their target audience.

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Why Every Marketer Needs Closed-Loop Reporting

Hubspot

Closed-loop reporting is one of the most powerful tools that we online marketers have at our disposal. Not only does it allow us to demonstrate our work’s value to our bosses, organizations and clients, but it also enables us to improve our marketing. In this blog post, which is an excerpt from our Introduction to Closed-Loop Marketing ebook, we will review several different ways in which closed-loop reporting helps you attract more high-quality leads and become a smarter marketer.

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Facebook Timeline: 3 Ways to Get the Most from Your Favorite Apps

SnapApp

Facebook Timeline upgrade for Brand Pages is in full swing! ( here's a video tutorial & overview of the changes ) With your fancy new look come a dozen little ways for you to engage, educate, entertain and convert your Facebook fans. These twelve 111x74px buddies are called "Favorite Apps" and live front and center (well, front and flush right) just below your new cover page image.

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FTC Issues Final Privacy Framework Report to Protect Users’ Data

readwrite

The Federal Trade Commission has issued its Final Privacy Framework Report that outlines guidelines for how companies can and cannot use consumer data on the Internet. The initial report was released in Dec. 2010 and the FTC took in consideration 453 public comments in the final report. The FTC provides guidelines for Do-Not-Track provisions, how information can be tracked on mobile devices and how large platform providers like Facebook and Google can use consumer data.

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Sales & Marketing Alignment: How to Synergize for Success

Speaker: Carlos Hidalgo, Co-Founder & CEO of Digital Exhaust, Author, International Keynote & TEDx Speaker

Recent research shows that only 50% of B2B organizations state that they have good alignment between their marketing and sales teams. This lack of alignment tremendously impacts the ability to meet business goals, and is a limiting factor for building and maintaining customer relationships. While many B2B organizations continue to struggle with aligning their marketing and sales teams, they can take practical steps to unify both teams and simplify their overall approach.

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Best Web Presence Optimization Guides and Tips of 2011

Webbiquity

One of the most interesting aspects of web presence optimization (WPO) is how frequently bloggers and journalists write about the concept without actually using the term. They use terms like “search and social,” “inbound marketing,” “social media optimization,” “online reputation management,” “internet marketing” and others, with general agreement that the art and science of getting found on the web today require much more than just SEO

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The Death of Branding [INFOGRAPHIC]

Tomorrow People

What is branding and why does it matter? Branding is a word that is used a great deal these days. But what does it actually mean? The Design Council defines a brand as: “a set of associations that a person (or group of people) makes with a company, product, service, individual or organisation. These associations may be intentional – that is, they may be actively promoted via marketing and corporate identity, for example – or they may be outside the company’s control.

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Email marketing: Overcoming message overload

Savanta

I’ve always felt my groaning inbox bore testament to the popularity of email marketing. Now my suspicions are confirmed. . The latest report in B2B Marketing’s Benchmark series reveals that a whopping nine in ten (88%) B2B marketers make use of the technique. Remarkably, amongst those doing so almost one half (44%) broadcast emails once a week or more often.

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How to Make Your B2B Content Marketing More Successful

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

by Maria Pergolino As customers receive more and more and more and more email from companies like yours, it’s more and more and more important than ever to make sure that your message is hyper-relevant. How do you do that? By not only creating compelling content, but also by making sure that this content is sent to the right audience. That’s no easy task when you’ve got a whole database to deal with.

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What Regulations Will Impact Sustainability Comms in 2024?

Navigating the waters of sustainability reporting disclosures and regulations can be intimidating, to say the least. With various measures set in motion in 2023 to keep companies accountable, there is a lot in store for brands’ impact communication in the upcoming year. 3BL is kicking off this January with our Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Capricorn Edition by highlighting the impact of: The U.S Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Climate disclosure rules The European Commission